South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
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Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#2They are limiting pretty much all high-intensity exercise in an attempt to prevent the spread by way of heavy breathing.
Sure, the headline sounds ridiculous to my American ears, but I wonder if there is a cultural-specific reason for the music. For example, perhaps synchronized dance is an extremely common exercise class in Korea.
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#3The actual title of the article:
Say goodbye to Gangnam Style, treadmill running for next 2 weeks: Some Level 4 distancing rules being called ‘illogical, nonsensical’
"Under Level 4 rules, taking showers within fitness club premises is prohibited and only a limited number of users are allowed in each area at a time.
At the same time, the running speed on treadmills is capped at 6 kilometers per hour. Music played at group exercise classes at fitness clubs cannot exceed 120 beats per minute."
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#4"Free Democracies" are passing the weirdest restrictions. It's mind boggling just how much power our governments are allowed to wield. I'm not even a libertarian and I think this is government overreach. So you're going to allow people to work out in gyms, but playing music that's too fast is somehow too dangerous to allow? Come on. If it was a real problem you'd just close the gyms again.
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#5Excuse me while I quickly remix every top-40 120+bpm track to 119.
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#6They are limiting pretty much all high-intensity exercise in an attempt to prevent the spread by way of heavy breathing. Sure, the headline sounds ridiculous to my American ears, but I wonder if there is a cultural-specific reason for the music. For example, perhaps synchronized dance is an extremely common exercise class in Korea.
I understand the intent, but if it's too risky to be in a gym with people working out in sync with 120bpm, then my personal risk assessment would say it's too risky to be in the gym, period. I wouldn't feel any better just because the music was 90bpm. Edit: Then again, humans are notoriously bad at evaluating risk, so I may be way off base. :-)
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#7They are limiting pretty much all high-intensity exercise in an attempt to prevent the spread by way of heavy breathing. Sure, the headline sounds ridiculous to my American ears, but I wonder if there is a cultural-specific reason for the music. For example, perhaps synchronized dance is an extremely common exercise class in Korea.
I’ll offer a potential explanation - they may have had outbreaks specifically around high effort fitness spinning classes but they wish to keep the gyms open for older people and people with disabilities for whom it’s their only exercise. It’s cutting quite a line for sure but often there is a very specific context for rules like this - think about all those times when you’ve had to go “what happened for them to have to put this sign up”
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#8Excuse me while I quickly remix every top-40 120+bpm track to 119.
Ever heard of Chopped and Screwed? That, but for dance music.
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#9"Free Democracies" are passing the weirdest restrictions. It's mind boggling just how much power our governments are allowed to wield. I'm not even a libertarian and I think this is government overreach. So you're going to allow people to work out in gyms, but playing music that's too fast is somehow too dangerous to allow? Come on. If it was a real problem you'd just close the gyms again.
A sizable portion of South Koreans still believe in fan death.
Re: South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike
#10costco has removed relish from their hot dog condiment dispensers .. to fight covid
I hear california is considering banning birthday cakes with more than 5 candles because the wind to blow them out can spread covid