A recent study found that home workouts may do even more good than workouts at a gym. This is good news for people who are time crunched and find it's too much trouble to make it to a health club.

So how do you get most from your home workouts? Follow these suggestions:

1. Have A Plan. Know exactly what it is you want to accomplish and how you intend to get there. Plan out exercises and amount of reps and weight you will use. If time is a factor, make sure volume of your workout fits alloted time. If you can only squeeze in 10-15 minutes, then make most of it. Use compound moves for large muscle groups. Use an exercise log and refer back to it. It's a great way to track your progress.

I am new to world of gym. Having resolved to make my health and fitness a priority, spending time at gym is becoming a staple in my weekly routine. While I find that I am getting well acquainted with different exercises and exercise machines, there is one area of gym that I fear to tread.

Behind a partial wall, tucked to rear of building, away from cardio machines, spinning rooms and yoga mats, is free weight room. When I work weight machines I am a stones throw from free weight room, not close enough to really see what goes on in there, but definitely close enough to hear what goes on in there.

They say if you sit long enough in one place, whole world will pass you by. This may be true, but if you sit long enough near free weight room, you see a whole other world of gym patron pass you by. Into this mysterious room disappear giant men, their poor t-shirts barely able to contain their burly mass, arms propped out by massive lats; Amazon women with bodies of iron and physique most men would sell their mothers for. They disappear behind wall and for a good while they vanish. All that remains is their grunting.