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Bodybuilding at Home vs Gym
Advantages of training at Home vs training at the Gym
When I first started training at home it was mostly out of necessity. Nowadays even if I wasn’t obsessed with this project and didn’t have my followers who appreciate what I do, I still wouldn’t switch to a gym workout. Once you know how train at home properly it can be incredibly convenient. I don’t know about you but I love convenience.
Here are some typical Advantages of training at home:
- Not Having to plan going to the gym, taking a bus or the car, looking for a parking spot etc
- Not Preparing a bag and worrying about forgetting something (growing up as an athlete I always hated this)
- Not Changing with weird dudes in the locker room
- No Smelly people in your face
- Not Sitting in someone else’s sweat or worrying about athletes foot in the showers
- No Waiting in line for busy exercises such as the bench press
- No Christina Aguilera playing out loud while you’re trying to get those last two pull ups
My favorite Advantages of training at home
1. HomeMade Muscle will save you a lot of Money
The first and most obvious advantage of training at home is that you don't have to pay for a gym membership or expensive equipment anymore. Home bodyweight workouts have only two requirements: 1) gravity and 2) your own body.
The only equipment I heavily advise you to get in the beginning is a pull up bar. Pull ups are the king strength exercise when it comes to upper body. If you think of all the money you will be saving yourself from gym memberships just by spending 20a-30 dollars for a pull up bar, trust me you are making a wise investment.
2. HomeMade Muscle workouts will save you a lot of Time
The most common excuse I hear from people who don't exercise is that they don't have time. Well, training in your own house besides saving you money also saves you a lot of time. Think about it, if you calculate all the time you need to pack a big bag, go all the way to the gym, change in the locker room, wait for your turn on crowded exercises and then all of that in reverse, it usually costs most people at least an extra hour or two.
Training in the comfort of your own house means no commuting, no need for looking for a parking space forever and no need to unpack big bags of sweaty clothes. Once you are done training in your home you can immediately take a nice hot shower in your own bathroom, wear dry clothes and kickback, or do whatever else you have to do..
3. HomeMade Muscle workouts will be your psychotherapy
One of the things I love when training at home is that you can really let go. You can express all of the frustration and aggression that bottles up in you during the rest of the day at your work, school or wherever. You can scream through those last reps, curse, yell and generally express whatever feeling you are going through that day or that phase of your life! (Try though not to do this late at night, you don't want your neighbor calling the police thinking you are strangling someone).
This has a great calming affect once you finish training… It may sound weird to some and others will totally understand what I'm talking about. I consider it as a kind of catharsis. A lot of times, training for me is more psychotherapy than exercise. Just give it a try and you will understand. People nowadays keep too much emotion bottled up in themselves and expressing these emotions through physical exertion gives the body and mind a great relief.
Home Sweet Home
Ah , home sweet home, where your own personal gym is always open, twenty four hours a day and three hundred and sixty five days a year. The speakers are playing my favorite music, the air smells the way you like it to smell and shower-water is always warm.
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