showering at the gym?

[Anonymous]

do you shower at the gym? i want to get over my slight phobia of it. tell me how great it is.

[Anonymous]

what exactly are you afraid of?

[Anonymous]

Normally I shower at home, but I will shower at the gym if I need to go someplace afterward where my sweaty gym clothes wouldn't be welcome.

I wouldn't say it's great, but my gym is very clean. I always wear shower shoes.

PP asks a good question.

[Anonymous]

germs

[Anonymous]

I almost always shower at the gym but I always wear my flip flops. I would say mine appears to be clean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:germs

You know they're using the same rag to clean both the toilet bowl and the shower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I almost always shower at the gym but I always wear my flip flops. I would say mine appears to be clean.

I workout during lunch so I have to shower before coming back to work. My gym is kept pretty clean as well, but I always wear shower shoes (flip flops are 2 for $5 at Old Navy right now). I am always shocked by the number of people I see walking around the locker room barefoot. Just continue any sanitary practices you normally would in a public place.

[Anonymous]

Definitely shower shoes! It's not my favorite place to shower but sometimes you gotta do it. Oh, and the gym shampoo & conditioner are uniformly awful - bring your own.

[Anonymous]

Are shower shoes the same thing as flip flops?

[Anonymous]

i wear flip flops and bring my own stuff what's the big deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:germs

You know they're using the same rag to clean both the toilet bowl and the shower.

Then I guess so does your maid, huh?

[Anonymous]

MRSA is an issue in gyms and hospitals- I avoid the showers (and wipe equipment before and after etc._

[Anonymous]

I like to shower at the gym b/c I don't like driving home in sweaty clothes. However, I hate hate hate when I go back to take a shower and some ahole mother has her school age boy in the women's locker room. I swear to God last weekend there was a woman who had a boy with facial hair in the women's locker room. OK, I am being facetious, but not by much. I don't want to get undressed and dressed again in front of a child who is not mine of any age let alone one old enough to know what they are seeing. Use the family locker room, put your kid in the gym's daycare, send them to the men's locker room, or make arrangements for them to stay at home.

[Anonymous]

I've been showering at the gym for over 25 years, though not the same one, and never had a problem because of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MRSA is an issue in gyms and hospitals- I avoid the showers (and wipe equipment before and after etc._

If you use public restrooms at your office or elsewhere, you should have nothing to fear from a gym except maybe athlete's foot. Thus the shower shoes.