I used to go to a gym (a bit), but had a few problems with it. The main thing being that I found that it took time out to get there and back in the first place. My time was precious and I wanted my exercise to be as time and cost effective as possible. So, I found it difficult to stick to the regime.

Incidentally, apart from the people who are REAL gym people, the ones that seem to spend all their time there, the rest seemed to be just about as sporadic as me!

I have to say, that looking at some of the females down there was more than a bit of an incentive to go back. But, I thought, do I really want to use this as a social Mecca (even if I could), particularly as the object was to get in shape in order to feel comfortable about myself and being around people in the first place – I was not in a position to go to the gym in order to pose to the opposite sex, or the same one for that matter, even if I had wanted to!

Now, I won’t go back over the boredom issue I have documented before, but it still occurs to me that there are an awful lot of people out there who just want to look and feel good without spending ages doing it, want to do their exercise in private and have a degree of spontaneity about the timing of their exercising. Ie. “I want to exercise now, but by the time I have got myself ready to go to the gym and have got there I might not want to anymore!“.

Notice that I have not already hit on how much gym membership costs. I wonder how many people have spent money on gym membership and then felt that they have not used it to the extent that made the investment worthwhile?

So, if your visit to the gym IS a social event, that ‘s fine. If your visit to the gym is both a social and fitness event, that is even better. But if you are like me with Easy Fitness and want to get fit in private and in your own time and then go out and socialise (I love it!) then save your money and look at other alternatives.

Gyms are great, but there ARE those alternatives!

All the best – Phil