Why should you have to use expensive equipment?

You do not need expensive equipment to be fit and have a great body; it’s simply not true that only difficult, time consuming, useless and repetitive exercises and equipment are useful. The fact is that you don’t actually need to use equipment at all. Don’t fall in to using these excuses, because when you centre on why you can't do something your mind will come up with reasons and ways to try and back up the falsities you are choosing to believe. If you justify not exercising with these excuses you then feel there is some substance to them which is not true. This leads to you not exercising. All those reasons are just excuses not to exercise and, in the majority of cases, hold no factual evidence.

If you believe these and do not change your mindset then you will not achieve the body you wanted as you will simply become fed up and not exercise. You may feel uncomfortable or not have the confidence at the present time to join a gym. You may not have any space at home to use any fitness equipment, or have the time to travel to a gym 3 or 4 times a week. But instead of using this as a reason not to exercise, change your perception of what make good exercises.

Sit ups, push ups, taking long walks and runs in the morning: there are many ways to stay fit that are inexpensive and can put you where you want to be. You will also be getting out in the fresh air if you do the latter two so will be benefitting your body in other ways.

One of the biggest, and probably oldest, problems is what sort of fitness equipment we should be using or buying. In this day and age most of us who want to get in shape know that in order to accomplish our goals we use an exercise programme, but it doesn’t always have to include a piece of equipment. Doing basic exercises could be the way for you to move forwards.

Why not take the example of boxers and go for a run in the early hours of the morning? You didn’t see them using treadmills constantly to stay in shape. People will spend many hours a week doing push ups, sit ups, chin ups, stretching, shadow boxing, and a lot of other things. Not that long ago 99% of training meant using your own body for their training, not equipment. It is only over the last few years that boxers have started making use of weights or weight machines.

You can reach tremendously high fitness levels using only your own body. Your body is one of the best pieces of fitness equipment that you can ever have the advantage of using. You don't need any ‘proper’ equipment to become fitter, stronger, or slimmer. Don’t fall in to the trap of believing this, it is a million miles from the real truth.