June 1, 2020 • 38 mins
Building a home gym? Thinking about building a home gym? Thinking about thinking about building a home gym? No matter what stage of the process you are in, it is now more apparent than ever that convenience is of ultimate importance. Listen as Tom applies his years of experience with home gym equipment and design to let you in on some of the pitfalls to steer clear of.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of I Heart Radio.
I am Tom Holland, and this is Fitness Disrupted Top
Home Jim Design Mistakes. Now. I did a podcast a
while back, Designing Your Perfect Home Jim, and this is
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an adjunct to that. I received so many messages emails
from people still asking questions about home gyms, and listen
as I record this episode. We are in lockdown still
from the coronavirus. And for someone who has been in
the fitness industry for the majority of his life and
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has been preaching about the importance value of home gyms
and how change truly begins and happens at home, this
is an incredible time. And and I not only you know,
do the show, I do many other things as well
in the fitness industry, including being the fitness advisor for
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a very well known home Jim equipment manufacturer. And when
the coronavirus hit, I heard from I can't even tell
you in innumerable people, people I knew, people I didn't,
people I hadn't heard from in in years, all looking
for home equipment because it's next to impossible to get
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still starting to change a little bit, but what a
unique time for someone like me who has been talking
about this for so long, and the value, and it's
exciting because the question is how many people will stick
with it, how many people will continue with what they're
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doing at home even when the gym's reopen. And have
a good friend who is a hardcore Jim goer. Every
day five am. He's that guy in the shadows who
is waiting for the gym to open before work. And
if it opened at four, he'd be there at three.
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And he is working out outside his house. He is
working out in his basement, he is working out all
over And I would have thought that as soon as
the gym's open he'll be running back in. But he
said to me recently he's canceling his membership. Now that
is again an experiment of one, but an interesting experiment
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of one. So I will continue to preach about the
value of home Jim's. I will continue to say that
Jim's in and of themselves have huge value and they're
not gonna go away anytime soon. And and the community
and the camaraderie and all the different equipment, there's a
place in the time and and certain personality types who
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want that. But again, as an adjunct hopefully to what
you do outside the gym, because it doesn't matter how
many times if you go to the gym five days
a week for an hour of time, you can undo
all of that by sitting all day long by a
really poor diet. So yes, it's important if that's what
you do, and there is value, but there's such value
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in getting shorter workouts in throughout the day at home,
in your office we gotta move and having a home gym.
As people are finding out now, many people are shocked
at the ability to get a twenty five minute workout
in at home and feel like you did something convenience
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because when you slept to the gym, you want to
get that full hour in or more depending on how
long that trip takes you. You're not gonna do a
ten fIF twenty minute ab workout just at the gym,
and nor should you so yet another show because it's necessary.
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So these are the home gym design mistakes. So many
of you are are considering it. You're in various stages
of maybe putting together your home gym. So nine things
to think about mistakes not to make that I've seen
many people make, especially when they're doing it for the
first time, and it's understandable. You know, there's so many options,
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there's so many different things to do, especially today beyond
the options are seemingly endless and changing almost daily. So
we're gonna talk about it. Nine mistakes not to make
when you are thinking about and slowly putting together something
that gets to be very excited to just say home Jim. Alright,
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quick break. When we come back, we're gonna jump right
into it, Top home Jim design Mistakes. We'll be right back.
So we are talking about home gyms for the second
time in an episode because it's so important. It's so important.
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I've said it a million times. If you have a home,
you have a home gym. That could be the tiniest
of apartments. When I lived in New York City studio apartment,
I had one of them, of many, the tiniest thing
in the world, the bed in the one room, right,
one room. But you can have a home gym there.
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And so that leads to the first mistake you can
make when thinking about and starting to put together your
home gym, thinking you have to spend a lot of money.
No you don't, No, you don't. And actually it depends
on your means, but when you're getting started, I would
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almost rather you don't. So in other words, I'd rather
you take a couple hundred dollars if that, and buy
a bunch of little things so you have variation and
also gets you excited as you start to put together
your your space. And we'll talk about that. But you
don't have to spend a lot of money. You don't
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have to, especially today when there are very popular single
ticket items that that people are buying, and they're expensive
and they do one thing generally, I mean, there's content
that comes with many of these, so you don't have
to do that. Many people don't have the means. So
here's a list of things that you could start to
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add to your home gym that are relatively inexpensive. And
I'm just gonna list a couple stability balls ten twenty
dollars and that's your bench. By the way, dumbbells. You
can buy so many different variations of dumbells today. You
can buy selectorized dumbells, so you have one pair that
that is the equivalent of ten airs. You can buy
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the neoprene wants, whatever you need, resistance spans, so inexpensive,
A Matt, Just a simple Matt that you can do
innumerable body weight exercises and stretches and core routines on
and yoga and things like that, a jump rope, medicine balls,
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a few kettle bells, suspension straps, and then I'm gonna
throw in just to start to talk about designing your space.
You know, posters, motivating posters, maybe a small refrigerator, those
are relatively inexpensive, and maybe a subscription to one service
that is delivering the content you want. But you don't
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have to spend a lot of money. In fact, if
you're just getting started, you said, Tom, I got twenty bucks,
you buy it Matt, and you start watching YouTube videos.
Every time I say that, though I caution you have
to watch the right videos from the right people who
are doing exercises with the right form and the right
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intensity and the right programming. But that's where you can start.
And if you don't have the money for Matt, then
just get started. Find that corner of your room or
you know, right in front of the TV or in
front of your computer. Three by three, three by three,
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and that leads to number two, right into number two.
You don't need a ton of space. You don't need
a ton of space, you go, I don't have a
lot of money and I don't have a lot of space.
I'm in a tiny apartment. You know, I'm just getting it,
just got out of college, or you know, I lost
my job. There's crazy economy right now. I don't have
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a lot of money, you don't have a lot of space.
That's fine, As I just said, three by three, find
a corner of a room. For years, when I was
starting out, it was right in front of the TV.
