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Most Of You Are Not At All Ready To Go Back To The Gym
People exercise at Inspire South Bay Fitness behind plastic sheets in their workout pods while observing social distancing on June 15, 2020 in Redondo Beach, as the gym reopens. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/ AFP)
On Saturday, we took to Twitter to ask you, our dear readers, if you were ready go to back to the gym. The response was an overwhelming "hard no."
Will you be returning to the gym this week?
— LAist (@LAist) June 14, 2020
Gyms and fitness studios were given the green light to reopen in L.A. County on Friday June 12.
Since then, 24 Hour Fitness filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a Redondo beach gym unveiled their "excercise pods" (which look like cute little tents made of saran wrap) and the author of this post received a press release for a new line of "antimicrobial fitness accessories."
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So no, things are not normal.
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