Is post-workout shower safe?
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Not only is it safe, it is a highly recommended part of recovery.
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After reading this, I had a shower... exactly 2.0467 hours after my workout.2
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giantrobot_powerlifting wrote: »After reading this, I had a shower... exactly 2.0467 hours after my workout.
Say goodbye to all your gains. Optimal is 34 minutes, 17.457 seconds. Now you have to start all over again.
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giantrobot_powerlifting wrote: »After reading this, I had a shower... exactly 2.0467 hours after my workout.
Say goodbye to all your gains. Optimal is 34 minutes, 17.457 seconds. Now you have to start all over again.
Damn.
I like training though so its kind of a win !3 -
giantrobot_powerlifting wrote: »After reading this, I had a shower... exactly 2.0467 hours after my workout.
Say goodbye to all your gains. Optimal is 34 minutes, 17.457 seconds. Now you have to start all over again.
Unless he completed the whole shower while standing on his left leg and humming any Miley Cyrus song.4 -
Funkymommy88 wrote: »I suddenly find my question quite funny lol, I just remember some myths I heard from some people before that it's not safe to do so as you might get some sort of musculoskeletal spasm. But yeah, as long as you don't slip and fall in the shower... Thanks guys!
If you're concerned about getting cramp while in the shower after a workout, have a glass of water before you get into the shower.
But you'd better believe that during the last quarter of a long bicycle ride, and especially if the bicycle ride is cold and/or wet, I'm thinking of how wonderful it will be to get into a lovely, hot shower.
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To be fair, there is some truth in the technical scuba diving world - if you've done a deco dive not only should you do the minimum of exercise but also keep your shower cool so as to not interfere with the body's off gassing... not sure that's what the average person would be meaning though... 😂1
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nutmegoreo wrote: »giantrobot_powerlifting wrote: »
A train leaves Boston at 1 pm. John is doing 3/3/1 tempo squats and was married on the 5th of July. Tomorrow, 6 apples will be delivered to my door, will this affect the rate of T Cell development or will the body of John Wilks Booth reanimate?NorthCascades wrote: »BruinsGal_91 wrote: »OK, I thought I'd seen all the bizarro questions that could be asked here. But I was wrong. Very, very wrong.
This is like issuing a challenge.
Neither, because penguin.
Yes but is this penguin doing keto or IF ?3 -
My theory is some guy forgot/didn't have time to shower, and was further ridiculed. In an effort to deflect, he made up some crap about hurting gains. Thus, a rumor is born.
My head itches as the sweat dries if I don't shower. Sometimes I come home and shower at home instead of at the gym though. They have a 90 minute limit for childcare, and sometimes I'd rather finish my workout and shower at home instead of showing peacefully at the gym.2 -
Goodness for years I've been jumping in the shower straight after my workout....so far no ill has come to me yet
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It's all according to who you are showering with! LOL j/k
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giantrobot_powerlifting wrote: »
Who makes up this stuff? Like one day, a person decides, “Hmm... time to level-up the *kitten* a notch because there isn’t quite yet enough”Funkymommy88 wrote: »I suddenly find my question quite funny lol, I just remember some myths I heard from some people before that it's not safe to do so as you might get some sort of musculoskeletal spasm. But yeah, as long as you don't slip and fall in the shower... Thanks guys!
My new word now! LOL
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skinnyrev2b wrote: »To be fair, there is some truth in the technical scuba diving world - if you've done a deco dive not only should you do the minimum of exercise but also keep your shower cool so as to not interfere with the body's off gassing... not sure that's what the average person would be meaning though... 😂
hmmm, I'd heard (recommendations from a pot) that you shouldn't take a hot shower after diving due to the potential masking of symptoms of a DCI, rather than affecting the off-gassing process per se.2 -
It's not safe if you have post-run nipple chafing going on. Feel the burn...2
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girlinahat wrote: »skinnyrev2b wrote: »To be fair, there is some truth in the technical scuba diving world - if you've done a deco dive not only should you do the minimum of exercise but also keep your shower cool so as to not interfere with the body's off gassing... not sure that's what the average person would be meaning though... 😂
hmmm, I'd heard (recommendations from a pot) that you shouldn't take a hot shower after diving due to the potential masking of symptoms of a DCI, rather than affecting the off-gassing process per se.
