What's Your Ideal Training Environment?

Maybe it's because I've worked inside commercial gyms for nearly a decade, but gyms just don't do it for me when it comes to getting amped up for training.

6 years ago I began training outside in my backyard in Slidell, Louisiana to avoid signing up at the local LA Fitness. The feeling was euphoric.

I also set up a minimalist gym (kettlebells, bands, door frame pullup bar) in the spare bedroom, but I still had to go to that damn LA Fitness a few days per week to do my barbell lifts.

A year later, when I moved back to my house in Alabama (after my wife's year-long work contract in NOLA was up) I immediately bought a barbell, a stall mat, and have trained at home – almost exclusively – ever since. My home gym life has now followed me to 4 different houses and 3 different states.

Give me a dingey garage, backyard, or a driveway to train any day of the week over a typical commercial gym.