Comment by atoav

Gyms finance themselves by the people who are paying and not coming.

My advice on building a sports habbit is: Get enough stuff to get yourself motivated. If you are running, getting good (!= expensive) shoes and some sports clothes is a good starter. If it helps to have one of those fitness watches go for it, but there are free phone apps that can do basic things as well. Gear is never an excuse in running. There are people who run marathons barefoot.

Having good shoes and clothes helps you not to stop because of some excuse tho. Clothes are important, because with good clothes you can run also when it is raining, windy and it has single digit Celsius temperatures. Shoes the same: with good shoes the pain point will come later.