Gym Equipment – Lets Get Started

How many years have you told yourself the same thing: This is the year you’re going to get into shape? With images of your new, slender body so clear in your mind, you rush out and join a gym. Days turn into weeks, weeks into months. Perhaps you went a few times, but getting to the gym is simply too difficult. You don’t have the time or energy to get there. Now you’re stuck in a three-year contract that’s costing you $40 per month–with no results to show for it. The contract will let you cancel at any time, but that would be admitting defeat.What is your activity level like? Are you one of those couch potatoes watching television for hours on end? It is not really all your fault. Some of the blame belongs to the exercise field. Like other businesses, gymnasiums are working to earn dollars. If you have a very high degree of motivation, health fitness clubs are wonderful, full of helpful (and not necessarily helpful) gym equipment. But the majority of us find that these places only want to get large enrollment fees and don’t really encourage us to come there often. Both commercial space and gym equipment are costly.So, you would like to know how a motivated person gets motivated. They started little by little and had a little success. That success gave confidence and more motivation. You do not need much to create a small at-home gym. Start with a few small items, only what you need to get going. Do a little bit each day and you will see results, which will in-turn motivate you even more.I have already tried using a home gym. The equipment comes with a cable and pulley and looks more like a medieval torture device than gym equipment. I have now turned it into a clothes rack and the same treatment was meted out to an exercise bike with the moving handlebars, the great whacking fan for the front wheel, and no rear wheel. I now use it to dry towels after a shower.I’m not talking about fancy fitness equipment though, just the stuff you use. You’ll probably want to start with simple stuff like pushups and deep knee bends (find out correct form, though. If your knees hurt, you’re doing them wrong). Maybe buy a duffel bag from the military surplus store, and a few 50 lb bags of playground sand at the home store, partitioning it into 5 lb portions in duct-tape wrapped freezer bags. Lift from the ground to overhead. Put it down, and repeat for reps or time. Total cost? Maybe $25 if you get the expensive duffel bag.When you feel you’re making progress, then add a cheap barbell set, and maybe a way to get the bar off the floor so you can do barbell squats and standing military presses. Skip the dedicated bench press things, they’re not really worth it. Whatever you ultimately do, though, be sure to have your doctor check you out before you start (oh, look, another excuse to use to put off that workout!).For more information on Home Fitness and equipment try visiting http://homefitnessgym.info, a website that specializes in providing helpful home fitness tips, advice and resources to include and more.- Edson Buchanan