I have so much yard work to do and remodeling around the house to finish up that I can't imagine wasting the time and money to go to a gym to burn calories and waste time in non-productive activity. I belonged to a gym for a little while about 20 years ago, and realized how stupid it was to drive to the gym to exercise. I should have kept my money and walked to and from the gym every day.
People pay others to mow their lawns around here, then they go to the gym to do comparable exercise. How dumb is that? My lawn, under ideal conditions, takes about 2 hours to mow, front and back, with a gas-powered push mower.
My son complains that he wants to do chores for me to earn some extra money (paying for an electric guitar) but that I always do the stuff I said needing done before he gets to it. We have reached an accord--I have him go out with my every so often and I give him chores along side me to help with whatever I'm working on at the moment.
I have two dogs who need a walk every day, and we try to go between 30 and 45 minutes each walk. They're outside all of the time in a large yard, so it isn't like they get no exercise because they're playing much of the time, but this is a good social situation, and as we approach the hot summer months we'll push our walks to earlier in the day.
This isn't taking into account anyone else's physical impairments. I'm not apologizing for thinking gyms are stupid and Americans are pampered. They are and we are. If you don't have enough to do at your house, go help and elderly neighbor dig a garden. But why waste time and money on empty exercise? Someone's getting rich, running all of those places. Think about it.