Sunday, October 13

“Real toughness is experiencing discomfort or distress, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action. It’s maintaining a clear head to be able to make the appropriate decision. Toughness is navigating discomfort to make the best decision you can. And research shows that this model of toughness is more effective at getting results than the old one.”

― Steve Magness, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

Sunday Check-In

The Space

Getting there. The concrete floor is in decent shape. We're wiping down and disenfecting equipment as we're using it. Still lots of equipment that needs to be cleaned. We lost at least two rower monitors, probably due to moisture and water. Many of our barbells reacted negatively to all the moisture and need to be treated and serviced. 

Next step: Pressure wash crew are coming back Monday afternoon. We're going to test ONE of the floor roll segments to see if we can actually get it clean. If so, they'll come back Saturday and we'll call a work day to try and knock out all the floors.

I'm worried the water and mud are so engrained in the rubber that it's not salvageable. If the Monday test doesn't go well, we'll order new floors and get those headed our way. 

Otherwise, we're waiting on city water to hit our equipment with a deep clean. 

Open Gym

If you want to come use the space for open gym, I think we're ok to do that, as long as you're aware that:

- you'll probably need to wipe down/off your weights and barbells before use. We have wipes around the gym, the spray bottles, and rags. 

- the rig is NOT bolted to the floor. You can do strict work on the rig as is, and even some minimal kipping, safely. 

- There is some room indoors for lifting weights and lots of room in the parking lot. 

- Ipad and stereo work the same as before. 

- bathrooms are not operational. Please don't use them. 

- We have lots of bottled water at Pisgah. We have a number of bottles in the small fridge that ar cold. If you take one, please put a room temp one in there in its place for the next person. 

- you may see some bumper plates out back and some dbs and kbs under the rowers. That is equipment from another gym that floated down the river and ended up being brought to us. We're working on getting that back to them. 

- We have cleaned some of the gymnastics mats to do floor stuff in classes. If you use them, please wipe them off after for the next person. Thanks!

- Your bluetooth or code access should be good now. I've re-opened door code access for everyone that had it before.

- Your account still has a hold on it until the gym re-opens with water and flooring. This is free access unless you've directed me to remove your hold during this recovery time. Enjoy the space. Please be very careful. The gym is still coming back and has a ways to go yet.

Class Schedule This Week

- M/W/F 7:30 AM (if enough interest. Please RSVP with Ben in advance unless you've told me to remove your hold. ZP will let you RSVP if you're not on hold. If you're on hold, please let me know you'd like to come.)

- M/W 5:30PM, F 4:30PM (Again, if interest)

- Sat 9:30AM

All classes are free and open to anyone until the gym is back to normal. 


That's it for now, y'all. Keep pushing forward.

Have a great week!

Ben