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You have some very good answers here. I’m just going to add to this and say what you pay for a gym membership compared to what you wouldpay for decent quality equipment at home. It’s cheaper to have the gym membership because you have the maintenance and the upkeep on the equipment andthe replacement cost on the equipment if you own it. Where as at the gym you go there The stuff is working.
Given a lot of it, you can replace in a fairly low cost way. But you still have the upkeep and maintenance. And you also have the space needed.
Maintenance is an assumed cost. You do not NEED machines to exercise any muscle, and if you think dumb weights need maintenance beyond a wipedown/cleaning once in a while... then I have to question your knowledge or motives.
Wasn't talking about dumb weights. Obviously those don't have up keep costs.
As for the rest of my comment. It comes down to what the end user wants or feels comfortable with. Goes without saying you can exercise without machines. But that isn't the point. Each person wants something different.
So why the need to attack me?
OP: "I feel like I could do all of them at home"
You: "Still have upkeep and maintenance"
Me: "No, most things don't require tons of upkeep and maintenance, especially limiting it to things you'd 'need'."
Who do you actually agree with?
True. And you have to move the equipment around haha. But I wonder if I need more than some weights and an elliptical for winter time when I can't bike
My advice, do a lot of research figure out a gym that is easy to join and easy to get out of the membership or I should say to end the membership.
Then go there try all the different weights. Try the different pieces of equipment. And take notes to what you would really need, what you would really want. That should tell you how much space you would really want or need, and also the cost
That and space, think of the cost of having an extra room in the house for all that stuff.