Gyms have been closed for over a month. Leaving gym goers frustrated. However, recently the white house released its guidelines for Opening America Again.
Its phase one plan allows gyms to reopen.
So, some gyms have already started to reopen while others are still closed. In this video podcast I’m answering the question, When are gyms going to reopen?…. Like everywhere? In America?
Welcome back to Total Body Training, I’m Jean Carlos and If you haven’t already subscribed to my channel then please click the subscribe button. On this channel, we go over fitness tips and trends to help you get in shape.
Last week, I believe it was April 16th, 2020 the White House put out Its Guidelines for Opening Up America Again. The article is broken into 3 majors phase. In each phase, different kinds of business will be allowed to be re-open. Each phase also includes suggested guidelines for how businesses should practice health measures such as social distancing and standing room occupancy.
Phase 1 of the states that “Gyms can open if they adhere to strict physical distancing and sanitation protocols.”
But gym goers, don’t get your hopes up to quickly because not every state or the different cities within that state are opening up at the same time. The article gives goes on to state that it is
“Implementable on a state by statewide or countywide basis at A Govern’s discretion”
So, in short, it’s up to your state governor to decided when gyms are allowed to be reopened. Not all states are opening up at the same time and not all states are following the White House’s guidelines for Opening Up America In the same way. For more about which states are opening up and you can check out a link to the New York Times are article entitled “See which states are reopening and which are still shut down”.
I live In San Antonio, Texas our Governor is Gregg Abbott and on April 27th Abbott Rolled out his plan for re-opening Texas. Abbott also rolled out with 3 phases for reopening Texas and those phases and he chose not to re-open Gyms In phase one. He said that the state of Texas will open up on May 1st but “Gyms, Bars are Barbershops ill not be allowed to open until possibly the middle of May. Abbott does not but a fixed date on when the gym could reopen. He instead said he would wait to see if there is a spike in new people getting sick. So, essentially, we aren’t really sure when we are going to open gyms in Texas.
Other states have handled this differently. For example, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp went ahead and opened just about everything in Georgia, including gyms. He is doing so despite the fact that various scientific sources such as the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation from the University of Washington say Georgia should not open up until June.
So, before I go on one thing that’s important to recognize is that these governors aren’t saying business has to re-open, they are saying that they are allowed to re-open. So, that beings said many businesses are choosing to wait to re-open. One such person is Harvey Spevak. Harvey Spevak is the owner of Equinox. Equinox is an extremely popular gym franchise and they have chosen to instead wait until scientific suggests that it safe for them to open up in Georgia. He Did explain that really it’s a localized situation so they will be opening up in different places at different places at different times.
So when are gyms going to reopen?
Well, the answer is complicated. Some governors have given gyms the go head to reopen while others haven’t. What is also true is that while some states have allowed the gym to re-open the owners of those gyms have chosen to remain closed for a while longer.
Is that clear as mud?
I think the real question you need to be asking yourself is what can I do in the meantime? Maybe you live in a state where gyms are open, but you are a little scared to go back? Or perhaps, like me, you live in a state where the gym still isn’t allowed to be open. Total Body Training, my gym is still not allowed to be open? What do you do?
I already answered part of this question In a video Called “Price gouging weight lifting equipment and 5 alternative ways to workout from home.” You can watch that video by clicking the link card above in the bottom of this blog under show notes.
To summarize that video, I suggest that people do one of the following.
- Do steady-state cardio.
- Do HIIT or body weight workouts at home
- Lift weights at home
- Get a Premium live and online workout classes such as our Live online weightlifting from home classes.
Here is what I have to say to my fellow gym owners. If you are in a state where you cant re-open or maybe you are in a state like Georgia where the state has allowed you to re-open, but you are scared to re-open then could you pivot your company? I did that with my gym. I started renting out barbells and dumbbells to my clients so they could workout with me in an online workout class. Could you do something like that? I know some of how hard that would be but let’s put things in perspective. Do you think that pour into working out in gyms right after this whole thing lets up? It’s hard to say. Even then if you training studio like mine where you exclusively offer group fitness classes Will the number of people that you can safely have at your studio in a class make you enough money to open up your doors again? Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe you need a plan that includes some level of discounted online classes to also go along with people’s gym memberships.
That Is exactly what I’m going to do with Total Body Training. We started our live online classes and they have been going great. Once re-open I plan on continuing my in-person and online classes. This seems like the best for me and my company. I mean who is to say that people can’t get worse in the future? If another lockdown like the one we are about to come out of happens again then you won’t get blindsided by it you’ll ready with something to offer you, clients, while they wait for you to reopen again.
In summary, We don’t know for sure when gyms are going to reopen in texas. Some of us think they will reopen in the 3rd week of May but we aren’t 100% sure yet.
SHOW NOTES:
The White house paper and link.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/
CNBC EQUINOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KafQTWQdpmM&t=1s
New York Times Article
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/states-reopen-map-coronavirus.html
Subscribe for more health and fitness tips: https://bit.ly/2SgVLlx
MOST RECENT VIDEOS: https://bit.ly/2SgVLlx
WORKOUT WITH US ONLINE FOR FREE: https://bit.ly/3aODgLM SOCIAL for Total Body Training:
BLOG: https://bit.ly/3aMNnRj
PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/totalbodytraining
FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/3eZ5LtG
INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/3cZX4x5
Learn about our live online workout classes: https://bit.ly/2xG4Eygonlineclassinfo