Big No..No at the Gym!!

nikii14
nikii14 Posts: 403 Member
edited September 19 in Fitness and Exercise
Ok......why oh why do people wear perfume or cologne to the gym?? Im not talking a little spritz here. I honestly think that these people marinate in it...WOW!!!

I think I'd rather smell someone's body odor...REALLY!!:grumble:


Save a Life....Don't Marinate :laugh:
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  • nikii14
    nikii14 Posts: 403 Member
    Ok......why oh why do people wear perfume or cologne to the gym?? Im not talking a little spritz here. I honestly think that these people marinate in it...WOW!!!

    I think I'd rather smell someone's body odor...REALLY!!:grumble:


    Save a Life....Don't Marinate :laugh:
  • kerrilucko
    kerrilucko Posts: 3,852 Member
    I don't know but you should mention it to the gym employees. Usually you're not ALLOWED to wear strong smelling colognes in places liek that because a lot of others have allergies. perhaps they could put up "please do not..." signs in the changerooms. I hear ya though, strong perfumes give me migraines :angry:
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    Ok......why oh why do people wear perfume or cologne to the gym?? Im not talking a little spritz here. I honestly think that these people marinate in it...WOW!!!

    I think I'd rather smell someone's body odor...REALLY!!:grumble:


    Save a Life....Don't Marinate :laugh:

    LOL
    laugh it off and be glad it aint you:laugh:
  • johnblake
    johnblake Posts: 661
    I have to laugh when I smell peoplelike that sometimes I start sniffing in the air like something stinks can we talk about wearing spandex that should not be in spandex
  • kristinlough
    kristinlough Posts: 828 Member
    I'm with you ... I would LOVE for the body odor instead of the perfumes and colognes. They almost always end my workout. I have those sensitivities, so it's migraines, nausea, and all over ickiness for the rest of the day when I work out next to those guys ... to me, they're even worse than smokers. :grumble: :noway: :grumble:
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    Ugh! That gets to me too because heavy perfume will trigger migraines for me.

    Another one is I keep getting behind this woman (I'll call her black/seafoam green spandex), and she is on the machine in front of me and always seems to pass gas! :sick:
  • hibbler22
    hibbler22 Posts: 339 Member
    I hate when they do that, and when they wear makeup!:grumble:
  • johnblake
    johnblake Posts: 661
    Ugh! That gets to me too because heavy perfume will trigger migraines for me.

    Another one is I keep getting behind this woman (I'll call her black/seafoam green spandex), and she is on the machine in front of me and always seems to pass gas! :sick:

    sorry :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
    that is funny
  • CoachFoland
    CoachFoland Posts: 564 Member
    Ugh! That gets to me too because heavy perfume will trigger migraines for me.

    Another one is I keep getting behind this woman (I'll call her black/seafoam green spandex), and she is on the machine in front of me and always seems to pass gas! :sick:

    It's too hard to hold in a fart while on the elliptical! :tongue:
  • learning2fly4
    learning2fly4 Posts: 303 Member
    That is bad, especially when they honestly dont think its a problem.

    At my gym, the worst offenders are the folks that chomp on gum with their mouths open gross! :sick:
    They dont even notice they are doing it because they have their ipods up so loud...:laugh:
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    Ugh! That gets to me too because heavy perfume will trigger migraines for me.

    Another one is I keep getting behind this woman (I'll call her black/seafoam green spandex), and she is on the machine in front of me and always seems to pass gas! :sick:

    It's too hard to hold in a fart while on the elliptical! :tongue:

    it is unhealthy and dangerous to hold on to farts

    LET EM RIP!
  • johnblake
    johnblake Posts: 661
    where more perfume then that gas won't be so bad..............O wait
  • nikii14
    nikii14 Posts: 403 Member
    How about people who sing while working out?? I don't think they realize how loud they are because they are listening to their ipod.

    Kinda funny!!:laugh: but also annoying:grumble:
  • nikii14
    nikii14 Posts: 403 Member
    One more....

