Why Working Out In A Gym Beats Working Out At Home

Anyone working out for a longer period of time will eventually get to the conclusion: I should try working out at home.

And you're right, all the factors match up: at home you'll be alone, every equipment you buy is all the time free, you don't have to wait for at all. There is no grunting, no distractions. You set your own music, you don't even need to listen to those small headphones of yours. And on top of all that, you save the time of driving to and from the gym!

That sounds all pretty cool, doesn't it?

There is one major problem though: you cannot work out at home as efficiently as you could in a gym.
Why is working out at home NOT as efficient as in the gym?

Easy. You're at home! You're in the one place in the world where you like to relax. Either you're coming from school or work, this is your shrine. You may hit the sofa and play some games, fire up your computer, relax or just read. It doesn't matter really what you do. As long as you do it at home, it's called relaxing (okay, home office excluded).

But when it comes to training, you need a different mentality. Even professional bodybuilders gravitate towards gym workouts. It has its own atmosphere, they can meet some people and even work out a little.
That's what you need too!

You need a change of location. You need to connect the idea of working out with the idea of the gym, with all its equipment, smell and noise.

You'll still need to convince yourself that going down the gym is the best for you. But you'll be far more satisfied with finishing a one hour workout session than if you had worked out at home.

There is another problem as well, and that's that you just can't keep up your motivation to work out! You'll always find a reason not to go down the garage or change clothes and finally get to it.

You'll always look for excuses and reasons why today you should ditch the whole thing. You'll say to yourself that you already worked out three times this week, I mean three is more than what most people do, isn't it? So you ditch the fourth day (which happens to be leg day, right?).

You don't want to dress, it's too cold, it's too warm and so on goes the list.

Decide to ditch working out at home and buy that monthly membership in your local gym.