Outfit head to toe Nike
Top - Cheshire Oaks pre lockdown in March
Pants - Nike online sale start of lockdown
Trainers - Super old Air Zoom Pegasus
After 4 long months I was so happy to be back in the gym yesterday. I was a bit undecided on going as I didn't know whether it was going to be really busy with it being shut for so long as they weren't doing a booking system you could just turn up and if it was full capacity you would have to queue. My gym is big enough for people to social distance so that was why they decided to let people come and go as they pleased.
I got there just before 10am and it was fine - wasn't busy at all and was told everything is the same just wipe before and after and wash you hands. Just the standard things we were doing before it got shut and the norm now. What I was doing when I went to the gym on the cruise. It isn't usually busy of a weekend morning at that time was just the usual faces in.
The gym did look a bit different - there was a screen on reception. You could only enter using 1/3 turnstiles. The middle was closed and the other was for exiting only. Stickers on the floor to social distance if there were people in front of you. Hand gel once you enter as you still have to use the finger print scanner to enter. You could only use every other cardio machine and the cross trainers have been spaced out. The spin bikes have been moved around. The boxing ring and cage were closed and there were a lot of cleaning stations dotted around with bottles of spray and tissue for you to wipe before and after. Hand gel dispensers on the walls and wipes.
The ladies only bit was free to use with a cleaning station and hand gel dispenser on the wall. Could only use 1 of the treadmills, stepper, cross trainer and bike. Only 1 bike has been taken out.
I tried to use as little equipment as possible to save on the wiping.
From what I seen people were wiping before and after themselves so I felt safe and fine in there. I didn't feel worried at all the only thing that did annoy me was...
Selfish people who can't put their weights back!! This is a real problem in my gym with people doing this especially on the squat rack and they've put every weight on the bar so you can't take it off yourself. The worst is when they have been deadlifting and leave it on the floor! If you could put them on your can take them off! I really don't know why people do this and people don't put the dumbbells back in the correct place as labelled so you're looking all over the gym for weights. You can spend a good 5 minutes looking for weights as it's been left in some random place!
Other than that it really hasn't changed. I'm glad to have some normality back and to have a routine again.
