Most Of You Are Not At All Ready To Go Back To The Gym

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."
So no, things are not normal.
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