Please dont wear perfumes to the gym
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To remove perfume quickly from your skin because of someones allergic reaction, I've found hand sanitizer works well0
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As a mother of a son allergic to peanuts, yes I DO and did complain about peanut free lunch rules. My son knows not to stick his hand in other peoples lunch boxes. And my daughter shouldnt be limited by my sons allergies.
YOU have the allergy, its YOUR responsibility to cope and figure out alternatives, not everybody elses
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And one other thing. I have a strict personal policy to NEVER judge anyone when they're at the gym. If you got your butt to the gym and you're making your life better by trying to be healthy and get fit then kudos to you. If you want to wear makeup and perfume while doing it, so be it.0 -
Actually I do understand about the doing laundry comment, it's not the laundry itself it's the dryer sheets...when the dryer is running and venting the hot air out of the house and someone is using like a Bounce sheet or the like, some of them can be pretty toxic. I've experienced that before, walking by someone's house and the chemical smell is so strong it chokes me. I'm not being dramatic, not crying about it, just saying, yeah that is possible.0
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So my takeaway is this: :laugh:
If I wear makeup to the gym and it doesn't slide off my face, someone's gonna think I'm taking up/wasting space in the weight room. If I don't wear makeup to the gym, someone else is gonna think I look like smashed @$$holes.
If I wear cute, form fitting workout clothes to the gym, someone is gonna think I am trolling for guys and/or lookin' to get laid, but if I come in wearing an oversized tee and baggy azz sweats, someone else thinks I've given up on myself (in my defense, tho, my baggy clothes ARE laundered and fresh smelling....)
Which brings me to this... If I smell laundered and/or have residual scent from earlier in the day, I am an inconsiderate buffoon who thinks nothing of closing off people's airways, but if I'm not wearing deodorant, my sweat stank is going to get me looked at sideways because someone else is going to think I don't get personal hygiene.
Got it... :bigsmile:
I KNEW there was a reason I purchased equipment for home, lol...because I would offend/be judged by everyone in the course of any given week, lol! Okay, the real reason is because I just love the convenience of having the equipment available when I want to use it, but you get what I'm saying. Nobody is going to make everyone happy.
Edited for stupid auto correct typos...
Re-edited to see if anyone else is suddenly getting advertisements for essential oils on their sidebars all of a sudden, lol!
*snort*
Diet Coke out my nose, yo.0 -
I wonder why if a girl wears perfume/makeup, that it's anyone's business.
:drinker: This.
I'll drink to this. Just because we choose to not look like we crawled out of the ditch does not mean our workouts are less meaningful. If you are so bothered by it that it affects your happiness, just work out at home.0 -
Re-edited to see if anyone else is suddenly getting advertisements for essential oils on their sidebars all of a sudden, lol!
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So my takeaway is this: :laugh:
If I wear makeup to the gym and it doesn't slide off my face, someone's gonna think I'm taking up/wasting space in the weight room. If I don't wear makeup to the gym, someone else is gonna think I look like smashed @$$holes.
If I wear cute, form fitting workout clothes to the gym, someone is gonna think I am trolling for guys and/or lookin' to get laid, but if I come in wearing an oversized tee and baggy azz sweats, someone else thinks I've given up on myself (in my defense, tho, my baggy clothes ARE laundered and fresh smelling....)
Which brings me to this... If I smell laundered and/or have residual scent from earlier in the day, I am an inconsiderate buffoon who thinks nothing of closing off people's airways, but if I'm not wearing deodorant, my sweat stank is going to get me looked at sideways because someone else is going to think I don't get personal hygiene.
Got it... :bigsmile:
I KNEW there was a reason I purchased equipment for home, lol...because I would offend/be judged by everyone in the course of any given week, lol! Okay, the real reason is because I just love the convenience of having the equipment available when I want to use it, but you get what I'm saying. Nobody is going to make everyone happy.
Edited for stupid auto correct typos...
Re-edited to see if anyone else is suddenly getting advertisements for essential oils on their sidebars all of a sudden, lol!
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Again, this is where education is important. Peanut induced Anaphylactic shock, and death, is extremely rare. Most kids who are allergic to peanuts simply get hives. The very few, (less than one half of one percent) who have extreme reactions have epi pens. And if they are that allergic, it is even MORE important for them to be exposed to daily routine that includes peanuts. You are doing that child no favors by sheltering her. You are doing more harm than good.
