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Is it surprising to you that not everyone has experienced the same thing? Half of my friends have never been in a gym, is that bad?
by ramon156 10mo ago
Is it surprising to you that not everyone has experienced the same thing? Half of my friends have never been in a gym, is that bad?
- tayo42 10mo agoExcept for some weird circumstances like you have 2 friends or your part of a nomadic tribe, yeah that sounds like an issue. People should work out
- bdangubic 10mo agopeople work out without paying $200+/month to go to the gym :)
- tayo42 10mo agoThere's all kind of gyms besides weights and treadmill gyms though. And a gym like la fitness is 30/mo
- bdangubic 10mo agoplanet fitness is my area is $15/month and I still would not pay it
- echelon_musk 10mo agoWhy?
- bdangubic 10mo agoyou do not need a gym to work out so it is just a waste of money. I used to have membership at Bally’s when I was single but that was for meeting girls, not for working out. I don’t understand people paying money to go to gyms these days for the purposes of working out
- ghaff 10mo agoNot that I've ever belonged to one but I understand people wanting access to various equipment or even a swimming pool. Personally, I prefer to walk/hike but I understand that isn't enough for everyone.
- bdangubic 10mo agoI am not “buying” this… if craigslist or facebook marketplace you can buy any equipment you desire dirt cheap (from new year’s resolutions done unfullfilled). pool has always been vacant or filled with senior citizen classes etc when I used to go and I doubt this has changed. I do not have any numbers to back this up but my gut feel tells me less than 10% of people that have gym memberships go to the gym more than once per week
- ghaff 10mo agoA lot of people don't have room for larger exercise equipment in their houses--if they have a house. Heck, I just had some reconstruction/reconfiguration done after a fire and I'm figuring out where to now put my rowing machine and I have a decent-sized house. That many/most people don't really utilize their gym memberships is a separate issue from some people getting value out of them. You seemed to be arguing that gym memberships in general are stupid for anyone.
- bdangubic 10mo agoI apologize if my comments made you think I implied stupid, most definitely do not think that. I do however think you absolutely do not need gym membership to work out and I do believe that vast majority of gym memberships are waste of money. in my personal “circle” no one that works out regularly does so at the gym.
- presentation 10mo agoI live in Tokyo, most people live in tiny spaces and can't just have a bunch of dirt cheap weightlifting equipment lying around their homes simply because there isn't space for that.
- acheron 10mo agoPeople should work out in private, not go show off with the vain assholes at a gym.