What the hell is happening to petrol prices? How high are they going to go? Is the world going to end?
While I don’t think it is time to get out the leathers and turn the Toyota Camry into your own Mad Max machine and go out and take out a petrol tanker. You do need to start looking at ways of reducing your expenses when the price of everything is rising.
In my former life as a bogan/westie/all round drop kick I learnt the true value of commuting to the gym. At one stage my choice of vehicles was a V8 Kingswood or turbo charged Torana. So needless to say the very short trip to the gym, done 4 times a week, wasn’t cheap. If the price was as high as it today I think I would be forced to live in one of the vehicles. At that stage of my life I think I would have seen that as quite an achievement.
In all seriousness we are all going to start looking at the kilometers we are covering these days. Decisions will need to be made as to what trips are essential, what trips can be combined and what trips can be brushed all together.
Next time you head off to the gym, have a look at how many kilometers the round trip is. Calculate that out over the year for the number of times you go to the gym on average each week. When you add this cost plus the membership and your time commuting you will have the true cost of training at the gym.
If you are currently training at a gym which is handy and has got a good vibe then the extra costs of a gym membership may be well worth it. In Sydney anyway these gym are sadly in decline as the new corporate gyms start taking over the market.
Some people I talk to think that their weight training will suffer if they start training in a home gym environment. This may be the case if you are in the upper echelons of strength training where training specific gym equipment is required. However for the vast majority of the weight training population if they chose their home gym equipment correctly they will prosper in the home gym environment.
The good news is to that for the cost of two years memberships you can get a quality home gym that will last you a life time.
So give this a thought when you are thinking the mounting bills are going to swamp you. There seems to be plenty of bad news at the moment. It is a real kick in the balls to pay $1.50/litre on your way home from work and then put the tube on to kick back and relax and the first thing that comes on the news is that petrol is going to rise further. However I think if we all look at how we are spending our hard earned dollars and make a few tweaks here and there we can save eating Pal on toast until we are pensioners.
