{"id":156299,"date":"2020-07-06T10:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=156299"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:07:54","slug":"gyms-will-reopen-in-a-couple-of-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/gyms-will-reopen-in-a-couple-of-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyms Will Reopen In A \u201cCouple Of Weeks\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The PM has announced that gyms will reopen in a \u201ccouple of weeks\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK is eager to have gyms reopen so people can get back to their usual fitness routines, and, to many peoples delight, gyms don\u2019t seem very far away from opening. He\u2019s also focusing on opening cinemas and theatres again too, which is exciting news.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaking on LBC, the PM said: &#8220;We are going to reopen gyms as soon as we can do it in a Covid-secure way and I think that the date for reopening gyms at the moment, if we can do it, is in just a couple of weeks&#8217; time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best way forward for the country is to get the economy moving again,&#8221; he said: &#8220;We want to get every part of our industry, including theatres, that are so vital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, some people disagree with the PM opening up pubs and restaurants before Gyms and other health and fitness facilities. When addressing this, he said: &#8220;People, I think, listening to this debate do know the answer to that, and that is to stop the spread of the disease.\u201c<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GYMS <\/p>\n<p>Many people keen to hit the gym &amp; keeping Britain fit is key in Covid battle<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve made lots of progress &amp; I know steps businesses have taken to make their spaces &amp; equipment safe<\/p>\n<p>Subject to public health, our aspiration is to reopen gyms &amp; leisure facilities in mid-July<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oliver Dowden (@OliverDowden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverDowden\/status\/1275417612420362241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The culture secretary tweeted addressing gyms reopening too, as you can see above. This really shows that the reopening of gyms is one of the higher priorities of the government now, alongside things like cinemas and swimming pools. The argument is still there though that people should have been allowed to go to the gym before going on a night out. It\u2019s far easier for people to social distance sober, and many people, as proven this weekend, seem to forgot about that once they got a few drinks in their system. Which really makes you wonder why the PM said it was safer opening pubs first? Nevertheless, infection rates still seem to be falling countrywide, but the government has also recently warned that other areas will suffer the same fate as Leicester if the infection rate doesn\u2019t come down &#8211; which would be a local lockdown.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PM has announced that gyms will reopen in a \u201ccouple of weeks\u201d.\u00a0 The UK is eager to have gyms reopen so people can get back to their usual fitness routines, and, to many peoples delight, gyms don\u2019t seem very far away from opening. He\u2019s also focusing on opening cinemas and theatres again too, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":116891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,5,1],"tags":[1935,1934,171,1936,990,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-156299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-uk-news","category-uncategorized","tag-gym","tag-gyms","tag-health","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-health-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156320,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156299\/revisions\/156320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}