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Nervous about quitting gym... any success stories?

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DumbledoresArmy · 06/07/2019 14:51

So for various reasons I need to quit the gym.
I was hitting the gym around x4 times a week. Normally x2 spin classes a week & weight lifting. I was squatting 100kg.

I'm anxious about not going any more & obviously still want to exercise well.
Anyone else quit & kept up a good regime from home?
What did you do? Any tips?

OP posts:
ChangesAt30 · 06/07/2019 19:27

I cancelled my gym membership months ago because I wasn't going and felt guilty paying for it Grin I told myself that if I wanted to get back into exercise then I knew what to do at home, the fact I had a gym pass obviously wasn't enough motivation for me.

So, here's what I try to do...

*Run (only occasionally as my knees aren't great)
*Bike (DH bought an exercise bike which I thought would end up as a clothes horse but we actually both use it most days. Works up a sweat and low impact)
*Weights (I should do more, but we do have a selection of free weights and I do try and incorporate them)
*Youtube videos (I like Fitness Blender and Joe Wicks HIIT videos)
*Squats/lunges/burpees etc (have a look online for some circuits of various exercises you can do at home with no equipment needed, Pinterest can be good for this too)

MsMartini · 06/07/2019 20:37

OP, will you miss the heavy weights? I have a friend who built a squat rack in her garden. Or if you want to continue more formally, could you do it say once a week (with a PT or at a club or something)? Squatting 100kg is awesome! Seems to me everything else you can do outside the gym.

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