Personal hygiene in the Gym

v638sg7k1a92bx · 02-02-2020 05:30PM

The worst has to be people who put their towel on the floor to stand on and then pick it up and start drying themselves!

v638sg7k1a92bx · 02-02-2020 05:36PM

Neames wrote: »

Ffs....

A sink wash....I hope that's just hands and face and not....

Swonnicles.

The fact that someone even have the phrase sink wash in their vocabulary would give you an idea of the type of mentality your dealing with. I lived worth country lads when I was travelling, rough, rough and even more rough.

Dtp1979 · 02-02-2020 05:41PM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

My advice is bring a sanitizer spray and spray down the equipment you use and wipe it with a baby wipe. Then dry with a clean towel. If you ask at reception they might have a spray they can give you. Do the same thing after using it.

Always wash your hands before a workout or touching things. But also if you can't wash your hands use a sanitizer.

A good reason why generation snowflake get the sniffles every 2 mins. If you sanitise everything you end up with no immunity to anything.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 02-02-2020 05:46PM

I remember being pretty disgusted at how few people wiped down equipment. You’re doing exercise and therefore sweating. Especially any equipment where there’s ass or lower back contact, it will get damp. Just have a small towel and some water with you. Antibacterial spray not needed, just remove the sweat with the water and towel. It’s so easy.

02-02-2020 07:43PM

Bring a hand towel and stop sweating all over everything. Scumbags
And PUT YOUR WEIGHTS AWAY, YOUR MAMMY DOESN'T WORK HERE

Andrew00 · 02-02-2020 07:48PM

Gyms are disgusting

Church on Tuesday · 02-02-2020 08:06PM

Andrew00 wrote: »

Gyms are disgusting

And expensive.

I'd rather go for a run and do weights at home.

razorblunt · 02-02-2020 08:38PM

There’s a special place in hell for people who excercise in GAA jerseys and don’t wash it regularly.
Those jerseys manage to hold on to a lot of stink for some reason.

JohnnyFlash · 02-02-2020 09:33PM

The worst of all are the auld fellas who use the hairdryer to dry their arse, ballbag, and pecker.

You’d also see this behaviour in golf club locker rooms.

Fûcking animals.

Xertz · 02-02-2020 09:36PM

Odd how you know these guys are from 'beyond the pale'. I wasn't aware that people had their car registration numbers tattooed on their rear ends and in my experience most people don't actually have conversations in the locker room of gyms, unless they know each other.

Certainly in any gym I've been to in Dublin or Cork, the locker room's usually fairly non talkative.

Also, oil fired heating in an apartment? Where are you living?!
And immersions!? How quaintly 1970s.

antimatterx · 02-02-2020 09:39PM

I never shower in the gym, they are Vile facilities

Andrew00 · 02-02-2020 09:46PM

Can someone tell me why some people wear big hoodies in the gym. Then they're subsequently drenched in sweat

What's the reason behind that

MarkR · 02-02-2020 09:51PM

Andrew00 wrote: »

Can someone tell me why some people wear big hoodies in the gym. Then they're subsequently drenched in sweat

What's the reason behind that

So they can be Rocky, of course.

Potential-Monke · 02-02-2020 09:59PM

Andrew00 wrote: »

Can someone tell me why some people wear big hoodies in the gym. Then they're subsequently drenched in sweat

What's the reason behind that

It's (allegedly) to do with the heat, your body retains the heat and warms up faster so you can go pure macho man as soon as possible. I'd imagine some wear it to avoid having to do a warm up.

But I agree, people should be kicked out of gyms for not wiping the equipment after themselves. I bring 2, one for wiping the equipment and one for me. Sorry, I used to. Don't go to the gym anymore, but it's well due time to start going again!

Naggdefy · 02-02-2020 10:04PM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Its actually a huge public health issue.

Its not just that people sweat there its just its unusual for a place to get so many different bodies touching the same surface area for so long and in such intimate places.

Yoga mats for instance. If you don't bring your own they are full of bacteria usually going back years.

Also some gyms are rubbish at public sanitation.

My advice is bring a sanitizer spray and spray down the equipment you use and wipe it with a baby wipe. Then dry with a clean towel. If you ask at reception they might have a spray they can give you. Do the same thing after using it.

Always wash your hands before a workout or touching things. But also if you can't wash your hands use a sanitizer.

