I'm probably being obtuse, but didn't gyms exist in the UK before air conditioning? I can understand how workouts in high temperatures could be dangerous but isn't there an element of personal responsibility involved?
I find the entire notion of them imposing a blanket shutdown simply because they can't guarantee the temperature and humidity of the place very nannyish. I'd be inclined to find out the name of the individual who decided that the place has to cease functioning entirely because it might get a tad warmer than usual.
Yes Ian, the entire purpose of a gym is to get warm... use up calories... and lose weight that way.
To prevent people from doing so, just because the temperature is a little above normal is ludicrous.
They will point to the fact that someone, somewhere in the world once collapsed in gym in high temperatures, and sued the Gym
Well, is it not equally valid for me to sue the gym if I had health complications from being overweight, due to them preventing me from using the facility?
Sounds silly, but it is the exact mirror of what they are doing.
Moreover, they cause me great STRESS each time I visit, by dreaming up new crazy ways to thwart me!
Stress is a killer I hear?
Don't forget, only recently, they closed the ENTIRE pool for a full day because a child had been sick in it that morning.
I despair of the quality of management in the UK these days, in many walks of life.