Do you believe you can achieve the same good ripped physique if you exercise at home and not in a gym?

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Hundreds of people pay gym memberships and have a on site instructors to guide you thorugh all the exercises there (using the machines, etc) and others do not pay any gym memberships and they work out on their own with videos over the internet they find, even if they dont have a personal instructor with you to guide you, but sometimes on the videos they tell you how a particular exercise is done.

Plus others do not use videos to exercise at home and also they dont pay or spend money on gym memberships and they exercise on their own like going for a wak, jog without the guide of any instructor or they just watch videos online jto help them prepare their own exercise plan on their own but they dont follow the videos per se.. Also some people do not attend to the gym because maybe they do not have a nice body and they dont like to see others with better bodies and they get intimidated, another reason is I heard from a friend who do not attend the gym but work out at home, that she does not go to the gym 1st, is very expensive, 2. Gym customers are

Could it b e possible to really spend money on a gym to work out and see the same results or you need the gym always?

Lionman95 · Accepted Answer

Yes you can achieve a very good physique by training at home as well. The way of training is different because in the gym you can focus on certain parts of your body because there are machines that built to train those areas while in home training that´s not possible.
There are many good examples of people changing their body without going to the gym. But there are also some dangers training at home one of the biggest that if you don´t do the exercise the right way you can hurt yourself severely. In the gym if you train at the machines that´s less likely to happen and there is an instruction and people that are willing to help you in most cases.
Besides that I actually prefer training at home because I hate gyms because I don´t like the smell and money is no motivation to me. Many workouts that you do in bodyweight involve moments that are more natural than you do while lifting weight. Plus I can do them anywhere I want and I can use tools too like a chair for dips or for pushups where I put my feet on the seat.

HighlyVolatile · Accepted Answer

For me, no, unless I spend a fortune and dedicate enormous amounts of space to a home gym. Calisthenics are my bread and butter but there's no bodyweight substitute (even with added resistance in the form of weighted vests) for heavy lifts, e. g.

I do think there are superior alternatives to the gym for most bodyweight motions. For example, why run on an even surface on a treadmill at the gym when we could sprint uphills, dash up and downstairs, along the sand? Surely that's superior for our athletic progress to attack our bodies from more angles while facing greater adversity.

But there's a limit to the way we can attack our bodies with ad-hoc equipment and just our bodyweight as I see it if we want to become supreme athletes. That's when I favor the gym even though I'm hardly a gym rat.

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

You don’t need a gym if you maintain your fitness through other methods such as rigorous house chores or weight free work outs or special diets. A lot of exercises use your own body as a weight for the work out, you can find them online.

InventorofWarp · Answer

Feel free to be the judge. I went to the gym a few times between lockdowns but my physique is almost exclusively the result of at-home workouts with next to zero equipment aside from my weight set.

Кураж · Answer

Yup, the essential body-building exercises require no machines, they pretty much all employ the barbell.
Really the only useful facilities at the gym are the cable machine, pull up bar and the squat rack.

All the other stuff can be achieved at home, although the economics of it are questionable.
A basic 120kg (260lbs) barbell set is around $200, and of course more if you want a bench, pull up bar etc.

exitseven · Answer

I have been using a Total Gym and I have gotten some good results with it. It is good on the joints too. I superset two exercises and do 3 sets of 10 reps. I work arms, shoulders, chest, back and legs. There is an abdominal attachment too that really makes my abs burn. I plan on going back to the gym in a few weeks but I liked working out at home for the convenience.

msc545 · Answer

Yes, you can, since the weights and other exercise equipment have no idea where you're actually exercising. That said, I find it being in the gym gives me more motivation to do well and to do all of my workout as opposed to doing it at home where I'm being constantly distracted.

TickleMe4ForFun · Answer

Yes. I have done it every day for the last 16 years. I wake up each morning, and do 500 push ups, 500 sit ups and 500 chin ups as soon as I get out of bed. When I finish, I put on my underwear and start my day.

Iron_Man · Answer

If you spend a lot of money getting commercial gym equipment for home use I had that in my home gym but now it’s in storage unfortunately. You can look like a bodybuilder

Billiumboomerboi · Answer

you gotta go the gym to get those real gains brother.

jimmy2 · Answer

Gyms have more stuff to help

EaterPeter · Answer

I can't get it anywhere

fireforeffect · Answer

It is more difficult at home but not impossible.

jahaims · Answer

Definitely can

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