To ashamed to go to the gym?

Taking the step of joining a gym can be a long an arduous decision. Let’s look at some of those reasons why.

5 reasons why people don’t join the gym

  1. Fear of other men & women giving disapproving judgmental looks
  2. Fear of not knowing how the gym equipment work
  3. Fear of breaking the equipment
  4. Not being able to afford the gym membership
  5. Not being able to buy or find an outfit for the gym that looks good

There is only one reason in the above list that I think is valid and that is;

Not being able to afford the gym membership

All the other reasons I find to be excuses so you don’t have to join the gym and therefore give yourself an excuse for your expected weightloss failure.

If you have already thought a myriad of excuses going into your weightloss plan, then you have already setup and expectation for yourself to fail your fat fight.

If you have done this, then your going to stay fat and get fatter until you change the way you think and start setting yourself up for success.

Now you can get a lot of exercise done and save a lot of money by doing 2 things;

  • Walking
  • Using your home as your gym

You should be walking already and now ready to add a bit more exercise to your regime. IF you haven’t started pounding the pavements, then you should go back and read my post on walking called walking the footpath with confidence and get started with walking.

8 areas of your home you can convert into gym space

  • Lounge room
  • Kitchen or Dining room
  • Bedroom and Balcony area
  • Garage, Attic or Basement area

16 items you can use as gym equipment

  • chairs and tables
  • television to do exercises through wii and dvd’s
  • cans of food and shopping bags for hand weights
  • books and boxes for step ups
  • spare tyres for cardio exercise
  • bathroom towels for stretches
  • wall for back and leg squats
  • clothes line to walk around
  • planks of wood to make bench press
  • stairs for step ups and cardio
  • sofa for leg presses and more

Now how do you use this stuff?

Here are a list of links to show you how you can use these items to put your gym together and a few other nifty ideas as well.  If you already have brought gym equipment then great, use them and start losing the fat. If not then get some ideas from the links and get your gym started.

There are also some ideas where you don’t need any equipment at all to exercise.

Links to exercising at home and making homemade gym equipment

1. Lance Breger – using the wall

2. Laurensfitness – using the lounge

3. Forgetgyms – homemade dip station

4. Men of use – using tyres

5. cie la vie – cans of food as handweights

6. how-to-exercise – chair and floor exercises

7. e-how – towel exercises

8. e-how – chair stands

9. e-how – equipment free exercises

10. about.com – using the door

11. Ross Training – Homemade exercise tools