Is it worth it having your own at home fitness center? If you’re tired of people using the machines you use when they aren’t even working out, those monthly bills, or you just want to full out dance when you hear your favorite song? Short answer is yes, it’s beneficial! Below we will talk about advantages of an at home fitness center.

1.      You will be saving a lot more time having an at home fitness center. A lot of the times people are busy, and they have to decide what time of day/night is best to drive and head to the gym. Imagine not having to deal with driving, packing your bag, waiting for machines to become vacant, and having to shower and get ready because your time is limited, and you have to go back to your job. You might not even think it but all that just wastes more time. It doesn’t end there. Think about this… you get out of your vehicle, you walk the parking lot to enter the fitness center, you scan your membership card, then you go to the lockers and check them all until you find an empty one, unpack, and maybe even get stuck conversing with some someone who talks about things you have no idea about. Finally, you’re done with the locker room and walk more to the machines or weight section to finally get your workout started. You’ll be lucky if no one is using them. Wow, thinking about it like that makes you realize you are wasting so much more time and you have to pretty much do the same process when leaving the fitness center.. wasting even more time. With an at home fitness center, you are eliminating all that extra time which allows you to focus on what’s important, your workout.

2.      We’ve all skipped gym days because we’ve been too busy, plans come up all of a sudden or you’re simply too lazy. Not having those problems would definitely be helpful. An example can be when you wake up in the morning and all of a sudden you have a meeting to attend. You don’t like working out in the evenings because of the traffic and of the crowd at the gym which causes you to tell yourself “forget it, I’ll just go tomorrow”, and you end up doing the same thing the next day. Pretty annoying, right? You can easily adjust your day with a home gym. Having an at home fitness center can eliminate that problem. You have to be somewhere early? Workout at night. If you can’t sleep at night, you’re up at 2 AM and feel like doing a session? An at home fitness center provides you with an endless amount of flexibility.

3.      There are a lot of regulations to follow going to an actual gym. You shouldn’t drop weights, clothing is required, and now in today’s new world, a mask is required. Having rules in a fitness center can limit the way you train, ruin your mood, and can make you feel controlled while you are training. With an at home fitness center you have your rules. You can dress how you like, put the music full blast, sing, drop your weights, and do whatever else you want! You are the chief!

4.      Gyms often don’t have all the equipment you need for your specified workouts. They either have a lot of machines you don’t use or a little bit of what you actually need. You have to keep in mind that gyms need to accommodate all types of people, from beginners to advanced. In other cases, gyms do have equipment you need but an advantage of an at home fitness center like one on the Body Comp Gym site is that you can invest in equipment you actually need and will use to bring you closer to your fitness goals. Some of the best areas where you can build an at home fitness center is in your basement, an attic, and in an extra bedroom.

5.      Money can’t buy happiness, but you can sure take advantage of it by purchasing the best equipment out there for your best at home fitness center. You are not going to have to worry about monthly payments when you have your own workout place at home. You probably never thought about it like this.. you are probably thinking that gyms aren’t expensive but if you had up all the monthly payments, in one year, it can come out to around $600. Instead, use those funds and start putting together your fitness center. After a few years, you are not going to have to spend any money at all with membership bills. The best way to invest in equipment is to purchase them at different times that way you respect the budget and don’t fall in debt. Remember, when you are looking for equipment, make sure you look for quality rather than price. Most of the time it’s better to get something with good quality because going cheap will have you spend more in the future, trying to fix what’s broken.

6.      Fitness centers have many distractions such as multiple TVs turned on, a bunch of other people working out around you, and people trying to start conversations with you which takes away from your focus. An at home fitness center eliminates all the above. Yes, there is always other distractions such as receiving text messages on your phone, but a home fitness center will improve your focus towards your training. Commercial gyms, however, can give people motivation because someone might want to impress another person or show off how strong they are with the free weights. You can’t really impress someone with a home fitness center unless you post on social media. What an at home fitness center can offer is focus and mental fortitude which makes it easier to reach your goals.  

7.      There are millions of people that attend the fitness center and forget to clean after themselves. People use the dumbbells multiple times in the day, and sweaty people lay on the yoga mats and also the benches without cleaning them after they are doing using the equipment. Fitness centers do offer disinfectant wipes, but people tend to forget about them. You do see people wiping down machines they use but it’s the little things like dumbbell handles and cable attachments that people tend to forget about. It is less likely to get sick because fitness center at home will be clean with less germs. You are the only one that pretty much uses it verses thousands of people you don’t even know where they’ve been at.

8.      Last but not least, having an at home fitness center has many benefits. Seeing how much you’ve progressed with the construction of the gym can be exciting, one day becoming the fitness center you’ve always dreamt of. You’re going to want to take pictures and show it off on social media so that everyone can see that amazing gym you’ve created. I guarantee you’ll be receiving phone calls of people asking you if they can have a workout session at your place.