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How to Set Up a Home Gym You’ll Actually Use
What’s really worth buying
What home exercise equipment do you currently own?
Let me guess… a treadmill gathering dust in your garage, an old ThighMaster from a late-night infomercial purchase you used exactly once, and a deflated fitness ball your cat mistook for a scratching post.
Bonus points if you own exercise tubing that’s become so brittle with age it’s likely to snap the minute you stretch it out.
No, I’m not psychic.
But as an in-home personal trainer who’s worked with hundreds of people, that was the typical answer to the question, “Let’s see what we’re working with — show me any equipment you own.”
And then we’d both have a good laugh at the treadmill’s efficiency at drying comforters as we coughed our way through the dust.
In reality, many of these purchases start with the best intentions. The excuse of having no time to get to the gym — between finding a place to park and then dealing with gross, sweaty people who don’t wipe down their benches — is hardly motivating.
But a home set-up you can use any time you want, at your convenience, and without having to wipe down someone’s sweat? Perfect.
