Gym vs Home ?

Last week I started going to thr gym. Altough Prostějov is - in my opinion - the biggest whole in te world, we have qite a lot of gyms here and I have even two of them about less than ten minutes walk from my house. *Victory!* After first visit I really fell in love with it, I already bought a month gym card ... and now I'd like to tell you few (dis)advantages of working our at home vs. in the gym :)

AT-HOME WORKOUT

I've already tried many types of exercise - ballet, zumba, belly daning, fibox .. I was actually also thinking about playing basket ball which a) I rejected before the first training b) I don't understand why I wanted to whereas I'm completely "anti-ball" person. 

I started to workout at home because I wanted to improve my health (my imunity used to be awful) and I also wanted to destory some "decorative fat ring" and strenghten my really weak muscles ...

YOU SAVE MONEY

You don't need any memebership, gym cards, you don't need any money at all. You need just yourself and enough motivation. You can workout in your room, use carpet instead of the yoga mat and fill plastic bottles with sand or water instead of dumbells.

YOU SAVE TIME

Not everyone has a gym in their neighbourhood. And not everyone can leave house and spend whole afternoon in the gym every day. If you workout at home, you can leave your computer or TV, turn on the music and start and stop with working our anytime you want to.

FLEXIBILITY

You can workout anytime, you don't need to care about any opening hours. You cna workout right after you wake up, before you go to the bed or any other time of the day. It only depends on you and your time plan.

NOBODY WATCHES YOU

If you don't have perfect body, cool sport clothes, you can feel a bit weird in the group of musclemen with branded shorts and colourful tops. At home you can workout in old sweatpants, you can have sweaty forehead and pink cheeks after the workout and you don't have to think about it at all.

Note: This feeling is actually usualy groundless. I haven't noticed anybody watching me in the gym. The guys are completely into their own workout routine, they work on themselves and they don't care what other wear, if they lift five or fifty kilograms weights and how they look while working out.  Altough I'm a person who really cares about what other people think about me (altough I hate it, I do this unfortunatelly), I don't think about it in the gym. I go there with a ponytail - that I look like I was bold with, without makeup and when I'm sweating and I'm exhausted, I feel just amazing :)

GYM WORKOUT

I started thinking about gym membership since the beginning of the year. I stopped enjoying at-home as much as before - you can find a lot of different workouts to try on the interner .. but it's not such a big fun when you workout alone at home in your room for a long time.

PEOPLE WITH SAME GOAL

In my opinion, the best thing about gym is the motivation it gaves me. The other people came here with the same goal. When you see all the people working hard on themselves, it motivates you to keep going too. You have so many other activities available at home so sometimes you can tend to forget about working out and just do something totally different.

GYM TICKET AS A MOTIVATION

Also the membership or the gym pass can be motivaiton on its own. If you buy it, you don't want to waste the money so it motivates you to visit the gym!

MORE EQUIPMENT

Going to the gym costs some money but then you can use all of the professional equipment - strenghts and cardio machines, dumbells, TRX, medicineballs ...

CONTACTS

Also the gym is a place where you can mke new contacts and meet people who you have something in common. Personally I don't "use" this benefit on my own and I only go to workout there :D but if you're comunicative and if it's easy to make new friends for you, you can spend some time here after your workout and talk to the other visitors of the gym.