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EWWWW

Swissmiss
Swissmiss Posts: 8,754 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Not sure which forum to put this. It definately isn't fun or games. I have noticed some very gross things going on at the gym. Worse I have witness is a man lieing on a towel,completely sweat drenched, then he takes same towel and wipes down the machine he was using. Does he really think that he is cleaning the machine? What have you seen that really is gross?

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  • Aleluya17
    Aleluya17 Posts: 205 Member
    I am so lucky the gym I go to has those wipes you can sanitize the equipment with. Sure they are suppose to be to clean the machines when you are done but I break those bad boys out before I touch the machines!
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Not sure which forum to put this. It definately isn't fun or games. I have noticed some very gross things going on at the gym. Worse I have witness is a man lieing on a towel,completely sweat drenched, then he takes same towel and wipes down the machine he was using. Does he really think that he is cleaning the machine? What have you seen that really is gross?

    Now you know why I work out at home.........
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    It's a gym... sweat happens. There are millions of people who go through those gyms a day that sweat on things and don't wipe it down.. so no matter how much sanitizing you do or wiping down you do, it will never be clean.

    I more care about if people re-rack their weights or not... because I absolutely hate cleaning up after some meathead who decided that he can lift 500 pounds but can't be bothered to take the plates off.
  • babyblue1333
    babyblue1333 Posts: 8 Member
    AGREE!!
  • Determinednoob
    Determinednoob Posts: 2,001 Member
    My gym actually has two spots with the motion sensor paper towel dispensers hanging on the wall with trash cans next to them and a bottle of some unlabeled spray cleaner sitting on top of the trash cans.
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    It's a gym... sweat happens. There are millions of people who go through those gyms a day that sweat on things and don't wipe it down.. so no matter how much sanitizing you do or wiping down you do, it will never be clean.

    I more care about if people re-rack their weights or not... because I absolutely hate cleaning up after some meathead who decided that he can lift 500 pounds but can't be bothered to take the plates off.



    My gym that I was a member at for about 6 years closed, so I had to switch to SNAP. I'm usually one of the first ones in the place in the morning and need to off load pretty much at least once a week. At my old gym, that was more of a "real" gym, I might have had to offload 5-10 times.

    Annoying as hell.
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