That was where I was doing my pushups and my
crunches and my stretches. And then I started to leave
dumbells underneath the coffee table and resistance bands and then
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maybe a matt because I started to sweat more. But
you don't need a lot of space, you know. I'll
get to the point where you talk about if you
do have dedicated space that you can Yes, we're gonna
talk about that, but many people don't and you don't
need it. Listen outdoors if you just say I don't
even have a place to do it inside. I bite
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to the beach part of my route I do frequently,
and there's a guy who's always there, older gentlemen. I
talked to him all the time. I talk to anyone
who's exercising, research and development. And he's in his fifties
and he's got three beaten up kettlebells. I mean they
look like they're a hundred years old. They're rusted, they're cracked,
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they're chipped, and he's working outdoors at the beach. Puts
him in his car when he leaves, takes him out
when he gets there. An amazing view. Now, if you're
not on the beach, a park, you know, wherever you
can get some open space, so you don't need a
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lot of space. Now that's getting away from the home gym,
but it may be in your backyard. If you have
a house and you say, you know what, I it's
more motivating for me to be outside. The home gym
is just where you exercise. That's not the gym, And
that can be your basement, it can be your bedroom,
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it can be your backyard, it can be Listen. I
lived in New York City in different apartments, as I said,
and some had porches, you know, little tiny outdoor spaces,
push ups, crunches, squats, lunges, dumbell work there so you
don't need a lot of space. We're getting rid of
those yeah butts, as I call him, Yeah but don't
have a lot of money. Yeah but I don't have
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a lot of space. Need neither. And the most people
that I know, many of them, are the people who
work out in three by three spaces with minimal to
no equipment. It's not about the amount of space you have.
It's not about the expense of the equipment, and it's
not about the number of pieces you have. The content
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now is is insane. Especially as I record this, you
know everyone is giving free content away. So a matt
and an iPad or your phone and three by three
and get to work. Body weight exercises, boxing, m m A, workouts, yoga,
as I said, pilates, you name it, okay, But if
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you do have space, as many people do as well,
use it, use it, whether it's a basement. I love
seeing there's a woman I follow on Instagram every day.
She's dead down in this basement and she's got you
know this great just dank, dirty but effective Jim for
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her and she is working every morning. She's got an
old big box TV and she's got a squat rack
and some kettlebells and some thumbbells and a bench and
she's getting to work. So when you do have the space,
use it. Always kills me going to people's houses and
you're like, yeah, this room is never really used. This
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room and you know, use it, use it? Okay. Uh.
Now number one was thinking you have to spend a
lot of money. It's gonna sound contradictory when I first
say it, but you'll see it's not. Don't buy something
that's cheap. So no, you don't have to spend the money.
But when you're ready to invest, invest, you truly get
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what you pay for. When it comes to exercise equipment,
and this is from someone who is in the industry.
I design it, and you know when it's more expensive,
it's generally better made, and it's gonna last longer, and
your goal is to use it as frequently as possible.
And many people have extra weight right when you're starting out,
So you don't want something that's rickety when you are
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at your heaviest. You want something that is sturdy, that
is gonna last, that you can beat up. And generally speaking,
you know that one hundred dollar elliptical machine is not
going to be it, and I'm gonna give you some
simple mask kind of fun to play. All right, Let's
say you buy a piece of cardio equipment that cost
five hundred dollars. You're not really motivated by it, but
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you got it. You you know you need to do something,
and you use it twice a month, twice a month.
Many people it's a coat rack, but every now and
again you take it off and use it twice a month. Well,
that comes out to twenty and eighty three cents of
use for a year, five dollars, five hundred dollars invested,
use it twice a month, four times a year, twenty
dollars and eighty three cents. All right, someone who says,
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you know what I'm going in, I'm spending two thousand dollars,
You go, oh my gosh, that's crazy. It's so much more. Right.
But they use it twice a week. You know what
the cost is to them per use and eighty three
cents and eighty three cents. It's four times more in cost,
and they're using it four times more a month. The
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more you use something, the cheaper the use gets. Obviously,
if you have a spouse and they also use it,
two times a week, simple math. Even for me, it's
about ten dollars and forty one cents a use. Do
you both use it three times a week? Six dollars
and cents And by the way, when that year's over,
you own it for that cost. Right, You get what
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you pay for, and you're investing in your health, in
your health. And we're not even talking about kids. You know,
I've got two boys and my wife and the little
home gym, and I'm swapping equipment in and out because
the space we have have it is not enormous. Don't
need a lot. I have a storage space. I'll pull
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pieces in and out. Because I do work in the industry,
I have access to a lot of things. But we're
all using it. We're all using it, and that's so important.
Number four. You're buying something because it's popular, just because
it's popular. And again today a couple of pieces that
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are super popular. But if you don't like that form
of exercise, it doesn't matter that your friend Bill and
Kelly and everyone has them. If you don't like it,
it's not for you. So sure things that are more
popular sometimes and there's certain pieces of equipment and go okay,
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you know, you're getting a little bit more and and
that variation and and it's fun for a lot of people,
but not everyone. So again, just because something is popular
doesn't mean it's right for you. And there's so many options,
so many options. And every time I say things like that,
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it makes me feel old because first ten years, fifteen years,
when I was doing this, there were half the options,
especially for the home, not even close to what there
is today. So don't buy something just because it's popular
or it looks cool. It's just gonna sit there and
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be an expensive reminder that that wasn't for you. And
that slides perfectly into number five. Not doing your homework.
Not doing your homework Again, when I started, if you
to do your homework, what did that mean? You went
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into a store, You went to many stores. You went
to gym stores, jim equipment stores, and you tried things out,
and you had pushy salespeople and they have limited equipment
line and that they really wanted to sell you what
they had, just like every other salesperson. And then you
had to go to other gym stores to get, you know,
access to different pieces. And then you might have gone
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to a friend's house because your friends like, oh, I
love this piece of equipment, so you go over to
their house, you make a special trip, and you go,
I hate this. Not today, it's all online and spending
a half hour an hour, you can do your due
diligence and know everything you need to know about not
only that piece that you're thinking about, but all the competition.
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I mean literally websites now where they will have on
one screen here's what you want. Here's the four models
that are the competitors. Here's a checklist of what they have.
How many programs, resistance levels if it's cardio, things like that.
