![]() McKay and Sutton are part of a group called the Philadelphia Fitness Coalition that protested in front of City Hall in November. “We would just like to know where officials are getting their information from.” “We had so many numbers of people coming in our doors since July … even with lower capacity, we had people coming through the doors and we weren’t seeing cases, there was no transmission,” Sutton said. But she had spent money to hire trainers back, buy masks and thermometers, and implement physical distancing measures to reopen safely, only to be told in November that she had to close again. Jaime Sutton, the owner of J’aime Fitness in Philadelphia, said she understood and agreed with the decision to close gyms in March when the city didn’t know as much about the virus. Gavin McKay, founder of Unite Fitness in Philadelphia, said that gym owners can completely control their environments and that his team would check people’s temperatures, make sure everyone wore masks, disinfect all the equipment, and maintain fresh air flow at all times. Gym owners also were frustrated at having to close late in the year. “All of the gyms, whether you’re on a treadmill or doing anything, they had people going around, making sure you did not remove your mask or lower it below your nose,” Lane said. There were not that many people at the gym, he said, so they could always be far apart from each other. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorīill Lane, who lives in Philadelphia, has been back to the gym six days a week since they reopened in the summer, and he finds gyms safer than grocery stores.
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