{"id":893,"date":"2008-11-18T00:05:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T07:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2008-11-18T00:05:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T07:05:31","slug":"spending-money-on-general-fitness-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/spending-money-on-general-fitness-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending Money On General Fitness Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was reading about this fitness type of club here where the fee to enroll into the program can literally cost thousands of dollars a year.  Interestingly enough, most of the participants are kids where parents enroll them into a program to hopefully get more exercise I suppose.  At the same time, I was reading how that business uses high pressure sales tactics to get people to sign contracts to tie them down.<\/p>\n<p>General fitness is one of those things where I have always just did on my own as I never saw the value in having to pay for say a gym membership and spending say $1000.  In many ways it kind of reminds me of renting where in this case for $1000 I can probably make my own gym that would be adequate for my needs.<\/p>\n<p>Fitness too is one of those things that are pretty easy to do even with a busy lifestyle which even furthers my thought on how in this category you should try to save as much money as possible.  Need some exercise?  Walk instead of using a vehicle when possible.  Think you need expensive weights for more intense workouts?  There are a lot of exercises that you can do which require you to use\/lift your own body weight that can be just as good.<\/p>\n<p>A good thing too with this route is that more than likely you need to find a way to adapt it into your lifestyle making it a more permanent solution.  Therefore, this will also prevent the quick fix mentality which is usually why a lot of people simply spend a lot of money on fitness items I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say.  Example, you need to get in shape and so buying a membership is suppose to be a sign that you are doing something. <\/p>\n<p>So if you really need to save money and this is a huge chunk of your expenses, I would personally start looking at ways to cut back expense wise by incorporating different routines in your daily life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was reading about this fitness type of club here where the fee to enroll into the program can literally cost thousands of dollars a year. Interestingly enough, most of the participants are kids where parents enroll them into a program to hopefully get more exercise I suppose. At the same time, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,1345,1346,44],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-finance","tag-fitness","tag-gym-memberships","tag-saving-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1057.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-ep","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}