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I'm more concerned about the 30% of Americans that are obese than the 0.1% top athletes, who in rare circumstances are badly affected. Open the gyms to save li

I'm more concerned about the 30% of Americans that are obese than the 0.1% top athletes, who in rare circumstances are badly affected. Open the gyms to save lives.

jmalicki 6y ago
Truly obese people can benefit a lot from just walking, as they're not trained enough to need high intensity exercise to keep it up. Gyms are pretty horrible places for spreading COVID and other respiratory infections, as they involve a lot of heavy breathing in confined spaces. They are probably a worse place to be than bars. Would the increase in fitness over a 6 month period for a typical obese person really reduce the risk by more than being in the gym increases it? https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-0633_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-0633_article https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-why-covid-19-can-spread-so-easily-at-gyms-and-fitness-classes#Heres-how-COVID-19-can-spread-at-the-gym https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-why-covid-19-ca... Pre-COVID studies of gyms call out a very high risk factor for respiratory infections. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324993154_Infection_risk_in_gyms_during_physical_exercise https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324993154_Infection... There was one RCT of gym access in Norway that showed no difference, but that's because there was only one case out of over three thousand during the entire study, in either arm, so it's difficult to say that means anything at all. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.24.20138768v2 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.24.20138768v...
thehappypm 6y ago
You're fantasizing if you think re-opening gyms is going to do jack shit about the obesity rate.
- extremeMath 6y ago
  Our gym group broke up due to covid and all 3 of us gained 20 lbs each. Ancedote sure, inevitable maybe. But this wasn't some January new years resolution, this was April.
mft_ 6y ago
1. Weight loss is 90% in the kitchen, not the gym. 2. A gym seems kind-of a high infection risk. Lots of heavy breathing and sweating, wiping of faces, noses, and mouths, sharing of equipment, locker rooms... probably not the ideal place to welcome anyone, let along the (as you say, high-risk) obese amongst us. Any chance your irritation at closed gyms is more personal, rather than a caring nature looking out for peoples' weight loss regimes?

I'm more concerned about the 30% of Americans that are obese than the 0.1% top athletes, who in rare circumstances are badly affected. Open the gyms to save lives.

jmalicki 6y ago

Truly obese people can benefit a lot from just walking, as they're not trained enough to need high intensity exercise to keep it up. Gyms are pretty horrible places for spreading COVID and other respiratory infections, as they involve a lot of heavy breathing in confined spaces. They are probably a worse place to be than bars. Would the increase in fitness over a 6 month period for a typical obese person really reduce the risk by more than being in the gym increases it? https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-0633_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-0633_article https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-why-covid-19-can-spread-so-easily-at-gyms-and-fitness-classes#Heres-how-COVID-19-can-spread-at-the-gym https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-why-covid-19-ca... Pre-COVID studies of gyms call out a very high risk factor for respiratory infections. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324993154_Infection_risk_in_gyms_during_physical_exercise https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324993154_Infection... There was one RCT of gym access in Norway that showed no difference, but that's because there was only one case out of over three thousand during the entire study, in either arm, so it's difficult to say that means anything at all. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.24.20138768v2 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.24.20138768v...

thehappypm 6y ago

You're fantasizing if you think re-opening gyms is going to do jack shit about the obesity rate.

extremeMath 6y ago
Our gym group broke up due to covid and all 3 of us gained 20 lbs each. Ancedote sure, inevitable maybe. But this wasn't some January new years resolution, this was April.

mft_ 6y ago

1. Weight loss is 90% in the kitchen, not the gym. 2. A gym seems kind-of a high infection risk. Lots of heavy breathing and sweating, wiping of faces, noses, and mouths, sharing of equipment, locker rooms... probably not the ideal place to welcome anyone, let along the (as you say, high-risk) obese amongst us. Any chance your irritation at closed gyms is more personal, rather than a caring nature looking out for peoples' weight loss regimes?