Smelly guy at the gym

Mummyadams
Mummyadams Posts: 1,125 Member
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Ok - so I go to the gym at 5.30am before work - it's a 24 hr gym and there are no staff there until 8.30am.

There is a young guy there that smells so bad of BO!! I can usually put my ear phones on and zone people out but the smell is so extreme that I cannot work out near him - which sux as we both weight train. It is seriously over powering and the area is not large enough for me to get away from it.

I know its not just me because I have seen many others sniff, search and avoid.

If it was me I would be fine about someone pulling me aside to whisper in my ear to re-iterate the use of deoderant but I'm not sure if I should approach him.

I'm no princess and I get that people sweat and all that - but this guy is just horrendous.

What would you do?
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  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
    i would talk to staff and have them talk to him about his hygiene
  • NormInv
    NormInv Posts: 3,303 Member
    Ask him out on a date....make him your pretend boyfriend......then give him deodorant for a gift....then say, its not you its me,
  • MistieWalters
    MistieWalters Posts: 44
    Perhaps ask him nicely if he also smells an overly strong odor and if he knew where it was coming from? Play it off be like "It isn't me is it??" :) Thats what I do.
  • Brownsbacker4evr
    Brownsbacker4evr Posts: 365 Member
    You can see how much I sweat from my profile picture. This is a very common occurrence for me too. I don't get how dudes forget to apply deodorant before they go.

    I will speak in defense that is isn't only men. I've smelt some women who really should've washed up before coming to the gym too.

    But whenever I am in the situation where someone has BO, I just try to keep my distance and avoid it.
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    I'd just wink and say, you know girls like it when you shower.
  • gonnamakeanewaccount
    gonnamakeanewaccount Posts: 642 Member
    You can either grow a pair and tell him how you feel, or you can grow up and deal with it.
  • NormInv
    NormInv Posts: 3,303 Member
    We had a guy at work at this investment consulting shop, and he smelled so bad it was impossible to smell so bad; then they put him and the prettiest woman at work in the same office. It was so excruciating to walk past their door every day.
  • Mummyadams
    Mummyadams Posts: 1,125 Member
    You can either grow a pair and tell him how you feel, or you can grow up and deal with it.
    Honey - your missing the point of this post.
  • NormInv
    NormInv Posts: 3,303 Member
    Do you have $10 to spare? Make a T shirt that says, Say No to BO, or BO Kills puppies, or Four More Years of BO - End of US!

    Then go and stand in front of him with heavy weights.
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    Ewww lol...I don't know what I'd do haha but this made me laugh reading it lol
  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
    Perhaps ask him nicely if he also smells an overly strong odor and if he knew where it was coming from? Play it off be like "It isn't me is it??" :) Thats what I do.

    this. is. so. smart!
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    This could be a medical condition.
    Ppl can have surgery to remove their sweat glands actually.
  • NormInv
    NormInv Posts: 3,303 Member
    This could be a medical condition.
    Ppl can have surgery to remove their sweat glands actually.

    people with medical conditions need to avoid the gym babes
  • Scottmcteare
    Scottmcteare Posts: 34
    Just tell him, hand him a spray bottle of deodorant and say "you sink" spray this on NOW!! smelly man.
  • koko12
    koko12 Posts: 81 Member
    probably call when the staff is in and let them know. otherwise youre gonna have to tell him
  • knittingwitch
    knittingwitch Posts: 231 Member
    definitely talk to staff, why should you have to be the bad guy when other people are getting bothered as well, plus if he smells that bad and is touching all the weights he's probably not cleaning his hands or the equipment after and before using it. So really he is a health hazard.
  • knittingwitch
    knittingwitch Posts: 231 Member
    Perhaps ask him nicely if he also smells an overly strong odor and if he knew where it was coming from? Play it off be like "It isn't me is it??" :) Thats what I do.

    What if his breath smell worse or he thinks she is kidding around with him as a way to flirt. :P
  • anemoneprose
    anemoneprose Posts: 1,805 Member
    Is this a budget-friendly gym, like a community centre or the YMCA? Maybe he doesn't have easy or regular access to laundry facilities, or even a shower. Happens.. (obviously he has the shower there, ok. but i'll bet he's wearing the same clothes all the time, something like that.)
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    Perhaps ask him nicely if he also smells an overly strong odor and if he knew where it was coming from? Play it off be like "It isn't me is it??" :) Thats what I do.

    That is actually a very diplomatic suggestion.
  • 1ConcreteGirl
    1ConcreteGirl Posts: 3,677 Member
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  • Lifting_Knitter
    Lifting_Knitter Posts: 1,025
    I worked with someone who had terrible BO. I mean terrible and it was actually caused by a medical condition he had. It was a big issue at work and caused a lot of problems.

    I would talk to someone at the gym and express your concerns about it.
  • MistieWalters
    MistieWalters Posts: 44
    Perhaps ask him nicely if he also smells an overly strong odor and if he knew where it was coming from? Play it off be like "It isn't me is it??" :) Thats what I do.

    What if his breath smell worse or he thinks she is kidding around with him as a way to flirt. :P


    Then make sure to say it in a paranoid, OH MY GOD kind of tone so there is no flirting misunderstandings lolol
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,992 Member
    Tough one sometimes. You could always fart and drive him away.

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  • SerenaFisher
    SerenaFisher Posts: 2,170 Member
    If its exceptionally awful I word say it to his face, standing around saying "omgz it stinks!" Is cruel. Going to the gym and complaining seems cowardly and cruel when you could approach the person and let then know. Then if they continue to stink and get offenses with you pointing it out go to the gym. But that's me, not everyone is as sensitive as I am ;)
  • eeeekie
    eeeekie Posts: 1,011 Member
    This could be a medical condition.
    Ppl can have surgery to remove their sweat glands actually.

    people with medical conditions need to avoid the gym babes

    Did you really just say that?
  • JUDDDing
    JUDDDing Posts: 1,367 Member
    Pretty much every gym has spray bottles of disinfectant.

    Next time he's benching - sneak attack!
  • aquinoz
    aquinoz Posts: 182 Member
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  • usmc01462
    usmc01462 Posts: 1,944 Member
    Talk to staff at the gym..Thats what they are there for...Worst thing i have seen was a lady in front of me doing lat pulldowns with hairy armpits..freaking longer than mine...I just busted out laughing after yelling WTF
  • healthyandfitgirl14
    healthyandfitgirl14 Posts: 413 Member
    just go up to him and be like "boy you stank!"
  • kdeaux1959
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    This is what I tell my students before our first couple of bus trips each year... putting body spray on over body odor is just adding stank to stank... Please shower before you get on our bus... Yup, I really DO go there... Does seem to help.

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