And then the reviews, the reviews, not only the written reviews,
which you should read through you know, thousand reviews by
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different people, the video reviews. There are people that make
a very good living now breaking down in every minute
detail fitness watches and and exercise equipment, and they literally
open the box right in front of you and go
step by painful step. But if you're making an expensive purchase,
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you sit in front of your computer and you do
your homework. So you should never be surprised with a
purchase like that. If you do your homework and you
still if you do have a friend who has that
piece that you want, or you know of a storefront
where you can go try it out. Absolutely best thing ever,
Even when you do that, they'll read their reviews and
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watch all of the videos. You can so do your homework.
It is so easy to do today. Just know that,
by the way, a lot of the review sites, those
people are making money off of you clicking on and
making a purchase from their site. Now, really interesting data
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is you know, not everyone does that. They do their
research first and then they'll go to different sites. But
those people are making money many of these sites by
you making purchases off the sites. And that's okay, but
they may have a vested interests potentially in pushing you
something for a specific reason. And one thing really quickly
when we're into the doing your homework thing um and
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it may have talked about this, I think on the
first Designing Your Perfect Home Gym show. Make sure it
fits in your space. I mean pretty basic, right, but
the headrooms if you're putting it in, especially a basement
type gym, different clearances, different headrooms. I think I talked
about I used to put ellipticals in people's houses and
I'd get there and you'd see that they had bought
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a piece before, and we would have to cut out
a square in the ceiling to fit their heads so
they wouldn't bump their head. And now you're stuck in
that one position. Right, you can only have you know
your machine, like in Ellipo goal there Also if you're
buying a rack system or something like that, you know
chin up type dip station, you want to make sure
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it fits. That leads pretty well into number six. Buying
that one big piece that does one thing. How many
of us have seen that? Jim? Right, you go to
someone's house and you're like, okay, you you have a
small amount of space, and I love that you've you
have a home gym, But why the leg abduction machine?
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And where did you get that? Right? What Jim went
out of business and sold you their enormous leg abduction machine. Now,
some people you know, are given this equipment. But even then,
when you have limited amount of space, you generally don't
want to give it up to a machine that does
one thing unless you love it. Leg press something like that.
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But I've seen like caphraise machines. You're like that, that's
it's taken up a lot of space and all you're working,
are your calves. But if that's what makes you happy,
that what's that's what makes you happy. But often times
people will do that. They will they will take a
small space and spend some money on a machine that
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does such a limited amount of um is so specific.
You're just not maximizing your your time, your money, or
the space that you're exercising in. And one great story
I use about this is years ago I was fortunate
to train a woman who owned a celebrity resort in
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Mexico and she wanted me to kind of help her
with the gym for the resort. And she already had
pieces in there. And it was a small space, beautiful
beautiful space, beautiful resort um. It was a place where
celebrities would go private, private airfield, away from the paparazzi.
But as I was looking over the different pieces she had,
and they were only, you know, a few big ones,
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but there was a dip and a chin combo station.
Now for her clientele, and for the space and for
the location, just everything, it didn't make sense. It's like,
why do you have an enormous dip and chin up
station in one It was one of those you know,
one piece. You could do dips and lower ab exercises,
things like that as well. And she laughed and she said, well,
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Bobby did Nero as she called him, was here not
too long ago, or was coming, she said, and asked
for this piece to be there. And having watched a
bunch of his movies, I knew right away that it
was most likely when he was preparing for Cape Fear,
which is that movie. He is an ex con, and
I think they opened the movie with him doing chin ups.
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He had the body and being such a specific method
type actor, he was going to get the body that
the role called for, which was lots of body weight exercise.
So that was kind of funny. But I said, okay,
now you can get rid of it. Unless he's coming
back and doing another movie like that. It is taking
up a way too much space and it is too
specific for your clientele. You could just use the space better.
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So ideally, when and if you are getting that one
big piece, it should do the most for the most people.
In other words, if you're getting a multistation, if you
do have you know a good bit of space, well
you want a piece, whether it's a strength piece. Generally,
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speaking of strength piece that does the most exercises for
the most people. And when I say the most people,
you have to think about who in the family is
going to use it. Do you have a husband and wife, kids, sons, daughters,
what sports do they play, how old are they what's appropriate?
But when you are dedicating space and money to one
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big thing, it should do the most for the most people.
Simple rule of thumb. And that's where you have to
be educated on what I just said. You know who's
gonna use it, what's their fitness level, what are they
training for, what are their goals? And then super fun
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to do. Get that one piece that is going to
really be utilized by the most people in your family
and they're going to get the most out of it.
All Right, A couple more and I love this one
number seven. Worrying how it looks. You know, back when
I was a trainer, and I would go into people's
homes and either they did have the home gym already
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or I would help them design them. When I would
go into the ones who already had home gyms and
you know, the higher end clientele, and you'd walk in
and they would have beautiful, pristine home gym's. You know,
super expensive and just crystal clean, and you know, you
knew they didn't work out, you n they generally didn't
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use it. And I remember the first celebrities house I
went into and they had the home gym and it
wasn't huge, it was nice, and it was a mess
and I said, this person is using it. This person
is not that they're sloppy, is that they're using it.
You know, yes, there are some type as who use
it and then clean up, but generally speaking, when you
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see a a messy gym, it's being used. So this
is your space, is my point. Don't worry how it
looks to anyone else. This is your space. This is
your space. And that's gonna lead to my next point,
which is so important, and you know you may think
it's not, but trust me, it is. This is your space.
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It should be messy. It should it should be it
should be used. This is a place to sweat. You know,
triathletes call it the pain cave, and even triathletes, you'll
look at some of these spaces they often post on
Instagram different social media, and you look, that's beautiful. They
don't exercise down there, and not frequently, and then you
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look at the one again, like the woman I was
saying who posts every morning from her basement, and you
know it is not the prettiest place, but it's you
can tell she loves it, and that's awesome. This is
your space. Don't worry how it looks. And that leads
directly into number eight of nine, by the way, not
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customizing it for you. So along with not worrying how
it looks, this is this is not your living room
that you're showing to two friends. This is not your
you know, whatever show piece. This is. This is where
you're gonna be healthy and be motivated. So not customizing
it to you is so important, so important, and you
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need to do whatever it is that makes it motivating
for you. And that's one of the roadblocks people have
to working out at home. When you go to a gym,
there's people and it's open space, and you know, there's energy,
and that generally easier for a lot of people, not everybody,
but then many people have difficulty, myself included, working at
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at home unless that space is motivating for me, and
when it's a smaller space and maybe no windows. Mine
doesn't have you know, mine's down in the basement. Jim.
