Anyone avoiding the gym because of the you-know-what virus?

MeteoraTitanium

I haven't been to my gym in 6 days... This is really hard for me as I've been going regularly for years.
It feels like a month already 😭

PennyP312

Been working out at home doing various body weight, dumbbell and banded weight training. I’m lucky enough to have a spin bike from years ago so I’ve been getting some decent workouts in.
I soooo miss my barbell tho. I almost panic bought a rack, bumper plates and an Olympic bar. But decided to save that money because everything is so uncertain right now.

magnusthenerd

State government ordered all public gyms closed.
I haven't stopped going because of it though - I stopped going because of surgery.
Kind of funny to have a squat rack and what not at home so I could continue, but I'm not touching weights until probably April 21st.

orestis10

Its been 2 weeks since all gyms closed in my country s
I dwnloaded the abs in 30 days app
The workout home app
And a random dumbell App
I've seen more resaults due to.constant training because i work out wayyy more now becaus eof the quarantine and because i returned to my parents house and its driving me nuts.
Wish me luck

jwoolman5

Gyms that need to shut down should take this as an opportunity to try out various types of virtual gym training. Web sites, YouTube, etc.

It really is crucial to isolate regardless of how good you feel. This is really the only way to slow this virus down. Yes, eventually most of the population will get it. But we need to reduce the number of people infected all at the same time or else we risk collapse of our health care system. That means medical assistance will be scarce for everything, not just people critically ill with the virus. Besides deaths from the virus, people will die from other things that could have been helped. We could easily lose 1 or 2 million people in the US alone just from the virus, but there will be indirect deaths also if we don't slow down the infection rate so we stay within the capacity of our health care system to handle the extra sick people.

The countries most successful in slowing down the virus started isolation and quarantine and especially mass testing many weeks ago. The US is just beginning to make free testing available - before, doctors had a hard time getting the tests done even though from symptoms they suspected the novel coronavirus. The price was impossible for many people (as high as $3000) and insurance companies were balking at paying for it.

Our numbers are low only because we have not been testing. The UK authorities say official figures for number of infected should be multiplied by 10 to 20, and they have been testing more than the US. No reported cases in our home area does not mean no cases of infection. This is also flu season, and without testing - it is easy to mistake the coronavirus for the flu or even a bad cold in people with mild or even moderate cases.

There is no way to tell if you or anybody else is asymptomatic but contagious. Cleaning surfaces is good, because infective particles do deposit on them and can remain infective for several days. But this seems to be primarily transmitted via aerosols coming from infected mouths when the contagious person speaks, coughs, or sneezes (the last two have the greatest range).

Some people who have recovered from the virus are getting relapses because they didn't knock out the virus enough. Good news is that current thinking is that a successful recovery does give you immunity for an unknown amount of time.

But meanwhile - don't go exposing yourself deliberately to get immunity because there is also no way to tell if you are among the unlucky 12% that get very ill and need medical assistance. About half of those (5% of total infections) will need hospitalization and will likely go into respiratory failure and need a ventilator for a long period.

We do not have enough ventilators (no country does) to deal with the numbers likely if the virus spreads as anticipated. In Italy, people are dying because of lack of ventilators. The staff has to decide who to help breathe and who to let die. Doctors and nurses are becoming sick, at least one doctor has died from it, and personal protection equipment such as even just masks are in very short supply.

In the US, masks are already in dangerously short supply and we still have not yet gone to full ventilator production. That might change soon, but we should have started weeks ago. Ventilators are not simple equipment.

Italy has an excellent health care system, twice as many doctors per person as the US, more hospital beds per person than the US. If their healthcare system can be overwhelmed - so can any country's.

So please - don't take chances. Figure out ways to get your training in at home. Use the technology to stay in touch with exercise buddies and trainers. Even if you get a mild case (as most will), you can infect others and those who become seriously ill at once will be too much for our healthcare system. Not just old people, either. A major chunk of people hospitalized with this virus are 20-45 years old. They are also dying.

sgt1372

All of the gyms gave been closed in my state (CA) and region (SF Bay Area) but I have a full gym at home and never when 2 my gym anyway, except 2 occasionally use the steam room and sauna that I won't miss.

I can also still take a walk or hike alone while maintaining social distance. So life will go on

lkpducky

Generally I have gone to the gym to cross train on the bikes (I run outside otherwise) but I stopped going to the gym sometime before it closed. However, we ordered an exercise bike - it arrived and my husband just assembled it, and it feels smooth, so we're all set.

NorthCascades

I got a couple hours of skiing in today. It was warm and sunny and there's only about two or three months of snow left.

VioletRojo

NorthCascades wrote: »

I got a couple hours of skiing in today. It was warm and sunny and there's only about two or three months of snow left.

I thought all the ski resorts were closed?

janejellyroll

VioletRojo wrote: »

NorthCascades wrote: »

I got a couple hours of skiing in today. It was warm and sunny and there's only about two or three months of snow left.

I thought all the ski resorts were closed?

You don't need a ski resort to ski. Cross-country skiing, in particular, is something that can be done either on public trails or private land.

bsmith5girls

I miss the gym!

VioletRojo

janejellyroll wrote: »

VioletRojo wrote: »

NorthCascades wrote: »

I got a couple hours of skiing in today. It was warm and sunny and there's only about two or three months of snow left.

I thought all the ski resorts were closed?

You don't need a ski resort to ski. Cross-country skiing, in particular, is something that can be done either on public trails or private land.

You're right, I hadn't considered cross country skiing.

COGypsy

janejellyroll wrote: »

VioletRojo wrote: »

NorthCascades wrote: »

I got a couple hours of skiing in today. It was warm and sunny and there's only about two or three months of snow left.

I thought all the ski resorts were closed?

You don't need a ski resort to ski. Cross-country skiing, in particular, is something that can be done either on public trails or private land.

They had a picture on the news of miles of the shoulders of I-70 covered with the parked cars of people apparently skiing on the side of the roads and I've heard of people just walking up the ski runs at the closed resorts. I very rarely go to the mountains in any season, so have no way to verify, but thought the visual was pretty funny.

brittanystebbins95

I WOULD still be going to the gym daily if they weren't all ordered closed here.

cwolfman13

Gyms here closed a couple of weeks ago. I put in a self imposed moratorium on the gym even before that. They are a petri dish in the best of circumstances and there are easily 200+ people at my gym at peak hours. Spring is in full swing here anyways, which always means I'm out on my road bike or mountain bike more than in the gym anyways.