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post 1662181643 06-01-2022, 07:22 AM
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Do you wipe down the equipment after you use it at the gym?

It has recently been made aware to me that common courtesy is to at least wipe down the seats after you finish. I am a big sweater, i leave a big fat sweat bum print when i finish and i never wipe things down. To be honest, i've never seen anyone wipe things down apart from that clown covid time.

So do you wipe?
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post 1662181763 06-01-2022, 07:26 AM
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I only really care about parts people would sweat on like the pad on the bench press but I wipe off before and after.
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post 1662181773 06-01-2022, 07:26 AM
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I've always wiped down equipment...Treat others how you want to be treated. I don't want to sit in anyone else's sweat, so I make sure they don't sit in mine.
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post 1662181813 06-01-2022, 07:26 AM
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Hardly ever. Unless a hot girl is next to me. Then I might do a quick wipe down.
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nah man, I usually spit on the seat too, especially if I haven't started sweating yet. Gotta mark my territory.
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post 1662181883 06-01-2022, 07:28 AM
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I hate when hot girls wipe
post 1662192663 06-01-2022, 11:19 AM
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Usually depends on the gym. I train at a higher class facility now, so I will wipe down machines. It helps that they have wipe dispensers everywhere so you don't need to grab a spray bottle/paper towel.

Been to some gyms where you'd get laughed at for wiping machines down as well..... just a matter of environment.
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Always.

It's proper hygiene.
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post 1662192773 06-01-2022, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted By JUGGERNAUT1333⏩
Usually depends on the gym. I train at a higher class facility now, so I will wipe down machines. It helps that they have wipe dispensers everywhere so you don't need to grab a spray bottle/paper towel.

Been to some gyms where you'd get laughed at for wiping machines down as well..... just a matter of environment.
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post 1662192803 06-01-2022, 11:21 AM
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Nope. Often scratch my sweaty dink and ballsack in between sets too. Enjoy clean freaks
post 1662192863 06-01-2022, 11:22 AM
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I don't train hard enough to sweat so no need.
post 1662193253 06-01-2022, 11:29 AM
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No cause If you want the bench to be clean, clean it yourself before you use it
post 1662193403 06-01-2022, 11:32 AM
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everybody has to bring a towel thats basic chit.. i dont clean the handles or bars after i use them, only before. theres cleanex and paper stations in the gym everywhere now since coofidhoax started.. wasnt before
post 1662193653 06-01-2022, 11:35 AM
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Honestly no, unless I am sweating extensively, which usually doesn't happen on the bench as I start out with it. Almost never sit on other equipment. I do lay a towel down where my head goes. Assuming everyone's wearing clothes and washes their hands before and after, I don't see the need beyond this honestly, and don't care that others don't either.
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I recall it being common courtesy in a public gym for you to wipe your gross sweat off a machine. I never really had that issue as I carried around a towel, as did other members. I believe it was a gym requirement. I train in my own gym now and have been doing so for nearly 4 years and I still have a towel on my bench. The other day, I swept in there for the first time in 2 years (srs). Should have seem the piles of dust/rust/chalk. When I'd slam my 45 pound plates on the floor, a sea of dust would cloud up. A real brutal dungeon gym.
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Originally Posted By Unstumpable⏩
Hardly ever. Unless a hot girl is next to me. Then I might do a quick wipe down.
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Only the leg press and preacher curl. Sometimes bench if it's later in my workout when I'm more wet (no homo)

Pretty much unavoidable smearing sweat all over those
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cuz I sweat, yeah

I notice ppl go and dont even break a sweat..
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Always use a towel on the bench, do not want my head touching that nasty chit
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Nah sry but thats for people who never played teamsports srs

Wipe it yourself if you are afraid of germs or dont go to the gym
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I usually only wipe it down before, not after. I don't sweat that much and if I do I will usually wipe it down if I know someone is itching to use it after me

Otherwise it's really on them if they want it cleaned
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Originally Posted By Eterniity⏩
It has recently been made aware to me that common courtesy is to at least wipe down the seats after you finish. I am a big sweater, i leave a big fat sweat bum print when i finish and i never wipe things down. To be honest, i've never seen anyone wipe things down apart from that clown covid time.

So do you wipe?
Before Covid there were skin diseases like MRSA( LOOK IT UP) so we wiped down just in case...... as mrsa was very hard to get rid of.
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Only if I am sweating all over it.
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Originally Posted By x-trainer
Before Covid there were skin diseases like MRSA( LOOK IT UP) so we wiped down just in case...... as mrsa was very hard to get rid of.
Who tf is casually catching mrsa at the gym?
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Sometimes i even wipe down equipment before i use it
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