No windows, so there's no sunlight. You have to do
whatever it is to make it motivating for you. And
that can be posters, that can be pictures of yourself
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maybe before after whatever. Something that's going to motivate you
can be pictures. And I love this. I have this
of your spouse and or kids. What are you exercising for?
To remind you that this is what it's all about.
And if you're someone who competes recreationally or competitively, and
you have metals, trophies, bib numbers, you know, uh, spartan race,
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bandana's whatever it is, and if that's motivating for you,
and it often is remind yourself of what you've done
and put it up everywhere. Another thing I love are
you can buy those vinyl letters lettering with the sayings
and it's so easy to do and relatively inexpensive. And
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if you have the wall space, you put that on
the wall to whatever is going to motivate you. If
you have a personal mantra that goes on the wall,
because you want that space to be fun for you.
That when you wake up, if you're doing the morning
workouts and you go, okay, I'm getting up at six
and you go down there and it's it's just the
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vibe for you. Is the vibe for you, not for
your friend. You don't care if they come over and go, oh,
this is like, how do you work out here? You go,
I just do And I think back to my original
you know, Jim, when I was a kid, you know,
pumping the sand barbells, the barbels that were filled with sand,
and the rickety bench. But I had my little box
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because that's how old I am, and for those of
you who are younger, that's a thing. We played music
with cassettes with my rocky theme and my handmade calendar
on the wall that I would keep tracking my workouts
in the little book that I followed the pictures. But
it was it was mine. It was motivating. It was
a basement. But it has to be for you. It's
all about you and your family. Whatever works for you.
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All right, final break when we come back, the final one,
and yes, along with not customizing it to you, the
most important we'll be right back. If you have a home,
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you have a home gym. Probably said that a thousand
times on TV radio to you, but it's true, and
it's exciting and that leads to the ninth point about
mistakes you can make when designing your home gym. And
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again it may sound contradictory, but it's not. So we
talked about you don't have to spend a lot of money,
but number nine is you got to invest. You got
to invest in yourself, You got to invest in your family.
You have to invest in your health. And that means
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spending some money. So after you start, So you start,
you go, I don't have a lot you okay, you
start with that Matt and your phone, and you get
some workouts in and then you have a couple extra dollars.
Well invest just like you're investing in your future in
your four oh one K. That was going to be
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the title of the Micro Workout Plan. My original title
was your four oh one K Fitness Plan. So what
is more important to invest in then your health? Because
you got that four oh one K and if you
ain't around to spend it and to enjoy it. Even
if you're around to spend it, how are you gonna
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be at And this is what's in the book, by
the way, the Micro Workout Plan, my new book. That's
what it's about. So even though I say you don't
have to spend a lot of money, and that's true
and it will always be true. What you have, you
should invest in your health, and that may be just
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like you are putting money away hopefully for your future
and kids educations and things like that. Maybe each month
a little bit more into the gym, or it's all
at once, whatever, but know that those dollars spent, the
return is guaranteed, is guaranteed. Every workout you do matters.
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Every workout you do works, It's gonna decrease stress, not
just the weight scale thing. Every workout gives you results.
So saying, hey, you know what, this guest room that
no one ever uses, or maybe they even use once
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or twice a year, you go, okay, am I gonna
save this space for something that happens once or twice
a year? Or am I going to take the space
and make it something that I use almost every day,
if not every day, and that my kids use and
that you know my spouse uses, or that's the gym.
And you say, you know what, I'm sorry your basement,
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you say, always wanted to remodel this basement or just
put down some rubber mats, Then do it? This is
your health and if the time that I am recording
this is not I just watched Dr Katz give us
a lecture live today about the coronavirus, and how if
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I love him and his message and taking notes because
we're so aligned and he is a guest. I hope
to get on the show in the very near future.
If today doesn't teach the value of being healthy, as
I've said on this podcast so many times, then then
it never will. Sure, we want to look good, and
we want to be our ideal weight, but we want
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to be able to survive and to be as healthy
as possible so that when viruses happen and things like that,
not just you, your whole family is protected. And how
are you protected? Exercise and eating well. So when you
invest ten dollars, a hundred dollars, a thousand dollars, whatever
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you can afford, that is money so well spent. Even
when people say to me, you know, I bought that
treadmill and I never use it. Okay, it's not a failure.
You didn't do you didn't listen to this show. You
probably shouldn't have gotten a treadmill for yourself. And suddenly
you see that person who hated the treadmill, and it's
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sitting in their house and they're rowing or they are biking.
They found that thing. So do your homework. That's what
all these nine things are about. You know, if you
truly find that piece that you love and those pieces
and then pair it with content, and then make that
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space dedicated to you, and then decorate the space and
they get something that everyone in the family. Then it
gets fun and then you use it, and then you
stop thinking about the money you're investing in your health.
You know, you go out to dinner, you spend hundred,
two hundred dollars whatever it is, but you don't spend
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two d on equipment that's gonna last pretty much the
rest of your life and help you live a better life. So,
wherever you are in the investing in yourself, as far
as means, do it, do it for yourself, do it
for your family, and do it for your future. No
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better investment than in something that is going to help
you look better, feel better, and live longer. And that's
a perfect way to end it. So, if you haven't
listened to the Designing your Perfect Home Jim, many of
the things I talked about here, but again This is
an adjunct to that. I talked more in that one
about cardio and strength and things like that and get
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a little more specific. But if you don't have a home, Jim,
if you don't have a space in wherever you live
that you get your little short workouts in or long
workouts in, find it and do it and start thinking
about today and get excited. It's the greatest thing you
can do for yourself, and it's for you. And if
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you're a mother, that's your space and time your kids
are sleeping, or your kids are at school, or your
kids are at home and watching you do it. No
more guilt about exercise for moms. Exercise and your kids
seeing you do it. What better gift can you give
them being a great role model and wanting to be
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I am Tom Holland, and this is Fitness Disrupted Top
Home Jim Design Mistakes. Now. I did a podcast a
while back, Designing Your Perfect Home Jim, and this is
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an adjunct to that. I received so many messages emails
from people still asking questions about home gyms, and listen
as I record this episode. We are in lockdown still
from the coronavirus. And for someone who has been in
the fitness industry for the majority of his life and
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has been preaching about the importance value of home gyms
and how change truly begins and happens at home, this
is an incredible time. And and I not only you know,
do the show, I do many other things as well
in the fitness industry, including being the fitness advisor for
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a very well known home Jim equipment manufacturer. And when
the coronavirus hit, I heard from I can't even tell
you in innumerable people, people I knew, people I didn't,
people I hadn't heard from in in years, all looking
for home equipment because it's next to impossible to get
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still starting to change a little bit, but what a
unique time for someone like me who has been talking
about this for so long, and the value, and it's
exciting because the question is how many people will stick
with it, how many people will continue with what they're
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doing at home even when the gym's reopen. And have
a good friend who is a hardcore Jim goer. Every
day five am. He's that guy in the shadows who
is waiting for the gym to open before work. And
if it opened at four, he'd be there at three.
