Comments on: Smelly Gym, Smelly Gym

By: Faith

Faith — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:20:37 +0000

The gym near my house is a smelly gym. When I first started going there, I couldn’t stand it, and started going to another one farther away instead. After a year of that, I was forced to go there (read: got lazy) and the smell seemed to have cleared up. (It’s a sewage type smell over in the free weight area…awful, just terrible.) Apparently they put in huge fans that they run overnight that help air things out during the day. Usually, it’s fine at about 6 or 7 in the a.m. until the evening rush…then it starts to stink up again. But not nearly as bad as it was before they installed those big fans.

Net/net, I’m there for a max of an hour and a half. I can deal with it if I must…

By: meesha.v

meesha.v — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:23:15 +0000

my gym doesn’t smell, I wouldn’t be going there if it did.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:58:22 +0000

You know you’re in a really hardcore gym when there’s a smell of intestinal gas. The increase in intrabdominal pressure caused by heavy squats and deadlifts not infrequently results in emissions of said gas.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:59:36 +0000

I haven’t been in a smelly gym since I went to the YMCA 15 years ago. I thin they have made leaps and bounds in cleanliness every other place I have been. Looks like there are still places out there that could use help.

By: Wookieluv

Wookieluv — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:34:04 +0000

LOL

By: Nuke

Nuke — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:06:18 +0000

When I go to the Y it is mostly to swim. But you still have to wade thru some funk sometimes.

My biggest complaint tho is not the smell but old balls. Why the hell do some men, usually the older crowd, like to wander the locker room with their 3 foot sack hanging out while they talk to everybody (or at least talk to me). I understand that you cant exactly throw them under the hand dryer, but for gods sake pat them off and put your drawers on!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:54:13 +0000

Why on earth would you expect a place filled with sweaty people to smell relatively nice?

The only thing that saves most gyms is that the smell of the rubber floor mats usually does a decent job at negating the stench of people sweat.

As a general rule, I go to my happy place when I walk through my gym’s front door.

By: misty

misty — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:40:59 +0000

Haha, Smelly Cat. I loved Phoebe.

Anyway… I can’t handle the gym smell either. I have to work out at home. Maybe if you buy one of those car air fresheners that you hang off of your mirror, you could hang it around your neck. Or better yet, the smelly people’s neck…

Yeah, I know, not a good idea. I’m a little ill today. Sorry.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:01:30 +0000

I’m sayin man, i hit it in the morning & that’s when the first ‘stinky guy’ shows up.

By: Mark West

Mark West — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:40:54 +0000

Be a man and suck it up. Or just go work out earlier.