Gyms Re-opening

Monday night 24:00, we go down to Lockdown Level 2 ... and gyms may reopen again, with strict protocols.

So in effect, it will be Tuesday morning.

Let's start off with leg day

Mr Z wrote: Let's start off with leg day

Legs are the worst for me, don't know why.

Legs and shoulders.

Muscleaddict wrote: I wish I had welding skills for that. I bought a body solid machine that uses both weight plates and a weight stack from thegymshop.co.za. They said I could buy a 70kg weight stack at a later stage for about R6000. For R6k you could rather get 150Kg of weight plates for a plate loaded solution.

My plan for a a cable crossover solution is to put mount two modified punching bag wall brackets with added pulleys on opposite walls in my garage gym like this below:

Thanks for the info and idea MA, that's a good idea for cable crossover exercises.

I wonder if there would be an interest in open source gym equipment? I've considered designing multi-gym equipment in CAD and releasing the design. One can use square tubing cut at angles and welded together to avoid bending and tube notching. The idea is to keep the design simple so that anyone with welding skills and a cutoff grinder can build it at home or ask a local engineering shop to do it cheaply.

admin wrote: I wonder if there would be an interest in open source gym equipment? I've considered designing multi-gym equipment in CAD and releasing the design. One can use square tubing cut at angles and welded together to avoid bending and tube notching. The idea is to keep the design simple so that anyone with welding skills and a cutoff grinder can build it at home or ask a local engineering shop to do it cheaply.

That would be great if you had the time.

I found this company who sells 50mm steel tubing connectors that could make assembly of home made machines, or home modified machines a lot easier without needing to weld everything. Would made transporting parts a lot easier.

www.connect-it.cc/product-category/square-range/50mm/

I want to modify my home 'full body' gym machine without welding onto it, so I want to add on a brace connector and attach a low row foot plate for my low cable pulley.

Muscleaddict wrote: That would be great if you had the time.

Finding time is the hard part these days.

Muscleaddict wrote: I found this company who sells 50mm steel tubing connectors that could make assembly of home made machines, or home modified machines a lot easier without needing to weld everything. Would made transporting parts a lot easier.

www.connect-it.cc/product-category/square-range/50mm/

I want to modify my home 'full body' gym machine without welding onto it, so I want to add on a brace connector and attach a low row foot plate for my low cable pulley.

Those tubing connectors are really handy when welding is not desired or possible. The "brace connector" should be easy to bolt onto the frame of your machine for the foot plate. Just use beefy bolts, because pop rivets or machine screws will likely not standup to the pressure being exerted on a foot plate.

So the gyms are open again. Who of you guys are back at your regular gym?

I've been back at Virgin a few times and it seems most people are still too scared to risk it or they have switched to training at home or doing something else. I've got a decent home gym setup now but my garage is way too cold at night lately, and training earlier means my noisy kids want to join in and I can't focus 100%.

I hear you brother. I'm hearing the PF is also very empty. People are very reluctant to go back. probably want to see how things play out. I've also spent quite a bit on my home setup, built a decent power rack and got some extra bars and plates from Gymflo in Kempton. But it's not fun trying to psych up in the cold outside. Took a shift in mindset to start training with the same aggressiveness and focus that usually goes with walking into the gym. My little daughter is also trying to train with me every time and I'm always cautious of her not to get hurt so the dialed in focus isn't there either.

I've had this stupid virus and it was so mild. A friend of mine got it 2 days before lock down started and was still surfing and said I can tell you now I didn't have it, another friend who is a nurse got random tested and positive and said she felt nothing, another whole family I know had it and they said it was mild. If you overweight you have an issue, not type 1 diabetes, type 2 due to being fat. My brothers are type 1 diabetics and competitive surfers, they resting heart rate is around 42, sometimes after some hard sessions it drops to around 38. If you have an underlying condition or don't do the basics to prevent it from hitting the chest you could have a more difficult time. I won't say where I work, but our recovery rate is 97 percent and we have a ton of employees from 18 to 65. So closing the gym was such a pathetic thing to do. I train at home bar for leg day i go to the gym, kind of like training at home. I'll probably be at home for the rest of the year so its refreshing to just pop out in the middle of the day and just get my session done. Also helps the wife as I can help her through her sessions. I actually hate over crowded gyms with guys using multiple equipment at the same time or you ask how many sets left and they say 7, it normally ends with me losing my shit and makes it unpleasant. My training partner before he passed away was Marc Batchelor and the two of us together was bad news in a busy disrespectful gym. We both are on our last warning and banned from planet and virgin so need to keep the peace as not many places left to go. You get these clowns who come dancing around the gym and make this boing sound over and over, yella that grates me. I can say training at home is pretty cool and keeps me calm.

I wonder how many gym subscriptions were cancelled due to the long closure of gyms and the financial crisis many people currently find themselves in? I can imagine that the long absence from gym caused many casual gymgoers to lose motivation.

Fear probably plays some role as well, but I would be very disappointed if people still think that COVID is dangerous. I've been ignoring traveling and social distancing regulations since week 3 and I've noticed that people from different areas have different levels of obedience regarding regulations. Personally I don't give a shit.

