Why Home Fitness Is Becoming More Popular
It’s strange to say but home exercise is a trend that is just starting to catch on again.
That’s right, a trend. How odd is that?
There was a time when exercise was something that just happened.
People would get fit by simply living their day to day lives.
For a long time this involved doing a lot of heavy and intensive work and taking part in all the manual labour needed to help maintain a home.
After that there was at least a lot of walking in people’s lives, and that counted for quite a bit.
Why Home Fitness Declined
In recent years home exercise has become more of a rarity. Workouts are things that are associated with paid gym memberships, group outings or sports teams. For a lot of people, if it wasn’t for all the money they dished out to get to one of a dozen treadmills at their local fitness club they likely wouldn’t get any workout at all.
That seems to be changing more and more as of late, though. Home exercising is starting to catch on again.
Video Brings Home Fitness Back To Life
Possibly the first big and noticeable home fitness trend of the past would have come about the same time as the advent of home video. It was at that time that fad workouts started springing up that people could do in time to the instructor on their TV whenever they wanted.
For some people this worked out well and many still do it. Many of them, however, can only keep up with it if they keep buying new tapes or DVDs.
The video exercise programs exist to this day and some become quite popular, but the real home exercise trend is seeming to deal with a bit more mechanical things than that. The market for getting people to workout at home is huge but is driven by big toys that manage to maintain a built in motivational factor due to their novelty.
These big toys include any number of built for home use gym equipment. A lot of these things are quite fancy and intricate. They are designed and advertised to help people exercise all parts of their body with ease, and it’s the promise of that ease that is often the big appeal to getting people to buy them and use them.
Something else that has been helping the drive back to home exercise lately is the way that gym equipment has been evolving in recent years. The type of workout machinery that used to cost thousands of dollars can now be purchased for only a fraction of that.
Sure, the most heavy duty of the models will only appear at professional gyms, but there are quality versions available for people to use in their homes at affordable prices as well.
So now when people exercise at home it isn’t just because they picked up the latest in a series of silly videos, and it isn’t because they’ve discovered some machine that promises to work wonders. It’s because they can take the things they’d once used at a professional gym and use it in their own bedrooms.
This makes home exercise better, easier, and much more appealing.
If this all seems to costly and time consuming for you, then maybe you need a simple diet plan that will help you lose body fat and give you the information you need to have a healthier life.
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i use a mechanical treadmill at home and it seems adquate for basic exercise“~
One of the most popular home fitness trends is the wii. There are a lot of good fitness games that make it fun and easy to do at home. I haven’t tried it yet myself, but I know a lot of people that swear by it. I think overall working out at home is way better than going to the gym.
I found walking is the best particular example and treadmill too for an
effective exercise . And doing household chores is also effective
exercise. Great info for everyone.
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This is because of the home fitness DVD’s and there are more people that’s more confident to do their workout at home.
Hi Ralph
Yes it has lot to do with people’s comfort zone and for some even the cost of going to a gym. As you have said with all the home work out programs now available on DVD there is no reason that you can’t exercise from home. You might even try and get the whole family off the couch and into your home exercise routine especially with programs like Zumba it can be a lot of fun.
Good article. More and more celebrities are releasing fitness dvds in recent years, this trend I think has increased the popularity of home fitness further.
Hi Steve
Yes the celebrities are getting more involved and with their fully sculptured bodies it makes it very attractive to start home fitness, however as with anything it takes dedication and motivation to see success whether you have your own gym at home or are going to a gym.
I think due to the rise of the internet, home fitness has become popular nowadays. There are a lot of training tips in this generation just by looking at YouTube video clips. Also a lot of effective tools are now invented which makes home fitness more preferable.
Hi Mel
You still need to be very wary about what you find online simply because what works for somebody may not work for you, actually it might even cause injuries if you do not do your exercises correctly. Here is an article that may help those looking at home fitness its about a New Weight Training Technique.