What stops you from going to the gym?

I got with dh and I love it now, but I would say the things that could stop me going and how I beat them are:

Childcare - parents and inlaws have ds in the evenings (I know we're lucky) only one gym in the entire city I live in has a creche, the family membership is £150 upwards a month and the creche has set hours and charge £5 an hour too!!!
Motivation - I train with dh so if one of us isn't up for it the other pushes.
Parking - can't combat that really
Busy gym - literally at least once a week EVERYTHING I want to use is in use. Again, can't combat that.
Cost - dh is fussy about gyms, so we're already paying £80 pm, he pays the extra because I refuse to let more than £50 come out of the joint account for the gym as I see more than £25 each a waste.

I used to go but I am old, overweight, and I didn't like exercising for forty-five minutes which was the length of the class. Just too much for me. Now I try to do a bit of exercise at home.

Long working hours. That's the only issue.

I never do personal training as the cost is extortionate. sorry.

Anxiety.

Being fat and unfit and not knowing how to make a plan.

Feeling fat and unfit in front of everyone else, I want to wear joggie bottoms and a loose t-shirt and never any kind of gym wear.

The men grunting in the testosterone zone.

I have autism and don't like loud music.

Hate the cliquey women who act as if they own the place and are incredibly unfriendly to anyone new. I would only feel comfortable going if I was with a friend.

I now exercise twice per day at home using YouTube videos and my own equipment.

Childcare.
I love going to hiit style classes but my dh works away 2 weeks a month so it's impossible to get any routine into my fitness (which I need). We have no local family to sit for an hour. What would really help me would being able to take dc8 with me, or providing a reasonably priced activity which she could do at the same time. She would sit happily in the corner/ next room playing a tablet or reading a book.

I used to go to a gym for about 6 months - I'd work hard, attend regularly, eat well, lose weight but once I'd hit my size 10 target I'd lose motivation .... And then the next year the cycle would repeat.

2 years ago I joined a fitness studio - it's all female, small group classes and seems so much more personal than a gym. There are no treadmills, bikes, weight machines, etc. It's mainly all HITT based, with some weights classes, battle ropes, kettle bells, and pilates. Classes are offered very early morning (6.30am) so people can go before work, at 9.30 (after school run), then the daytime is for 1-1PT, and from 6.00pm onwards there are more small group classes (after work crowd).

Because it's really small classes exercises can be tailored to people's injuries and niggles, if I can't do one move then there is always an alternative given.

It's on quite a grim looking industrial estate but there is always parking available.

Too lazy .

In theory there is nothing to stop me going to the gym, we have a very nice one locally, with a pool, not expensive, free parking (or I could walk there), no child care responsibilities, I work flexible hours part time so I could easily go.

My DH goes regularly, but I just have no motivation to get off my back side.

Other people, other people's sweat, travel hassle, time, cost. I prefer to exercise alone at home. There's so much you can do completely free, I don't know why anyone would pay to exercise. Plus I can get a good workout in in less time than it would take me to travel to a gym and back and if you need the motivation of a class there's loads of interactive options out there now.

I go but struggle with feeling old and unco-ordinated. Don't like being patronised by 25 year olds.

For me - cost, not being able to commit enough time, having to faff about with parking as the gyms that are near enough to easily get to are Town centre, conflicting advice on what you should do.

Thinking about your question again. I'm not sure it is aimed at me as I don't have any disability or body confidence issues. My issues were with the personal trainers themselves.

I do small group training sessions at the gym. Men and women mixed. I'm often the only woman. I used to use personal trainers, both male and female. I had several but found that they just wouldn't push me hard enough despite me asking them to, so I found an environment that does.

Well, I'm not your target as I'll never go to the gym again but for me, back in the day, it was cost and being tied into a contract.

Lack of spare time. If I had more, I'd go more often.

It's at the opposite end of the scale to the fake boobs, Botox, sauna and selfie establishments though. We are lucky if they get all the cows out before it opens in the morning.

The bloody awful noisy music. And currently an injury.

I'm active (swim, run, bike) and would quite like to use a personal trainer to give me more focus, do body conditioning stuff, and help set/achieve targets. However, I have a disability, and no one locally has any experience of training someone, or setting a programme which is suitable (both in terms of what I can do, but also taking into account the body issues caused by my disability)

The intimidating groups of men around the free weights section, hefting up dumb bells and then thumping them down making the floor shudder. And the sweat / smell in that part of the gym.

It doesn't feel welcoming
Also not knowing how to use the machines
Not being able to put an exercise plan together which would not bore me
The endless sports channels on the TVs

I have just started going to PT 3 mornings a week. I can do it because my youngest has started school and I am a SAHM this year.

Also, due to the above reasons, I can do it straight after school drop off which leaves my day clear. I have never been able to sustain an exercise program (even pre-kids) if I can’t do it first thing in the day. I would feel miserable all day with it looming at the end and soon would quit.

The dreadful.music.

People & anxiety.

The groups of men that take over the free weights section, the groups that take up machines just chatting and taking selfies. I have complained multiple times at my gym for the staff to encourage people to move along when not using machines but they won't. The only thing that I can guarantee I will be able to use at my gym is the running machine.

Cost and time.

I prefer swimming and aquafit and do a yoga class outside of a gym.
If I were to use a gym, I would probably use the subsidised one at work, but I won't do that this side of dickhead former manager retiring.

There's not one close enough to home, childcare, motivation to actually go to the gym.

I just don’t want to go. I’ve only been to a gym once and that was to use the pool and sauna