Health and Fitness in a Slow Economy

People are often thinking of ways to save money.  This is even more so during a slow economy.  However the desire to lose weight and get into good shape is still there no matter what the financial situations are.  What to do?  How to decide?
 
Let us first take a look at health clubs. What I have always come across is people doing the traditional exercises to try and get healthy. People are bench pressing, doing squats, exercising the biceps, the triceps, legs, as they rotate from machine to machine. Often they wait their turn just to complete one exercise. It is common for someone to spend an hour in the club.
 
It is good that the people who become health club members are making the efforts to exercise but they are not making as good of use of their time as they could.
 
Think about this; 20 minute drive to the club, one hour exercising (actually most of the time there is spent waiting), and then a 20 minute drive back home.   A total of One Hour Forty Minutes spent on exercising.   When I exercise at home I am done in 10 minutes. I have saved myself one hour and thirty minutes. When I do that four times a week I have given myself an extra six hours a week.
 
Six hours a week adds up to over 24 extra hours a month and to 315 extra hours a year of time. I can get a lot of important things done with an extra 315 hours a year.   If your time is worth 20.00 per hour you saved yourself from wasting over $6,000.00 worth of your time. 
 
Working out at home is definitely the most time efficient way to stay healthy.
Lets now look at money.
 
If the membership to a health club was $50.00 each month then the yearly cost is $600.00.   Adding up the yearly membership and the cost of your time (the cost of the gasoline used while driving back and forth was not even mentioned) joining a health club will cost you close to $7,000.00 a year.
I have better things to do with my time and money and so do you.