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Save Money On Fitness – Put A Home Gym In Your Gaming Room

Americans with gym memberships spend forty to fifty bucks per month on their memberships, plus initiation fees. This means that they spend about eight hundred dollars a year on exercise. When you skip the costly gym membership and put a home gym in your gaming room, you’ll save money on exercise and you’ll be able to catch up on The Walking Dead episodes while you get fit. Exercising from home saves money, and it’s convenient. You won’t need to drive anywhere. Your post-workout showers will happen right in your own bathroom, rather than in a gym locker room. To create a cost-effective home gym that helps you to get fit, add one piece of large fitness equipment, some smaller fitness accessories, and a few exercise mats.

Save Money On Fitness - Put A Home Gym In Your Gaming Room

Which large piece of fitness equipment is best?

If calorie-burning is your goal, you should consider investing in an elliptical machine. A woman who weighs 160 pounds will burn off 345 calories with just 30 minutes of elliptical exercise. If you’ve never used one before, you may find this large piece of fitness equipment intimidating, but it’s quite easy to use. While you will need to invest between one and two thousand dollars to get a high-quality fitness machine of this type, you’ll be able to use it for years. It’ll give you “gym membership” results, without the gym fees. If an elliptical is too expensive, go for a budget-friendly recumbent stationary bike or a rowing machine. Use your new fitness machine to access cardio exercise regularly.

Add some smaller fitness accessories

To make your home gym a fun and functional place, add some practical fitness accessories, which don’t cost nearly as much as large fitness machines. Dumbbells are a great buy. They help to keep arms sleek and sexy. Medicine balls and kettlebells are also good options. Medicine ball exercises may be used to sculpt and strengthen abs. Kettlebells enhance power and endurance. Think about the types of workouts that you like to do, and choose your smaller fitness accessories accordingly. Even a jump rope from the dollar store can be an amazing fitness accessory for a home gym. Old-fashioned exercises, like jumping rope, challenge the body and boost fitness.

Don’t forget the exercise mats

You can do floor exercises on your home gym exercise mats. When you need a rest, they will also be cozy places to watch the most addictive TV shows or listen to gaming podcasts. Fitness mats provide a bit of cushioning that protects the body. Choose yoga mats or gym-style mats, based on the types of exercise that you enjoy doing.

Commit to a fitter you

Gym memberships cost a lot, and many people stop using them after they buy them. They get busy or lose motivation, which means they waste money. When you put your fitness dollars into a home gym and outfit your home gym with a large fitness machine, smaller fitness accessories and exercise mats, you’ll create an environment that draws you in and inspires you to work out. If you put a home gym in your gaming room, you’ll be able to enjoy multimedia from your computer or TV while you get fit.

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Jess Benoit

Jess is a homeschooling mama of 3, wife, gamer, Whovian, Nerd

42 thoughts on “Save Money On Fitness – Put A Home Gym In Your Gaming Room

  • Really, there’s no more excuse in getting fit cause you could have a gym right inside you house. Thank you for sharing this.

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  • This is actually my goal! Having my own gym inside my house. But I do have some basic equipment, like mats, dumbbells, jumping rope, push-up roller and etc.

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    • You can start your home gym with these equipments as well. You have a good collection.

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  • This is hard! 😀 I don’t know how others, but I just can’t at home, I need a gym. It’s hard to get that motivation at home because you have a lot of stuff to do, a lot of things to do at home.

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  • I’m a mother of 2 and recently found myself putting on a little more weight than I need. I had no time for going to the gym every day with my busy schedule and setting up my own home gym became my lifesaver.

    What it cost me to set up my home gym was roughly $580 which includes everything recommended here. I was lucky enough to find a deal about a great priced Total Gym on https://bodhealthiness.com/home-gyms/total-gym/, plus I ordered a yoga mat and some lightweight dumbells on Amazon.

    In a years time if I had gone the gym route I’m sure I would have spent more on gas, gym fees, and waiting time. Plus lost time to spend with my kids and family.

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  • Great idea! I really want to have my own home gym one day. It will have to wait until I get something bigger to live in.

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  • hey Jess, it is really very nice share. I thought a home gym is a very expensive concept, and mostly we want to lose weight of course. But your information really gave me a few good ideas for my home gym setup.

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  • Oh yep, I can make a little home gym in my gaming room by adding an elliptical machine, dumbbells, Medicine balls and kettlebells etc. That’s a great idea. But at the weekend I like to go out with my buddies.

    DEAR JESS, You posted an awesome idea about installing a home gym in the game room. I really enjoyed your full article. WILL come again and again to know more.

    THANKS A LOT.

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  • Hey Jess,

    Extremely Impressed with your post. In my opinion everyone should have mini gym in their home. However I must say this post needs to rank higher. I just published my guest post on LoudFact and you should also opt for guest posts to grow rank of your blog.

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  • Hi, it’s an excellent article I have gathered more knowledge from this. It’s a good idea for keeping fit self. I like it. Thanks.

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  • Hello, nice article, working out with sculpting exercise bar is better because you don’t have to use heavy weights and if you work out at home you can feel relieved that your children won’t get hurt with the heavy weights.

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  • Great Information!!
    Thanks for sharing. By implementing all these tips we can live a frugal life easily and save a lot of money.

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  • Sorry, I encountered an error while posting my comment. As I’ve said, convertible rooms are popular these days and I am fond of these things, too. If you are using a gaming room, it would be ideal to take in dual purpose furniture or equipment. A gaming chair for example could be an ergonomic one which allows you to play comfortably and work professionally if needed. Wooden center tables can also be used when doing exercises such as knee dips and push ups with variations.

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  • In this article its seems that good physique is only for rich people forget it man i have a better option named yoga do yoga stay fit free of cost. I am personally doing it

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  • The gym at home is a great idea. That way we can save our money as well time. Also, we can do regular exercise at our home. For that, we only need to order gym equipment online. Thanks for sharing. Keep Posting.

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  • Everyone must workout in order to live a healthy life and bringing the gym into the home is the best thing to do.Thanks for sharing the idea with us.

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  • Thanks for this informative fitness ideas. and yeah smaller accessories works better and easy to carry. thanks

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  • I really want a make my own home gym and I am collecting all equipment one by one. Recently I bought an exercise bike after reading review and that is quite helpful for me.

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  • I love working out in the actual gym – people around give me the energy. But, nowadays, I’ve started thinking of creating something in my spare room. Thanks for the ideas and advice – this will help me get going on this, do everything at home, and stay healthy, part of life.

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