A New Culture

Now that much of the gym is painted and most of the equipment is put where it goes I would like to introduce a new culture of cleanliness. We have all done a good job of putting equipment away after we use it. Now I would like to add wiping it off with our new disinfecting wipes before we put things away. These wipes are in a bucket by the posts in the middle of the room. Please take one and wipe down your bar before putting it away. If you need another one to wipe down your abmat and another to wipe down your spot at the pull-up bar feel free to use however many it takes to clean up after yourself. If we decide that these wipes are inefficient and a spray bottle with paper towels would be better we can change later on. You may also use your dry wipes to wipe off your chalk marks but we still have the sponges for that too.

I would also like to address the issue of damage to the boards/platforms. There are several chinks in the wood that I think could be avoided in the future. This is not a plush gym with beautiful hardwood floors that need to be protected. Damage will happen just in some use of the facilities. I'm not talking about that. The chinks that are appearing in the platforms, I think, are from taking weights off the bar and letting the bar land on the wood. This does not happen when you drop the bar with the weights on in the wod. Dropping the end of the bar is not good for the wood obviously, but it is not good for the bar either. The bars are not meant to be dropped without weights on them. When you remove the collars from the bar, lift the end of the bar you want to remove the weights from first. Push the weights off that side and hold the bar off the floor. Then you can lift the bar over the weights on the other side of the bar and pull the bar out. This removes the weights without ever letting the naked ends of the bar touch the floor. Let's all try this for a while and see if it makes a difference. We will repair the floor and hopefully prevent new damage from occurring.