5 reasons why more and more people are cancelling their gym memberships this year

Do the math yourself. An average gym membership costs around 500 kr a month, over 6 000 kr a year. How many times were you there last month?

One payment. No commitment. Yours forever.

And for the money, you don't get less exercise — you get cardio, full-body training, and reaction training in the same machine, plus boxing gloves included. The only thing the gym has that you don't have at home is the queue for the machines.

The boring thing about cardio isn't that it's hard, it's the boredom. The treadmill is 40 minutes of watching a clock.

This is the opposite: the lights turn on in time with your music, you chase points and suddenly you're drenched in sweat without thinking about the workout once.

And the workout is real. Boxing to the beat is interval training: your heart rate goes up and down with the tracks like in a HIIT session, and boxing is one of the most energy-demanding forms of exercise there is. Every punch starts in the legs, rotates through the core and finishes in the shoulders — full-body training without feeling like it.

The honest reason the membership goes unused is rarely laziness. It's logistics: packing the bag, getting there, changing, getting home. A one-hour project for 30 minutes of exercise.

When the machine hangs in the hallway, the distance between thought and workout is three seconds. Gloves on, get going. That's why it actually gets used.

A punching bag needs a ceiling hook, floor space and patient neighbors. This only needs a wall.

The striking surfaces are dampened so the neighbors hear nothing, and when you're done it hangs flat against the wall instead of taking up an entire corner. Built for regular homes, not basement gyms.

The hardest exercise at the gym is getting there. Here, motivation is built into the game: the points are counted, yesterday's record is on display and waiting to be beaten.

And if you don't live alone, you get workout buddies included. Partners compete against each other, kids want rounds too. Suddenly exercise is something the household argues about getting to do, not something you keep putting off.

The result of having zero barrier to entry: the workouts get done. And workouts that get done always beat the perfect training plan that never gets used, for cardio, calorie burn and everyday energy.

Try it for 30 days. If you don't use it, send it back.