showering at the gym?

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Anonymous wrote:Can I ask a silly question about shower shoes? What do you do with them when you're done? I mean, they're all wet... and presumably, they have all the germs/fungus on them that you're trying to avoid.... Do you wipe them off? Put them in your gym bag? What?

I've always just gone barefoot... never had a problem (yet). But I really am curious as to how shower shoes really help unless you're throwing them out every day...

I'm the PP who got super cheap flip flops from Target. They are a foam material and don't really hold onto much water. I let them sit out while I'm getting ready and they're pretty dry by the time I'm done. My gym bag has outer pockets so I put them in there and that lets them air out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I shower at the gym (wear shoes), but does anyone remember the post on DCUM where someone said that they peed in the gym shower? UGH. So nasty. I hope the poster was a guy...

weren't you the one saying urine is sterile?

Uhh, no.

Knowing someone had peed in the gym shower doesn't trouble me. I am wearing shower shoes, for one. Plus, it's a shower. There's hot water and soap running down the tile constantly. I don't know what kind of radioactive super-cling pee you've experienced, but I suspect that's more than enough to wash away whatever cooties you're afraid of.

As others have mentioned, athlete's foot is a far more common concern in a gym locker room.

[Anonymous]

what i do with my flip-flops after the shower: when I work out, I wear a t-shirt over my sports bra while I'm lifting and then take it off when I'm actually doing cardio. So the t-shirt doesn't get very sweaty. When I'm done showering, I wrap my flip-flops in my t-shirt, which dries them off and keeps them from getting moldy. Every couple weeks I throw them in the wash with my towels.