Advantages Of Training At Home

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I have been training at home since i came back from mandatory military service in 2009. today i cant even imagine going to a commercial gym.

get back from work, eat, digest, go to gym, come back home, shower, go to bed. this would be a torturous cycle as a family man with a 9 to 6 job.

yes, i dont have access to many great equipment but

  • i can train whenever i want
  • i can train barefoot with just a boxer short
  • i can listen to whatever music i want
  • i dont have to share a space with strangers and most young lifters are arrogant douchebags
  • i can hop into shower immediately

What are your whys for choosing to train at home?

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Long term it tends to be cheaper.
You can do it whenever and however you want!
You can cook/prep meals while you are training
You can listen to your own music
You don’t ever have to wait to use equipment
No travelling
You can do it in between other things at home (grease the groove maybe)
You can modify equipment to suit your needs
You can use a whiteboard to track your lifts

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I agree with being able to train at anytime.

You can train without an audience, or being filmed.
If I want to be silly or serious nobody is watching/ judging.

No waiting to work in or share equipment.

I don’t have to rerack weights/ clean up somebody else’s mess before I get started.

It has taken me years, but, some of my equipment is better than one of the small gyms in my little town.

On rare occasions my son will train with me.

I can wear whatever.

I always getting excited when I find a really good deal on a new piece of equipment.

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I agree with everything already mentioned.

My home gym isn’t as extensive as some people here - a rack, olympic bar, olympic dumbbells, about 600ish lbs of various weight plates, my wife’s pelaton, her weird pilates machine that actually scares me, and a little trampoline that my mother in law bought in the 90s, but our kids like to exercise with us, so they enjoy it.

Pros;
No commute, other then down the stairs.

Real music instead of having to constantly having to deal with earbuds.

Can try out new exercises and learn them without feeling self conscious.

I once did this thing (maybe Thib or Dan John wrote it?) where you do a set every hour through the day. I liked it a lot, but you need a home gym for that kind of frequency. I might do that again in January to avoid gym crowds.

You can have a mini-fridge stocked with your shit that no one else will get into.

Never missing something from your gym bag you forgot to pack, you can just go get it.

Not seeing naked people. It’s like a National Geographic special in the locker rooms sometimes.

I also have a pile of rocks and logs in the backyard that I carry and run across the lawn as a warmup or cooldown. Can’t do that at a gym.

I do this too. And it’s awesome.

Although one time I took it too far. I was living with a roomate and we had a garage with a squat rack and other stuff, but he parked his car in the garage, I parked in the street. The rack was against the right wall and the left side of the garage was for the car.

He leaves with his on-and-off again girlfriend. Cool, place to myself. Decide to squat naked, because why not?

During the warm-up sets, I’m literally in the ass to grass position and the garage door starts to open. I realize they came back early, and the absuridy, and I’m laughing so hard I can’t finish the positive portion of the lift.

So there I am, at the bottom of a squat, naked in a garage, my nuts hanging out beneath my thighs, all illuminated by car headlights, and paralyzed by laughing.

After about 5 seconds the garage door closed without the car pulling in.

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I’ll take the contrarian view. I was forced to train at home during covid and hated it. Too many distractions and too easy to sluff it off. When I go to the gym, I’m there for a specific purpose and it’s on me to train since I went there specifically for that reason. Also, having other people there training motivates me, and I enjoy the comeraderie of like minded folks.

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Please God he caught this on dashcam

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I like lifting at home after getting so many rude comments directed at me in public gyms.

“Stop using ethnic slurs in every sentence”

“Those shorts are too short”

“I can see your testicles”

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The primary advantage for me when I really boiled it down was eliminating a drive to and from the gym. I never did multi-task between sets or find real value in justification minutiae.

Not waiting for equipment was a minor plus with a tradeoff over equipment variety.

It was nice just popping out to the garage in my underwear and getting to work though.

In the end I found more benefit going to a gym. The drive really isn’t that big of a deal, I go to a specialized powerlifting gym vs a commercial globogym and the crowd is actually motivating/helpful and I’m pretty sure if I did strip down to my skivvies and lift that nothing would come of it.