how many have a gym membership but dont go.

[vash]

when i hurt my shoulder doing soldier presses, i knew i was done. my doc reinforeced it and told me to lay off the gym for awhile. i cancelled my gym membership.

now i kinda want to rejoin, but the prices have left me in the dust. difficult to pay the new rate, knowing what the old rate was. i belonged to a small independent gym.

currently, i just do things in my backyard. no weights.

how many pay for an active membership but do not go regularly?

[Jim Richards]

I used to have a membership but I never could find enough (2) parking spaces to straddle with my Mitsu. D'bags kept leaving me only one.

[id10t]

I can use hte campus gym for free, but don't. Well, I took showers there in '05 when we had no power for weeks due to hurricanes... but I don't think that counts...

[widebody911]

I've talked myself into keeping mine, even though I don't go, for the same reason.

[McLovin]

I'm the opposite. I don't have a gym membership, but I still go.

[LakeCleElum]

My wife - I pay the bill every month.

I dropped my membership when ROOF GIRL moved south......

[mikester]

I still have mine and my wife's even though we don't go. But ours is extremely low priced due to a membership deal we did when we DID go a few years ago (before we had kids).

So now we're reupping every year for $65 each.

My problem is that I'm just not that pleased with the quality of these gyms. They are 24 hour finesses and the ones closest to us are kind of lame, dirty and smelly and the nice one is about a 15 minute drive from our house. Worse if there is traffic. That kind of makes it hard for me to get the time to get down there and back in a reasonable amount of time during the day.

I think I just need to run in the neighborhood.

[Tim Hancock]

I have never understood why folks pay to be able to exercise somewhere other than home. On the rare occasion I get on an exercise kick, I simply do push-ups, sit-ups, chin-ups, curl some simple homemade curling weights and jog or bicycle up/down the road for free in the comfort of home at a moments notice.

[Por_sha911]

The gym is always packed right after the first of January. Give it a month and there is plenty of parking again... They bank on fall-off just like the airlines overbook their flights.

[Seahawk]

I ride the same Life-Cycle stationary bike I bought 18 years ago 35 minutes every morning, in the basement in front of a large flat panel TV. It is the easiest 35 minutes of my day, enjoyable.

Then a mile to two mile walk, with hand weights.

I can't run, unfortunately, anymore, so looking geek power walking is my fate.

I have always hated gyms, unless they were connected to a basketball court.

[MarkRobinson]

not me, I go 6x a week (4 days weights, 3 days spin class & some weights), all for $20/month: money well spent.

[VincentVega]

I have never understood why folks pay to be able to exercise somewhere other than home.

The right gym has better equipment, classes, motivation... than you could ever get at home. Sure, I could spend ~10-15k on weights, bikes, benches.... or $15/mo.

With that said, I go 4-5 days/week, cant see paying if I'm not going. Nice days I ride the bike, rainy days spin class at the gym.

[Tim Hancock]

Originally Posted by VincentVega

The right gym has better equipment, classes, motivation... than you could ever get at home. Sure, I could spend ~10-15k on weights, bikes, benches.... or $15/mo.

With that said, I go 4-5 days/week, cant see paying if I'm not going. Nice days I ride the bike, rainy days spin class at the gym.

I guess I just don't see the need for 10-15k worth of equipment to simply get in shape/stay fit. We used none of that equipment in basic training and got in very good shape simply doing push-ups, sit-ups, leg lifts, pull-ups and jogging.

[VincentVega]

Ha. I pay for the spin instructor, drill instructor was free.

[zippy_gg]

Gym memberships are like guns: They are nice to have but you hope you'll never have to use them!

[JavaBrewer]

LA fitness opened here a couple years ago and the wife and I joined. Too fancy for me and folks there are more interested in talking than working. I quit and joined a small (crummy & smelly) gym around the corner. It has what I need (free weights, concept II, pulley weights) for $95/year. I go 4x a week and hit the CSUSM track on the way home for running. Totally works for me.

[scottmandue]

My wife

I'm with Tim on this one... if I want to exercise I do it at home.

The only reason I would join a gym would be if they had a pool, my knees are too old for running and I love to swim, but then there is the whole sanitary issue of using a public pool.

That and when I do go to the gym some jerk always parks his bike right next to me.

[jyl]

I am slowly assembling a gym in my basement. There is an elliptical machine, an old stationary bike that will be Goodwilled and replaced with a treadmill (daughter hates the elliptical for some reason), and two sets of gymnastic rings (waist level and ground level). Also a few dumbbells.

I have been working out on the rings and a bit on the dumbbells. I want to add a bench that can adjust to different angles, and some more dumbbells (or a set of adjustable bells). I think that will be about all I need or want.

I never use the elliptical or bike, but my wife and kids do. During the winter, running or biking outside is not awfully appealing, and they can't watch TV.

Anyone have recommendations on adjustable dumbbells, or on incline-able weight benches? I mean the kind that you can set in a range from flat to 80 degrees.

Gym membership - if I used it regularly, sure - but I never do.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by jyl

Anyone have recommendations on adjustable dumbbells, or on incline-able weight benches? I mean the kind that you can set in a range from flat to 80 degrees.

Check craigslist... lots of stuff there.

[Bill Douglas]

It costs me about $140 a gym visit

Not that it is an expensive gym.