Current regulations for the gym and indoor swimming pool
Given that the requirements are changing at breakneck speed, it is important to note that the restrictions apply at the time of this writing. Nobody currently knows what will be in the next week! At the moment, however, the gym and indoor swimming pool are still allowed, albeit with restrictions.
This means that only individual people or small groups of up to 15 people are allowed to exercise together indoors. Gymnastics on equipment, Zumba, yoga and weight training are only allowed if a mask is worn and if the prescribed distance from other people is to be observed. Furthermore, the sports room must be well ventilated at all times. The same requirements also apply to practicing water sports.
If you usually meet up for sport in pairs and want to play tennis together, you don't have to do without it. It is important that a mask is worn or that the necessary distance is maintained. The aspect of distance should not be a problem, at least in tennis. Even when ice skating, jogging, cross-country skiing or hiking tours, nobody has to do sports with the mask. These outdoor sports can be practiced very well with the necessary distance. It is therefore advisable to look for at most one training partner and move the training outside, which is not always easy given the approaching winter. Maybe it's worth switching from tennis to cross-country skiing?
What about physical contact sports?
The cuddling course is over and that also applies to sports with physical contact. Football, martial arts or dancing is now forbidden, because all sports in which the necessary distance cannot be maintained are no longer allowed to be practiced. However, if special training sessions take place for these sports, in which, for example, the technique is trained or if it is a one-to-one training session, this is certainly allowed.
The restrictions mentioned for sports with physical contact apply to all adolescents and adults. Children and adolescents up to the age of 16 do not have to adhere to them, they can continue to do their sport. However, no competitions may be held.
Bad luck for everyone who has trained for a championship: grassroots football is particularly suffering from the measures, because championships have to be canceled. Thus, although the appropriate training may take place at least for children and young people, the championship itself will not be held. The committees of the football associations have determined that health protection is paramount. However, what is spoken here is an interruption and not an interruption. This means that practically an early winter break will be taken, the remaining games of the championship will be postponed to the coming spring.
Conclusion: patience is required
At the moment, nobody knows exactly how long the current regulations will apply and how they will affect life in the future. If you don't want to get out of training entirely, you have to do sports alone and ideally outdoors. The new rules are initially set for an indefinite period, but will certainly be tightened if the number of cases does not drop massively soon.
Many fitness studios are at least as accommodating and grant their non-exercising members a fitness break, which is later added to the fitness subscription. Nobody has to pay for unused services and can still use the offers in the studio later.