    I think EVERY gym has that ONE person who goes just to socialize.
    There is this one guy. EVER time I see him, he's all decked out in his "workout clothes" but I have NEVER seen him actually workout. I thought maybe he worked there, but NOPE...LOL

    He constantly goes up to people and talk to them (at least for the hour that I am there)
    And YES...He has come up to me. Asked me what I was watching on TV, told me he is a dentist (Yeah, Right)
  • 72lori
    72lori Posts: 6,796 Member
    I'm with you on the perfume. I HATE it. It really bothers me. I'm a smell freak. I don't like many smells, don't wear perfume myself, dont'tburn candles,etc, so when I'm working out and trying to breath right and all I can smell is some flowery funk I want to die! Plus, it gives me a headache too.
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
    Ugh! That gets to me too because heavy perfume will trigger migraines for me.

    Another one is I keep getting behind this woman (I'll call her black/seafoam green spandex), and she is on the machine in front of me and always seems to pass gas! :sick:


    Ugh, that's the worst. When I went to the gym there were always that same like 4 annoying people and I had names for them too, like breathes loud lady. She breathed like a lady doing lamaze....but not just while working out, while in the lockerroom too!
  • johnblake
    johnblake Posts: 661
    One more....

    I think EVERY gym has that ONE person who goes just to socialize.
    There is this one guy. EVER time I see him, he's all decked out in his "workout clothes" but I have NEVER seen him actually workout. I thought maybe he worked there, but NOPE...LOL

    He constantly goes up to people and talk to them (at least for the hour that I am there)
    And YES...He has come up to me. Asked me what I was watching on TV, told me he is a dentist (Yeah, Right)

    hay what you doin? Do you come to the gym often? really how your workouts :laugh: :laugh:

    I use to have a guy come talk to me every workout it pis*edme off so the last time he walked up to me I walked away
  • mrsyac2
    mrsyac2 Posts: 2,784 Member
    I rather smell perfume/cologne rather than nasty body odor- Last night I was at the gym hopped on the elliptical and started my cardio I started smelling something but didn't think nothing of it- then it started getting stronger and stronger- so I started to wonder is it me so I smelled myself and it wasnt me but then I looked to the right of me and the smell got stronger it was the lady next to me and WOW :noway: - I believe the stench was coming from her hair and it got stronger as she sweat more I wanted to puke :sick: - I couldn't get off the elliptical because I was already half way into my workout plus all the other machines were taken it was brutal-- lol..
  • 72lori
    72lori Posts: 6,796 Member
    I hate when they do that, and when they wear makeup!:grumble:

    Does it count if I only wear eyeliner and mascara? Ok, yes it's a little weird, but people ask me if I'm sick or tired if I don't. Nothing like a boost to the self esteem!
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    I hate when they do that, and when they wear makeup!:grumble:

    Does it count if I only wear eyeliner and mascara? Ok, yes it's a little weird, but people ask me if I'm sick or tired if I don't. Nothing like a boost to the self esteem!

    wear whatever will get your booty in the gym
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    I usually have my makeup on from earlier in the day. But it doesn't last long once I start up! :laugh: My mascara tends to run down my face with the sweat.

    My pet peeve is people smoking on campus while I'm trying to jog! Perfume is bad enough, but breathing someone else's cigarette smoke is brutal!:sick:
  • mrsyac2
    mrsyac2 Posts: 2,784 Member
    I hate seeing girls with long hair at the gym and it not be put up- I know looking at them that they aren't gonna have a serious workout with their hair down and I am right- I just want to say stop coming here to try and look cute nobody cares and you look stupid and if your not going to workout get the hell off the machine-- :tongue:
  • 72lori
    72lori Posts: 6,796 Member
    I did have a bad experience with and older lady smelling like urnine/nursing home one day. Unpleasant!
  • johnblake
    johnblake Posts: 661
    I hate when they do that, and when they wear makeup!:grumble:

    Does it count if I only wear eyeliner and mascara? Ok, yes it's a little weird, but people ask me if I'm sick or tired if I don't. Nothing like a boost to the self esteem!

    there is a lot of fun right there, tell them you 6 months to live or not I'm not sick I just need some more heroin :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • 72lori
    72lori Posts: 6,796 Member
    I hate when they do that, and when they wear makeup!:grumble:

    Does it count if I only wear eyeliner and mascara? Ok, yes it's a little weird, but people ask me if I'm sick or tired if I don't. Nothing like a boost to the self esteem!

    there is a lot of fun right there, tell them you 6 months to live or not I'm not sick I just need some more heroin :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    LOL. Ignore the dark circles dude.. just need a fix... good one!
  • johnblake
    johnblake Posts: 661
    I hate when they do that, and when they wear makeup!:grumble:

    Does it count if I only wear eyeliner and mascara? Ok, yes it's a little weird, but people ask me if I'm sick or tired if I don't. Nothing like a boost to the self esteem!

    there is a lot of fun right there, tell them you 6 months to live or not I'm not sick I just need some more heroin :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    LOL. Ignore the dark circles dude.. just need a fix... good one!

