Corona-risk: I Can go in good conscience to the gym?

About 20 million Germans go on a regular basis or, at least, and to the gym. They pedal and sweat together in a confined space, all touching the same weights and equipment. How big is the risk of the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection is there currently? After all, the Virus is transmitted by droplet infection from person to person.

The Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI) advises, according to a report from the “Business Insider” currently, to visit fitness studios, when in the vicinity of the suspected cases were reported. This is in accordance with the General measures recommended by the RKI on its Website for areas with increase in Corona cases. These include, among others: stay home, whenever possible, personal contacts to the absolute minimum reduce, community Meetings/activities in Clubs or sports groups to cancel.

Conversely, this also means: as Long as the environment is no increase in cases of Covid-19 occur, must include no one home and you can go to the gym more. The sports medicine Lutz Graumann advises against the fitness magazine Men’s Health. “Because the fitter you are, the better the immune system works,” argued the doctor.

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Precautions

However, it should be adhered to according to the experts, some precautions: anyone Who shows symptoms such as a sore throat or coughing, should not go to the gym. An elevated resting heart rate is also an early sign of a weakened immune system.

Tend to be you met in the gym anyway less sick than in the U-Bahn. However, it can take in case of an infection with the Coronavirus for several days until symptoms show, and therefore is not excluded that Corona-Infected in the gym popping up. Therefore, one should be careful when Training is currently even stronger than usual on Hygiene. This not only means thorough washing of hands after the workout, but also Disinfect, device handles and other contact surfaces.

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The fitness chain McFit has already taken precautions. “The number of the device cleaning the donor was across the Board increases and this with a virucidal disinfectant filled”, as a spokesman for the company, the Business Insider said. In principle, the risk is not greater than in the case of door handles in a public space.

The most important self-protection as a rule – not to put themselves in the face – of course also in the gym. In the case of group courses, a sports medicine Grauman recommends a distance of two meters to the next man and a single viewing direction of the user, so that the pants directly to each other in the face.

Sources: Robert Koch Institute / Business Insider / Men’s Health

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