Is this really legal???

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I had a thread last month about the same thing but now we're in a March style lockdown I'm even more

My DH is doing a business coaching course, they meet once a month when 20+ people come from all over the UK for a day together in a room with the business coach. It's hosted in London in the Hilton.

Last month I was very unhappy about it since London was in Tier 4 and it seemed totally irresponsible.

I really complained about it to DH who very reluctantly decided not to go (he sulked for a few hours). I'm not CEV but am in the 'more vulnerable' get a free flu jab group. We have a 66 year old lodger and we were meeting his parents in their 70s for Xmas the following week.

Anyway...we've gone into lockdown now, the case numbers are crazy, the new variant is spreading like wildfire. It didn't even cross my mind that it would go ahead in person this month.

DH has just informed me that it is going ahead next week.

That the Hilton have advised that it's perfectly legal to have a business meeting with 20+ people coming on public transport from all over the UK.

This seems fucking crazy.

I can't see that it's on the list of exceptions on the Govt website?

Can anyone find how this is supposedly legal?

Because I haven't reported anything but if this isn't legal I'm going to report it TBH.

None of the guesses so far have been correct but I will PM those desperate to know...

Oh yes please - PM me

Just need to remember my actual password because I always use the app

@GreenlandTheMovie I know he’d fail, of course. But not worth the hassle of him trying or threatening.

I’d love to know who it is please

I'd love to know too please.

Brilliant OP, I think I'm I love with you a little bit. I'm also gagging to know who it is, my DH is also a personal trainer and hero worships a lot of these blokes. He's spent a lot of money on these marketing courses and I wonder if it's anyone I've heard of! Please PM me, I'm absolutely agog!

I just can't believe that someone whose business is supposed to be improving people's health thought this was an acceptable thing to do

I have absolutely no connection to personal training or coaching of any kind, but I am dying to know who this is! Shame you can't name and shame him on here OP, that'd learn him...

Sorry, just caught up!

Heading to bed but will PM those who still want to know tomorrow morning...

I’d love to know too. And good on you OP!

Well he looks like a twat. Nothing special at all and not saying anything interesting. DH would be just as well to do a basic marketing course and social media course. It's all about your brand and hopefully your husbands brand is nothing like this.

His brand is meathead meets Shrek. Not terribly appealing and not terribly smart because he's got zero appeal to 50% of the population aka women. Not clever to eliminate half a market before you even start.

People like Matt Roberts have a GREAT brand. Broad appeal. Expert, intelligent. Pure class. And Joe Wicks who used lockdown to create his brand as the nations PE teacher. Absolutely brilliant move and he can do know wrong.

So who would your husband rather be? Meathead or Matt Roberts?

Me too please, I’d like to know!

Ooh, think I've found him - surname begins with C and he has a number at the end of his IG username (because of the name of his gym??

I cant figure it out, I'd love to know too.

This us what a top quality personal trainer (Matt Roberts) looks like. A very different proposition indeed.

And this is his facebook profile photo.

His brand is meathead meets Shrek. Not terribly appealing and not terribly smart because he's got zero appeal to 50% of the population aka women. Not clever to eliminate half a market before you even start.

Sounds like a guy local to me, posts on our local Facebook page and I had to block him in the end because he's as thick as mince and gets aggressive when you challenge his new stupid fad suggestion, and I was getting so annoyed with him trying to sell snake oil.

My big puzzle with the exercise industry is they seem unwilling to accept the entire population needs exercise. As others say, the ones who hate women hate half their potential customers.
But there's more: As the saying goes "look at the population broken down by age and sex". And consider that disabled and elderly and people with mobility impairment are a large part of the population and vastly different from the sports-injured elite athletes whose existence is considered by the industry. Consider the specialist equipment in Stoke Mandeville, or in the rehabilitation centre for sometimes extremely badly injured armed service people. Sport coaches tend to be athletic young men, with a single vision of a perfect customer who looks like their long lost twin, and open contempt for the rest of the world. (A quote, from a trained and qualified (at Avery Hill) council employee in a council gym, looking in horror at a customer on crutches; "What are you doing? People like you shouldn't come in here! Can't you see, we're only for fit people, there's a sign outside over the door saying 'Fitness Centre'!")

This is what I really like about my (commercial chain) gym - sadly shut atm. When I go in to train, there's a guy in a wheelchair doing amazing strength work with a T, there's an 85 year old woman doing her workout, I'm being given stuff by my PT that would put a 30 year old to shame (I'm twice that age), and there are people putting in serious training all around me.

The gym bunny Insta-on-the-cross-trainer and/or the "bro" admiring his biceps are the absolute minority.

The gym PTs are down-to-earth hard-working fantastic people, who'll chat & cheer you on. Maybe this is the advantage of living out in the sticks!

Queen - same at our gym. When open its full of people concentrating on their workout. No designer gear just normal people wanting to stay fit and healthy without making a noise about it.

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My big puzzle with the exercise industry is they seem unwilling to accept the entire population needs exercise. As others say, the ones who hate women hate half their potential customers. But there's more: As the saying goes "look at the population broken down by age and sex". And consider that disabled and elderly and people with mobility impairment are a large part of the population and vastly different from the sports-injured elite athletes whose existence is considered by the industry. Consider the specialist equipment in Stoke Mandeville, or in the rehabilitation centre for sometimes extremely badly injured armed service people. Sport coaches tend to be athletic young men, with a single vision of a perfect customer who looks like their long lost twin, and open contempt for the rest of the world. (A quote, from a trained and qualified (at Avery Hill) council employee in a council gym, looking in horror at a customer on crutches; "What are you doing? People like you shouldn't come in here! Can't you see, we're only for fit people, there's a sign outside over the door saying 'Fitness Centre'!")

There’s a guy on IG who caters specifically to women and is focused on how the menstrual cycle affects our weight and fat distribution. He seems like a nice fella and is young & attractive (so alarm bells for a PT on insta there) but it seems that the majority of his clients are older women with ‘non-insta’ bodies. His progress shots are realistic too. He uses a few too many filters on his own pics and presentations and he says he’s ‘evidence based’ but his evidence appears to come from a college that seems to be online courses with lots of binders (like those periodicals you used to get from the newsagents), so I do give him the old on that score. There’s definitely a market for it

"There’s a guy on IG who caters specifically to women and is focused on how the menstrual cycle affects our weight and fat distribution. He seems like a nice fella and is young & attractive (so alarm bells for a PT on insta there) but it seems that the majority of his clients are older women with ‘non-insta’ bodies."

Why older women if his focus is on the menstrual cycle?

Sorry, I mean older than the average IG gym bunny, I should’ve been clearer.