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  • jetabear10
    jetabear10 Posts: 375 Member
    NEVER EVER EVER...isn't the whole point of working out to sweat?

    Our gym is always FREEZING and I have actually asked them to make it warmer. (I have a neck injury and when I get all sweaty and then stop whatever I am doing, it causes my muscles to spasm and tense up.)

    I'll even go over and turn off the overhead fans!

    It is hard on your muscles to sweat and then cool it down with fans instead of letting your body do it naturally. Its too quick.

    (there, that's my 2 cents worth!)
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    NEVER EVER EVER...isn't the whole point of working out to sweat?

    Our gym is always FREEZING and I have actually asked them to make it warmer. (I have a neck injury and when I get all sweaty and then stop whatever I am doing, it causes my muscles to spasm and tense up.)

    I'll even go over and turn off the overhead fans!

    It is hard on your muscles to sweat and then cool it down with fans instead of letting your body do it naturally. Its too quick.

    (there, that's my 2 cents worth!)

    Agreed.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    They're usually already on because my gym has piss-poor A/C. It's always so dang hot in there. Like oppressively hot. I haven't even started working out, and I'm glistening.
  • butterflylover527
    butterflylover527 Posts: 940 Member
    I had to since my gym didn't have A/C. And I couldn't use the ones in the treadmills or bikes because apparently I'm too short and they didn't even blow on my head hahahah!!!!
  • michelejoann
    michelejoann Posts: 295 Member
    I could be walking in a chilly 65 degree day with a hoodie and yoga pants, and still need to pull off said hoodie because I get flushed and warm. I prefer to have an A/C or fan cooling down the air especially when I'm doing Zumba -- that sweat gets in my eyes and if I have a bit of mascara on from work (because I don't have the time to take my make up off completely after work!) it burns! The air helps to evaporate the sweat!
  • pittskaa
    pittskaa Posts: 319 Member
    at my gym they have central air constantly going and i would say its around 60 in there. i love it.
  • StarvingDiva
    StarvingDiva Posts: 1,107 Member
    That would be me if I went to a gym.

    I used to go to a boxing gym and when the huge industrial fan was brought out I would always choose the punching bag closest to it.
  • StarvingDiva
    StarvingDiva Posts: 1,107 Member
    I guess I don't get it. Don't you want to sweat? The best shape that I have been in, in about 10 years, was the workouts I was getting in the summer before the gym had A/C.

    I still sweat buckets with a fan and the Central air on.
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    NEVER EVER EVER...isn't the whole point of working out to sweat?

    Our gym is always FREEZING and I have actually asked them to make it warmer. (I have a neck injury and when I get all sweaty and then stop whatever I am doing, it causes my muscles to spasm and tense up.)

    I'll even go over and turn off the overhead fans!

    It is hard on your muscles to sweat and then cool it down with fans instead of letting your body do it naturally. Its too quick.

    (there, that's my 2 cents worth!)

    This is my main deal. I'm outside now, but I'm usually the first person into the gym in the winter and 20+ minutes deep in my cardio when the next person shows. I liken it to turning the A/C to 65, setting up a fan in the hallway, taking a hot shower, and then running in front of the fan and trying to keep warm.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    I guess when it's 115 degrees outside for three months straight and you can't tell the difference between outside and the gym I have a problem with it. I don't mind sweating. Actually, I love sweating when working out. I get overheated very easily and have had to cut workouts at the gym short because of it. Everyone's body reacts differently to heat and cold and the gym, like pretty much everything else, cannot please everyone all the time.
  • heytherestephy
    heytherestephy Posts: 356 Member
    I did when I was going to the Goodlife Women's gym here, they don't really have AC (just window units and they really aren't adequate).

    The YMCA has AC AND fans, but usually the AC is enough although whoever is on the bikes normally has a fan on and just the slight breeze from it is lovely :D
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    The amount of sweat on my body has nothing to do with how much of a workout I'm getting, or I'd just sit in a parked car with the windows rolled up.

    If the temp is above 50, I'm running outside in shorts and a tank top. I don't feel the temp after the first minute. If I feel chilly at a gym, I'm not working hard enough.
  • Erisad
    Erisad Posts: 1,580
    My gym is actually comfortable for me. Not too cold, not too hot. Goldilocks temperature up in here. :)
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    The amount of sweat on my body has nothing to do with how much of a workout I'm getting, or I'd just sit in a parked car with the windows rolled up.

    If the temp is above 50, I'm running outside in shorts and a tank top. I don't feel the temp after the first minute. If I feel chilly at a gym, I'm not working hard enough.

    Um, I'm cold because I'm soaked with sweat and then get a huge fan turned on me.

    I'm outside until it hits 40, then I'm done.

    I just asked the question.....everybody thinks I attacked their friggn' way of life, or tried to make a deal for their 1st born.
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    The amount of sweat on my body has nothing to do with how much of a workout I'm getting,

    No kidding.
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    i was, but it was like 90 in the gym

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