Home Gym Issues (May 2022)

Intro

For the last Sunday Survey of May, we conducted a survey that we ask about every three to six months (last November). When answering, respondents needed to highlight whether the topic was an issue or not and if it was an issue, large, medium, or minor. It’s a look into 13 potential home gym problems.

Adam from Garage Gym Lab was our guest analyst!

A breakdown of the entire survey is below, but the most significant takeaways are likely:

The price of obtaining more equipment and lack of space are easily the top issues most face right now. Temperature control would likely be up there when considering those in only garage gyms.

Outside the three mentioned above, none had more than 1/3 voted as a medium, or large issue, with 7.04% being the largest voted “large” issue (Amount of Equipment).

Compared to last November, we saw the issue of “working out safely” greatly decrease, while more saw “not enough lighting” as the largest issue riser. Maybe because we want our gyms to be more “Instagramable?”

(1:51) The Largest Issues for Home Gym Owners

The price of obtaining equipment, lack of space, and temperature control were the most significant problems home gym owners face.

The most significant issues from November 2021 did not change. The order and percentages above did not change a whole lot either.

Only about 1/3 said that the price of obtaining more equipment is a minor issue or not one, to begin with. About 39% voted that way for “lack of space.”

Related: “Lack of Space” has typically been the primary issue we see since we started doing these surveys.

(8:41) Medium issues

Amount of equipment, keeping the home gym clean, and distractions were deemed “medium issues.”

These all had about 6-7% vote as large issues. Between 2/3 and 3/4, all voted these as a minor or not a problem. Therefore, not of these are too large of a hindrance for most.

(13:11) Minor and smallest Issues

Not enough lighting, quality of equipment, and concern about making too much noise make up this section.

These had less than 6% large issue votes and less than 20% “medium” issues. Over 70% voted for these as either a minor or non-issue.

Warming up, finishing workouts, equipment aging, and working out safely was not at the top of the “issues list” for most. All had at least 86% votes as non or minor issues.

(18:05) Final rankings

The points below are based on calculating each vote as 3 points for large issues, 2 for mild problems, and 1 for minor. This is simply a look at all of the issues combined.

All issues are combined below.

(18:45) Changes since November

The numbers here reflect the difference from last time. As you can see, most got smaller. In general, it’s a way to see if an issue got larger or smaller.