Maybe gyms aren’t that safe, after all...

[Frijj]

Mass COVID outbreak even in a socially distanced gym setting. Just one example admittedly but a good one due to the proper contact tracing and significant effect seen.

How Every Single Participant in This Cycling Class Got COVID-19

Even though they were six feet apart.

www.self.com

 

[DoctorMick]

and the windows and doors were closed.

Daft twats!

 

[Sir Lancelot]

It’s obvious really. The infected one was shouting and spreading the disease and the participants were breathing deeply because of exercising and sucking it deep into their lungs. This is why gymns have been kept closed for so long.

 

[Frijj]

It’s obvious really. The infected one was shouting and spreading the disease and the participants were breathing deeply because of exercising and sucking it deep into their lungs. This is why gymns have been kept closed for so long.

Gyms were one of the last places to close.

 

[Ashley In!!]

Gyms who choose not to be sensible and follow the guidelines can't be compared with the vast majority who do. And in a way this is proof of why the guidelines exist / work. Just like in a lot of other settings.

And I say that as someone who doesn't go to the gym.

 

[FootballFan]

I'd have thought due to the nature of them the risk in gyms in general is very high.

 

[bomber]

How they were allowed to remain open beggars belief.

 

[Cheesy Feet]

I went back when the last lockdown was relaxed..you were given a bit of kitchen roll and told to wipe what you’d used..looking around not many were adhering to it.

 

[humbug]

i can never understand how folk can say gyms are secure. surely people puffing and panting are extremely likely to be spreading whatever it is they have?
i'll gladly be corrected mind if anyone knows better.

 

[Sir Lancelot]

Gyms were one of the last places to close.

And haven’t been reopened.

 

[Frijj]

And haven’t been reopened.

But most everywhere else has been closed longer.

 

[Skandhaless]

I went back into the gym after last closure . Week before new lockdown I got an email from the gym 11.00 Monday morning saying someone who had been in the gym with me 9.00 am the day before had tested positive.
How you can be fit for gym one morning and have a positive test back within 24 hours baffles me.
I didn't get it though, or if I did I was asymptomatic .

 

[SAFCTEES]

The gym i go to has loads of windows. But none of them open. Only one door in and out.


Germ Central really

 

[Qwerty]

Always felt safer in the gym than at work.

 

[Hansel]

Never felt that gyms could be anything other than high risk. Outside exercise should have been prioritised.

 

[Roker Mackem]

Always felt safer in the gym than at work.

Depends what you do I suppose

 

[Wild Card]

I guess it depends on the gym.

I was going to hetton gym because the Eldon square one didn't reopen (I don't think)

And the gym staff and gym protocols were excellent.

Capacity was capped. The app showed how many people were in so you could space out. The staff went round regularly and cleaned every surface. Sessions were 50mins and the staff gave another clean before the next session. Most of the exercise equipment was either well spaced or faced a wall or window. All group activities were stopped. This also set the tone for the users who were also careful and sanitised everything.

Not aware of any outbreaks from there and hetton was a highly infected area.

If all gyms stuck to that it would be fine. It's shit owners that are the problem.

 

[Nobby]

JD gym in Washington was grim, no distancing in the weights areas

 

[becs]

I never went back to mine as I didn't feel like it was safe. It's in an industrial unit in the middle of the building, so there are no external doors or windows for airflow.

He was doing group classes with a grid marked on the floor, but the rectangles were right next to each other, like below. The rectangles were about 2x3m in size. You had a set of equipment in your rectangle that was sanitised between classes but I didn't feel safe being so close to people breathing out in the rectangles around me. I'd have really hated being in one of the middle rectangles.

 

[Roker Mackem]

If all gyms stuck to that it would be fine. It's shit owners that are the problem.

Too much focus is put on cleaning surfaces.

Unless the windows are open and a gale blowing through its a bad environment for spreading it sadly.

I never went back to mine as I didn't feel like it was safe. It's in an industrial unit in the middle of the building, so there are no external doors or windows for airflow.

He was doing group classes with a grid marked on the floor, but the rectangles were right next to each other, like below. The rectangles were about 2x3m in size. You had a set of equipment in your rectangle that was sanitised between classes but I didn't feel safe being so close to people breathing out in the rectangles around me. I'd have really hated being in one of the middle rectangles.

One person infected in that area would have infected at least three others IMO.