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Test Gym

Will It Ever Be Safe to Go Back to the Gym?

As some fitness centers reopen, public health experts cringe

Elemental
Published in
6 min readMay 27, 2020

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After weeks of YouTube workouts and at-home exercise routines, fitness enthusiasts in many parts of the country will soon (if they don’t already) have the opportunity to return to the gym.

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Christie Aschwanden
Elemental

Author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery (Norton, 2019). Twitter: @CragCrest christieaschwanden.com