Shower soon if you can. Protect your feet as if you were in a swimming pool. Be aware if you have broken skin or a rash ..cover it and don't let it touch surfaces.

Don't share towels etc. Dont share bottles or make up or brushes. Women often use the bathroom in a gym to do make up ...make up is usually full of bacteria ...so ladies wipe it (the counter top) down after.

I want to convince gyms in Ireland to provide sanitizers for all pieces of equipment to encourage people to use them.

Also look at the gym itself ....gym staff are notoriously lax on cleaning ....look around does it look clean and tidy? do you see people cleaning regularly?

Also this is very important when you wash your gym clothes ....do a hot wash ...if its under 60 degrees it doesn't kill all bacteria. And use a specialized washing liquid ....low acid ones cut through the oil to release bacteria and have something in the liquid to kill bacteria.

If you put your gym clothes on a LOW wash with just normal laundry detergent ...its not killing bacteria and its not going to break up the oil from your body to realize the bacteria at all ...so ew.

God love you. You sound like a tortured soul! Being that worried about so many things isn't good for you.

Serious question, do you have OCD?

Church on Tuesday · 02-02-2020 10:52PM

razorblunt wrote: »

There’s a special place in hell for people who excercise in GAA jerseys and don’t wash it regularly.
Those jerseys manage to hold on to a lot of stink for some reason.

Oh? what about Soccer jerseys?

Naggdefy · 02-02-2020 11:00PM

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Oh? what about Soccer jerseys?

Auld lads with bellys in faded Liverpool Candy or Man U Sharpe jersies

Kinda gross and at the same time you appreciate how important these relics are to these gents.

03-02-2020 12:53AM

I never saw as many people afraid of a bit of sweat from another person. I’ll give ye a but of advice, never ever have nothing to do with farming as you would die in minutes judging what’s being said here.....

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

The worst of all are the auld fellas who use the hairdryer to dry their arse, ballbag, and pecker.

You’d also see this behaviour in golf club locker rooms.

Fûcking animals.

What’s wrong with it? Best use there is for a hair dryer. No man should be drying the hair on their head with one.

RobertKK · 03-02-2020 02:56AM

People will be so weak from a lack of exposure to germs, have no immunity and end up dying from using too much sanitizer.

ILoveYourVibes · 03-02-2020 04:34AM

Naggdefy wrote: »

God love you. You sound like a tortured soul! Being that worried about so many things isn't good for you.

Serious question, do you have OCD?

No. I just am involved in the industry right now.

People who go to the gym probably realize most of the times they have gotten sick its something they brought home from the gym.

ILoveYourVibes · 03-02-2020 04:48AM

RobertKK wrote: »

People will be so weak from a lack of exposure to germs, have no immunity and end up dying from using too much sanitizer.

Not the way it works.

Exposure to routine germs and bacteria is good. Staph MRSA etc or a free weight with 300 hundred times more bacteria all than a public toilet all at once is not.

Let children go out and play outside in the dirt but don't throw cleanliness aside. These days people are doing the opposite. They aren't exposing themselves to routine germs outside because they live indoors all day. But they are allowing their environment to become 300 times more dirty than a toilet. And dosing their fragile immune system with that.

farmers are exposed to different bacterial flora than city dwellers teachers exposed to more colds flu etc

In asia people will be exposed to diff pathogens than us for example.

Some pathogens such as the ones i am talking about ...will end up making you sick regardless of what you expose yourself to.

I wouldn't use hand sanitizer four times a day at home. BUT I WOULD USE IT A COUPLE OF TIMES IN A GYM. I would wash my hands after the loo and before cooking. If i ate meat i would make sure any counter top touching raw meat was washed down.

Its like you don't sterilize your own comb at home. But at the hairdressers they sterilize every comb and brush after a client before using it on a new one. They sterilize the scissors too. They make sure the towels are washed at the correct temp. (i know i have worked in a salon).

That jar full of blue liquid they pop the combs in when they are cutting your hair in the barber is full of disinfectant. The little box they put the brushes in (sometimes on the wall sometimes not) its usually a LED sterilizer.

wandererz · 03-02-2020 04:59AM

It's not about "Personal Hygiene in the Gym "

It's really about all you weirdos enjoying all the weird ****e you do.

