The Biggest Issues for Home Gym Owners Are….

(0:00) Intro

This week we have a few quick hitters talking about the Assault Bike, “specialty bar” storage, and the new Bridge Built adjustable bench. Then, we’ll discuss a typically repeated survey each season, which revolves around the “issues” we face as home gym owners. There are two “issues” that are easily the biggest problems that home gym owners face.

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(0:26) Quick Hitters

(0:57) 51% say that the Assault Bike is “not” irrelevant, but 72% would choose the Rogue Echo Bike over it.

(1:33) 86% believe that “Specialty Bar Storage” would be a good idea.

(4:50) 63% vote “Yay” to the “Bridge Built” Adjustable Bench that folds up. This will be released during Black Friday.

(4:50) Issues

Last week’s Sunday Survey took a look at “issues” home gym owners face. When answering, you needed to highlight whether it was an issue or not and if it was an issue, whether or not it was large, medium, or minor.

There are 13 different potential issues that were asked about. Below is a breakout of each.

(7:32) Barely Issues

Less than 10% voted for these as either “medium” or “large” issues.

Issue	Not an issue	Minor Issue	Medium Issue	Large Issue
Working out safely	61.41%	28.96%	6.58%	3.05%
Not enough lighting	54.74%	34.99%	8.02%	2.26%
Equipment aging quickly	66.17%	27.06%	5.20%	1.58%
Finishing workouts in home gym	62.93%	28.94%	6.62%	1.50%

(8:32) Small Issues

Between 10% and 20% voted these as “medium” issues. In addition, at least 31% votes as a “minor issue.

Issue	Not an issue	Minor Issue	Medium Issue	Large Issue
Concern about making too much noise	46.63%	31.42%	15.71%	6.25%
Warming up for home workouts	51.83%	31.05%	11.36%	5.76%
Keeping home gym clean	29.15%	48.46%	17.61%	4.77%
Amount of equipment	29.56%	48.38%	17.88%	4.18%
Quality of equipment in home gym	54.16%	31.35%	10.34%	4.16%

(9:47) Medium Issues

At least 70% said that these were at least minor issues.

Issue	Not an issue	Minor Issue	Medium Issue	Large Issue
Temperature control	28.12%	35.83%	24.24%	11.81%
Distractions during home wokrouts	27.08%	43.10%	23.10%	6.73%

(11:28) Large Issues

Over 60% voted for these as more than a “minor” issue.

Issue	Not an issue	Minor Issue	Medium Issue	Large Issue
Lack of space for home gym	11.36%	28.20%	31.68%	28.76%
Price of obtaining more equipment	8.13%	24.12%	39.26%	28.49%

(12:25) Comparison to the Summer

In general, the overall “issues” did get smaller. For example, last summer 15% of the votes were for “large issues,” wheras this time around it was only 8%.

Several “issues” did get a bit larger – disctractions, lack of space, and price of obtaining equipment.

However, most issues did improve. Working out safely, equipment aging quickly, finishing home workouts, and not enough lighting were not seen as big as issues.