As many of you may remember the home fitness gym of years ago was probably taking up the majority of space in a garage and the equipment was old and rusty. You might have wanted to make sure you had your last Tetanus shot before going out in the hot garage for a rusty old workout.
Well times have certainly changed. Today you may find state of the art pieces of equipment or not a single use of expensive equipment. In either case you can still achieve ultimate physical fitness with the focus on core body fitness.
As many have probably heard about or possibly purchased the P90x system is a new home workout system that focuses on core body fitness with few pieces of affordable home workout equipment. With just a couple of barbells and a workout rubber band you can have a six pack in no time. Well, let's not got that far as it all takes time, right?
Most fitness experts recommend some type of weight resistance along with cardio equipment to have a home gym. Now this can be the start of a very expensive shopping spree since major exercise systems with weight stacks can cost at least $1,000. Then, on the cardio front, a treadmill or elliptical machine can run $1,000 and an exercise bike will even run $500. You can't tell me we are still in the age of spending thousands of dollars on equipment that will likely be doubling as a clothes line, are we?
Before jumping on the home fitness bandwagon one major consideration that must be addressed is diet. As we all know the vast majority of our results is what goes in our mouth. Are we really ready to give up the daily desert or midnight snack? If not, this could be a waste of time and money.
This leads us into the ever dreaded but so important topic of goal setting. If we can't (or maybe won't is more like it) set goals we are going to be in trouble. Goal setting is very cliche and it's all we hear about when it comes to fitness, or work, or simply life in general. But, you can't argue that people who set goals get better results. Perhaps we just need to sit down and do it and not make such a fuss about it.
A good question some may be asking is how do I get away from the TV, cell phone, kids at home, pets at home, the neighbor at the door, etc. and get a workout done. Well you do need to limit distractions as these workout intruders and sure to show their ugly faces otherwise. A good way to limit these distractions is to have an isolated area for the home gym. Now, you don't need a full on room dedicated to the gym but you need an area that lets you get the job done.
So we have our equipment, limited our distractions and are eating good but after a few days it's getting OLD. What to do? There are several things to do. Pick up a workout buddy. Drag your neighbor or relative off the couch and make them join you. Maybe pay them a few bucks to do so. The buddy system works here. You can also find affordable DVD's that you follow and those keep you going. And maybe that TV distraction isn't such a bad thing when you have five more minutes of jogging in place to do. Now that sounds like a good idea.
To expand on jogging in place you don't need big bucks for a killer home gym. Let me repeat that. You don't need thousands of dollars for a home gym. Barbells and rubber bands are cheap. A garage sale can get you a cheap bench as well. Further, walking, running in place, push-ups and crunches are all equipment free and great exercises. Finally, if you have a young one in the house glued to that gaming system perhaps the Wii Fitness joins your arsenal of workout tools and you can also have some quality time with the kids.
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