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Original poster

To cancel my gym class I’m booked into tonight?

190 replies

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 07:08

I’ve woken up full of cold and I feel like shit. All I want is to crawl into bed, but needs must and I need to go to work. My gym asks that you avoid cancelling on the day of a class, but you have to do it more than 4 hours before the class if you’re going to. I’ll see if I can still go to the gym at all, because I know I’m being lazy if I don’t, but AIBU to break their policy and cancel?

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Halfaday · 30/09/2025 13:38

You live with someone? What did they think you should do?

Halfaday · 30/09/2025 13:37

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 08:43

But I will feel guilty. At home workouts just aren’t the same, no matter what they say on their YouTube videos they’re not.

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This new “routine” of you gym attending has happened once Op.

it can’t be called a routine.

and if one day of going for a brisk walk (although you sounded like you were laid up in bed with a debilitating illness in your OP!) instead of the gym is going to derail your entire attempt to lose weight…. Well OP, I think you need to maybe plan a different approach if your commitment to this “routine” is so paper thin

firef1y · 30/09/2025 13:01

As a class instructor, please, please cancel.

Emmz1510 · 30/09/2025 12:58

It’s a stupid rule for them to have because obviously people will become ill on the day and less than four hours before the class! They just mean they’ll keep your fee. Cancel.

gamerchick · 30/09/2025 11:50

Fortunebiscuits · 30/09/2025 08:35

Three word username back at it!

Aye. It getting tiresum

RebeccaRedhat · 30/09/2025 11:33

Please cancel!

Ive walked out of my gym this morning when a lady has shown up, coughing, sneezing, spluttering everywhere. Shes told everyone she feels like shit and it feels more than a cold! I had covid last Xmas and was extremely unwell. I was in hospital for 18 and have been living with lkng covid all year. The start of this month I've been feeling like my old self but I feel vulnerable at rhe moment with so many people being ill. I still have breathing difficulties and reduced lung capacity and I really can't risk getting sick again.

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SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 11:31

Greenwriter76 · 30/09/2025 11:30

Yet.

Definitely cancel the gym - and also if you are feeling that awful you probably shouldn’t have gone to work.
You are doing no-one, including yourself, any favours by going to places when you’re ill - you only make things worse for all, and your body is telling you that you need to rest.

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I have no choice. I can work. I cannot afford to lose wages.

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Greenwriter76 · 30/09/2025 11:30

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 07:29

For what it’s worth I’m pretty sure it’s not contagious. I’ve felt run down for a week now and nobody around me has picked it up.

Yet.

Definitely cancel the gym - and also if you are feeling that awful you probably shouldn’t have gone to work.
You are doing no-one, including yourself, any favours by going to places when you’re ill - you only make things worse for all, and your body is telling you that you need to rest.

Biggles27 · 30/09/2025 11:20

I’d be furious if I turned up at the gym and the person next to was clearly unwell, spreading their germs.

I’m a carer for my elderly parents (daily care, several times a day, at least 8 hours a day). As they are extremely vulnerable and frail, if I pick up your illness, I’m not able to provide care and we have to get emergency paid carers in

obviously I can’t not ever go out in case I pick up germs and the gym is important for my mental health

ok so picking up germs is accidentally unavoidable but to deliberately spread germs is totally unacceptable.

frecklejuice · 30/09/2025 11:17

No one wants you at the gym, breathing heavily, touching equipment and spreading your germs! Just stay at home, I’ve spent the last week with what it sounds like you have now and I felt awful, don’t spread it around!

GAJLY · 30/09/2025 11:15

If I felt rough I wouldn't go, but would go for a walk instead.

BuildbyNumbere · 30/09/2025 11:10

I know, I’ll ask mumsnet a question and then argue with everyone that has a different opinion to me, or that doesn’t agree with me, and then do what I want to do anyway 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

YouCantParkThere · 30/09/2025 10:50

It’s just a cold. Just get on with your life.

Alucard55 · 30/09/2025 10:41

Gizlotsmum · 30/09/2025 10:36

Honestly it is great that you have lost so much weight and want to exercise but I do think you need to be careful. Surely it is better to have a programme that allows for rest days if you were at the gym yesterday then just walking today will be fine.

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The OP will reply with a no but yes but response.

Alucard55 · 30/09/2025 10:39

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:34

It’s not working anymore. That’s the entire point.

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So crack on with whatever it is you want to do.

Gizlotsmum · 30/09/2025 10:36

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:33

I have a cold now.

I took 2 months off exercise prior to this due to surgery (and a holiday). As I have said. Multiple times.

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Honestly it is great that you have lost so much weight and want to exercise but I do think you need to be careful. Surely it is better to have a programme that allows for rest days if you were at the gym yesterday then just walking today will be fine.

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SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:34

3luckystars · 30/09/2025 10:33

I’m not sure I understand. If it’s working then keep doing it? Also I often feel much better after walking for an hour. It might even help with the cold.

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It’s not working anymore. That’s the entire point.

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3luckystars · 30/09/2025 10:33

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:29

It gets to a point though. I’ve lost over seven stone with walking being my main exercise. It’s not sustainable for me anymore after this long term weight loss.

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I’m not sure I understand. If it’s working then keep doing it? Also I often feel much better after walking for an hour. It might even help with the cold.

Harrysmummy246 · 30/09/2025 10:33

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:26

Are people not allowed to resume an exercise regime after a surgery?

I am unwell, but not deathly so - wouldn’t do a high intensity lifting class but can probably amaze the treadmill and some arm exercises at my own pace. There is nuance to life.

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Yes but there is such a thing as phased return and listening to your body.

Or just be contrary

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SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:33

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 30/09/2025 10:32

Thought you had a cold, now you've had surgery? Which is it?

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I have a cold now.

I took 2 months off exercise prior to this due to surgery (and a holiday). As I have said. Multiple times.

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xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 30/09/2025 10:32

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:26

Are people not allowed to resume an exercise regime after a surgery?

I am unwell, but not deathly so - wouldn’t do a high intensity lifting class but can probably amaze the treadmill and some arm exercises at my own pace. There is nuance to life.

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Thought you had a cold, now you've had surgery? Which is it?

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SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:29

3luckystars · 30/09/2025 10:27

Walking is absolutely fantastic exercise

It gets to a point though. I’ve lost over seven stone with walking being my main exercise. It’s not sustainable for me anymore after this long term weight loss.

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Alucard55 · 30/09/2025 10:28

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:26

Are people not allowed to resume an exercise regime after a surgery?

I am unwell, but not deathly so - wouldn’t do a high intensity lifting class but can probably amaze the treadmill and some arm exercises at my own pace. There is nuance to life.

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Well off you pop and do that then. You need to justify that to randoms on the Internet.

3luckystars · 30/09/2025 10:27

Walking is absolutely fantastic exercise

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SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 10:26

Harrysmummy246 · 30/09/2025 09:32

No, not the same, but you've cancelled the class because it would be too much. Can you not see how contradictory and utterly unreasonable this is.
Plus aiming for every day but only started yesterday.
Ill but not ill. Which is it?

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Are people not allowed to resume an exercise regime after a surgery?

I am unwell, but not deathly so - wouldn’t do a high intensity lifting class but can probably amaze the treadmill and some arm exercises at my own pace. There is nuance to life.

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