Getting fit with only £100

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

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My friends pay £80 a month for gym membership which includes the use of all of the facilities including the gym, squash courts, swimming pool etc. I don't want to pay £80 a month.

In fact I want to spend a one time investment of £100 for equipment to get fit.

For £100 can I buy dumbells, multi-gym, exercise ball and an exercise mat? What do you recommend I should spend £100 on to get fit?
 
Ah ok, well there are plenty of body weight exercises and circuits you can do if you have any space. Garden, spare room, etc. I find this subreddit useful for when I don't have access to a gym and want to mix it up.
 
If you have the space a rack, with an oly bar and weights. Will cost you a lot more than a £100.

Deoends on your meaning on 'fit'. Do you want to get strong, astethics?
 
Where do you live? surely there are some cheaper gyms about. i know of loads that are sub £20pm and i can think of one that is £12.50 all close to me.
 
For £100?

Kettlebell, pull up bar and a skipping rope. Add in sprints and find something to jump on to.

If you're thinking of DBs for bicep curls, don't bother. There isn't really any room in that budget to grow an appreciable amount of muscle, but you can certainly increase "fitness".
 
Getting fit is a very broad definition to say the least so little more information needed on that front. There's a wealth of body weight exercises you can do and costs nothing to go running outside so if you already have trainers then half way there. Only equipment I'd suggest you can buy is a skipping rope and incorporate that into your bodyweight workouts.

If you want weights I'd start saving more for a rack and weights unless you can get one really cheap locally.
 
Sorry - by getting fit I mean can I, for £100 buy equipment to use at home which would get me into shape as if I were going to the gym?

By getting into shape I mean building muscle. E.g biceps, triceps, abdomen, etc.

I can add £50 or so on top of the original budget, i.e. £150 or so.

Is a 2nd hand entry level multi gym what I need? (I have a spare room for this).

Just remember - I'm a beginner. I don't mind paying £100 or £150 for brand new or second hand entry level stuff, which I might outgrow in 6 months or a year. However I want to start small and then go large. I don't want to go large straight away (e.g. spend £1000 on gym equipment).

Thanks.
 
Surely a budget gym would be the best option? There are some decent gyms that only cost a tenner a month. An Xercise4Less opened close to where I live last month, it's a tenner a month, they have a large free weights section with lots of machines and racks and is very quiet. There's another one (Xercise4less again) which is about the same distance in the other direction which all the above applies except for it being quiet. This one's been open for a few years, but isn't rammed with people fighting for plates or machines/racks.

I've heard some of their gyms are pretty poor, so it'll depend on where you are, but there are quite a number of "budget" and cheaper gyms in my area, as well as the usuals like David Lloyd. The reason I even chose Xercise4Less was because they have much better equipment than any of the other gyms in my area, especially with their dumbbells going up to 75KG.
 
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For £100?

Kettlebell, pull up bar and a skipping rope. Add in sprints and find something to jump on to.

If you're thinking of DBs for bicep curls, don't bother. There isn't really any room in that budget to grow an appreciable amount of muscle, but you can certainly increase "fitness".
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This! At that sort of budget its all about bodyweight exercises really
 
Just put all the money you'd eventually spend buying equipment that you'll quickly outgrow in to a gym membership and go with your friends.
 
Ricochet J said:
My friends pay £80 a month for gym membership which includes the use of all of the facilities including the gym, squash courts, swimming pool etc. I don't want to pay £80 a month.

In fact I want to spend a one time investment of £100 for equipment to get fit.

For £100 can I buy dumbells, multi-gym, exercise ball and an exercise mat? What do you recommend I should spend £100 on to get fit?
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Does said gym offer any other packages, e.g. off peak, only gym use etc? Sounds like they're paying £80 for the full works.
 
I can afford gym equipment. I can spend £500, or more for equipment. The factor stopping me is if I will actually use it.

Hence why I want to cheap out - if I stop using the equipment for what ever reason then I won't be bummed - loosing out on £100 is better than loosing out on £500.

I obviously want to get fit - but need to find the time to do so. Hence why I want the gym equipment at home so I can exercise when I want.
 
Ricochet J said:
I can afford gym equipment. I can spend £500, or more for equipment. The factor stopping me is if I will actually use it.

Hence why I want to cheap out - if I stop using the equipment for what ever reason then I won't be bummed - loosing out on £100 is better than loosing out on £500.

I obviously want to get fit - but need to find the time to do so. Hence why I want the gym equipment at home so I can exercise when I want.
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Think you've answered your own question. I have equipment at home which I use every other day. Cost wasn't my issue but time as the closest gym to where I used to live was about 15-20mins away. Doesn't sound like much but add that to getting changed etc, having to wait for equipment that's being used and it adds a fair amount of time onto the evening that I didn't have.

Slightly over budget at £579 http://www.powerhouse-fitness.co.uk/deluxe-strength-package.php

An alternative is to go with a finance option over a year (this is what I did). You're essentially paying what you would for a gym membership but after the year it's yours.
 
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