The recession home gym
A health club membership can cost from $20-$50 a month (or more), and many people benefit from the additional services that come along with many health club membership (nutritionist and personal trainer consultations, for example), although some are intimidated by health clubs and/or working out in public. So, many either can’t afford health clubs or have difficulty overcoming their anxiety about working out in them. For these people, working out at home may be the best option, but where does one start? How does one work out most effectively at home? What about maintaining motivation? These are questions each person has to answer for themselves, but let’s start off by providing some examples of affordable workout equipment anyone can use at home.
The picture to the right shows a few pieces of affordable equipment people can use to work out at home. In fact, with a door-mounted pull-up bar (A), a dumbell set (B), a resistance tube (C) and a little creativity, a person can identify a range of exercises to work virtually ever muscle group. Combining a strength training program that uses only these pieces of home exercise equipment with some calisthenics, some light jogging or cycling, and a healthy diet, is more than sufficient to get and stay fit. And this economical way of exercising has the added benefit of engaging stabilizing muscles in addition to the focal muscles or muscle groups or each exercise.
Here are some exercises you can do with this equipment as an idea of where to start (they will be described in more detail elsewhere on the site, eventually, but for now I provide some links to how-to information on other sites): read more…
