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The longing for sport is fulfilled for hobby athletes.

Albeit under unusual conditions.

All fitness studios in Germany have been forced to close since November.

At the lockdown summit on Wednesday, all hopes for an early opening of the federal government and the prime minister were disappointed.

As the "Bild" reports, the group has now

RSG Group (including McFit) has opened up a way to make strength and endurance training possible again from this Saturday.

McFit is opening outdoor gyms for this.

In Hamburg, Bremen, Rostock, Braunschweig, Mannheim, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Magdeburg, Neunkirchen and Berlin, members should now be able to train in the open air.

According to the report of the newspaper, members have to book a time slot on the Internet in advance for training on the outside.

Maximum length: 45 minutes.

In this way, it can be guaranteed that “the maximum utilization will not be exceeded” and that contact tracking is ensured afterwards, according to the company.

The changing rooms and toilets remain closed due to legal regulations.

Dixi toilets are available at every location, training times are from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

In photos of the company you can see that a kind of tent city was built for the training.

Hygiene expert Zastrow created the concept

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It will be exciting to see how the authorities react - and what the competition is doing.

In Germany there are around 10,000 fitness studios with almost twelve million members.

According to "Bild", the McFit Group has cooperated with hygiene expert Klaus-Dieter Zastrow.

He gave "his blessing".

The doctor from Berlin developed his own hygiene concept for the outdoor gym.

"If the functional and organizational processes are observed and adhered to, the spread of corona viruses is excluded," said the professor.

The group of companies also had a legal opinion drawn up in order to analyze the legal situation in the federal states and to secure their concept.

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“It is a fundamental problem when people cannot do sports.

Right now, fitness is more important than ever in order to strengthen physical and mental health, ”says McFit boss Rainer Schaller.

Of course, it's also a struggle for survival with his chain, where 1.7 million people had trained alone.

“Too big to fail, too big to fail - that no longer applies,” says Rainer Schaller in an interview with “Bild”: “It now also affects the big players in the industry.

Studios will disappear from the market.

Numerous operators in the USA have already had this sad experience.

I am sure that this wave will also affect Europe - and the longer the lockdown lasts, the more dramatic it will be. "