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And he is working out outside his house. He is
working out in his basement, he is working out all
over And I would have thought that as soon as
the gym's open he'll be running back in. But he
said to me recently he's canceling his membership. Now that
is again an experiment of one, but an interesting experiment
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of one. So I will continue to preach about the
value of home Jim's. I will continue to say that
Jim's in and of themselves have huge value and they're
not gonna go away anytime soon. And and the community
and the camaraderie and all the different equipment, there's a
place in the time and and certain personality types who
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want that. But again, as an adjunct hopefully to what
you do outside the gym, because it doesn't matter how
many times if you go to the gym five days
a week for an hour of time, you can undo
all of that by sitting all day long by a
really poor diet. So yes, it's important if that's what
you do, and there is value, but there's such value
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in getting shorter workouts in throughout the day at home,
in your office we gotta move and having a home gym.
As people are finding out now, many people are shocked
at the ability to get a twenty five minute workout
in at home and feel like you did something convenience
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because when you slept to the gym, you want to
get that full hour in or more depending on how
long that trip takes you. You're not gonna do a
ten fIF twenty minute ab workout just at the gym,
and nor should you so yet another show because it's necessary.
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So these are the home gym design mistakes. So many
of you are are considering it. You're in various stages
of maybe putting together your home gym. So nine things
to think about mistakes not to make that I've seen
many people make, especially when they're doing it for the
first time, and it's understandable. You know, there's so many options,
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there's so many different things to do, especially today beyond
the options are seemingly endless and changing almost daily. So
we're gonna talk about it. Nine mistakes not to make
when you are thinking about and slowly putting together something
that gets to be very excited to just say home Jim. Alright,
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quick break. When we come back, we're gonna jump right
into it, Top home Jim design Mistakes. We'll be right back.
So we are talking about home gyms for the second
time in an episode because it's so important. It's so important.
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I've said it a million times. If you have a home,
you have a home gym. That could be the tiniest
of apartments. When I lived in New York City studio apartment,
I had one of them, of many, the tiniest thing
in the world, the bed in the one room, right,
one room. But you can have a home gym there.
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And so that leads to the first mistake you can
make when thinking about and starting to put together your
home gym, thinking you have to spend a lot of money.
No you don't, No, you don't. And actually it depends
on your means, but when you're getting started, I would
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almost rather you don't. So in other words, I'd rather
you take a couple hundred dollars if that, and buy
a bunch of little things so you have variation and
also gets you excited as you start to put together
your your space. And we'll talk about that. But you
don't have to spend a lot of money. You don't
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have to, especially today when there are very popular single
ticket items that that people are buying, and they're expensive
and they do one thing generally, I mean, there's content
that comes with many of these, so you don't have
to do that. Many people don't have the means. So
here's a list of things that you could start to
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add to your home gym that are relatively inexpensive. And
I'm just gonna list a couple stability balls ten twenty
dollars and that's your bench. By the way, dumbbells. You
can buy so many different variations of dumbells today. You
can buy selectorized dumbells, so you have one pair that
that is the equivalent of ten airs. You can buy
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the neoprene wants, whatever you need, resistance spans, so inexpensive,
A Matt, Just a simple Matt that you can do
innumerable body weight exercises and stretches and core routines on
and yoga and things like that, a jump rope, medicine balls,
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a few kettle bells, suspension straps, and then I'm gonna
throw in just to start to talk about designing your space.
You know, posters, motivating posters, maybe a small refrigerator, those
are relatively inexpensive, and maybe a subscription to one service
that is delivering the content you want. But you don't
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have to spend a lot of money. In fact, if
you're just getting started, you said, Tom, I got twenty bucks,
you buy it Matt, and you start watching YouTube videos.
Every time I say that, though I caution you have
to watch the right videos from the right people who
are doing exercises with the right form and the right
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intensity and the right programming. But that's where you can start.
And if you don't have the money for Matt, then
just get started. Find that corner of your room or
you know, right in front of the TV or in
front of your computer. Three by three, three by three,
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and that leads to number two, right into number two.
You don't need a ton of space. You don't need
a ton of space, you go, I don't have a
lot of money and I don't have a lot of space.
I'm in a tiny apartment. You know, I'm just getting it,
just got out of college, or you know, I lost
my job. There's crazy economy right now. I don't have
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a lot of money, you don't have a lot of space.
That's fine, As I just said, three by three, find
a corner of a room. For years, when I was
starting out, it was right in front of the TV.
That was where I was doing my pushups and my
crunches and my stretches. And then I started to leave
dumbells underneath the coffee table and resistance bands and then
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maybe a matt because I started to sweat more. But
you don't need a lot of space, you know. I'll
get to the point where you talk about if you
do have dedicated space that you can Yes, we're gonna
talk about that, but many people don't and you don't
need it. Listen outdoors if you just say I don't
even have a place to do it inside. I bite
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to the beach part of my route I do frequently,
and there's a guy who's always there, older gentlemen. I
talked to him all the time. I talk to anyone
who's exercising, research and development. And he's in his fifties
and he's got three beaten up kettlebells. I mean they
look like they're a hundred years old. They're rusted, they're cracked,
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they're chipped, and he's working outdoors at the beach. Puts
him in his car when he leaves, takes him out
when he gets there. An amazing view. Now, if you're
not on the beach, a park, you know, wherever you
can get some open space, so you don't need a
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lot of space. Now that's getting away from the home gym,
but it may be in your backyard. If you have
a house and you say, you know what, I it's
more motivating for me to be outside. The home gym
is just where you exercise. That's not the gym, And
that can be your basement, it can be your bedroom,
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it can be your backyard, it can be Listen. I
lived in New York City in different apartments, as I said,
and some had porches, you know, little tiny outdoor spaces,
push ups, crunches, squats, lunges, dumbell work there so you
don't need a lot of space. We're getting rid of
those yeah butts, as I call him, Yeah but don't
have a lot of money. Yeah but I don't have
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a lot of space. Need neither. And the most people
that I know, many of them, are the people who
work out in three by three spaces with minimal to
no equipment. It's not about the amount of space you have.