I've been trying to get COVID for months now, but unable to because I'm pretty sure I've had it long ago already and didn't even know it. 00pump, you don't perhaps have a snot sample to send me that I use use as toothpaste?

admin wrote: I wonder how many gym subscriptions were cancelled due to the long closure of gyms and the financial crisis many people currently find themselves in? I can imagine that the long absence from gym caused many casual gymgoers to lose motivation.

Fear probably plays some role as well, but I would be very disappointed if people still think that COVID is dangerous. I've been ignoring traveling and social distancing regulations since week 3 and I've noticed that people from different areas have different levels of obedience regarding regulations. Personally I don't give a shit.

I've been trying to get COVID for months now, but unable to because I'm pretty sure I've had it long ago already and didn't even know it. 00pump, you don't perhaps have a snot sample to send me that I use use as toothpaste?

Bwahha, no we all cleaned up and disinfected the house, because there is this stigma around those that have or has had the virus, you become one of those, oh did you know so and so had or has covid, its a load of shit. It was H1N1 a few years ago, now its covid and in a few years time it will be something else, ah my word if the world needs to do this everytime we get a new strain of a virus I can't imagine the damage that will be caused.

My gym has gotten quite and I know it carries two of the other branches so it being so quite is pretty rough, I've not spoken with the managers yet to know just how many memberships have been canceled, only the known faces are there, the guys and girls that have been there religiously prior to lockdown.

The antibody tests are now available at Pathcare and Lancet for about R250 if you want to check if you've had it.

I have 5 people in my family and friends circle who tested positive for covid19. None of them were spring chickens, and 4 out of 5 had mild symptoms. The youngest 48 and the oldest I think 77. My 57 year old cousin had bad flu symptoms and lost 6kg in about 2 weeks but nothing scary.

A good mate of mine in his mid 30's still refuses to go out to restaurants or gym. It's blows my mild how healthy, young people can still buy into this hype. But both of his parents are doctors who only see the worst cases and then scare the shit out of him with their stories.

Muscleaddict wrote: The antibody tests are now available at Pathcare and Lancet for about R250 if you want to check if you've had it.

I have 5 people in my family and friends circle who tested positive for covid19. None of them were spring chickens, and 4 out of 5 had mild symptoms. The youngest 48 and the oldest I think 77. My 57 year old cousin had bad flu symptoms and lost 6kg in about 2 weeks but nothing scary.

A good mate of mine in his mid 30's still refuses to go out to restaurants or gym. It's blows my mild how healthy, young people can still buy into this hype. But both of his parents are doctors who only see the worst cases and then scare the shit out of him with their stories.

100 percent bud. My friend works in the Covid word and some of the stories are ugly because most of the time you land up there because as you pointed out you not healthy. She told me something that was pretty scary that if you extremely overweight they won't put you on a ventilator due to the fact that you will never be able to come off it. There is one patient in there who was 200kgs, I'm sorry but thats just over the top.

All doctors I speak to take Covid seriously, but as MA mentioned they tend to see the bad cases and doctors are more likely to be overcautious. I spoke to Doctari a few weeks ago and 10 of his patients have died with/from Covid. To me this is just nature doing it's thing, there has always been new viruses and there will be many more.

All of my pastime hobbies and activities I do for fun are far more likely to kill me than Covid so I really can't be bothered taking this virus seriously. The very fact that I live on a farm is far more likely to kill me and I've never been worried about that.

100 percent. Hope you marching on Saturday, I am for farm murders.

00pump wrote: Hope you marching on Saturday

An African problem needs an African solution and I’m of the view that those that attack farms or anyone else for that matter should be killed on the spot or hunted down and dragged to the nearest police station where they should be executed in public by the community. Anyone that interferes or gets in the way should be dealt with as well, but I assure you that nobody will get in the way... This won’t work at the moment, but it will happen once the situation reaches boiling point, almost started in Parys a few years ago but the politicians made sure to extinguish that spark before it could explode... they won’t have that ability anymore soon.

Protests are great for raising awareness which will help reach my goal above, but it will have absolutely no effect on the state unless they get pressure from overseas. It’s all about the balance of power and you need to play the power game the same way the taxi and union guys do it.

admin wrote:

00pump wrote: Hope you marching on Saturday

An African problem needs an African solution and I’m of the view that those that attack farms or anyone else for that matter should be killed on the spot or hunted down and dragged to the nearest police station where they should be executed in public by the community. Anyone that interferes or gets in the way should be dealt with as well, but I assure you that nobody will get in the way... This won’t work at the moment, but it will happen once the situation reaches boiling point, almost started in Parys a few years ago but the politicians made sure to extinguish that spark before it could explode... they won’t have that ability anymore soon.

Protests are great for raising awareness which will help reach my goal above, but it will have absolutely no effect on the state unless they get pressure from overseas. It’s all about the balance of power and you need to play the power game the same way the taxi and union guys does it.

100 percent. Well hopefully my small action today helps towards the biggest picture and we get there sooner than later. Heading off now, its a pity we can't march in groups because of this pathetic virus.