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My wife have been insisting me to go to the gym because I lost my physical condition because of smoking. Now, the thing is that I want to get better shape, but my ass doesn't want to move at all.

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While I agree with you on most points about the gym, I have never had any trouble with the sign up procedure like you mentioned. I have been a member of four gyms and each of them you walk in and either sign a one year agreement or pay month by month. I have never been asked a question about anything other then my credit card info. I walked in and within five minutes, I was working out. At my current gym, it's just 9.99 a month and it's open 24 hours. The stereotypical gym atmosphere seems not to apply there as I only see normal people doing average exercises. I think you should try and find a better gym. There is no replacing a 20 mile ride on a nice cannondale bicycle but the gym offers so much more than that. I think you just have to not worry about everyone else and go there for what you are there for, the exercise equipment. Just ignore everything else.

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And you forgot to add one of the main reason I can't bear gyms: the unbearable amount of possers looking at themselves on the mirror while they pull some weights.

Audiolathe

Good points all around - and all those of you without the sea of Lycra to put up with... count yourselves lucky.

On Free weights and resistance training - maybe I need to state that being female, my interest is not so much in building up muscle mass (which I believe guys probably are, but building up stamina and burning fat. Cycling up big hills and getting up on the pedals, wrestling the bike does build muscle too, but not all over. So there is certainly a role for that too.

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yeah, i suppose the thing i like most about going to the gym though is the fact that there's no one there who judges you for what you're wearing, or how sweaty and gross you look while pounding away, because everyone looks equally disheveled and ruddy-cheeked, and they're all too busy gazing mesmerised at the TV monitors anyway. Plus in my gym there is a distinct absence of lycra, for which i thank god every day :)

Eponymouse

What about resistance training? Cardio is not all it takes to stay healthy into your old age. Don't even try to tell me your rubber bands are the equivalent of free weights.

Audiolathe

You are too right - and I can confess to having severe struggles of motivation when the weather is terrible and yes, motorists are by default blind. I think there's a business opportunity here of simple straightforward gyms, that let people get on with what they want to do and stop pretending to be a 'lifestyle' brand - make it pay as you go and all that. I would gladly go back if my local gyms did that!

Thanks for your comment!

localgymmember

The disadvantages of gym memberships you listed are too true, but their are good reasons to have one. How many gym members are killed by motorists riding stationary bikes or jogging on treadmills? I would say a large negative to biking is traffic hazards, their have been three fatalities this year alone in my area. The roads are lethal, people just don't see you until you are under their tires.. dead. Furthermore, roads are seldom paved for bike traffic, it is expensive and uses up more land to provide a true safe bike lane any decent distance. Also, who wants to bike outdoors when it is 30 below zero with a windchill and icy slick roads? Like to get caught in the rain on a bike? How about a swim in December? Gyms have their place and their advantages are substantial.

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