It's not about the expense of the equipment, and it's
not about the number of pieces you have. The content
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now is is insane. Especially as I record this, you
know everyone is giving free content away. So a matt
and an iPad or your phone and three by three
and get to work. Body weight exercises, boxing, m m A, workouts, yoga,
as I said, pilates, you name it, okay, But if
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you do have space, as many people do as well,
use it, use it, whether it's a basement. I love
seeing there's a woman I follow on Instagram every day.
She's dead down in this basement and she's got you
know this great just dank, dirty but effective Jim for
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her and she is working every morning. She's got an
old big box TV and she's got a squat rack
and some kettlebells and some thumbbells and a bench and
she's getting to work. So when you do have the space,
use it. Always kills me going to people's houses and
you're like, yeah, this room is never really used. This
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room and you know, use it, use it? Okay. Uh.
Now number one was thinking you have to spend a
lot of money. It's gonna sound contradictory when I first
say it, but you'll see it's not. Don't buy something
that's cheap. So no, you don't have to spend the money.
But when you're ready to invest, invest, you truly get
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what you pay for. When it comes to exercise equipment,
and this is from someone who is in the industry.
I design it, and you know when it's more expensive,
it's generally better made, and it's gonna last longer, and
your goal is to use it as frequently as possible.
And many people have extra weight right when you're starting out,
So you don't want something that's rickety when you are
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at your heaviest. You want something that is sturdy, that
is gonna last, that you can beat up. And generally speaking,
you know that one hundred dollar elliptical machine is not
going to be it, and I'm gonna give you some
simple mask kind of fun to play. All right, Let's
say you buy a piece of cardio equipment that cost
five hundred dollars. You're not really motivated by it, but
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you got it. You you know you need to do something,
and you use it twice a month, twice a month.
Many people it's a coat rack, but every now and
again you take it off and use it twice a month. Well,
that comes out to twenty and eighty three cents of
use for a year, five dollars, five hundred dollars invested,
use it twice a month, four times a year, twenty
dollars and eighty three cents. All right, someone who says,
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you know what I'm going in, I'm spending two thousand dollars,
You go, oh my gosh, that's crazy. It's so much more. Right.
But they use it twice a week. You know what
the cost is to them per use and eighty three
cents and eighty three cents. It's four times more in cost,
and they're using it four times more a month. The
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more you use something, the cheaper the use gets. Obviously,
if you have a spouse and they also use it,
two times a week, simple math. Even for me, it's
about ten dollars and forty one cents a use. Do
you both use it three times a week? Six dollars
and cents And by the way, when that year's over,
you own it for that cost. Right, You get what
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you pay for, and you're investing in your health, in
your health. And we're not even talking about kids. You know,
I've got two boys and my wife and the little
home gym, and I'm swapping equipment in and out because
the space we have have it is not enormous. Don't
need a lot. I have a storage space. I'll pull
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pieces in and out. Because I do work in the industry,
I have access to a lot of things. But we're
all using it. We're all using it, and that's so important.
Number four. You're buying something because it's popular, just because
it's popular. And again today a couple of pieces that
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are super popular. But if you don't like that form
of exercise, it doesn't matter that your friend Bill and
Kelly and everyone has them. If you don't like it,
it's not for you. So sure things that are more
popular sometimes and there's certain pieces of equipment and go okay,
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you know, you're getting a little bit more and and
that variation and and it's fun for a lot of people,
but not everyone. So again, just because something is popular
doesn't mean it's right for you. And there's so many options,
so many options. And every time I say things like that,
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it makes me feel old because first ten years, fifteen years,
when I was doing this, there were half the options,
especially for the home, not even close to what there
is today. So don't buy something just because it's popular
or it looks cool. It's just gonna sit there and
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be an expensive reminder that that wasn't for you. And
that slides perfectly into number five. Not doing your homework.
Not doing your homework Again, when I started, if you
to do your homework, what did that mean? You went
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into a store, You went to many stores. You went
to gym stores, jim equipment stores, and you tried things out,
and you had pushy salespeople and they have limited equipment
line and that they really wanted to sell you what
they had, just like every other salesperson. And then you
had to go to other gym stores to get, you know,
access to different pieces. And then you might have gone
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to a friend's house because your friends like, oh, I
love this piece of equipment, so you go over to
their house, you make a special trip, and you go,
I hate this. Not today, it's all online and spending
a half hour an hour, you can do your due
diligence and know everything you need to know about not
only that piece that you're thinking about, but all the competition.
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I mean literally websites now where they will have on
one screen here's what you want. Here's the four models
that are the competitors. Here's a checklist of what they have.
How many programs, resistance levels if it's cardio, things like that.
And then the reviews, the reviews, not only the written reviews,
which you should read through you know, thousand reviews by
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different people, the video reviews. There are people that make
a very good living now breaking down in every minute
detail fitness watches and and exercise equipment, and they literally
open the box right in front of you and go
step by painful step. But if you're making an expensive purchase,
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you sit in front of your computer and you do
your homework. So you should never be surprised with a
purchase like that. If you do your homework and you
still if you do have a friend who has that
piece that you want, or you know of a storefront
where you can go try it out. Absolutely best thing ever,
Even when you do that, they'll read their reviews and
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watch all of the videos. You can so do your homework.
