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 p

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...