By John Daley, CPR News
“‘In terms of gyms, we’re thrilled,” said Robin Jost, human resource department head for the Planet Fitness franchise group, which owns eight fitness centers in Colorado.
The move would allow gyms and fitness centers to open at 100 percent of capacity, with masks and 6-foot social distancing required. It’s the first time they could say that since last February, Jost said, adding that roughly 20 percent of gyms, 150 total, had gone under in Colorado and nationally in the pandemic.
She said an industry group, the Colorado Fitness Coalition, had been working with the state health department “tirelessly” to make gyms safe and convince the governor’s team that the facilities aren’t a major source of cases.
“We were at 10 percent (of capacity) in November, December, January, which was not survivable and really devastated our industry,” Jost said.”
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