It is so easy to do today. Just know that,
by the way, a lot of the review sites, those
people are making money off of you clicking on and
making a purchase from their site. Now, really interesting data
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is you know, not everyone does that. They do their
research first and then they'll go to different sites. But
those people are making money many of these sites by
you making purchases off the sites. And that's okay, but
they may have a vested interests potentially in pushing you
something for a specific reason. And one thing really quickly
when we're into the doing your homework thing um and
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it may have talked about this, I think on the
first Designing Your Perfect Home Gym show. Make sure it
fits in your space. I mean pretty basic, right, but
the headrooms if you're putting it in, especially a basement
type gym, different clearances, different headrooms. I think I talked
about I used to put ellipticals in people's houses and
I'd get there and you'd see that they had bought
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a piece before, and we would have to cut out
a square in the ceiling to fit their heads so
they wouldn't bump their head. And now you're stuck in
that one position. Right, you can only have you know
your machine, like in Ellipo goal there Also if you're
buying a rack system or something like that, you know
chin up type dip station, you want to make sure
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it fits. That leads pretty well into number six. Buying
that one big piece that does one thing. How many
of us have seen that? Jim? Right, you go to
someone's house and you're like, okay, you you have a
small amount of space, and I love that you've you
have a home gym, But why the leg abduction machine?
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And where did you get that? Right? What Jim went
out of business and sold you their enormous leg abduction machine. Now,
some people you know, are given this equipment. But even then,
when you have limited amount of space, you generally don't
want to give it up to a machine that does
one thing unless you love it. Leg press something like that.
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But I've seen like caphraise machines. You're like that, that's
it's taken up a lot of space and all you're working,
are your calves. But if that's what makes you happy,
that what's that's what makes you happy. But often times
people will do that. They will they will take a
small space and spend some money on a machine that
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does such a limited amount of um is so specific.
You're just not maximizing your your time, your money, or
the space that you're exercising in. And one great story
I use about this is years ago I was fortunate
to train a woman who owned a celebrity resort in
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Mexico and she wanted me to kind of help her
with the gym for the resort. And she already had
pieces in there. And it was a small space, beautiful
beautiful space, beautiful resort um. It was a place where
celebrities would go private, private airfield, away from the paparazzi.
But as I was looking over the different pieces she had,
and they were only, you know, a few big ones,
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but there was a dip and a chin combo station.
Now for her clientele, and for the space and for
the location, just everything, it didn't make sense. It's like,
why do you have an enormous dip and chin up
station in one It was one of those you know,
one piece. You could do dips and lower ab exercises,
things like that as well. And she laughed and she said, well,
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Bobby did Nero as she called him, was here not
too long ago, or was coming, she said, and asked
for this piece to be there. And having watched a
bunch of his movies, I knew right away that it
was most likely when he was preparing for Cape Fear,
which is that movie. He is an ex con, and
I think they opened the movie with him doing chin ups.
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He had the body and being such a specific method
type actor, he was going to get the body that
the role called for, which was lots of body weight exercise.
So that was kind of funny. But I said, okay,
now you can get rid of it. Unless he's coming
back and doing another movie like that. It is taking
up a way too much space and it is too
specific for your clientele. You could just use the space better.
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So ideally, when and if you are getting that one
big piece, it should do the most for the most people.
In other words, if you're getting a multistation, if you
do have you know a good bit of space, well
you want a piece, whether it's a strength piece. Generally,
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speaking of strength piece that does the most exercises for
the most people. And when I say the most people,
you have to think about who in the family is
going to use it. Do you have a husband and wife, kids, sons, daughters,
what sports do they play, how old are they what's appropriate?
But when you are dedicating space and money to one
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big thing, it should do the most for the most people.
Simple rule of thumb. And that's where you have to
be educated on what I just said. You know who's
gonna use it, what's their fitness level, what are they
training for, what are their goals? And then super fun
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to do. Get that one piece that is going to
really be utilized by the most people in your family
and they're going to get the most out of it.
All Right, A couple more and I love this one
number seven. Worrying how it looks. You know, back when
I was a trainer, and I would go into people's
homes and either they did have the home gym already
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or I would help them design them. When I would
go into the ones who already had home gyms and
you know, the higher end clientele, and you'd walk in
and they would have beautiful, pristine home gym's. You know,
super expensive and just crystal clean, and you know, you
knew they didn't work out, you n they generally didn't
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use it. And I remember the first celebrities house I
went into and they had the home gym and it
wasn't huge, it was nice, and it was a mess
and I said, this person is using it. This person
is not that they're sloppy, is that they're using it.
You know, yes, there are some type as who use
it and then clean up, but generally speaking, when you
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see a a messy gym, it's being used. So this
is your space, is my point. Don't worry how it
looks to anyone else. This is your space. This is
your space. And that's gonna lead to my next point,
which is so important, and you know you may think
it's not, but trust me, it is. This is your space.
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It should be messy. It should it should be it
should be used. This is a place to sweat. You know,
triathletes call it the pain cave, and even triathletes, you'll
look at some of these spaces they often post on
Instagram different social media, and you look, that's beautiful. They
don't exercise down there, and not frequently, and then you
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look at the one again, like the woman I was
saying who posts every morning from her basement, and you
know it is not the prettiest place, but it's you
can tell she loves it, and that's awesome. This is
your space. Don't worry how it looks. And that leads
directly into number eight of nine, by the way, not
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customizing it for you. So along with not worrying how
it looks, this is this is not your living room
that you're showing to two friends. This is not your
you know, whatever show piece. This is. This is where
you're gonna be healthy and be motivated. So not customizing
it to you is so important, so important, and you
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need to do whatever it is that makes it motivating
for you. And that's one of the roadblocks people have
to working out at home. When you go to a gym,
there's people and it's open space, and you know, there's energy,
and that generally easier for a lot of people, not everybody,
but then many people have difficulty, myself included, working at
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at home unless that space is motivating for me, and
when it's a smaller space and maybe no windows. Mine
doesn't have you know, mine's down in the basement. Jim.
No windows, so there's no sunlight. You have to do
whatever it is to make it motivating for you. And
that can be posters, that can be pictures of yourself
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maybe before after whatever. Something that's going to motivate you
can be pictures. And I love this. I have this
of your spouse and or kids. What are you exercising for?
To remind you that this is what it's all about.
