How Gyms Are Reopening and Steps to remain Safe

Just get your antibody test and if you’ve built antibodies against the virus your good! Back to business, cant keep living your life in fear!

Checked out the local Planet Fitness, yesterday. Disappointed they do not REQUIRE masks. One infected person huffing and puffing can infect a lot of other people. Why does this have to be a political issue?

Planet fitness is dead. I think I might to equinox. I think equinox might be the cleanest gym during this pandemic. it’s expensive, but it was VERY CLEAN before the pandemic.

Fortunately as a marathoner I do just fine running outside and x training by hiking additionally. Cases are going up here in San Antonio—the top culprits? They are saying the GYMS and BARS.

I teach group fitness and If the weather permissible we take members outside. It’s almost impossible to teach with a face mask. I do see people with them on. Inside I don’t see anyone participating in wearing a mask

I have or had a membership before the pandemic hit at a hot yoga studio. They are opening on Monday. They are saying that we will have limits in class capacity and social distancing and mask will be required to enter the studio. It would be our choice to remove our mask at our mat space. Please chime in.

I’m going to place my membership on hold for 3 months after it re-opens. After jumping rope at home for weeks, my neighbor complained so I jumped outside (private sky lounge rooftop no one around). Afterward I got horribly sick. It was just food poisoning but I didn’t know. I felt horrible and immediately wondered if I caught it exercising outdoors. The feeling of being incapacitated sucks. I want to do all that I can to avoid it.

I live in Baltimore and I want my gym to open Yesterday. I’m getting pissed. My wife would not be telling me not to go to the gym because I am a man (smack)… I mean I love my wife very much and will obey fully. Fuck man.

If Planet Fitness ever got Free Weights I would join in a heart beat, but there’s just so much you can do with machines and dumbbells.

Finally building the home gym up, new bench, new small rack, made a pullup bar, lat bar with a couple pullies. Waiting to get the olympic plates & barbell i want whenever they become available.

Please know that our Planet Fitness location has been neglected by the owner. A. Since the doors opened, staff members are used to be “Maids” and there hasn’t been in-depth cleaning in almost a year.
B. Chronically broken machines. C. There have been many times there wasn’t any soap or paper towels to clean the machines. D. Lockers are not cleaned inside. E. In the shower, the disabled bench remained broken for almost 8 months, and in the ladies dressing room there still isn’t proper benches to sit on.
F. Mold on shower curtains and the bottom of the shower. G. In an area of high theft, the owner refuses to take down “The key board” and many cars have been broken into
I have been a member since this location opened. I fell in the shower because the disabled bench wasn’t maintained, 911 was called and no one from management cared or called to see if I was Ok. Heartless.

Oh right. It’s bad enough going to the supermarket or the box store lumber yard for necessities and having to endure the atmosphere of fear, foreboding, and distrust of a large percentage of the clientele not to mention the staff, so I can only imagine the heightened tensions in a gym. No thanks. I only frequent establishments where the staff and clients are more distrustful of the restrictions than they are of the potential for contracting the virus. I’m all for taking necessary precautions but I just can’t imagine, with the heightened tensions that all this is causing in the public square, that the gym experience will be worth it any more.

As Shakespeare said “Much ado about nothing”. This little virus is on the same level as common cold and flu viruses; maybe a little more contagious but no more deadly. There is no evidence that anyone has ever died strictly and solely from COVID-19. It’s always accompanied with other diseases but the doctors in the U.S. are under a lot of pressure to put down COVID-19 as the cause of death because the hospitals get an extra $39,000.

Doctors in Northern California say they have seen more deaths from suicide than they’ve seen from the coronavirus during the pandemic.
“The numbers are unprecedented,” Dr. Michael deBoisblanc of John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, told ABC 7 News about the increase of deaths by suicide, adding that he’s seen a “year’s worth of suicides” in the last four weeks alone.

