Man dies on treadmill at VA

Despite a death at a Joburg gym, enthusiastic fitness fanatics continued to work out while the body lay on the gym floor, covered by a silver sheet, with white screens placed around it.

A middle-aged man died on Wednesday morning at the Southgate Virgin Active while working out on a treadmill.

The man, whose identity has not been made known, appeared to have had a heart attack.

The club's general manager, Paul Sekhukhuni, confirmed the death, but said in terms of Virgin Active's protocols and strict privacy conditions he could not give details.

He said staff, paramedics and the police had all responded quickly to the emergency.

North_Boy1 wrote:

Despite a death at a Joburg gym, enthusiastic fitness fanatics continued to work out while the body lay on the gym floor, covered by a silver sheet, with white screens placed around it.

I like the intro to this article. Dude is that a dead guy bru? No dude, he is just resting with a blanket over his head. Fook me some people just don't know whats going on around them or they don't care. :haha

How can people just continue to exercise ?
That is a crap one !!!

I will be decreasing my workout intensity from today. :laugh:

Some people take their gymming seriously, if there was nothing I could do, probably would have finished my session....

Yeah dude , I would carry on training.....

These things happen unfortunately

VA really takes service seriously!
They let you continue training even with a corpse (no disrespect ) laying there on the ground. (Will this count negatively on their health inspection ?)

Difficult situation, you can't chase the members out, and you can't drag the poor deceased guy away :blink:

i think the problem with people is that they just happy it wasnt them, and if they try to help, someone will think they did something to start it, "maybe if i dont look at it, it will go away" or the best "dont make your problems mine ok"... pretty sad actually.

but then we also have a morbid curiosity with death, just look at the hiway when there is an accident, not even on your side of the road, but the traffic is backed up for at least 10km... but we have passed 2 offramps and dont take them, just to see what the hell happened...

BWHAHAHHAHA

ok I know its not funny, but I honestly thought it was a joke when I started reading it... and people to just carry on like nothings going on, awwww its ok mr man how you having a nice dooodooo on the ground..

LOL....

Guys tell me something else, at your gyms on your inducation did they test for blood pressure, etc? I know in the UK it happened at all the gyms I trained at.. when I joined planet fitness platnium they never did?

00pump wrote:

BWHAHAHHAHA

ok I know its not funny, but I honestly thought it was a joke when I started reading it... and people to just carry on like nothings going on, awwww its ok mr man how you having a nice dooodooo on the ground..

LOL....

Guys tell me something else, at your gyms on your inducation did they test for blood pressure, etc? I know in the UK it happened at all the gyms I trained at.. when I joined planet fitness platnium they never did?

At VA when you join you do a complete medical questionaire, but it's not compulsory.

00pump wrote:

BWHAHAHHAHA

ok I know its not funny, but I honestly thought it was a joke when I started reading it... and people to just carry on like nothings going on, awwww its ok mr man how you having a nice dooodooo on the ground..

LOL....

Guys tell me something else, at your gyms on your inducation did they test for blood pressure, etc? I know in the UK it happened at all the gyms I trained at.. when I joined planet fitness platnium they never did?

I never got even the option to do a medical, not that I would have bothered. Neither did I at Fitnees First in the UK, which was like 3 years ago.

How shit were the gyms in the UK, was like training in a box comapred to the gym I'm at right now....