Are gyms safe during coronavirus?

As the new coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to spread, many major public events – from conferences to music festivals and sporting events are canceled or postponed.

Covernments have not yet denied or restricted gym visits in many countries. Therefore people keep asking us – wether going gym at coronavirus high season is safe or not?

Gym is a place where equipment is shared and therefore often exposed to other people’s sweat and possibly other body fluids such as spit from sneezing and coughing.

How worried you should be in the gym about the spread of coronavirus?

Gyms as well as other public areas are not safe at the moment although all kinds of precautionary measures are taken. Many gyms use hospital-grade cleaners to disinfect equipment, but this is not enough. Coronavirus is mostly transmitted by direct contact with droplets that are released when sneezing or coughing. The chance of getting the coronavirus by touching the contaminated surface is less than normal but still very possible. Plus You may to get the coronavirus by standing next to a sneezing or coughing trainer. In gym people work out and may start to cough more easily than at a normal pulse and it’s a closed room, so the bacterias are spreading in the air.

We do not recommend going to the gym at the corona season!

Whether sweat and dumbbells exchanging are risk factors?

There is no evidence that Covid-19 is transmitted via sweat. It is a respiratory virus, so the virus attacks the lungs. Sweat does not contain respiratory fluids, so sweat is not currently thought to be a source of the virus. But gym fluids are not only just sweat. Recent studies, conducted in America, have proven that corona bacteria lives on plastic or metal surface two to three days.

People in high-risk groups like the elderly, people with chronic illnesses, pregnant women, people with diabetes etc. must avoid going to the gym as well as other public places.

If you have symptoms of Covid-19 (fever, fatigue, dry cough) you should seek medical attention and let yourself tested. The situation may require quarantining and avoiding contact with other people. When symptoms occur, people should not go out of the house and for a long time not at the gym.

If you do not belong into the high-risk group you may go to the gym at your own risk. Keep in mind that at the moment, there are people who do not have any corona virus symptoms but they may be still silently the virus carriers!