And if you're someone who competes recreationally or competitively, and
you have metals, trophies, bib numbers, you know, uh, spartan race,
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bandana's whatever it is, and if that's motivating for you,
and it often is remind yourself of what you've done
and put it up everywhere. Another thing I love are
you can buy those vinyl letters lettering with the sayings
and it's so easy to do and relatively inexpensive. And
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if you have the wall space, you put that on
the wall to whatever is going to motivate you. If
you have a personal mantra that goes on the wall,
because you want that space to be fun for you.
That when you wake up, if you're doing the morning
workouts and you go, okay, I'm getting up at six
and you go down there and it's it's just the
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vibe for you. Is the vibe for you, not for
your friend. You don't care if they come over and go, oh,
this is like, how do you work out here? You go,
I just do And I think back to my original
you know, Jim, when I was a kid, you know,
pumping the sand barbells, the barbels that were filled with sand,
and the rickety bench. But I had my little box
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because that's how old I am, and for those of
you who are younger, that's a thing. We played music
with cassettes with my rocky theme and my handmade calendar
on the wall that I would keep tracking my workouts
in the little book that I followed the pictures. But
it was it was mine. It was motivating. It was
a basement. But it has to be for you. It's
all about you and your family. Whatever works for you.
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All right, final break when we come back, the final one,
and yes, along with not customizing it to you, the
most important we'll be right back. If you have a home,
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you have a home gym. Probably said that a thousand
times on TV radio to you, but it's true, and
it's exciting and that leads to the ninth point about
mistakes you can make when designing your home gym. And
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again it may sound contradictory, but it's not. So we
talked about you don't have to spend a lot of money,
but number nine is you got to invest. You got
to invest in yourself, You got to invest in your family.
You have to invest in your health. And that means
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spending some money. So after you start, So you start,
you go, I don't have a lot you okay, you
start with that Matt and your phone, and you get
some workouts in and then you have a couple extra dollars.
Well invest just like you're investing in your future in
your four oh one K. That was going to be
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the title of the Micro Workout Plan. My original title
was your four oh one K Fitness Plan. So what
is more important to invest in then your health? Because
you got that four oh one K and if you
ain't around to spend it and to enjoy it. Even
if you're around to spend it, how are you gonna
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be at And this is what's in the book, by
the way, the Micro Workout Plan, my new book. That's
what it's about. So even though I say you don't
have to spend a lot of money, and that's true
and it will always be true. What you have, you
should invest in your health, and that may be just
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like you are putting money away hopefully for your future
and kids educations and things like that. Maybe each month
a little bit more into the gym, or it's all
at once, whatever, but know that those dollars spent, the
return is guaranteed, is guaranteed. Every workout you do matters.
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Every workout you do works, It's gonna decrease stress, not
just the weight scale thing. Every workout gives you results.
So saying, hey, you know what, this guest room that
no one ever uses, or maybe they even use once
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or twice a year, you go, okay, am I gonna
save this space for something that happens once or twice
a year? Or am I going to take the space
and make it something that I use almost every day,
if not every day, and that my kids use and
that you know my spouse uses, or that's the gym.
And you say, you know what, I'm sorry your basement,
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you say, always wanted to remodel this basement or just
put down some rubber mats, Then do it? This is
your health and if the time that I am recording
this is not I just watched Dr Katz give us
a lecture live today about the coronavirus, and how if
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I love him and his message and taking notes because
we're so aligned and he is a guest. I hope
to get on the show in the very near future.
If today doesn't teach the value of being healthy, as
I've said on this podcast so many times, then then
it never will. Sure, we want to look good, and
we want to be our ideal weight, but we want
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to be able to survive and to be as healthy
as possible so that when viruses happen and things like that,
not just you, your whole family is protected. And how
are you protected? Exercise and eating well. So when you
invest ten dollars, a hundred dollars, a thousand dollars, whatever
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you can afford, that is money so well spent. Even
when people say to me, you know, I bought that
treadmill and I never use it. Okay, it's not a failure.
You didn't do you didn't listen to this show. You
probably shouldn't have gotten a treadmill for yourself. And suddenly
you see that person who hated the treadmill, and it's
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sitting in their house and they're rowing or they are biking.
They found that thing. So do your homework. That's what
all these nine things are about. You know, if you
truly find that piece that you love and those pieces
and then pair it with content, and then make that
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space dedicated to you, and then decorate the space and
they get something that everyone in the family. Then it
gets fun and then you use it, and then you
stop thinking about the money you're investing in your health.
You know, you go out to dinner, you spend hundred,
two hundred dollars whatever it is, but you don't spend
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two d on equipment that's gonna last pretty much the
rest of your life and help you live a better life. So,
wherever you are in the investing in yourself, as far
as means, do it, do it for yourself, do it
for your family, and do it for your future. No
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better investment than in something that is going to help
you look better, feel better, and live longer. And that's
a perfect way to end it. So, if you haven't
listened to the Designing your Perfect Home Jim, many of
the things I talked about here, but again This is
an adjunct to that. I talked more in that one
about cardio and strength and things like that and get
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a little more specific. But if you don't have a home, Jim,
if you don't have a space in wherever you live
that you get your little short workouts in or long
workouts in, find it and do it and start thinking
about today and get excited. It's the greatest thing you
can do for yourself, and it's for you. And if
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you're a mother, that's your space and time your kids
are sleeping, or your kids are at school, or your
kids are at home and watching you do it. No
more guilt about exercise for moms. Exercise and your kids
seeing you do it. What better gift can you give
them being a great role model and wanting to be
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healthy and around to enjoy them for as long as
you can. Thank you for listening. I am Tom Holland
please subscribe to this podcast and if you can rate
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So thank you for that. I truly appreciate it, feedback,
h questions, comments, all that stuff. And again, I have
a new book just came out, the Micro Workout Plan,
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perfect thing for you to add to your home gym,
and it's got workouts in it, five minute workouts that
you can do throughout the day and it's truly what
you need, the philosophy and the content to get started.
So again, thank you so much for listening. I have
the greatest job in the world helping people look better,
feel better, and live longer, and I take that job
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super seriously. Research based, common sense experience is everything I'm
bringing to you. I hope you enjoy it. I know
some people don't. I've read some comments. We love the content,
we just don't like him. That's okay, that's okay. I
love you all. Thank you again, and remember there are
three things we can control, how much we move, what
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we put into our mouths, and our state of mind,
our attitudes, and that is awesome. Get your home, Jim
going have an awesome day, and believe in yourself. Fitness
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