Just curious..gym question

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  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    I think, "Man, they're working hard! Good for them." Unless they're flinging it on me while they work out (which has happened); that involves an entirely different set of thoughts...
  • mumof5
    mumof5 Posts: 328 Member
    I honestly don't notice, i'm not there to perve, im there to make my own sweat. :)
  • kingofcrunk
    kingofcrunk Posts: 372 Member
    There is a man I sometimes see at my gym who sweats SO MUCH. I always look at him and think wow he sweats alot. But not in a horrible way. Just an observation. Everyone is sweating all over the place at the gym!!
  • fimary
    fimary Posts: 274 Member
    I think "man, I wish I could sweat that much from my workout!!"


    I always think the same, I hardly sweat and worry that i am not doing enough.
  • i LOVE seeing other people sweaty in my gym - usually me and my boyfriend are the only 2 who aren't just sitting on the machines texting/sitting on the bikes reading!

    ETA: only noticing the people because they're usually on the piece of equipment i need just sitting there, and don't respond when i ask how many sets they have left :(
  • Hendrix7
    Hendrix7 Posts: 1,903 Member
    Depends who it is.........there is one particular lady who attends my gym of which I think "hnnnnnnnng I would like to lick that off you".
  • Mamoonie
    Mamoonie Posts: 328
    WOW! He's working out great!

    I too sweat a lot, but usually don't drip, my clothes change colour though ;-)
    I say to myself: "whoever looks at me and thinks it's disgusting, had better work out some more. After all I worked out as much, that you can see that I did something! "
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    I sweat, but not a ton.

    Like yesterday I ran for 25 minutes on a track, and cooled down for 5 by walking... and my shirt was damp under the arms, and my face was red but that was the extent of my sweating.
  • lornaloo3
    lornaloo3 Posts: 102
    Mostly pleased for you and a little bit hoping you wipe down your machine thoroughly after. I can't tell you how skeevy it is to be next to someone who is literally dripped sweat on the controls and then walks away without cleaning the machine. At my gym we have people who come around a few times a day and wipe all the machines so it's not REQUIRED that you wipe down your machine, but if you're sweating like that it's just common courtesy in my opinon. I wipe down cardio equipment no matter what.

    My gym has more than one of those people who workout in like space suits to sweat more. I get super concerned for one of them. Dude in a silver suit who routinely turns puce. I wish they'd stop letting people wear those things at the gym. They regulate jeans, but I don't care if some little old man comes in to the gym in his jeans and pedals on the stationary for twenty minutes... the space suits though those legitimately alarm me... I don't even see the purpose -- because it's not like they're weighing in somewhere. They wear this stuff every time they come, three days a week.
  • I'm much more self-conscious about how red my face gets than how much sweat I drip. My husband barely sweats at all and I will be dripping, no fair! So I don't judge people one way or the other based upon how sweaty they are, but rather on how hard they seem to be working.

    And I have never seen anyone in a silver space suit at the gym.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I have been wondering...when you see someone at the gym who is covered in sweat, what do you think? I will admit that I sweat quite a bit and am always pretty paranoid about it. I definitely push myself no matter what I am doing and my sweat can prove it! I have just always wondered what people thought when they see that. Silly and stupid, I know! lol
    I think, well, nothing. It's the gym. It's one of the few places where people are supposed to sweat.
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,641 Member
    I think "man, I wish I could sweat that much from my workout!!"


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  • I swear but not a huge amount - instead I get a classic case of tomato face - I am vermillion after I finish exercising

    And it takes a while to go away as well
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    If its a girl... I think "kick *kitten* she just had a good workout" if its a boy i think "meathead" LMAO

    Wait, what??
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    I think "oh crap, now I have to climb up on the roof and check the air conditioner again. "
  • kit_katty
    kit_katty Posts: 992 Member
    I swear but not a huge amount - instead I get a classic case of tomato face - I am vermillion after I finish exercising

    And it takes a while to go away as well

    I'm the same way! Especially running, especially in the summer. I'm a freaking tomato an hour later. Sigh.
  • Hirgy03
    Hirgy03 Posts: 332 Member
    Maybe its just the old wrestler in me, but if I'm not drenched in sweat at the end of a workout, I feel like I've let myself down. I even put my hood up on my sweatshirt when I'm on the treadmill to help me get the sweat running. I also make sure to hydrate the heck out of myself before, during and after a workout.

    Like many ahead have already said, if I see somebody drenched in sweat, I'm thinking to myself "I gotta work that hard today too". I also make sure to wipe down the equipment I've used, whether I was sweating on that particular machine or not....that includes the handles on things. So many people just wipe down the bench part of a piece of equipment, but after watching people wipe their noses, cough into their hands and wipe sweat away from their foreheads, ..... ugghhhhh, please wipe down the part of the machine you were gripping with your hands as well.
  • caseythirteen
    caseythirteen Posts: 956 Member
    I just think more power to 'em! It's motivation to keep working hard for sure.
  • grantsmommy
    grantsmommy Posts: 29 Member
    Don't ever care. Except this girl today was wearing light gray pants and she had the worse swass I've seen...right up the crack and that was it. Do yourself a favor - no light colored work out pants!

    lmao!!!
  • AMYJK7110
    AMYJK7110 Posts: 126 Member
    I'm thinking: Hmmm what should I eat for dinner tonight?.....oh! don't forget to pack the boys' school lunches! Crap! Forget we don't have any bread in the house, so I'll have to stop by the store on my way home......Ohhhh, I really like this song (turns up ipod) sing a few lines....bop my head to the beat.....smile at people, do the head nod.....
    So, pretty much nothing about them or their sweatiness. LOL