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Fitness experts spend so much time thinking about how to motivate people to go to the gym that often the fact that not everyone has a good gym to go to gets overlooked. In fact, only 52 percent of U.S. counties have adequate access to exercise opportunities, according to research published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's journal, Preventing Chronic Disease.

The state with the highest access to fitness resources was Maryland with 91 percent of residents (and 100 percent in Washington, DC), while Mississippi came in last, with less than half of its population having access to exercise.

Rather than drain your wallet and clutter your home with exercise equipment (that might just end up collecting dust, anyway), Peter Walsh, author of Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight, with Liz Davis, MS, trainer, bodybuilder, and exercise physiologist, say you can create your own gym with items you already have at home. | Source