Just curious..gym question

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...

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!!

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

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! "

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 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.

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 think "oh crap, now I have to climb up on the roof and check the air conditioner again. "

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.