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The gym is like, the one place it’s acceptable to stink dude.

khazhoux 3y ago
No, not actually. It's a shared space, and if someone has somehow still not heard of deodorant, and/or taking a shower, and/or washing their clothes, that's not actually acceptable. I'm taking about paint-stripping, eye-watering, thriving microbial ecosystem stink here, where the air around them is warm and thick. No one should have to suffer that.
- JohnBooty 3y ago
  I agree with you. A clean person wearing clean clothing shouldn't typically have BO after an hour or two of sweating. Fresh sweat has a small, but doesn't reek. The reek comes after the bacteria have had time to grow. If somebody absolutely reeks at the gym they are doing something wrong. They are using smelly dirty gym clothes or are showing up with some nasty body odor already. I don't expect anybody to take a full shower before hitting the gym but it only takes a literal minute or two to clean the armpits and crotch with a washcloth and I would expect anybody hitting the gym to do that type of bare minimum. Personal opinion but I don't really expect people to wear deodorant at the gym. I still smell the reek, and adding ten different peoples' scented deodorants to the mix makes it worse for me. And anti-perspirant is IMO unhealthy to wear during exercise.
  - Dylan16807 3y ago
    > And anti-perspirant is IMO unhealthy to wear during exercise. Why is that? Are you worried about the pores? It's hard for me to imagine antiperspirant being so effective it would actually lead to insufficient sweat.
    - JohnBooty 3y ago
      I don't know if it reaches the point where it is unhealthy. But if you are pushing yourself hard every bit of cooling helps (overheating may be your limiting factor, maybe not) and given good air flow your armpits are probably the biggest natural air conditioners on your body. And the cooler you are the less you sweat (and therefore the less water you lose) so during sports or workouts there's no reason to hinder it, even by 1%. The coolest and most comfortable possible workout for me involves wearing a sleeveless shirt, lots of air circulation, and no anti-perspirant. As a bonus my armpits don't stink afterward either. For much the same reason that people don't reek in a sauna. Fresh sweat pouring out of your body doesn't reek. Remember, it's only stale sweat that reeks -- it's the waste products of bacteria that smell, not the sweat itself. (I most definitely do smell body odor on myself+clothing once the sweat is stale, so I'm not noseblind to myself)
      - magicalhippo 3y ago
        Reminds me of the first time I used antiperspirant. That day I had to do some physical work like moving boxes and scrubbing some shelves. My forehead was pouring sweat, like that scene from Airplane[1], and I just couldn't understand why. I mean I was used to getting sweaty but nothing like this, I had trouble seeing for all the sweat in my eyes. That's when I realized my armpits were bone dry, and made the connection to the antiperspirant. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewIUeSgPo70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewIUeSgPo70

No, not actually. It's a shared space, and if someone has somehow still not heard of deodorant, and/or taking a shower, and/or washing their clothes, that's not actually acceptable. I'm taking about paint-stripping, eye-watering, thriving microbial ecosystem stink here, where the air around them is warm and thick. No one should have to suffer that.

JohnBooty 3y ago
I agree with you. A clean person wearing clean clothing shouldn't typically have BO after an hour or two of sweating. Fresh sweat has a small, but doesn't reek. The reek comes after the bacteria have had time to grow. If somebody absolutely reeks at the gym they are doing something wrong. They are using smelly dirty gym clothes or are showing up with some nasty body odor already. I don't expect anybody to take a full shower before hitting the gym but it only takes a literal minute or two to clean the armpits and crotch with a washcloth and I would expect anybody hitting the gym to do that type of bare minimum. Personal opinion but I don't really expect people to wear deodorant at the gym. I still smell the reek, and adding ten different peoples' scented deodorants to the mix makes it worse for me. And anti-perspirant is IMO unhealthy to wear during exercise.
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  > And anti-perspirant is IMO unhealthy to wear during exercise. Why is that? Are you worried about the pores? It's hard for me to imagine antiperspirant being so effective it would actually lead to insufficient sweat.
  - JohnBooty 3y ago
    I don't know if it reaches the point where it is unhealthy. But if you are pushing yourself hard every bit of cooling helps (overheating may be your limiting factor, maybe not) and given good air flow your armpits are probably the biggest natural air conditioners on your body. And the cooler you are the less you sweat (and therefore the less water you lose) so during sports or workouts there's no reason to hinder it, even by 1%. The coolest and most comfortable possible workout for me involves wearing a sleeveless shirt, lots of air circulation, and no anti-perspirant. As a bonus my armpits don't stink afterward either. For much the same reason that people don't reek in a sauna. Fresh sweat pouring out of your body doesn't reek. Remember, it's only stale sweat that reeks -- it's the waste products of bacteria that smell, not the sweat itself. (I most definitely do smell body odor on myself+clothing once the sweat is stale, so I'm not noseblind to myself)
    - magicalhippo 3y ago
      Reminds me of the first time I used antiperspirant. That day I had to do some physical work like moving boxes and scrubbing some shelves. My forehead was pouring sweat, like that scene from Airplane[1], and I just couldn't understand why. I mean I was used to getting sweaty but nothing like this, I had trouble seeing for all the sweat in my eyes. That's when I realized my armpits were bone dry, and made the connection to the antiperspirant. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewIUeSgPo70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewIUeSgPo70