Saving Your Sanity By Using Exercise DVDs Instead Of Splurging At The Gym

By Beth Prager

I understand that you are wondering about a type of workout program that fits in the palm of your hand. Yes, I know how you feel about your finances and about your physique. You must have tried going to the cheapest gym in town, or running and jogging so you could stay close to your house. You must have tried riding a bicycle but that got stolen. Or, worse yet, you already feel robbed after paying for that gym membership where you got nowhere a creaky sweat-laden bicycle, used that elliptical machine where your legs flailed around for an hour, and that stairclimber that had you finding yourself in the same exact step you were an hour ago. You tell yourself that you will never reach for your checkbook to enter a gym ever again. You want to step into the world of workout DVD programs.

In my ignorant days, I had a gym membership. I actually used a gym. As I completed my last set of weight-lifting at a machine with a look of unhappiness on my face, a bulky-looking trainer walked by and cracked jokes at me. I was not in a happy mood, but he asked me a very important question that knocked my socks off me. He asked, "Did you know that 85% of these machines here do nothing? They don't do anything for your body toning, and the machine you just finished with was one of them. You could do so many strength-building movements using NO weights. You could even just use those DVDs and follow that at home and you'd do more for yourself."

Yeah, he showed me, alright. He showed me a world of pain. I never felt so much pain in the gluteal muscles before. In all of my years of sitting in the gym, none of that sitting did anything for me. As I broke into a rain of sweat, the trainer continued to make his teasing and comments about the world. He was helping me see the light outside of the gym tunnel, but he was annoying me. Everything in the gym was annoying me. The stench, the sweat from other people, everything.

I was truly enlightened by the bizarre trainer who set me free from the gym world. I finished my gym membership and instead of renewing I purchased a workout DVD package to try at home. What a nice new world to explore--the world of pausing and fast-forwarding. I mean--not fast-forwarding! You should know that I am not serious about that part. If you are all about obtaining your fitness potential, then you will pretend that that function does not exist on your DVD player. You too can enjoy financially and exponentially the benefits of working out at home with a DVD you can use time and time again.

There are plenty of different brands that offer a variety of cardio DVDs, for cardio, for weight-lifting, for toning, for yoga, and many more. You will hopefully find, like me, that within 60-90 days you will achieve so much more than you ever have in one year. With measurable results that you can see (in pictures, measurement tapes, clothes size), you will be moved further to consistently do these programs and see an continuation of results. - 31525

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