Let’s fix the options in this poll
I don’t do any exercise for the sake of exercise. What I do is everyday things in a physically active way. For instance, I commute (whenever possible) by bicycle: I’d have to commute anyway, but this way is cheaper and healthier. What would be the point of driving places, and then going to a gym to ride a stationary bike?
My road right now is a bunch of gritty slush on top of a layer of ice. I’m not bicycling anywhere. The gym is a nice warm non-icy environment where I can go to exercise without having to worry about getting run over by angry drivers or getting frostbite.
I congratulate the people who like to get their exercise outdoors even when the weather sucks, but I am not one of those people and IMO any way you can get exercise is better than not getting exercise.
To answer the OP, I just have one membership, at my local community center gym.
Company gym. It’s not much – some weight machines, some cardio machines, a few free weights. It all comes with the package and - in a surprising turn of events - I’ve actually been in it three times this month alone. Working out and everything.
I pay for a membership at a gym downtown and I have a membership at the local YMCA because my dad has a family plan thing which I get to ride on (though I never go).
If I made a poll asking people their favorite Star Wars movie, I should have to include an option specifying “I’ve never heard of Star Wars, I just wanted to vote”?
That seems silly to me.
So your answer is “no gym”? Ok.
I don’t ride a stationary bike at the gym, but I can see reasons for doing so. Too hot, too cold, or too wet outside. Too many hills, no good bike lanes, and don’t own a bike might also be reasons. Or, perhaps, you want to use the steam room or sauna after your workout. Perhaps you like to watch some TV while you sit on the stationary bike, I’ve seen that set up on some gyms.
I belong to Retro Fitness. I only need one membership because they have a gym near where I work and where my stuff lives and another one near my girlfriend’s house where I spend most of my time. I wish another gym was more convenient. Retro is pretty good but too small and is often way too crowded. Heading there now.
Because its not the only part of my workout. I wouldn’t ride my bike to work anyway but I certainly can’t lift weights on the way to work.
As a retired military member, I can use the base gyms and do sometimes. However my wife gets a nice discount from her work on YMCA membership and I go there more often. So that makes two memberships.
I usually only go to the gym when it’s colder than 50 F degrees and/or wet outside. Otherwise I ride my bicycle or walk a few miles outside.
YMCA. I’m not crazy about it but it’s the only gym within 15 minutes of my house and I refuse to drive more than 5 to work out.
I’m assuming that by “gym” you mean “gymnasium”, correct?
Also, you fail to offer any negative integers as an option.
Recently heard quote:
“I no longer refer to my bathroom as the ‘John’ - I have named it ‘Jim’ - that way, I can tell everyone I get up and go to the ‘jim’ first thing every morning.”
Do the cities y’all live in offer their own leisure centres? Like, city-run facilities? I’ve got a membership with my city, so I can go to any of the leisure centres I want to, the big one is by my work and a smaller, newer one is closer to my home. I usually go to the smaller, newer one because it’s in yuppie suburbia and not many people use the fitness room, it’s usually filled with parents taking their kids to the kiddie swim times. Plus since it’s a family friendly facility (there’s a library attached!) with a basic fitness room you don’t get the stereotypical gym rats that intimidate newbies like me.
I’m curious to hear from the people who belong to multiple gyms.
Is it a specialization thing? Location? You switched gyms but are still under contract with the old one?
No, but if your poll was “how many Star Wars movies have you seen?”, there should be an option for zero. Surprisingly, not everyone on the planet has seen a Star Wars movie.
Both, in my case. My first gym is close to work, and it has great facilities, but is often very, very crowded in the early evening. I used to have a terrible time even finding a free parking place before my training sessions, much less a locker to store my stuff in. When my personal trainer quit, I followed her to a new, smaller private gym where I now do my strength training with her three times per week. But I try to get in to my first gym in the mornings before work five or six times a week for cardio, since it’s so close and not crowded then. (Alas, the operative word is “try” right now; I’ve been failing more than I’ve been succeeding. But I’m hoping that as the days get longer I’ll have more energy in the mornings and will be able to get back into my old routine.)
Technically two - the company gym (which I had to fill out a wavier for) and a rec center gym.
I work out at both, doing different things.
I go to the gym specifically to watch Star Wars movies.