Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why I will never join a gym. I can do pushups in my living room.
Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why I will never join a gym. I can do pushups in my living room.
a_jackal@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
There’s a lot more to training than push-ups
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Still doesn’t require a gym lol
a_jackal@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Depends on your goals and income level. I couldn’t afford to rent a place with the space for the equipment I use let alone the equipment itself. Of course training isn’t required for anyone, and there’s a lot you can achieve with little or no equipment, but there’s a reason why people pay for gym memberships rather than simply “doing pushups at home”.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
I would wager you can emulate any exercise you do at a gym at home.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calisthenics
There is a well known method for that designed by Olivier Lafay.
It doesn’t require any specific equipment and can be completely done at home.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Most people pay for gyms to cancel it before the end of the year, it’s not popular because it’s smart.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, so add stretching/yoga a bit beforehand, add in some reps of crunches/situps/squats, do an hour routine like that that 2 or 3 times a week, go for a 30 minute walk/jog/run on off days.
Its… really not that hard or complicated for a person who is already in reasonabley ok health to put together a simple workout routine, that will hit most of your muscle groups, get you into decent shape.
Hell, just going for a 20 minute walk 3 times a week is I think more excercise than half adult Americans get, and that’s actually significantly better than nothing.
Get some stretchy bands, do resistance training positions.
Fill up some empty milk jugs with water, do some curls.
Pretty much the only thing I think you might actually need would be a solid pullup bar, but if you’re doing pushups correctly, maybe not.
Or, you could just find a place to go swimming.
Easier to get into for people who are in less good of shape, and basically works every single muscle group, if you have do a variety of strokes.
Theres ‘getting into decent shape’ and then there is ‘bodybuilding’/‘sport-specific athletic training’.
Its not very difficult or money intensive to ‘get into decent shape’, so long as you don’t have serious pre-existing health issues.
metakrakalaka@lemmychan.org 3 weeks ago
Not really.