this is an important announcement...

dpwellman

I know not this. . . deodorant. . . of which you speak.

ahamm002

In my experience, bad body odor isn't from sweating AT the gym, it's from not washing your gym clothes or not bathing in the past 72 hours. Exercise sweat isn't usually stinky... not like stress sweat is.

That's the truth. If you're clean and have clean clothes on, then you probably won't stick all that bad during a 60 minute workout no matter how much you sweat. It's the people wearing dirty clothes that really stink the place up.

darrensurrey

I used to think crystal deodorant could keep me fresh.


Then I asked the people around me...

Well, I certainly notice I smell when I eat more whey products so even if I did smell before, I smell even worse with whey products. And that's 3 hours after wearing clean clothes and having a good wash in the areas that I smell.

laurenmanderson1

Mmmmm butyric acid.


Not to ruin things for you, but if you think hard, you'll notice that fear sweat, vomit, and Parmesan cheese all have one thing in common: butyric acid.


Funny how context can determine perception

It's not in whey is it?

I've noticed when friends increase their protein intake, they smell funny.

I think that would be mercaptans and hydrogen sulfide.


I have this little hypothesis that when you smell that, you are taking in more protein at one time than you are absorbing, which results in elevated levels of protein in the bowels, which creates a bacterial and archeal ****storm.

If you combine elevated protein with elevated sugar, you get the double whammy of volume and power. I call this "the meatloaf effect"

Since when do you not absorb all the protein you eat? Wouldn't this mean you're pooping out protein?

According to my Sports Nutrition class i took in college, your body can only absorb a certain amount of protein in a day depending on your activity level. I can't remember the exact numbers but I'm sure you can look them up. And you don't poop it out, you pee it out. My professor used to say that taking in all this extra protein was just making "expensive pee" (her words, not mine). :laugh:

scottaworley

Mmmmm butyric acid.


Not to ruin things for you, but if you think hard, you'll notice that fear sweat, vomit, and Parmesan cheese all have one thing in common: butyric acid.


Funny how context can determine perception

It's not in whey is it?

I've noticed when friends increase their protein intake, they smell funny.

I think that would be mercaptans and hydrogen sulfide.


I have this little hypothesis that when you smell that, you are taking in more protein at one time than you are absorbing, which results in elevated levels of protein in the bowels, which creates a bacterial and archeal ****storm.

If you combine elevated protein with elevated sugar, you get the double whammy of volume and power. I call this "the meatloaf effect"

Since when do you not absorb all the protein you eat? Wouldn't this mean you're pooping out protein?

According to my Sports Nutrition class i took in college, your body can only absorb a certain amount of protein in a day depending on your activity level. I can't remember the exact numbers but I'm sure you can look them up. And you don't poop it out, you pee it out. My professor used to say that taking in all this extra protein was just making "expensive pee" (her words, not mine). :laugh:

http://spotmebro.com/layne-norton-phd-on-protein-how-much-and-how-often/

Many ‘experts’ or gym know-it-alls out there who will tell you to only consume “X” amount of protein at a meal because only “X” amount of protein can be absorbed by the body at a meal (I’m sure you’ve all heard this one before). Let this nonsense stop here and now. To begin with, this entire train of thought isn’t even on the correct track. Hell it didn’t even depart from the right train station! Assuming that you have a healthy digestive system, the absorption of the amino acids from a meal containing protein is very efficient and almost never a limiting factor. Absorption only refers to nutrient uptake & absorption via the digestive track (most absorption occurring in the small intestine). If our digestive systems didn’t absorb most of what we eat than anytime you had a big meal you would have diarrhea like clockwork from the undigested material in the gut! It also makes very little sense from an evolutionary standpoint to be very wasteful with nutrients when primitive man may have only been able to eat one large meal in a day at times. Our species would not have survived very long if we were wasteful with nutrients and did not absorb amino acids beyond a certain level. In reality, the body has an extremely high capacity for amino acid absorption.

ETA: I was going to give your professor the benefit of the doubt and say that she was giving you outdated information, but if she's saying that you're peeing out protein that you don't absorb she does not have an understanding of the human body. Peeing something out means that you absorbed it. Fecal matter is everything that you don't absorb. Urine has been processed through the kidneys, and has thus been absorbed.

pcastagner

Mmmmm butyric acid.


Not to ruin things for you, but if you think hard, you'll notice that fear sweat, vomit, and Parmesan cheese all have one thing in common: butyric acid.


Funny how context can determine perception

It's not in whey is it?

I've noticed when friends increase their protein intake, they smell funny.

I think that would be mercaptans and hydrogen sulfide.


I have this little hypothesis that when you smell that, you are taking in more protein at one time than you are absorbing, which results in elevated levels of protein in the bowels, which creates a bacterial and archeal ****storm.

If you combine elevated protein with elevated sugar, you get the double whammy of volume and power. I call this "the meatloaf effect"

Since when do you not absorb all the protein you eat? Wouldn't this mean you're pooping out protein?

