How to Build Your Fitness at Home Before You Join a Gym

Building a workout-from-home training program to get you started

We touched on getting comfortable in the gym in the last edition of 2022. Most people need to join a gym to access the resistance training equipment required to achieve their strength, fitness and body recomposition goals. Unless they have a stocked home gym, it’s hard to access everything that most people need to get it done at home.

But not everyone wants to join a gym. It might be inconvenient, expensive or otherwise not a viable option. Others might want to avoid joining the gym now and prefer to get started on their own before transitioning to a gym after building a base level of strength and fitness. If you are in these camps, I will share some exercise, equipment and training recommendations for getting started without stepping foot in the gym.

These are all no-equipment and low-equipment programs, so it will not help you build a home gym. If that’s what you have in mind, I would highly recommend doing a few sessions in a commercial gym to find out what equipment you find beneficial instead of trying to guess what you will like — that can lead to expensive and unused mistakes.

Most home training setups have limitations due to the amount of weight or training…