I find it hard to take seriously when people say that “the gym is expensive.” The average gym membership costs around $50 per month, and creatine costs about $0.60 per 5 grams on average, which comes out to roughly $18 per month if taken daily. So, combined, that’s about $68 per month to maintain a basic gym routine with supplementation.
Meanwhile, the average pack of cigarettes costs around $8. If you smoke one pack per day, that’s $240 per month. This doesn’t even include other common expenses like weed, drugs, or alcohol, which can add up significantly.
How can we call something that isn’t a basic necessity like bread or water “expensive” when people willingly spend thousands annually on drugs, fast food, gambling, and other vices? It just seems inconsistent to claim that an active lifestyle is unaffordable when many of the same people spend far more on things that harm their health.
Yes, some sports can be costly—you don’t have to go to the level of golf to feel the pinch. But even sports like American football, soccer, martial arts, and other common activities usually don’t exceed the expenses of someone in the top 30% of spenders on addictions (who are often the ones claiming that an active lifestyle is too expensive).
Instead of buying cigarettes or alcohol worth $5–$10 (or more), maybe consider buying some chicken, healthy sauces, spices, broccoli, or protein-rich grains instead. I know vices are everywhere, but stop spreading this misleading opinion about fitness being unaffordable. PLEASE.
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It’s just a rationalization to avoid doing it. You can get planet fitness even cheaper than that and running is free. Doesn’t make them bad people, might be too stressed out to make the time but affordability is never a real limiting factor.
I’m not sure where you get the idea that only addicts or people who spend large chunks of money on drugs/alcohol/other vices are the main ones complaining about the cost of healthy and active lifestyles.
And it’s also possible for someone who is an addict and makes bad choices with their money to still be right about other things being expensive. It’s dumb if they use that as an excuse why they won’t partake, but it doesn’t make it less true.
you missed a point. cigarettes are more addictive than working out and eating salad.
That’s not unpopular. It’s just hard to admit.
It’s not affordability why I don’t go, I’m just a fat piece of shit.
The difference is people want booze and smokes more than gym
It’s expensive because I hate it and I don’t wanna go. It does not bring me joy. Anything cheap can be deemed too expensive based solely on how little you want it.
This is a false equivalence that asserts that people use gyms, cigarettes and alcohol for the same reasons. But that’s not true. You could say, “If you can afford yoga classes, you can afford the gym”. I’m not sure where you get that gyms, cigarettes, and alcohol are on the same plane.
It seems like you’re talking about someone specific, because I know plenty of people who work out like mad, but also drink like fish. They go to the gym to get fit and they drink to unwind. Sure one might undo the efforts of the other, but also consider what drinking and not going to the gym looks like, and your worse overall.
If your comparison is about cost, then that’s fine. But who are you talking about? Because you assume everyone who drinks doesn’t go to the gym because they say they can’t afford it, but who is that? It’s not everyone.
Planet Fitness is like what $10 a month? And WALKING IS FREE.
I’ll add on to your unpopular opinion and say that you could skip the cost of the gym too. Mow your own lawn. Walk your own dog. Clean you own house.
Quit paying people to do your chores for you and you’ll save the money you spend o those AND you can get your work out by actually working. People managed to do it for decades and no creatine is required either. So save your $68/month AND whatever to pay other people to do your chores for you too!
I’ll send you $800 if you send me 100 packs of cigarettes
You can stay that just about anything when it comes to cigarettes, alcohol, and anything.
However, that doesn’t address the link between addiction, poverty, alcohol, and cigarettes.
LOL. One of the biggest gym rats I know is addicted to cocaine and does steroids on the reg.
I pay for both, but I gotta go to the gym. Cigs and booze come home with me
I never thought I would be the kind of person to wake up early in the morning and exercise, As it turns out, I was correct.