Not smart to wear a mask while working out. Breathing in your own Carbon dioxide excessively can be poisonus. And people are nasty! I work at a gym and people dont clean, barely wash their hands after using the bathroom. People who know how to work out effectively, dont need a gym. Your body is your machine!

This is a great video and an unusual one!:Most of the videos out here are saying “go back to the gym and get healthy”! However, the biggest thing that people don’t seem to understand is that this virus is transfered person to person through the “mucus membranes” mouth, nose, and eyes! These droplets can hang in the air for 3-4 hours. You go to the gym and because of exercise you are taking bigger and deeper breathes. Therefore, you are more likely to pull the virus in your lungs! And, another false thing that gyms are telling people is that they are “wiping down” everything all the time! All they are doing is spreading the virus around hard surfaces! The Coronavirus lives on hard surfaces for up to 28 days! Lysol sprayed directly on the hard surfaces is THE ONLY THING that can “kill” this virus! And, there is another problem with that, stated on spray Lysol bottles, you can get extremely ill and or die inhaling Lysol. And, the worst thing of all is that you can have the virus for 14 days or longer and not have any symptoms! So, you can go everywhere, grocery stores, pharmacy, restaurants, gas stations, etc.and spread the virus to people with compromised immune systems who may die! Going to the gym seems like a “little bit selfish thing” to do right now! We all love to go there. It almost makes us feel “euphoric” and “righteous! However, the consequences to ourselves, our loved ones, and total strangers doesn’t seem a responsible thing at all!

I absolutely hate this. I will never live in fear when I go to the gym. Cause this will never go away so once I have that mindset that I can’t touch 3 or 4 peaces of equipment when the you have to go to work or your going places and touching things that will never go away. You have to live your life

RIP Gym. No one can be trusted to keep machines and weights clean. People are aerosolizing sweat and saliva constantly. Better to work out at home and be outside.

I may go to the gym at 7am in the morning while there is no one.
Gonna use the sanitizer after every exercise.
Gonna wear the mask.
And gonna use a antiseptic liquid spray bottle on the equipment before use.

La Fitness is open if Florida as of three weeks ago. I’ve been going the last two weeks. Bottom Line: NOBODY is wearing a mask! I am literally the only person who wears a mask. And i don’t understand people in there running on the tread mill. Go run outside…it’s Florida! You can bet there will be a second wave…wait no…the first wave is still going on and getting worse. Cases in FLA jumped last Thursday to the highest they have ever been. It is a hot zone in the gym and no one wearing a mask. They should require a mask….or just wear one out of common courtesy.

Planet is probably the most clean conscious gym I’ve ever been in and worked for. But man I’ll be honest, people are going to find other ways to stay “fit” relatively speaking-that doesn’t mean going inside a giant box working out next to who knows who, or using equipment after who knows who has used it and gotten whatever on it. especially since Summer is on the horizon. Myself included. Just being real.

If you ain’t getting any exercise without a gym and trying your best with body weight exercising. Then most likely you’re excited to get back to the gym just to perv out or talk story. lol ��

Not about cleaning! Air borne pathogens! Work at hospital know about what safe and not. Miss the gym, charge my life! Have worry if come contact virus without knowing spread family others! Rather wait be safe! If not to me say what’s safe or not. We all can make own choices

I love the gym. I legit workout 6 days a week, and it killed me these past few months. I plan to go back but I plan to wear 2 mask, and I plan to workout less than 40-50 mins. I also plan to only work out 3 days a week in a gym instead of 6.. The rest of my workouts I will do at home….

No thank you, people are relising that they can do all the gyming they want at home. You dont actually need a gym when you can do it for free.

I love and miss the gym so much..been losing so much gain…but i know, gym currently is really contagious…maybe in the end 2020/beginning 2021 we can start heavy lifting again…now using ur own bodyweight is more safer

if you need to be enlightened that gyms and massage parlors are non essential then there really in not hope for you. i never needed a gym to exercise lol.