Some allergies are cumulative. One exposure can mean hives, and the next can be an anaphylactic reaction - and you can never predict how many exposures it will take to get to be that point. Giving a child an epipen shot, or receiving one from the child's perspective, is (a) not guaranteed to save the child's life and (b) a really scary experience that it is not necessary for that child to ever have to have. It is not ever important or intelligent to expose an allergic child to an allergen. If you mean to say that peanut allergic children need to know how to protect themselves, I agree. I also think that the rest of us can take an important role in keeping them safe. Children aren't always equipped to protect themselves even when they've been told a million times that something will hurt them.
I don't shelter my non-peanut allergic children. I emphasize to my children that we need to be conscious and courteous to other people and do our best to keep other people safe too. I am not doing any harm to my daughter by teaching her that sometimes you have to put a "want" for yourself (like a peanut butter sandwich) aside for the "need" of another human being (i.e. not having an allergic reaction at school). Again, my children, thankfully, do not have food allergies.
Again...education. All allergies are cumulative, but that still doesn't negate the fact that ONE HALF OF ONE PERCENT of all peanut allergy sufferers will experience a life threatening reaction to peanuts. You know what my son's first words are when offered food? "Does it have peanuts?". You know why? Because he is ACCUSTOMED TO BEING AROUND FOOD CONTAINING PEANUTS. Removing harmful substances completely simply makes the sufferer more vulnerable and ill prepared for the "real" world.
And who ever said that they swell up when they smell peanuts on somebody's breath...yeah....BULL****. You do NOT have a life threatening reaction from the essence of peanuts.
everybody loves to be a victim....so much so they cannot even jog outside while others are doing laundry in THEIR OWN ****ING HOUSE?!?!?!?! Are you kidding me? Some of you need a psych eval. Stat.0 -
This makes me infinitely happy that I invested in home gym equipment. Not because of all the things that people are complaining about in this thread - but because in my gym, there is no judgment.
I have my own gym at home too...
...but management there is really critical of me...constantly judging my level of effort and results.
He...um, I mean, "they" also leave the bar loaded after workouts too.
This except managment isn't critical of me but there is this guy who leaves weights all over the place and never puts the crap back...
That being said I still wear makeup and cute outfits and when I do finally get back to the gym I will continue no way am I gonna go to the gym looking like crap and if there are "girls" there that are jelly or judging to hell with them as I said too busy pumping the weights up to notice but if I did...
I would be lol all the way home.0 -
This makes me infinitely happy that I invested in home gym equipment. Not because of all the things that people are complaining about in this thread - but because in my gym, there is no judgment.
I have my own gym at home too...
...but management there is really critical of me...constantly judging my level of effort and results.
He...um, I mean, "they" also leave the bar loaded after workouts too.
Yes, I agree. However, I am unable to comment on conditions with management, as they also know the passwords on "their" computer. It would just open a whole can of worms that I don't feel like dealing with. Now I'm not feeling so great about having a home gym. :sad: Don't get me started on not re-racking plates.0 -
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As for myself, I try to at least match at the gym, I actually feel like everyone else is better dressed and I'm under dressed. But then again, I work out at my school's gym (ASU). I already feel insecure there, so I don't try and do anything that brings attention to myself. But I match. Most expensive thing I wear are my Nike's, which weren't even full price cause I got them at DD's Discounts lol. I do wish they weren't blue with a pink logo, but that's preference, not wanting to look good.0 -
You've gotta be kidding me. You are so beyond dramatic. It's a bit ridiculous. Running past people's homes when they are doing laundry irritates your lungs? 1) How do you know when they are doing their laundry? 2) Unless you have the sniffers of a dog, I DOUBT you can even smell anything. 3) I can walk/run/jog perfectly past people's homes while they're "doing laundry" and I have severe asthma/allergies and a lung function of 28% that requires breathing treatments multiple times a day. So please save the drama.
I can tell when come people are doing laundry- and I have no allergies. It's actually pretty easy to tell. I'm not surprised at all.
since I never commented on the scent issue
I don't mind people wearing stuff at the gym: I only mind people who marinade in it. And there is most certainly a difference- I mind it when I get stuck in an elevator with those same said people. I mind what they do ANYWHERE- because it's too much. It doesn't have to be at the gym.
The issue is you stop smelling it after you wear it for years- so to you it you can just barely smell it and it smells fine... but to everyone else they are gagging. So I understand the issue- but I politely move away or avoid them. Or I stand upwind. It also means for my own personal use- I ONLY apply body spray the EXACT same way every time even though I've been wearing it for years- I can't smell it any more except when I just put it on- but I have had people walk up and tell me how good I smell later. I stick to the same 2 sprays- and for actual perfume- wrist- bra line and a dash behind the ears. That's it.0 -
okay, so let's say I doll myself up to go to the gym, wear loads of perfume and cute gym clothes,
1- how is it affecting you other than setting your asthma off which can be easily treated with an inhaler which you should have with you anyway. if you don't that makes it your fault.