Ah... you're undoubtedly right. Thanks for the correction!2 -
I'm at the gym in the morning before work. It would be unsafe for my coworkers if I DIDN'T shower.
I have been concerned a couple times after a particularly heinous leg day.5 -
I want to know what's prompted this question.
And to answer, yes, it's safe. If you want to be extra sure, get a shower buddy.2 -
If you shower at the gym just be sure to wear something on your feet I would...3
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The only concern would be from a rapid temperature change, but even this risk would require an underlying medical condition.
Showering after activity is recommended and a massive risk mitigator. I remember an incident where a triathlete nearly died from a case of necrotizing fasciitis after swimming in open water. In the investigation we surmised that abrasions from shaving aided in the infection.2 -
To be serious for a minute, wait until you cool down. People can faint getting into a hot shower, possible causes being dehydration, low blood sugar, and low blood pressure. My sister has a lovely scar across one eyebrow when she got into a hot shower right after getting out of bed and fainted (low blood pressure runs in the family).
This could be solved by sitting on a bench for a couple of minutes with a water bottle and a small snack.2 -
Funkymommy88 wrote: »I suddenly find my question quite funny lol, I just remember some myths I heard from some people before that it's not safe to do so as you might get some sort of musculoskeletal spasm. But yeah, as long as you don't slip and fall in the shower... Thanks guys!
That's OK. When I was in Jr. High the myth that your shouldn't wash your hair during your period was still a firmly held belief by everyone's grandma. Nobody could ever say why, it was just so
eta: thanks for starting a fun thread - Thursdays can be boring
The belief was that keeping your arms within the air to wash then especially if you bent over to rinse your hair, you might get toxic shock syndrome because you weren't keeping your body within the position necessary for gravity, to flow the waste blood via you & thus it'd remain inside you longer, continue to circulate within you, instead of expel as quickly as gravity naturally allows it to & thereby risk potentially poisoning you!1 -
SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »Funkymommy88 wrote: »I suddenly find my question quite funny lol, I just remember some myths I heard from some people before that it's not safe to do so as you might get some sort of musculoskeletal spasm. But yeah, as long as you don't slip and fall in the shower... Thanks guys!
That's OK. When I was in Jr. High the myth that your shouldn't wash your hair during your period was still a firmly held belief by everyone's grandma. Nobody could ever say why, it was just so
eta: thanks for starting a fun thread - Thursdays can be boring
The belief was that keeping your arms within the air to wash then especially if you bent over to rinse your hair, you might get toxic shock syndrome because you weren't keeping your body within the position necessary for gravity to flow the waste blood via you & thus it'd remain inside you longer, continue to circulate within you, instead of expel as quickly as gravity naturally allows it to, thereby potentially poisoning you!
Actually Toxic Shock Syndrome was discovered in 1978. I should have qualified that I'm 67, and my grandma(s) were born in the 1800's. 3 -
See, I wait until after I cool down to take a shower cause if I don't, I dry off, get dressed, and I'm still sweating. lol2
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SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »Funkymommy88 wrote: »I suddenly find my question quite funny lol, I just remember some myths I heard from some people before that it's not safe to do so as you might get some sort of musculoskeletal spasm. But yeah, as long as you don't slip and fall in the shower... Thanks guys!
That's OK. When I was in Jr. High the myth that your shouldn't wash your hair during your period was still a firmly held belief by everyone's grandma. Nobody could ever say why, it was just so
eta: thanks for starting a fun thread - Thursdays can be boring
The belief was that keeping your arms within the air to wash then especially if you bent over to rinse your hair, you might get toxic shock syndrome because you weren't keeping your body within the position necessary for gravity to flow the waste blood via you & thus it'd remain inside you longer, continue to circulate within you, instead of expel as quickly as gravity naturally allows it to, thereby potentially poisoning you!
Actually Toxic Shock Syndrome was discovered in 1978. I should have qualified that I'm 67, and my grandma(s) were born in the 1800's.
Since I was born within 1980, that's how it was taught to me but for discovery & subsequent labeling it had to exist prior, however the effects were plausibly known as being something else!1 -
thelegendofsakura89 wrote: »See, I wait until after I cool down to take a shower cause if I don't, I dry off, get dressed, and I'm still sweating. lol
I do the same. Even taking a cool shower doesn't always stop the sweating, and I hate getting into clean clothes then sweating into them.
