how many have a gym membership but dont go.
 

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?

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.

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...

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

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

My wife - I pay the bill every month.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Check craigslist... lots of stuff there.

It costs me about $140 a gym visit :(

Not that it is an expensive gym.

Have you checked PARF? Only problem is they only adjust either left or right but not both.

I hit the gym 5 days per week. 3 days cross fit, 2 days strictly running, but then, it's part of the job and gym access one of the bennies.

Ah, but did you do that stuff ALONE?

I agree, I've been doing bootcamp style PT workouts now for several months. I pay for it. I also have someone who sets up workouts, and a group of people who i can support in their efforts, and who support me.

I wouldn't do a tenth of what I do if I was alone. No support, no drive.

I was lucky when I had a SEAL based work out I wanted to do, I was able to con my Dad into meeting me and doing it together, my brother also joined in. I have to agree, if I'd of been alone, I'd of not made it!

My "gym" membership is my kart track, I've been neglecting it lately to work on my 944's, but normally I do 1-3hours of seat time a week. Keeps things in decent shape. :)

Put a smith machine, treadmill, elliptical machine and cables in the basement and you're covered. I think we picked up our stuff new (except the smith machine) for under $3k. Not using it in the basement is soooo much better than not using it across town.

Does that come with a happy ending?

Buy a used set of free waits and a bench.
Works great for my son and myself and never have to wait for others to get off the equipment or worry about catching anything.

I go 4-5x a week to the local Gold's for $25 per month. It's got everything I need and it's right across the street from my gun club too. I tried out a physical trainer twice a week until yesterday, when they told me the guy who signed me up got fired, partly because he had given me more than twice as many sessions as what I pay should have really gotten me. What they want for those sessions is waaaay more than I want to pay. But now I've learned all the excercises I need to continue on my own sans trainer.

Now that's funny!
Just don't take 3 spaces in the shade! :D

I tried lifting weights once. Those things were heavy.

LOL I wish. Blonde girl personal trainer would be a good person to talk to about it.

Well, that depends on your fitness goals. Push-ups and pull-ups wouldn't have helped me get my bench press weight up to 300lbs last year, which was my goal. On the upside, that didn't take $10k in equipment, either - free weights at home.

Running in place will never get you the same results as running from a lion.

Stay thirsty my friends.