So this guy was grunting in my gym....
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I don't think expecting people to clean off the bench after they use it is being prissy. Sitting or lying down on someone elses sweat is gross. Yuck!
Nobody is contesting that you should wipe them down IF you've sweated onto them. That's just common courtesy.
Expecting people to wipe the equipment down just because they sat on it or touched it, though? Without leaving any sweat? THAT is prissy. Do you also expect people to wipe down park benches and bus seats after they've sat on them? Or to wipe down elevator buttons after they've touched them?
One has to wonder how such people manage to survive at all in the real world.
Well, I have lupus so I take medication which lowers my immunity. A lot of people with compromised immune systems don't survive in the real world, they die. Thanks for asking! Park benches are naturally sterilized by sunshine, which is a great disinfectant. I don't ride buses. And I don't touch things such as door handles or elevator buttons if I can avoid it, have taught myself never to touch my face in public, and scrub my hands when I get home.2 -
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I don't think expecting people to clean off the bench after they use it is being prissy. Sitting or lying down on someone elses sweat is gross. Yuck!
Nobody is contesting that you should wipe them down IF you've sweated onto them. That's just common courtesy.
Expecting people to wipe the equipment down just because they sat on it or touched it, though? Without leaving any sweat? THAT is prissy. Do you also expect people to wipe down park benches and bus seats after they've sat on them? Or to wipe down elevator buttons after they've touched them?
One has to wonder how such people manage to survive at all in the real world.
Wonder what all the people that are so worried about a gym bench do when they go to pick up a prescription pay with a card and have to touch the stylus/keypad on the credit card machine (that has been handed by the people who just left the loo after a major transaction and haven't washed their hands and/or are coughing up a lung).1 -
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MistressSara wrote: »Packerjohn wrote: »I don't think expecting people to clean off the bench after they use it is being prissy. Sitting or lying down on someone elses sweat is gross. Yuck!
Nobody is contesting that you should wipe them down IF you've sweated onto them. That's just common courtesy.
Expecting people to wipe the equipment down just because they sat on it or touched it, though? Without leaving any sweat? THAT is prissy. Do you also expect people to wipe down park benches and bus seats after they've sat on them? Or to wipe down elevator buttons after they've touched them?
One has to wonder how such people manage to survive at all in the real world.
Wonder what all the people that are so worried about a gym bench do when they go to pick up a prescription pay with a card and have to touch the stylus/keypad on the credit card machine (that has been handed by the people who just left the loo after a major transaction and haven't washed their hands and/or are coughing up a lung).
Yes, it's everything- door handles, credit cards, the pumps on self serve coffee, gasoline pumps, sink taps. Gym benches are nothing. I tend to use my elbows whenever possible and avoid touching my face. Wiping a dry gym bench is just theater.
Okay, but in my life experience, I've never seen someone wipe down a credit card machine before using it..1 -
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the other day at my gym there was a guy grunting really loud. The very same guy farted and it smelled like death. He tried cleaning off some of the equipment with an oily rag.
I work out at home alone because I'm clearly not suited for public gyms.
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rheddmobile wrote: »I don't think expecting people to clean off the bench after they use it is being prissy. Sitting or lying down on someone elses sweat is gross. Yuck!
Nobody is contesting that you should wipe them down IF you've sweated onto them. That's just common courtesy.
Expecting people to wipe the equipment down just because they sat on it or touched it, though? Without leaving any sweat? THAT is prissy. Do you also expect people to wipe down park benches and bus seats after they've sat on them? Or to wipe down elevator buttons after they've touched them?
One has to wonder how such people manage to survive at all in the real world.
Well, I have lupus so I take medication which lowers my immunity. A lot of people with compromised immune systems don't survive in the real world, they die. Thanks for asking! Park benches are naturally sterilized by sunshine, which is a great disinfectant. I don't ride buses. And I don't touch things such as door handles or elevator buttons if I can avoid it, have taught myself never to touch my face in public, and scrub my hands when I get home.
Maybe a public gym isn’t a good choice if your immune system is so compromised that you are risking constant death. I think that the Hepatitis outbreak in LA kinda contradicts the reliance of sunlight as a protective measure, they are disinfecting quite a few things found in the open - including park benches and sidewalks...
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I'm going to the weight room next time I go to the gym. I didn't know I was missing all this!4
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I'm on immunosuppressants. Never really over worried about gym equipment. Had a towel, wiped things down, that was it. Knew the weights were a disaster for germs, just washed my hands after lifting.
The worst offender for grunting I ever ran into in a gym actually was a guy doing cardio. He used to make sex noises while running on a treadmill. I never quite understood that.
I don't feel death is waiting for me around every corner, I think that's a bit hyperbolic.4 -
My gym has disinfectant wipes available and I use them to wipe down benches and such after I'm done. In my view, it is better to use them despite not having needed to than it is to need to use them and not. So I err on the side of caution.0
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MistressSara wrote: »Wiping a dry gym bench is just theater.
THIS. It's just absurd.
And yes, people with compromised immune systems might need to exercise more caution... but that's true everywhere, not just with regard to dry gym equipment. Barring unusual medical circumstances, it's ridiculous to be so overly fragile when it comes to the gym.2 -
JerSchmare wrote: »I never thought about people with low immune systems. I’m pretty immune to germs. So, it doesn’t bother me much.
I'm pretty sure if someone had a significant issue a with low immune system they should not trust the wiping down of equipment by another (no matter how well intentioned or thorough the wiper is).1 -
depending on what your wiping the benches off with you may actually be spreading funk from one to another.
I was a member of my local 6 they required you to wife equipment with a provided squirt bottle and rag when you were finished with it. If there was bleach in that water I never once smelled it and could have been transfering germs from the treadmill to the leg press machine or even worse.
Wipe if you want don't wipe if that's what floats your boat.
Same guy opened the gym door today and peed through the door into the yard. Really ought to see about getting that guy thrown out of here.2 -
lsutton484 wrote: »Same guy opened the gym door today and peed through the door into the yard. Really ought to see about getting that guy thrown out of here.
preferably into 'the yard'
holy hell. even dogs have the courtesy to go look for a lamppost if they need to piss.
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