Do we still have to wear masks in gyms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My gym in Arlington 100% requires and enforces masking. The trainers cannot afford to be sick.

As a service provider in an aligned profession, that’s fantastic. It’s good to hear the gym as looking out for their staff as well as clientele.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I started back after being fully vaccinated and am so happy to go to a mask-free setting somewhere. I keep my mask on a lanyard, and when a masked elderly person gets near, I put it back on. But I think my mood has fully recovered as a result of this tiny bit of normalcy.

I'd say the elderly are among the worst mask offenders at my gym. You don't have to wear one while exercising, but you're supposed to put one on walking around and using the locker room. I'm low risk, fully vaccinated, and have been working out maskless since they reopened, but the 65+ cohort is the most "over it" at my gym.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I started back after being fully vaccinated and am so happy to go to a mask-free setting somewhere. I keep my mask on a lanyard, and when a masked elderly person gets near, I put it back on. But I think my mood has fully recovered as a result of this tiny bit of normalcy.

I'd say the elderly are among the worst mask offenders at my gym. You don't have to wear one while exercising, but you're supposed to put one on walking around and using the locker room. I'm low risk, fully vaccinated, and have been working out maskless since they reopened, but the 65+ cohort is the most "over it" at my gym.

Eh. They are probably all vaccinated too

[Anonymous]

I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

And you know that, how? Do you honestly expect everyone is going to report their COVID cases to their gyms? Do you honestly trust the gyms to report these cases to all their clients? I sure don't. I'll trust the many scientists who have long considered working out at gyms, indoors, as high risk activities with respect to COVID over some random person on the internet, but hey, you do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

And you know that, how? Do you honestly expect everyone is going to report their COVID cases to their gyms? Do you honestly trust the gyms to report these cases to all their clients? I sure don't. I'll trust the many scientists who have long considered working out at gyms, indoors, as high risk activities with respect to COVID over some random person on the internet, but hey, you do you.

I know that because I became a "gymrat" 6 years ago, when I lost over 50lbs. I've made friends with people, trainers, instructors, and staff. I've spent probably 7 hours a week unmasked at gyms since they reopened, and have never gotten covid (and no antibodies). I see the same people day after day, week after week, and they're also still healthy.

I get it, you probably haven't been to a gym in the past year and 2 months, and the mystery confuses you. But don't pretend to have an idea of what you're talking about with zero experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

And you know that, how? Do you honestly expect everyone is going to report their COVID cases to their gyms? Do you honestly trust the gyms to report these cases to all their clients? I sure don't. I'll trust the many scientists who have long considered working out at gyms, indoors, as high risk activities with respect to COVID over some random person on the internet, but hey, you do you.

I know that because I became a "gymrat" 6 years ago, when I lost over 50lbs. I've made friends with people, trainers, instructors, and staff. I've spent probably 7 hours a week unmasked at gyms since they reopened, and have never gotten covid (and no antibodies). I see the same people day after day, week after week, and they're also still healthy.

I get it, you probably haven't been to a gym in the past year and 2 months, and the mystery confuses you. But don't pretend to have an idea of what you're talking about with zero experience.

Honey, I’ll take the advice of public health experts over your anecdata any day. Because, yes, they do know more about these things than you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fully vaccinated, and going back to the gym was the first thing I did. Masks need to be required there until more adults are vaccinated, period. We're not talking about outdoors, we're talking about people breathing heavily indoors, FFS.

I get that exercising indoors maskless really freaks many people out, but many of us have been doing it for nearly an entire year, with no whispers of covid at our gyms, or ourselves (including not being asymptomatic). You do you, but many of us are not worried.

And you know that, how? Do you honestly expect everyone is going to report their COVID cases to their gyms? Do you honestly trust the gyms to report these cases to all their clients? I sure don't. I'll trust the many scientists who have long considered working out at gyms, indoors, as high risk activities with respect to COVID over some random person on the internet, but hey, you do you.

I know that because I became a "gymrat" 6 years ago, when I lost over 50lbs. I've made friends with people, trainers, instructors, and staff. I've spent probably 7 hours a week unmasked at gyms since they reopened, and have never gotten covid (and no antibodies). I see the same people day after day, week after week, and they're also still healthy.

I get it, you probably haven't been to a gym in the past year and 2 months, and the mystery confuses you. But don't pretend to have an idea of what you're talking about with zero experience.

Honey, I’ll take the advice of public health experts over your anecdata any day. Because, yes, they do know more about these things than you do.

Yes sweetie pie, because experts have regularly hit the nail on the head with regard to covid. But if you want to make more excuses to not exercise and work on your physical and mental health, don't blame others for pointing out the repeated excuses -- as you sit at home knowing nothing about what you're talking about, blaming everyone but individual responsibility and sovereign choices when it comes to obesity.

[Anonymous]

Some of you are real d1ckz.

[Anonymous]

And cdc said if you are vaccinated, no mask needed indoors. Yea! Now I’m just waiting for state mandates to catch up with cdc and mask will go straight to garbage

[Anonymous]

Loving not having to wear a mask as often but I hate to see my gym start saying they are optional. I just started going back to orange theory in DC and I’m not sure I’d keep it up if they changed the mask rule while upping the numbers as well.

[Anonymous]

Most people at my gym don't wear them, but I do. I purchased the adidas ones that my son uses when he plays futsal. They are fairly comfortable, and I feel like I am getting a reasonable amount of air.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most people at my gym don't wear them, but I do. I purchased the adidas ones that my son uses when he plays futsal. They are fairly comfortable, and I feel like I am getting a reasonable amount of air.

If others aren't wearing them and yours is simply a cloth mask, you're not protected. Just get the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

DC still requires masks at the gym as of now. I am fully vaxxed as of today and went to the gym for the first time today post COVID. Some people weren't wearing one despite the rule. Doesn't bother me since I am vaxxed.