Looking to lose the COVID 15? Gyms are back, including Anytime Fitness
As of Monday, it’s been 111 days since Grafton’s Anytime Fitness last saw a workout.
One hundred and 11 days without weight training. Fifteen weeks without live fitness classes, without a trainer pushing you to your limit. No basking in the endorphin rush of a workout well done.
Back in May, owners Ed and Michelle O’Toole had high hopes that the business shutdown prompted by COVID-19 would come to an end during Phase I of Massachusetts’ reopening plan. Instead they learned that gyms were pushed to Phase III and their freshly bought branded fitness masks, hand sanitizer and elaborate plans for keeping machines wiped down and members socially distanced remained behind locked doors.
As of 6 a.m. Monday, the doors will be once again open.
“It’s almost like a holiday for us, opening the gym,” Ed O’Toole said in a video posted to the business’ Facebook page.
Not all gyms were patient enough to make it through the full 15 weeks of shutdown. In Oxford, Prime Fitness and Nutrition Center made headlines in June when it defied the state’s orders and opened. It was fined $8,000 and had its doors locked and utilities shutoff by the town.
Thank you to Ed and Michelle, Super clean and appropriately spaced equipment; first time there since March 10th. I was the only girl in the place,, hope others feel safe to return.