According to my Sports Nutrition class i took in college, your body can only absorb a certain amount of protein in a day depending on your activity level. I can't remember the exact numbers but I'm sure you can look them up. And you don't poop it out, you pee it out. My professor used to say that taking in all this extra protein was just making "expensive pee" (her words, not mine). :laugh:

http://spotmebro.com/layne-norton-phd-on-protein-how-much-and-how-often/

Many ‘experts’ or gym know-it-alls out there who will tell you to only consume “X” amount of protein at a meal because only “X” amount of protein can be absorbed by the body at a meal (I’m sure you’ve all heard this one before). Let this nonsense stop here and now. To begin with, this entire train of thought isn’t even on the correct track. Hell it didn’t even depart from the right train station! Assuming that you have a healthy digestive system, the absorption of the amino acids from a meal containing protein is very efficient and almost never a limiting factor. Absorption only refers to nutrient uptake & absorption via the digestive track (most absorption occurring in the small intestine). If our digestive systems didn’t absorb most of what we eat than anytime you had a big meal you would have diarrhea like clockwork from the undigested material in the gut! It also makes very little sense from an evolutionary standpoint to be very wasteful with nutrients when primitive man may have only been able to eat one large meal in a day at times. Our species would not have survived very long if we were wasteful with nutrients and did not absorb amino acids beyond a certain level. In reality, the body has an extremely high capacity for amino acid absorption.

ETA: I was going to give your professor the benefit of the doubt and say that she was giving you outdated information, but if she's saying that you're peeing out protein that you don't absorb she does not have an understanding of the human body. Peeing something out means that you absorbed it. Fecal matter is everything that you don't absorb. Urine has been processed through the kidneys, and has thus been absorbed.

Yeah, if the nitrogen from your protein is now urea, it's been absorbed.

Juanwi

On the upside, your nose should adjust to the smell after a short period so that you won't notice the smell any longer.

JoshuaL86

I'll wear deodorant when women quit wearing perfume to the gym. Some lady almost choked me out a few weeks ago because she had so much perfume on!

MyChocolateDiet

I used to think crystal deodorant could keep me fresh.


Then I asked the people around me...

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

sillygoosie

What makes you think it was only the men?

BooBoo1264

I naturally smell like roses

I bet you do!

_Waffle_

lol.. i sweat..... but i dont stink.... all for sweating!!! just wear the damn deodorant :happy:

LOL. Do I slather my entire body with it because after a hard workout I sweat more than just under my arms. Just accept that the gym is the gym. It's not a sauna room with fresh rose petal scents in the air.

40mpw

In my experience, bad body odor isn't from sweating AT the gym, it's from not washing your gym clothes or not bathing in the past 72 hours. Exercise sweat isn't usually stinky... not like stress sweat is.

That's the truth. If you're clean and have clean clothes on, then you probably won't stick all that bad during a 60 minute workout no matter how much you sweat. It's the people wearing dirty clothes that really stink the place up.

I third this. Also, my husband's old roommate was one of the guys the front desk people have to ask to freshen up. He was utterly clueless about the stank of his clothes.

Contrarian

Join a womens only gym...problem solved:drinker:

There was a woman at my former gym who was known only as "Onion Vagina".

Cadori

A clean man freshly sweating is not a bad smell...

MyChocolateDiet

This was fun...now let's do Asparagus pee.

Phoenix_Warrior

Lmao @ onion vag. This thread has made me thankful I have a bench press in my garage. I can secretly build muscle while being as stanky as I want.

anj1030

I used to think crystal deodorant could keep me fresh.


Then I asked the people around me...

I think I just snorted water. Thank you. Needed to clean out those sinuses!!!

anj1030

This was fun...now let's do Asparagus pee.

Yes!! Lets!!!!

Escape_Artist

There was a woman at my former gym who was known only as "Onion Vagina".

:sick:

_noob_

I always cropdust my gym's water fountain when possible...

TR0berts

There was a woman at my former gym who was known only as "Onion Vagina".

:noway:


I think OP went to my gym this morning. It was squat day for me.

lorigem

In my experience, bad body odor isn't from sweating AT the gym, it's from not washing your gym clothes or not bathing in the past 72 hours. Exercise sweat isn't usually stinky... not like stress sweat is.

Agreed. But also some people just have stronger odors than others no matter how clean they may have been before.

Sublimely_Self_Righteous

I LOVE THE BODY ODOR OF A WOMAN AFTER SHE WORKS OUT...ESPECIALLY WHEN I SNIFF HER SEAT AFTER SHE GETS OFF THE BIKE AND MACHINES :blushing: :blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

yummy_

There was a woman at my former gym who was known only as "Onion Vagina".

I LOVE THE BODY ODOR OF A WOMAN AFTER SHE WORKS OUT...ESPECIALLY WHEN I SNIFF HER SEAT AFTER SHE GETS OFF THE BIKE AND MACHINES :blushing: :blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

:flowerforyou:

Contrarian

There was a woman at my former gym who was known only as "Onion Vagina".

I LOVE THE BODY ODOR OF A WOMAN AFTER SHE WORKS OUT...ESPECIALLY WHEN I SNIFF HER SEAT AFTER SHE GETS OFF THE BIKE AND MACHINES :blushing: :blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

:flowerforyou:

You matchmaker.

Sublimely_Self_Righteous

There was a woman at my former gym who was known only as "Onion Vagina".

I LOVE THE BODY ODOR OF A WOMAN AFTER SHE WORKS OUT...ESPECIALLY WHEN I SNIFF HER SEAT AFTER SHE GETS OFF THE BIKE AND MACHINES :blushing: :blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

:flowerforyou:

'Sup baby? My name is SSR.

prdavies1949

What makes you think it was only the men?

I was always told that men sweat and ladies perspire.

MaryRegs

There was a woman at my former gym who was known only as "Onion Vagina".

hilarious!

dbmata

lol.. well maybe they cant smell themselves???.... i'm just helping out

and a random post into the internet helps out how, specifically?

Oooo, I think I'll play.

Dear people at the gym, please don't wear makeup to the gym. You look stupid.

I'm just helping out.