To Gym or not to Gym for Muscle Building or Fat Loss

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Author: Francesco Castano

Most who pursue muscle gain or fat loss feel that joining a gym is a requirement for achieving results, and so, following a rather food indulging Christmas season, millions crowd the lobbies of local gyms, signing up for a multi-year membership, believing that they've just taken the first step towards a muscle building or fat loss transformation. But if we consider the number of people who continue attending the gym after their initial contract signing, we find that the once motivated fitness enthusiast fueled with zeal for substantial change suddenly fails to walk through the gym's front door after the first few weeks.

Most assume that laziness is the natural enemy that prevents most from pursuing a pattern of muscle building or fat loss consistency, and never analyze whether in fact the gym environment itself may be offering an insurmountable obstacle for many, eventually causing most to quit the pursuit of muscle gain or fat loss completely.

Yet, how could this be? Is it possible for the gym to actually reduce motivation, when in fact such an environment should be conducive towards achieving significant results? The true reasons will be found within the first few workouts, and clearly becomes one of the primary reasons why most lose their toleration for gym attendance long before they produce any noticeable changes.

Imagine you are ready for an intense bodybuilding workout, and you encounter numerous friends who decide to attend at the same time as you. What will probably happen now? Will they experience the best weight training and cardiovascular workout of all time, or will the next two hours focus upon discussing last night's Monday Night Football showdown? Let's instead say you attend the gym and happen not to locate any acquaintances, but as you browse the gym floor, immediately sense that every machine you are planning to use is occupied, with a 10+ minute wait for each. Do you believe that this will lead to an effective bodybuilding workout, or encourage a trip to the local fast food drive thru to try and munch the bitterness away?

Also, let's not forget the most many additional common excuses to skip the scheduled workout for a day, such as bad weather (five feet of snow might make traveling the highway difficult), automobile breakdown (a flat tire always interferes with melting a spare tire!), and traffic (couldn't be late for lunch)! Some may say that these obstacles cannot occur regularly, but once momentum is hampered, and a workout is skipped, the brain becomes far more lenient of the next skipped weight training workout, and this negative attitude will eventually lead to another habit, one which is much more entertaining; couch sitting, without the interference of a gym visit for your weight lifting workout session.

So, what is the alternative? I perform my bodybuilding at home, having gained over 60 pounds of new muscle and lost 50 pounds of fat, without use of a gym, proving that neither muscle increase nor fat loss requires waiting in line for machines or paying expensive bodybuilding gym fees. In fact, my muscle gain and fat loss success was achieved in my own basement, with standard weight training equipment, and I was able to produce far more consistency with my weight lifting workout routine than most who must combat the inconvenient gym environment, specifically because I am in control of my surroundings, and can remove distractions that interfere with my ability to perform my weight lifting workout routine.

This is not to say that achieving a bodybuilder physique or producing consistent fat loss is impossible through gym training, as many with such memberships achieve very impressive results, but for those who have the option to buy some basic weight training equipment, I believe doing so is far more convenient, offers no distractions, and is significantly less expensive over an extended time frame than joining a local gym facility. Achieving success in muscle building or weight loss is in great part due to mental concentration, a factor which suffers greatly when subjected to an unpredictable group of circumstances, and this is why I have always opted for training at home, and achieved extremely impressive muscle building and fat loss progress specifically because I have always been able to move forward with my weight lifting workouts in a methodical fashion.

Don't frown upon performing your bodybuilding workout sessions at home until you've experienced the frustrations of attending a gym, but if you decide to sign up for a local gym, make sure to avoid signing a long term deal until you have regularly trained for at least two months and have ensured yourself that the inconveniences and obstacles will not interfere with remaining committed to your bodybuilding workout routine.About the Author:

Francesco Castano authors the www.MuscleNOW.com web site, which is a weight training routine for muscle gain without supplements or drugs. He also owns the www.IncrediBody.com online fitness superstore selling protein powder at the guaranteed lowest prices.

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