The gym is open! The gym is open!

[12string]

Well, not until Sept 1, but at least we have a date!  25% capacity, but I don't think it was ever that full anyway.  For "classes", 1 person per 200 sq ft..  Means we can fill up the pool!

No word on locker room use, but I can't remember the combination to my lock now anyway.

[maddmaxx ★]

Best wishes.

[Razors Edge ★]

1 minute ago, maddmaxx said:

Best wishes.

Or "good luck"! 

And, please, let us know who gets your stuff

[2Far ★]

PF has been open for a while. No pool exists. You can use the bathrooms, but not the changing areas. I heard someone in the shower the other day. They doubled the number of cleaning stations, 2 of every three aerobic machines are blocked off. An employee goes around with some kind of phaser rifle that mists some kind of sterilizer fluid. Dunno what it sprays, there's no odor.

[Razors Edge ★]

Just now, 2Far said:

Dunno what it sprays, there's no odor.

Cancer.  That can't be "healthy"!

[2Far ★]

1 minute ago, Razors Edge said:

Cancer.  That can't be "healthy"!

Everybody's gotta go some time. The insurance company is more worried about my heart then they are about cancer.

[maddmaxx ★]

Whatever you do, don't hang near any people who are breathing hard.

[Razors Edge ★]

4 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Whatever you do, don't hang near any people who are breathing hard.

Come on, Maxx!  Everybody's gotta go some time! 

I'm not a gym-person, though, so it is easy to wonder what the fuss is all about.  Like getting a haircut is not high on my list of priorities or returning to inside restaurant dining or catching a movie in a theater or attending a football game.  It helps to not really want to mix with people too much

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

48 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

I'm not a gym-person, though, so it is easy to wonder what the fuss is all about.  Like getting a haircut is not high on my list of priorities or returning to inside restaurant dining or catching a movie in a theater or attending a football game.  It helps to not really want to mix with people too much

I see you practice antisocial distancing like I do.

[Longjohn ★]

My gym has been open quite awhile. I can’t leave my wife unattended to go there. I shouldn’t go anyway with my age and conditions.

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

59 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

My gym has been open quite awhile. I can’t leave my wife unattended to go there. I shouldn’t go anyway with my age and conditions.

What about something like resistance bands? You can do some strength stuff anywhere

[Longjohn ★]

8 minutes ago, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said:

What about something like resistance bands? You can do some strength stuff anywhere

I have a woodpile, that gives me a pretty good workout.

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

1 hour ago, Longjohn said:

I have a woodpile, that gives me a pretty good workout.

I love cutting and splitting wood....but hate stacking it.

When I used to cut wood with the ex-FIL, every time I'd put a piece on the pile, he'd take it and turn it around or move it. Finally I said "Okayfine! I'll cut it and split it, YOU stack it!"

I need firewood for camp, but just don't have the time to get up there and cut it.

[12string]

A month ago, I wouldn't have gone to the gym.  But our numbers here have dropped significantly lately, and continue downward.  We have a total of about 7000 active cases out of 8 million people.  That's less than 1 person put of 1,000 around you who might have it.  And the numbers are lower in the lower half of the state.  There will be at most 80 people in the entire gym, it's a large building.  The odds of me being within breathing distance of a spreader are really low.

I'm also starting back at the hockey rink next week.  Less than 30 people there.  Low odds.

When numbers go back up (and they will), I'll stop both activities.

[Square Wheels]

I belong to two gyms, I will likely just quit them both.

[Razors Edge ★]

1 hour ago, Square Wheels said:

I belong to two gyms, I will likely just quit them both.

I doubt my wife is going back in 2020.  Her membership is on "permanent hold", and I can't see her wanting to take any classes there until the vaccine is in place.  So, 2021 at the earliest

[Randomguy]

3 hours ago, 12string said:

That's less than 1 person put of 1,000 around you who might have it.

Who goes to the gym?  Asymptomatic young dudes who grunt unnecessarily indoors when lifting weights and hang out and party and then go to the gym the next day after getting drunk and making out with any slut that will smooch with them.

RIP, best of luck on whether or not there is an afterlife depending on what superstition you ascribe to.

[ChrisL]

Our gym is still closed and with the situation improving locally may reopen but I haven’t heard anything yet.  Our account is frozen and we’ll keep it that way for a long while.