Badly Drunk Boy · 03-02-2020 08:34AM

Drew Alive Archive wrote: »

Without making generalisation, and before everyone gets their knickers in a twist and I know not all cases and #notallmen etc etc etc

Yeah, you're right. It's usually smaller lads doing this. #NoTallMen

JohnnyFlash · 03-02-2020 09:37AM

Dangelo Screeching Comb wrote: »

I never saw as many people afraid of a bit of sweat from another person. I’ll give ye a but of advice, never ever have nothing to do with farming as you would die in minutes judging what’s being said here.....

What’s wrong with it? Best use there is for a hair dryer. No man should be drying the hair on their head with one.

I don’t know, Nox, but I’d imagine that most people who aren’t complete arséholes and/or vegetables realise that the hairdryers in front of a mirror are for drying the hair on your head, and not for the hair between your balls and your butthole.

JustAThought · 03-02-2020 10:04AM

personal peeve - showers in gyms -why are people so dirty -who wipes their snot or worse on the walls and walks away - and what is all that brown dirty human scum on the floor -would you not press the button one more time before you leave and flush it the f away??? What is wrong with people -are you that dirty at home???

razorblunt · 03-02-2020 10:15AM

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Oh? what about Soccer jerseys?

They're different material.
It's no slight on the GAA or folk wearing the jerseys, its just the jerseys themselves.
Interestingly the training tops are fine.

El_Duderino 09 · 03-02-2020 10:19AM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I don’t know, Nox, but I’d imagine that most people who aren’t complete arséholes and/or vegetables realise that the hairdryers in front of a mirror are for drying the hair on your head, and not for the hair between your balls and your butthole.

Sounds like a lack of imagination on your part. It blows hot air and dries things including hair... and arseholes.

I don’t do it but I can’t see the problem.

Turquoise Hexagon Sun · 03-02-2020 10:28AM

I've come across some spicey lads in the gym. One of them is my friend so I had to call him out on it. You can't get away with wearing gym clothing twice, I told him. He says he tries getting two uses out of whatever attire he has. It's that really pugent, spicey smell. It's layered and matured sweat. It's discusting.

I wont go to gym unless I'm clean. I've usually showered before - not that I deliberately shower before the gym, what I mean is, that if I feel I need to shower, I don't wait and go "well, I'm going to the gym later, I'll just wait until I'm done then." No, I shower first and then shower after. Anything I wear in the gym goes in the wash. It's a pain in hole washing gym gear constantly but I'm always fresh.

I go to a budget gym. I wonder can anyone tell me if it's any different in the fancier gyms? Do you still get that spice off people those gyms?

greenspurs · 03-02-2020 10:36AM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Its actually a huge public health issue.

Its not just that people sweat there its just its unusual for a place to get so many different bodies touching the same surface area for so long and in such intimate places.

Yoga mats for instance. If you don't bring your own they are full of bacteria usually going back years.

Also some gyms are rubbish at public sanitation.

My advice is bring a sanitizer spray and spray down the equipment you use and wipe it with a baby wipe. Then dry with a clean towel. If you ask at reception they might have a spray they can give you. Do the same thing after using it.

Always wash your hands before a workout or touching things. But also if you can't wash your hands use a sanitizer.

Shower soon if you can. Protect your feet as if you were in a swimming pool. Be aware if you have broken skin or a rash ..cover it and don't let it touch surfaces.

Don't share towels etc. Dont share bottles or make up or brushes. Women often use the bathroom in a gym to do make up ...make up is usually full of bacteria ...so ladies wipe it (the counter top) down after.

I want to convince gyms in Ireland to provide sanitizers for all pieces of equipment to encourage people to use them.

Also look at the gym itself ....gym staff are notoriously lax on cleaning ....look around does it look clean and tidy? do you see people cleaning regularly?

Also this is very important when you wash your gym clothes ....do a hot wash ...if its under 60 degrees it doesn't kill all bacteria. And use a specialized washing liquid ....low acid ones cut through the oil to release bacteria and have something in the liquid to kill bacteria.

If you put your gym clothes on a LOW wash with just normal laundry detergent ...its not killing bacteria and its not going to break up the oil from your body to realize the bacteria at all ...so ew.

I bet you carry hand sanitizer at all times !! :rolleyes:
And always have a cough and be sick.

greenspurs · 03-02-2020 10:39AM

People act the animal in gyms because they don't have to clean it up after themselves.....

Personal hygiene in the Gym

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