Planet Fitness In New Hampshire Reopens For Business Thursday

HAMPTON, NH — If you've been waiting to work off some of the new coronavirus pounds you put on during New Hampshire's stay at home lockdown, your wait is about to end.

Nineteen Planet Fitness locations in New Hampshire will reopen for business Thursday.

The company announced the opening Monday and said it had created new safety procedures and guidelines to assist customers in having healthy experience while also ensuring that employees were safe, too.

Planet Fitness employees have completed "extensive training" to enhance cleanliness and sanitation — while using EPA listed disinfectants. Employees will also receive daily temperature checks when they arrive to work each day. They will also be required to wear face coverings.

There is now touchless check-ins via the company's app. Simply download it and scan it during your next visit at the front desk.

Planet Fitness is also creating "additional distance between members" by temporarily marking some equipment "out of use" to "enable Social Fitnessing." Signage has been created to warn patrons of certain machines being out of use.

Facilities will only be open at half capacity, per state regulations, and members must wear face coverings when not working out.

New Hampshire locations include the Patch communities of Concord, Merrimack, Portsmouth, Salem, and two locations in Nashua as well as Stratham, Seabrook, Rochester, Raymond, Plaistow, Lee, Keene, Goffstown, Dover, Derry, Belmont, and two locations in Manchester.

For more information, including operating hours and other information from individual clubs, visit PlanetFitness.com/gyms.

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