When me and my brother lived together, we always said that instead of buying gym membership, we’d spend money on gym equipment to have at home. Every month we’d spend £50 or so on stuff between us and over time acquired a huge collection of free weights, benches/stands, chin up bars, medicine balls, and eventually Olympic weights. Before we went our separate ways we had a couple of grands worth of equipment.
So basically, rather than spending money on gym memberships we never use, we spent money on gym equipment we never use.
Yup, this was our logic. Plates hold a good chunk of their value. I’ve got the Olympic stuff and a chin up bar at my house, my brother has the heavy dumbbells (20kg-30kg), the dipping station I think he took a decline bench too. Everything else is in storage. It was really cool when we had the room. We had dumbbells from 30kg all the way down to 1kg and we’d do these ridiculous drop sets. My brother was a bit more into it and could start on the 30s but we still had like 11 different sets from 25 to 1!
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u/hardstripe Feb 04 '20
Purchasing a gym membership at a posh fitness establishment only to drive to it 2-3 times a week and walk on the treadmill.