    O how about .............I not sure the doc said he ran every test but he/she is sure it's not contagist then sneeze
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    I hate seeing girls with long hair at the gym and it not be put up- I know looking at them that they aren't gonna have a serious workout with their hair down and I am right- I just want to say stop coming here to try and look cute nobody cares and you look stupid and if your not going to workout get the hell off the machine-- :tongue:

    UGH I HATE it when I need a machine because it's super cold or pouring rain outside, and there are a bunch of idiots on them going at 1 RPM and no resistance leisurely reading a magazine! :angry: They're just in my way. The other day I scared two girls off the hyperextension machine. I walked away (I'm talking 10 feet) for a SECOND to get another weight, and I even left a weight on the pads and they took at and started to use it! With terrible form! I walked back over and said "Oh, my weight, thanks," and took it from the girl who was holding it. :devil:
  • 72lori
    72lori Posts: 6,796 Member
    I hate seeing girls with long hair at the gym and it not be put up- I know looking at them that they aren't gonna have a serious workout with their hair down and I am right- I just want to say stop coming here to try and look cute nobody cares and you look stupid and if your not going to workout get the hell off the machine-- :tongue:

    UGH I HATE it when I need a machine because it's super cold or pouring rain outside, and there are a bunch of idiots on them going at 1 RPM and no resistance leisurely reading a magazine! :angry: They're just in my way. The other day I scared two girls off the hyperextension machine. I walked away (I'm talking 10 feet) for a SECOND to get another weight, and I even left a weight on the pads and they took at and started to use it! With terrible form! I walked back over and said "Oh, my weight, thanks," and took it from the girl who was holding it. :devil:

    I don't get how people read on any machine. First off I would get sick, secondly, how can you really be working out?

    The hair. Mine isn't even that long and if I don't attempt to pull it up it is soaked and if I shook it would be like a wet dog! I was stupid enough to find that out the hard way last week.

    I hate fighting for space at the gym. I go early and spend my time in 'manland' (what I call the free weights since I usually am the only one of my type there) to avoid the magazine reading Barbie moms.
  • xbonbonx
    xbonbonx Posts: 170
    I simply don't like perfumes/cologne because I'm allergic to them, so that would bug me anywhere...

    but somewhere you're supposed to be huffing and puffing, definitely not a good idea. you breathe it in even more.

    I've noticed that a lot of young guys practically drown themselves in their cologne. it's annoying.
  • mrsyac2
    mrsyac2 Posts: 2,784 Member
    I hate seeing girls with long hair at the gym and it not be put up- I know looking at them that they aren't gonna have a serious workout with their hair down and I am right- I just want to say stop coming here to try and look cute nobody cares and you look stupid and if your not going to workout get the hell off the machine-- :tongue:

    UGH I HATE it when I need a machine because it's super cold or pouring rain outside, and there are a bunch of idiots on them going at 1 RPM and no resistance leisurely reading a magazine! :angry: They're just in my way. The other day I scared two girls off the hyperextension machine. I walked away (I'm talking 10 feet) for a SECOND to get another weight, and I even left a weight on the pads and they took at and started to use it! With terrible form! I walked back over and said "Oh, my weight, thanks," and took it from the girl who was holding it. :devil:

    I don't get how people read on any machine. First off I would get sick, secondly, how can you really be working out?

    The hair. Mine isn't even that long and if I don't attempt to pull it up it is soaked and if I shook it would be like a wet dog! I was stupid enough to find that out the hard way last week.

    I hate fighting for space at the gym. I go early and spend my time in 'manland' (what I call the free weights since I usually am the only one of my type there) to avoid the magazine reading Barbie moms.

    I call that the Man's grunt room- it is loaded with Men- I like to call it the Sweaty B*LLs room too lol my husband laughs cause as we finish cardio I say its time to go in the Sweaty B*LLs room- I dont know how people read either I would get a headache - One of my fitness mags said if you read while working out your not working out hard enough-
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