To think I will use them gym?

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Or am I deluding myself?

I want to lose about 1.5 stone before my holidays next year. I do run, but not religiously, especially now it's dark by 4:30pm, and I do Pilates once a week, but it's too little to make any real differencE.

There is a gym close to me. It's £32.99 a month and that includes use of the pool and all of the classes. I won't/will very very rarely use the gym itself, but I'm thinking I could do at least three classes a week followed by a swim.

The problem is that it's a year long contract, and whilst I feel determined today, I am not at all sporty by nature and I don't want to be paying £32 a month for nothing.

Has anyone stuck by a resolution to join a gym and actually stuck with it?

YABU - This never works, you'll only go for a month then waste your money
YANBU - You can stick with it, I did/know people who did

I do home workouts, no cost. I guess it depends how much you’ll stick to it whether it’s worth it

Can you try a cheaper alternative and tell yourself that if you stick at that for 3 months and enjoy it then you can splurge and join the gym?

For example free you tube classes.
Or les mills online. This is all the classes the gym offer but instructor taught into your lounge. Tenner a month. Can usually get a free trial.

I've tried this. Do about five minute and think 'fuck it'. I need the discipline of not being able to stop mid class because of the embarrassment of everyone else being there.

Some are pretty good. I link it with weight loss so forces me to do it 3 x a week!

Wow that’s super cheap. Our local gym is pushing £70 for gym and pool and classes are extra.

Saying that though I do a local bootcamp type thing that’s 150/month, but I do 5-6 sessions a week, and there’s never more than 10 people on a session so you get personal coaching each time too. I tried many gyms and this is the only thing that’s worked for me.

Sometimes the paying makes you go, financial loss can be motivation.. think how happy you will be if you can stick to it and you are where you want to be in 12months time! If financially you can afford it.. go for it. I train at 5:30am most days, after work my motivation has got up and gone :)

I'm not good with home alone workouts either. I joined a gym about three years ago and still go three or four times a weeks, occasionally more.

I didn't join to lose weight. Diet is far more effective for that.

I stuck at it. Been going for about 18 months now and have even started using the gym part recently. Just remember that weight is controlled mostly via diet, all the gym classes in the world won't undo a bad diet.

Don’t ask me …I joined a gym 2 blocks from me open 24 hours. No Excuses, right? I went exactly 4 times.

I did later in life row every day at home for almost 2 years before an injury took me out. Weirdly, that was not hard hard for me to maintain. I think I’m finally revered enough to start again… but it’s the starting that seems to be the problem.

Good luck with whatever you try. No telling what will stick and what won’t.

Recovered…not revered (but I did get a t-shirt for rowing a million meters!)

I don't actually have a bad diet. I eat really well, but my downfall is wine.

I do want to lose a bit of weight but more than that I want to tone up, especially strengthening my abs.

I've been going to the gym regularly for over a year now after several false starts in the past.

For me what helped was getting a few sessions with a personal trainer who taught me all about weights and lifting and it's become something that I hugely enjoy, much more than the classes I used to go to plus I can just go whenever fits in with my week as none of my weeks are ever the same with work/kids things etc

I've also noticed real change in my body shape which spurs me on as well.
I have to say I hate cardio so avoid that probably too much but I try to get my steps in outside of the gym and go on walks a few times a week. If it had a pool I'd definitely use that but trying to keep costs low (current gym membership is 20 a month).

I also add the cost of Amazon music to my membership and bought myself a good pair of headphones (beats) which keep me motivated over trying to workout to the gym music they play .