I must say I’m finding it incredibly hard to resist replying to this pious bullshit you are trying to drill into us over gyms versus hiking despite promising elsewhere that I would avoid doing so.
You are obviously a gym fanatic and that’s fine. Guess what most of us
a) don’t give a fuck
b) don’t look on hiking as an alternative to the gym
c) don’t give a fuck
I would advocate that a much ‘healthier’ lifestyle is had by hikers with poor diets than evangelistic gym users with perfect BMI, perfectly toned muscles and with a diet envied by Victoria Beckham.
Of all the issues we are facing and tackling with this virus the answer to how most of us feel about gym closures is covered in a) and c) above.
Gyms are closed, bars are closing and there is possibly more to come. I suggest you adapt to a new way of operating your daily life just as we have all had to
Entertaining to read childish debates about gym or hiking. You can also go running, cycling , swimming( the cycling paths and the ocean remain open) do body weight exercises like push up, pull ups , inverted rows, planks, core exercises, use resistance bands. There are many paths to the top of a mountain and just one. As to healthy eating, it's a totally separate issue that has nothing to do with the exercises that one chooses to do. Here you can start another debate... Who is the better/fitter athlete? Woods, Federer, Lebron? Ronaldo or Jeff Cavaliere?
I would instead propose that a high percentage of serious (as in regular, enthusiastic) gym users don't share the rather narrow views of the activity as espoused by Praetorian. I like to think that some of us are rather more balanced in our motivation and less blatantly narcissistic. And some of us hike, too.
Well it's happened, goji closed before the government announced all closure of gyms for 2 weeks