Author Topic: Poll: Would you go to the gym if they reopened tomorrow? (Read 6221 times)

BIG ACH · « **on:** May 07, 2020, 03:06:09 AM »

Well... Do you think the gym is the playing field for COVID-19 to spread and thrive? Or do you think we can social distance and stay safe with stringent cleaning and capacity control.

Kwon · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2020, 03:14:01 AM »

Would go to it before, after AND during! open, closed AND mid-close!

BIG ACH · « **Reply #2 on:** May 07, 2020, 03:17:18 AM »

Personally, I just don't think I'd feel comfortable doing so... I get people aren't necessarily on top of each other breathing in each other's faces, etc... But you're touching all these machines, potentially touching your face and stuff, it's not the most hygenic environment in general

Plus, having kids and a wife at home, would make me feel even more guilty if I were to catch something.

Maybe that's an overreaction, but things are so unceetain right now overall.

IronMeister · « **Reply #3 on:** May 07, 2020, 03:18:30 AM »

Would not train at the gyms. Even if there was no pandemic outbreak...

BB · « **Reply #4 on:** May 07, 2020, 03:20:11 AM »

The best answer I can give is maybe. If it was close by, I'd stop in and see how people are actually handling it before I made the commitment to actually go back.

Kwon · « **Reply #5 on:** May 07, 2020, 03:21:24 AM »

Would train with IronMeister in his garage / jacuzzi / bedroom (No Homer)

Griffith · « **Reply #6 on:** May 07, 2020, 03:26:59 AM »

Everyone will be required to wear masks when entering the gym when they re-open.

Mr Anabolic · « **Reply #7 on:** May 07, 2020, 03:31:01 AM »

Quote from: Griffith on May 07, 2020, 03:26:59 AM

Everyone will be required to wear masks when entering the gym when they re-open.

It will be impossible to train wearing a mask, especially in warm weather.

Griffith · « **Reply #8 on:** May 07, 2020, 03:32:08 AM »

Quote from: Mr Anabolic on May 07, 2020, 03:31:01 AM

It will be impossible to train wearing a mask, especially in warm weather.

Yes, I agree, but those are the regulations where I stay.

It's not practical, I think people could pass out.

Dokey111 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 07, 2020, 04:06:29 AM »

I would except I have to protect my wife's health so not yet probably

prowlermaniac · « **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2020, 04:17:08 AM »

I’d be there the minute they open. This has been far over blown and sheltering in place does nothing to help our immune systems. If you’re healthy with no underlying health issues wtf are you afraid of?

Methyl m1ke · « **Reply #11 on:** May 07, 2020, 04:35:35 AM »

Quote from: BIG ACH on May 07, 2020, 03:17:18 AM

Personally, I just don't think I'd feel comfortable doing so... I get people aren't necessarily on top of each other breathing in each other's faces, etc... But you're touching all these machines, potentially touching your face and stuff, it's not the most hygenic environment in general

Plus, having kids and a wife at home, would make me feel even more guilty if I were to catch something.

Maybe that's an overreaction, but things are so unceetain right now overall.

I see someone has been gobbling up his programming. Excellent work slave, you may now go for a short walk to get your essential exercise.

Dont forget your face mask!

....i am trying ever so hard to be as polite as possible here. But really I have to ask- are you trolling? Please tell me you are.

friedchickendinner · « **Reply #12 on:** May 07, 2020, 04:48:01 AM »

No I am building my own gym.

Thats how serious I am about training! You cant let other people dictate the amount of muscle mass you pack on! Thats no way to go through life!

SF1900 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 07, 2020, 04:58:11 AM »

I was going to the gym right up until they closed.

So, yes, I’d go. If COVID19 is going to be around for a while, it’s inevitable we are all going to get it.

harmankardon1 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 07, 2020, 05:12:29 AM »

Quote from: Methyl m1ke on May 07, 2020, 04:35:35 AM

I see someone has been gobbling up his programming. Excellent work slave, you may now go for a short walk to get your essential exercise.

Dont forget your face mask!

....i am trying ever so hard to be as polite as possible here. But really I have to ask- are you trolling? Please tell me you are.

This^

Did you ever stress on the flu when at the gym? It's business as normal in the non hysterical world, wash your hands, wipe down machines, don't touch your face.... No drama.

robcguns · « **Reply #15 on:** May 07, 2020, 06:26:26 AM »

friedchickendinner · « **Reply #16 on:** May 07, 2020, 07:21:59 AM »

Quote from: SF1900 on May 07, 2020, 04:58:11 AM

I was going to the gym right up until they closed.

So, yes, I’d go. If COVID19 is going to be around for a while, it’s inevitable we are all going to get it.

Not true, for example just because you got the AIDS doesnt mean everybody else did, thats just something you keep telling yourself to feel better!

Board_SHERIF · « **Reply #17 on:** May 07, 2020, 07:22:27 AM »

No, not until I know more bout this Covoid which we are being lied to about currently.

US MUSL · « **Reply #18 on:** May 07, 2020, 08:24:48 AM »

Gyms in my area reopen this Saturday at 8:00 am. I will be there Saturday at 8:00.

SF1900 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 07, 2020, 08:28:19 AM »

Quote from: US MUSL on May 07, 2020, 08:24:48 AM

Gyms in my area reopen this Saturday at 8:00 am. I will be there Saturday at 8:00.

What are you training on Saturday?

Hypertrophy · « **Reply #20 on:** May 07, 2020, 08:29:23 AM »

Of course I would. I wipe off all the equipment before using it anyways - have done that for years.

Covid doesn't form an aerosol so it won't be spread in significant doses just by breathing the air in the building...

US MUSL · « **Reply #21 on:** May 07, 2020, 08:31:23 AM »

Quote from: SF1900 on May 07, 2020, 08:28:19 AM

What are you training on Saturday?

Back and shoulders. Last gym workout was March 18.

bigmikecox · « **Reply #22 on:** May 07, 2020, 08:34:57 AM »

Found a gym in the Bay area that is open. Going on Saturday

Hypertrophy · « **Reply #23 on:** May 07, 2020, 08:39:18 AM »

Quote from: friedchickendinner on May 07, 2020, 07:21:59 AM

Not true, for example just because you got the AIDS doesnt mean everybody else did, thats just something you keep telling yourself to feel better!

SF doesn't have "the AIDS". Autozone tests all the workers weekly for sexual diseases and if you fail you are out. Everybody knows that. That is why I am not afraid to hold a solenoid in my bare hands after buying it there.

jpm101 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 07, 2020, 09:29:32 AM »

If the plan was for the U.S. to become a nation of hypochondriac's, than it's starting to work. That would include germ phobia, the underlining terror of that "G" word and anything related to it.

With a normal person, in reasonable good health, the abilities to strengthen the immune system can be greatly heighten, even before all the virus panic, in a average public gym setting. That gym you love may also be a potential cesspool of germs (microbes), but your body have put into affect those wonderful abilities to adjust and to reinforce the bodies immune defenses.

So might suggest, that if returning back to your gym after all this overblown virus panic, you are not dead withing the first 30 minutes after, than enjoy your workout and the many more to follow. Covid-19 is not the Black Death of the middle ages, it's a milder form of the yearly seasonal flu.