Ways to Exercise Effectively

Go online and you'll find a number of sites where you can ask for free equipment or find people offering it for free. Even when its not free its usually cheap, I guess maybe because who wants the equipment sitting there reminding them of their failure to use it. Check the newspaper ads and bulletin boards also.
Ask your friends and family if they have any equipment they want to get rid of. Over the years I've picked up 3 exercise bikes, 2 treadmills, a benchpress bench and hundred of pounds of weights and dumbbells, all free.
There always seems to be some sort of equipment at garage or yard sales. I've bought everything from a small dumbbell to a treadmill at them. I've also seen those high priced machines they advertise on TV at huge discounts.
Thrift stores are an excellent place to find equipment. Most of them have a discount day when the bargains get even better. A little more expensive but with some bargains are your used equipment stores, such as Play It Again Sports.
Check your local library for exercise books and videos that you can check out free. They range from plain to exotic exercises, such as dancing, aerobics plus many other types of exercise and fitness information sources.
Places where you can get some free exercise include schools which have basketball and tennis courts. Parks often have basketball courts, tennis courts and volleyball nets along with handball courts.
Even if you don't have your own equipment you can usually get in a game of volleyball or basketball. Beaches almost always have volleyball nets where you can usually join in. Frisbee is another almost free activity and many cities have a free Frisbee golf course.
If you live in a condominium, planned community or a mobile home park you'll find a wealth of free activities. Most of them have swimming pools with many having tennis and basketball courts, shuffleboard, exercise rooms, putting greens etc. Many planned exercise activities are usually available also.
I think you can see that with a little work you can find exercise equipment for free or for very little money as well as free places to exercise. The information here is just some of what's available and should be able to get you thinking about where or what else you can do to exercise for free or almost free.