Home TRX

[Kemik]

Hi guys,

I can never motivate myself to go to the gym. As an alternative, I was looking at the home TRX/suspension kits using own body weight to give me a kick start. If I get into the routine then I will drive the extra 3 miles away from home after work to go to the gym and fight for the weights/machines/racks.

Has anyone used the home TRX straps? I believe they hook onto the door. Just wondering if they are totally pointless? The TRX systems at the gyms look decent for body weight exercises but they are on racks so you can move your body. This would always be against the door. Plus I would be getting a cheaper branded version like Protone or Peak Fitness.

Thanks!

 

[Kemik]

If you can't motivate yourself to potentially prolong your life, feel better, avoid unpleasant mid-life diseases and be more physically able by going to a gym or even looking joining a mate on a bike ride/run, do you really think you will use the TRX kit at home, when you know you can use them any time (because they're there), and you will just put it off another day because there is something important you need to do at home?

I knew I was going to get a little bit of stick for my lazy comment and it is a fair point

At the minute I'm playing Touch Rugby two nights a week plus a full day every other weekend during the summer season. I really don't find the weights room in the gym motivating so forcing myself to go never really gets me into the routine. I've managed to go three times a week for a month before I was playing Touch but still really wasn't enjoying it at all.

I know that if I had some very basic bits to be able to do body weight stuff at home before work and get myself up to a level where I need to use the gym.

I wasn't looking at spending hundreds, just the £30 pull up bar and £30 suspension kit will allow me to do some solid strength/flexibility routines. If you guys tell me it's a waste of money then I'll force myself to hit the gym.

 

[Kemik]

Not trying to preach about the gym, but aren't there people you play rugby with who you could go to the gym with? I've always found it a lot easier to go to the gym when I've lived with people who I go with. Then what did you do whilst there? Because eg. if you'd just go in and do some steady state cardio I could see it getting boring, but if you mixed it up with some of that, some HIIT, some weights (with you and your friend pushing each other to improve, rather than competing directly if you're different sizes), etc. I'm sorry if you did that and still hated it, but to me I've always liked the gym if I mixed it up a bit, got motivation from improving, and being with friends who pushed me and who I could push.

Would definitely be easier with mates, but they all live elsewhere. This is a gym paid for by work so I have asked around but because of distances commuted, there seems to be different times people go. Will keep my eye out though.