Now Florida has a spike of covid…. turns out doctors and scientist were correct… it’s not healthy to go to the gym or restaurants in inclosed area ������������… and nope, more people have died from corona in 6 months than a flue kills in a year I would know because…. let’s just say I’ve seen inside the the tube that are being used to be placed on ventilators…and how long? Maybe till December since monoclonal antibody therapy might be out by September, and vaccines will be out by December 2020 or January of 2021… and all depends on how many people get sick aswell, remember, can’t vaccinate all in a supply limited system, so the most vulnerable will be vaccinated first…

The only thing I miss about the gym is when me and my friends get out the showers we will be naked sliding like Sub Zero all over the locker room while we listen to James Brown I feel good song

this video is not helpful. By the time you get to a tip relevant directly to covid19 (past telling people to listen to local govt, even though some local govts are literally lying to their populace) you mention social distancing. There’s not really any science behind “6 feet”. There’s even cases where people WERE social distanced in enclosed areas and all got the coronavirus (like the choir in washington state). I could go on further about this video, but there’s a reason you have 800k subscribers and get no views on your content.

Gyms ain’t going to be safe. H2O vapors from exercise can travel 65ft on a trail. What hope do we have on an enclosed space. I’ve seen the loss of gains and the long way back to homeostasis. Fu&k that. No vaccines, fit people. Stay fit. Don’t get sick.

I’ve been working out in town the whole time, exposed. I can’t believe the level of wimpy behavior I’ve seen by the majority of people. Giving up personal freedom so easily too ��

Hey everyone I wrote a post with tips on how to stay safe when visiting reopened gyms!
Check it out http://www.becomingfitandhealthy.com/blog
This blog is dedicated to beginner levels & just anyone who struggles with consistency. Be safe!

Gyms in Los Angeles have recently opened. I went back to my local gym just to see if it’s really safe. There are hand sanitizers around but far apart from the equipment, at least in my gym, so people are not willing to walk after each of their workouts to grab tissue paper with the sanitizers to wipe the equipment. And no, people do not bring their own towels or sanitizers from what I saw. I was probably one of the very few who did.

Very few patrons are wearing gloves. Many were touching equipment as if the coronavirus never existed.

Another issue is although they do temperature checks and require you to wear a mask, people are breathing hard and coughing, and in every set there are those who feel compelled to remove their mask and breathe as if they’re having multiple babies. It looked like an operating room without the doctors and nurses and sterile equipment. So the mask is basically useless when people are not even wearing them.

Ultimately, I have learned that people are habitual and will continue to be immature and careless about the virus. Luckily I have invested in a home gym with 100lb dumbbells each, a pull up station with a ring suspension trainer attached, and a flat bench for less than $900 together. I will definitely cancel my membership.

Florida is really pushing to open our economy back up, but is it too early for gyms? Going to the grocery store or out to eat is one thing. But going to a gym where you are quite literally required to touch everything (with or without gloves), even with a limited amount of people could be a recipe for disaster. It only takes one person who is infected to spread the virus.

I think it would be super interesting to hear what all of you have to say about this. I am on the fence personally. I see all the dangers on one side, but I also see a failing economy that needs some stability. Also, if gyms do not re-open soon more and more will go out of business forever and there will be NO GYMS to go to once the economy goes back to normal.

( 5:30)Florida Infection Rates: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429

( 7:21)Is The Coronavirus Airborne? Experts Can’t Agree https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00974-w

( 7:11)Particle Video: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coughing-could-spread-particles-grocery-store-without-mask-model-2020-4

These rules are so stupid to work at a gym wear a mask check your temperature make appointment only have two hours to work out this is so stupid I hope they fix this soon because I want to go back to being normal

Planet Illness won’t allow a customer to terminate an account except by either of two methods: send a letter of termination by certified mail or go to the club and sign a termination notice. A trip to the post office or a trip to the gym is not safe these days. But, no exceptions allowed…Thank you!

