What gyms could look like after lockdown – YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life What gyms could look like when they can finally reopen post-lockdown By You Magazine - June 23, 2020 Some of us have missed sitting in a restaurant, others have dreamt of getting a trim at the hairdressers, but for some people, the gym is what they’ve been missing most during lockdown. While many gyms were hoping for a July reopening, the Prime Minister’s latest update today announced that public spaces such as cinemas, pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and hotels can reopen from 4 July, but gyms, leisure centres and swimming pools are to stay shut as they are still not quite considered ‘Covid secure’ just yet. Getty Images Despite this, gyms up and down the country are getting ahead by preparing for when they can reopen. Budget gym chain Puregym has released their plans for exactly what a visit to one of their gyms will look like when they can finally reopen. The plan includes: Limiting the amount of people who can enter the gym at one time. An app that shows you how busy your local gym is, so you can check beforehand and avoid queues. Contactless entry via an app or key fobs – no pin pads anymore. Hand sanitising stations at the entrance and around the gym. Thorough cleaning of kit and surfaces by staff throughout the day and deep cleaning routines every night. View this post on Instagram A post shared by PureGym (@puregymofficial) Gym-goers will be asked to wipe down equipment and machines before and after use, using the anti-viral cleaning wipes dispensed from newly-installed cleaning stations around the gym. Floor space will be marked with boxes to help gym-goers maintain social distancing while exercising. The gyms have been rearranged so that equipment is spaced further apart and people can freely and easily move around the gym while maintaining social distancing. Working out closely in groups or pairs and ‘spotting’ your friends will be prohibited to avoid large clusters of people forming. Getty Images London-based chain Gymbox has announced that gym time and classes may have to be pre-booked via an online booking system, they’ll be providing temperature checks at the door, all their gyms will be going fully cashless and entry will be contactless. They’ve also stated that they will go ‘above and beyond what the likely mandated rules will be’ in terms of cleaning and safety standards, saunas will be out of action and changing rooms and shower facilities will be reduced. Meanwhile, some gyms around the world, such as Inspire South Bay Fitness in Redondo Beach, California, have been experimenting with individual pods made of plastic sheeting for people to work out in. While innovative, this doesn’t seem to be the way most gyms are heading in for a sustainable post-lockdown reopening plan. Getty Images Of course, all gyms will be setting out their own guidelines for how they will make their spaces as safe and clean as possible for their customers, but the plans set out by PureGym and Gymbox certainly provide a good indication of what a visit to most UK gyms could look like post-lockdown. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved