The one thing a gym does really well is the "social" aspect. In terms of keeping motivated and building long term habits. If you are training with someone or even have a quick chat with someone who goes at the same times you can build accountability to keep turning up. Also making it easy to train is another thing a gym can do, like if you have to rearrange your entire room to do some dips on chairs, you probably aren't going to do that very often whereas a gym will probably be a better option in that scenario, presuming making a dedicated space for training isn't desirable at home. (Note: I train at home, and historically haven't utilised gym memberships that I have been paying for)
Great points Tom, very true! I think it's something like 63% of gym membership get used and 84% only get used once per week. What's your routine like at home at the moment?
@@alexreader in terms of weightlifting pretty much non existent 🤣 Currently doing a 12 week plan 6-10 hours a week on zwift so all my recovery capacity is going on that. Gained 20 watts ftp in 8 weeks though so going well enough
@Tom Barnes oh man that sounds like great fun! Not surprised, definitely tough to do any intense strength work especially legs 😂 but maybe some accessory stuff. Is it a zwift programme?
@@alexreader yeah active off-season on zwift. I do go indoor bouldering once a week as well which hits pretty much everything apart from "push". So I should probably throw in some presses. But can't say bench is high on my priorities as I'm just looking for athletic strength for running/cycling/climbing and naturally hold a muscular build anyway.
@Tom Barnes ah yeah I think I've done a bit of that one. Definitely a case of prioritising things when you are doing so a mixture. Love that though, definitely my type of training. Bouldering is great fun💪 few push even ha
Shoutout to the dude in the background sorting out his hair at 1:52 😅
🤣 what a guy
The one thing a gym does really well is the "social" aspect. In terms of keeping motivated and building long term habits.
If you are training with someone or even have a quick chat with someone who goes at the same times you can build accountability to keep turning up.
Also making it easy to train is another thing a gym can do, like if you have to rearrange your entire room to do some dips on chairs, you probably aren't going to do that very often whereas a gym will probably be a better option in that scenario, presuming making a dedicated space for training isn't desirable at home.
(Note: I train at home, and historically haven't utilised gym memberships that I have been paying for)
Great points Tom, very true! I think it's something like 63% of gym membership get used and 84% only get used once per week. What's your routine like at home at the moment?
@@alexreader in terms of weightlifting pretty much non existent 🤣
Currently doing a 12 week plan 6-10 hours a week on zwift so all my recovery capacity is going on that. Gained 20 watts ftp in 8 weeks though so going well enough
@Tom Barnes oh man that sounds like great fun! Not surprised, definitely tough to do any intense strength work especially legs 😂 but maybe some accessory stuff. Is it a zwift programme?
@@alexreader yeah active off-season on zwift. I do go indoor bouldering once a week as well which hits pretty much everything apart from "push". So I should probably throw in some presses. But can't say bench is high on my priorities as I'm just looking for athletic strength for running/cycling/climbing and naturally hold a muscular build anyway.
@Tom Barnes ah yeah I think I've done a bit of that one. Definitely a case of prioritising things when you are doing so a mixture. Love that though, definitely my type of training. Bouldering is great fun💪 few push even ha