Okay... so I was very convinced that I could get by without the gym bundle. I thought to myself "Pffft, my gym usually has all this stuff. No need to purchase something new and tote it back and forth." By Week 2, you bet your booty I was on the Rec Sweat website hitting "Purchase" on the Gym Bundle. After discovering that my gym did not in fact have ankle straps AND spending 10 minutes running around the gym in search of the barbell pad, I was sold. Okay, off my soapbox. Thank you for creating this wonderful product!