As gyms reopen, he said, "if the virus actually ends up being still prevalent and we're not aware of who has it, who doesn’t have it, we worry about the safety of both the employees of the gym and the customers.”īut despite the risk, Equinox is asking its group fitness instructors to come back to the gym and teach classes at a discounted rate, keeping the teachers at their 75% pay, rather than restoring their pre-COVID-19 rates. Redlener said that without sufficient testing and contract tracing, gyms won't be safe. Now, gyms in the US are beginning to reopen despite rising COVID-19 cases nationally, meaning group fitness instructors like Davis are facing the prospect of teaching classes indoors, to sweating, panting students - many of whom, instructors like Davis say, aren’t bothering to wear masks.Ĭolumbia University health policy professor Irwin Redlener said during an interview with BuzzFeed News earlier this spring that even if gyms spaced out equipment, there would still be a lot of close contact between members and staff, which could spread the virus further.
When the gyms closed, Equinox paid Davis 75% of what she’d been making while teaching. Before the coronavirus outbreak hit, she was being paid $60 a class. When Monica Davis, a Southern California barre and cardio class instructor, teaches a group fitness class, it takes her about an hour to commute to the gym, an hour to put together a playlist, another hour to plan the class itself, an hour to teach it, and another hour to commute back home.ĭavis works for Equinox, an international chain of high-end gyms with more than 80 locations across the US, Canada, and the UK.
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