2-Me wearing make-up and cute clothes doesn't affect you either, if anything it's gonna make me work harder because I'll know there are people looking at me (Either pathetic judgmental people or people who like what they see) and therefore, I'll work harder.
3- Even if the only reason I'm at the gym is to look cute and get laid, why should you care? you're there to work your *kitten* off and cute guys are just a distraction so you should be thanking me for removing them!
so as you can see, wearing make-up and cute clothes and perfume is beneficial to you in the long run...:flowerforyou:0 -
Perfume was meant to be worn so that it could only be smelled within a foot or so of the person wearing it, so as to draw in the person you are talking to. As in a man that is interested in you. Not so everyone in the room has no choice but to smell it. The art of perfume wearing is mostly gone.0
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I hate when people look prettier, and smell better than me at the gym...0
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I wonder why if a girl wears perfume/makeup, that it's anyone's business.
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Stay home or bring an extra puffer. The world will not conform to your needs.Its very irritating to people like me with asthma, and it doesn't make you smell any better when it mixes with your sweat.
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Normally I don't notice perfume scents all that much, but the other day a gentleman came in doused in cologne. It was like he drank it and it was oozing from his pores. Really, really strong. So strong that it permeated the whole gym. That was a bit excessive and not needed. To be honest I think he was there trolling for women. :-/ Today on the other hand, there was a portion of the gym that smelled like maple syrup and pancakes. Now that was just wrong. Wrong I tell you!! Spent my entire spin class with visions of huge stacks of buttery pancakes!! Think I might have me some breakfast... ;-)0
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Perfume was meant to be worn so that it could only be smelled within a foot or so of the person wearing it, so as to draw in the person you are talking to. As in a man that is interested in you. Not so everyone in the room has no choice but to smell it. The art of perfume wearing is mostly gone.
AGREED!
Gosh, what about just plain common courtesy. Have people forgotten THAT? I don't expect anyone to cater to me, but come on people...
I wouldn't go so far as to "banning" someone... but have a little common sense to NOT bathe in french *kitten*-smelling perfume. Not just at the gym, but ANY time. It just doesn't smell good.0 -
I have just left the vicinity of the douser in the past. No big deal for me. They will eventually learn to not douse it on prior to a workout.0
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is this real life?0
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is this real life?
is this just fantasy?0 -
is this real life?
is this just fantasy?
Is this The Matrix?0 -
Hehe, a few of my neurons just died a slow, painful death.0
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Perfume was meant to be worn so that it could only be smelled within a foot or so of the person wearing it, so as to draw in the person you are talking to. As in a man that is interested in you. Not so everyone in the room has no choice but to smell it. The art of perfume wearing is mostly gone.
AGREED!
Gosh, what about just plain common courtesy. Have people forgotten THAT? I don't expect anyone to cater to me, but come on people...
I wouldn't go so far as to "banning" someone... but have a little common sense to NOT bathe in french *kitten*-smelling perfume. Not just at the gym, but ANY time. It just doesn't smell good.
Too bad this is not the reason prefume was implemented in Western Civ. During the Renaissance period, perfumes were used primarily by royalty and the wealthy to mask body odors resulting from the sanitary practices of the day. Basicly, its used to mask the other people so you don't have to smell them, ideal for the gym.
Now, some one put on their good awful smelling perfume near the drinking fountain, and then left the gym, leaving a cloud of grossness. I couldn't get a drink for 20 minutes with out having to puke.0 -
Thank you. For those of you who are protesting this idea, there are some scent-free workplaces. Do you complain about schools that implement peanut-free lunch rules? No? Because you don't think it's OK for kids to have to worry about going to the hospital after lunch break?
Yes, I try to balance my horrendously-bad allergies with other people's freedom to smell however they want, but when you're dousing yourself in perfume after your workout in our small locker room, then you're just a d-bag.
perfume haters vs anaphylactic shock from eating peanuts. Get over yourself.
Oh, I bet the detergent aisle at the grocery store is deadly
actually, it can be, I have severe asthma and If I am already having a bad breathing day I can NOT go down the detergent aisle at the store without setting off an attack, which CAN kill someone...you don't realize how bad asthma is until you have it. That being said, when I am working out if someone comes next to me that starts to set it off, I move....and if they ask why I tell them0 -
It makes my allergies go haywire. I won't even let the janitor use his cleaning spray around me. It's that bad!0
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I guess it would annoy me if it was overpowering but I can't say I've ever smelt anything so bad it's bothered me... Hey maybe I'm just too focused on my workout to notice! :happy:0
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is this real life?
is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide0 -
is this real life?
is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality.0
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