The owners are embittered: “Few refreshments and a senseless and unjust closure” There is no optimism, fear for the future: “We have been mocked for 12 months”
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Gyms and swimming pools will reopen with a precise calendar already provided for by the new Covid decree launched by the Draghi government. The distinction that is made concerns swimming pools, gyms and team sports. In any case, we are talking about reopening in the yellow area and not, therefore, in red and orange. Sports, including team and contact sports, will be able to restart from 26 April, but only outdoors. It is forbidden to use the changing rooms. The dates for the swimming pools and gyms, on the other hand, are different: the outdoor pools will be able to reopen from May 15th, the gyms from June 1st. In fact, in the orange and red zone, both gyms and swimming pools will still remain closed.
But who will reopen, there are many gym owners suffocated by 12 months of closure, do not rejoice: the accounts are in the red, the refreshments are ridiculous, the customers evaporated because the message passed by the Dpcm indicated precisely in gyms, restaurants, bars and swimming pools the ideal places for the spread of the virus. Then, the joke should not be forgotten: everyone has invested large sums of money to secure the premises, sanitize them, sanitize them continuously. Many worked by appointment. As hairdressers and hairdressers. And then? And then the government closed everything anyway.
Gianni Altamura, 47 years old from Salerano, owner of the Athena Cult gym in Samone he is explicit: «It makes no sense to reopen a gym in June when the conditions for working safely had been there since March. In addition, I noticed many contradictions compared to last season when it was decided to open first the gyms and then soccer, while this year the exact opposite will be done. Why? I don’t understand this decision – explains Altamura – my gym is 300 square meters. Spacing and sanitation have always been guaranteed. Why close us? ».
Also at the Center you live in the form of Igor and Ilenia Vercellinatto, 32 and 40 years old Burolo, we will return to physical activity as they say: «After eight months of closure we mobilized to do outdoor lessons such as functional gymnastics and free body exercises. From Tuesday 1 June we hope to be able to reopen without having to run into a new closure. Also from Tuesday 1 June the neonatal aquatic lessons in the pool will also resume, in salt and non-chlorinated water: each person will have ten square meters at their disposal, according to the guidelines and the members will also be able to count on a new figure at the center: the neurosurgeon Federica Penner ».
Speaking of swimming pools, since last Monday, April 19th, at the Gymmy gym in Caluso we went back to work, as the personal trainer Luca Conta, 55 explains: “On the poolside with music we organized toning, step and cardio lessons – says Conta – then waiting from Tuesday 1 June to be able to reopen and hope to not having to close in October. We have created a special App to be able to sign up for these lessons, with people who will carry out activities three meters away from each other. The desire to go back to work, after many months of closure, is great, we also hope that the vaccination campaign can further improve the situation ».
The prolonged closure to Home training could represent a problem at the restart according to Samuele Solitro, 38 years old from Bosconero, owner of the Start & Sport gym in Rivarolo: «You risk making a hole in the water because people may not join the gym and continue doing activities from home as they did during our closure. In the summer months there is a physiological decline in people going to the gym. Reopening in June could be a sop. In light of this situation, I don’t know if I will reopen in June. The risk is that of opening and not working, with the management costs of the structure, however, there are ». Restricted admissions is what will continue to be done at Kinesith’s gym Ivrea, as Antonio Remollino, 57, explains: «We live day to day, if the numbers of infected people change, everything changes. We are ready to reopen, but we want more checks, there is a rumor that someone over the top has continued to work and this is shabby ». –
Loris Ponsetto