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Outdoor Workout Classes You Can Now Take in the Bay — And What Happened When I Tried One
You could’ve wrung the sweat from my face mask
The pandemic has helped wither the flood of self-flagellating gym selfies on Instagram for months now, in part because the backdrops to those heavily hashtagged images remain closed — at least still here in San Francisco. But recently, San Francisco allowed outdoor workout classes to resume, offering a semblance of pre-pandemic fitness training — sans those well-lit abdominal pictures and the tone-deaf inspirational captions that generally saddle them.
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Being The Bold Italic’s perpetual guinea pig (with a proclivity for exercising), I took it upon myself to head out and see just what group workout classes look like amid a respiratory virus–spurred pandemic. TLDR: Expect a lot of spacing, and wear a breathable face mask. I also rounded up where you can take one of your own, below.
But first, my experience.
Quite a few boutique fitness studios are offering these approved workouts. After sorting through some of the available local options — Dryft, OaR Outdoors, The Boombox — I chose a $25 7 a.m. HIIT boot camp at Dolores Park…