My gym reopened June 1. It’s safe. It’s fine. We just expanded hours. Open 5-12, then close 2 hours to deep clean, open 2-7. Deep clean.

Repeat. Yesterday I went from 10- 11:15. There were 12 people in there. And it’s a good sized building.

Naw since planet fitness reopened. It is the same thing except the massages, lockers, and showers are closed. All the staff do it chill in the front. They only take out the trash in the morning, closing, or member complains about it. I don’t see any of them cleaning every hour on equipments after the reopenings. Easy money for them before and after COVID19!!!

Trust me don’t go cause many havnt showered since march.. that’s a good idea just work out & carry all the germs & virus to your co-workers & go home..what moron decided no shower but wash your hands 20 seconds but the rest of our body was all over them machines..nobody is cleaning just 2 people behind the counter

He looks like a guy who would get kicked out of his own gym!! Hes too fit.. planet fitness is for fat people who ljke bagels in the weekends

When I saw this I was so hyped and had big smile when I herd about news about gyms re opening i miss letting wights and I cant wait i live in California and there saying California while re open in June 12 im comfortable enough to go back i cane imagine gyms being crowded as hel

The main source of the corona virus’s spread, the CDC said, is through respiratory droplets from an infected person who coughs sneezes or talks in close proximity to someone else.

“COVID-19 spreads mainly through close contact from person to person,” Haynes said. “While it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes, this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.” CDC spokesman Benjamin Haynes

During physical exercise the amount of exhaled water vapor is linear, but not proportional to heart rate. And so at the heart rate of 140 bpm amount of exhaled water vapor is approximately four times higher than during the rest and equals about 60-70 ml/h.

It’s not on the surface; it’s in the exhaled water vapor that people are breathing out that has the virus.

FINALLY someone with common sense am at FITGREEK on YT I share the same concerns though I have a gym at home. I believe GYM and RESTAURANTS both have cross contamination. Seen chicks check there butt not wash their hands and leave the bathroom… same possibility in a restaurant ��

I’m bout ready to join a different gym�� tried to follow along a home ‘work in’ once, video messed up after 30 seconds and I was over it. Just need equipment and headphones and I’m good to set my own pace

Damn reading through the comment section & seeing Americans buying into this new normal, is sad.After watching 1.3million people in Germany go out in the streets, peacefully protesting against this Plandemic gave me hope, that one day others will follow suit.But as for America its a sad sad situation.

THEY WERE BEFORE THE PANDEMIC AND WILL BE WORSE NOW…THEY WON’T DISINFECT THEM LIKE THEY SHOULD BE…ALL THE GROSS SWEAT ON HANDS..BUTTS TOUCHING EVERYTHING…GROSS GROSS…

I agree, he looks like he goes to a completely different gym to work out. I really hope that they start opening soon. 24 hours fitness leaving while planet staying is a nightmare. Here in my city a lot of the small gyms won’t be able to open again. An honest nightmare. Planet fitness is a gym for people who don’t like traditional gyms

Two year member here. They have done a nice job and definitely make effort to keep their place clean. Members at the PF I go make the difference in keeping it clean.

I’m going back next week 24 hours fitness opens 22 off Monday im going back to get my gains back im glad to go back and work out aging idc

This video is a bunch of misinformation, People who are going out right now and going to the gym are fucking stupid As Ron desantis is fudging the real numbers to the real corona virus cases once they’re out the economy will go into a recession:

IDIOTS and VAIN meatheads use gyms. What fools PAY to excercise? VAIN people, you know most gums are lined with glass and mirrors so passersby can see you sweat. IF you’re running around cleaning isn’t that a work out? LOL I PAY YOU to work out in my yard. Insane waste of time and energy, and you pay? LOL suckers

um… anything with reservations and thermal tech is a failure. Gym is not a germ free environment. People been exposed to germs/virus at the gym daily prior to covid. People will know that if they are sick, they will stay home.