Sometimes the best gym is your own home.
People lose a lot of time commuting back and forth from a commercial gym, undressing and dressing in the locker room, and waiting to use equipment.
Plus, those monthly membership fees add up.
In this post, I’m going to describe my very humble home workout setup so that you can see how easy it is to get one going at your place.
I don’t have the biggest of rooms. But because I share a house with several other people, I can’t have a dedicated space to workout anywhere else in the house. So I have to make do.
In my roughly 15×8 ft. bedroom, much of the space is taken up by my twin bed along the wall with my door, my TV on the opposite wall, and my desk and printer on the third wall.
In the center of the room, however, there’s a walkway that perfectly fits a red yoga mat. When I want to exercise, I begin by laying that down.
To make extra horizontal space, if I need to spread out my arms, I move my desk chair into my closet. That way, one of my arms can lay in the space between my TV and my desk, and the other can stretch toward the door in the space between my bed and my printer stand.
I’ve also got a pair of dumbbells that I usually keep in front of my TV. I find that having them in constant sight helps to motivate me to exercise.
Pro tip: if you want to work out from home and have space concerns, get a pair of dumbbells. Because they’re two smaller units (unlike a dumbbell, which would be one large unit), you can manipulate them to fit in cramped spaces much easier.
Now that you see how I can make a home workout space in my closet of a room, nothing should stop you from doing it in yours! If something does get in the way, though, feel free to comment and let’s try to figure it out together. For those of you who have home workout setups of your own, I’d love to hear about that too! So drop that in the comments as well if you’d like.
Thanks for reading, and stay healthy!
Frugal Fitness 