Home Fitness for Women

If sweating in public doesn’t appeal to you and you don’t want to rely on the weather for your workout, consider these benefits of a home gym: 

Convenience

• Your home gym is always open.  You can exercise at any time of day or night that fits into your schedule.
• Your home gym won’t close permanently on you without warning resulting in a loss of membership fees.  (Really!  This has happened to me!)
• You can exercise even if it is raining, snowing or too icy outside.

Time Savings

• You won’t have to waste time driving back and forth to the gym. 
• In your own home gym, there is no waiting for your favorite piece of equipment.
• You don’t have to spend time politely listening to Sally who is really only there for social activity.

Privacy

• In your own home gym, there are no men to ogle at you.  (If there are, you have the right to throw them out.)
• There is no one to compare yourself to. You don’t have to feel bad that you don’t already look like the aerobics instructor.
• You can sweat, grunt and groan all you want to and nobody will care.
• You won’t have to clean up somebody else’s sweat or worry about picking up someone else’s germs.
• You can listen to whatever music motivates you, watch the TV show that keeps you from focusing on that last mile, or just enjoy some peace and quiet.

Money Savings

• Compare the cost of a gym membership over the next five years to the cost of purchasing quality home fitness equipment.  A home gym will generally save you money over the long term.
• You won’t have to pay for a babysitter.
• You don’t have to pay more for extra classes. 
• You will be saving money in gas because you aren’t driving to a gym.

Variety

• You can share your workout with any one you want at any time without getting a guest pass.
• You have a variety of fitness DVDs to choose from. So if Jane Fonda starts to get on your nerves, you can eject her and switch to Denise Austin instead.