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SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »Funkymommy88 wrote: »I suddenly find my question quite funny lol, I just remember some myths I heard from some people before that it's not safe to do so as you might get some sort of musculoskeletal spasm. But yeah, as long as you don't slip and fall in the shower... Thanks guys!
That's OK. When I was in Jr. High the myth that your shouldn't wash your hair during your period was still a firmly held belief by everyone's grandma. Nobody could ever say why, it was just so
eta: thanks for starting a fun thread - Thursdays can be boring
The belief was that keeping your arms within the air to wash then especially if you bent over to rinse your hair, you might get toxic shock syndrome because you weren't keeping your body within the position necessary for gravity to flow the waste blood via you & thus it'd remain inside you longer, continue to circulate within you, instead of expel as quickly as gravity naturally allows it to, thereby potentially poisoning you!
Actually Toxic Shock Syndrome was discovered in 1978. I should have qualified that I'm 67, and my grandma(s) were born in the 1800's.
Since I was born within 1980, that's how it was taught to me but for discovery & subsequent labeling it had to exist prior, however the effects were plausibly known as being something else!
I think each generation takes the myths from the generations before and gives them a modern spin! I didn't realize that myth was still around, I thought it died out in my parent's generation. 1 -
SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »Funkymommy88 wrote: »I suddenly find my question quite funny lol, I just remember some myths I heard from some people before that it's not safe to do so as you might get some sort of musculoskeletal spasm. But yeah, as long as you don't slip and fall in the shower... Thanks guys!
That's OK. When I was in Jr. High the myth that your shouldn't wash your hair during your period was still a firmly held belief by everyone's grandma. Nobody could ever say why, it was just so
eta: thanks for starting a fun thread - Thursdays can be boring
The belief was that keeping your arms within the air to wash then especially if you bent over to rinse your hair, you might get toxic shock syndrome because you weren't keeping your body within the position necessary for gravity to flow the waste blood via you & thus it'd remain inside you longer, continue to circulate within you, instead of expel as quickly as gravity naturally allows it to, thereby potentially poisoning you!
Actually Toxic Shock Syndrome was discovered in 1978. I should have qualified that I'm 67, and my grandma(s) were born in the 1800's.
Since I was born within 1980, that's how it was taught to me but for discovery & subsequent labeling it had to exist prior, however the effects were plausibly known as being something else!
I think each generation takes the myths from the generations before and gives them a modern spin! I didn't realize that myth was still around, I thought it died out in my parent's generation.
Plausibly, it has now!1 -
For those who took my question seriously thank you, I appreciate your answers. (Btw, I'm still quite a newbie in this community, I used to have a sedentary lifestyle and just started calorie tracking and exercising in June).
It is understood that we need to tidy up, with proper cool down of course. But what I actually meant with the question was, how soon can you take a shower after exercising? e.g. 15mins, 30mins or it doesn't matter at all?
I was just wondering if there's any risk linked to having a shower immediately in a post-workout situation esp.after a vigorous one.
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Funkymommy88 wrote: »For those who took my question seriously thank you, I appreciate your answers. (Btw, I'm still quite a newbie in this community, I used to have a sedentary lifestyle and just started calorie tracking and exercising in June).
It is understood that we need to tidy up, with proper cool down of course. But what I actually meant with the question was, how soon can you take a shower after exercising? e.g. 15mins, 30mins or it doesn't matter at all?
I was just wondering if there's any risk linked to having a shower immediately in a post-workout situation esp.after a vigorous one.
If your legs aren't feeling wobbly, I don't see any problem. No scientific data to back that up though.3 -
Funkymommy88 wrote: »For those who took my question seriously thank you, I appreciate your answers. (Btw, I'm still quite a newbie in this community, I used to have a sedentary lifestyle and just started calorie tracking and exercising in June).
It is understood that we need to tidy up, with proper cool down of course. But what I actually meant with the question was, how soon can you take a shower after exercising? e.g. 15mins, 30mins or it doesn't matter at all?
I was just wondering if there's any risk linked to having a shower immediately in a post-workout situation esp.after a vigorous one.
I'd look at @FireOpalCO 's comment above. That makes good sense to me - I've experienced lightheadedness myself, and if you have any tendacies toward that it seems like a good precaution.1
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