Comment on hygiene
python@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Okay semi unrelated question, but do mens gym showers usually smell like poop?
Because I recently got a fancy gym membership through my employer that allows me to go to basically any gym in the area, and so far the shower in the mixed gender sauna areas has always smelled like poop, while the showers in the woman’s sauna and changing room haven’t.
Might just be a weird coincidence, but it’s been like 5 different gyms of different chains and I’ve been really bothered by it
There are an awful lot of men that are so insecure and terrified that they think touching their own ass to wipe/wash it makes them gay… So they don’t wipe/wash their ass at all.
And thats why they, the things they touch, and the areas they congregate, always smell like shit.
It smells like shit, because it IS shit.
I worked at a foundry a while back and they had a locker room and showers so it was normal to have fully naked guys just walking around, this was fine, the problem was the guys that didn’t wipe their ass properly and sat down on the bench by the lockers before showering… The benches were a light pine color, you could see spots of shit where people sat, just dried on there.
I never sat on those benches, even to put my boots on, people are disgusting.
Yeeup… That kind of shit (in both the literal and figurative meaning of the word) is why I hate any public/shared/not my at home shower.
Maybe it’s just terrible plumbing, that pushes shit below where those showers are.
We had an issue at work where flushing in the men’s would cause the shit to pop up in the ladies toilet. There was a fair few arguments among the women over who was leaving floaters.
That’s horrible but kinda hilarious too. Wondering how the hell they tracked that one down.
“Well this one had bits of corn and bean in it but only Bob had that today for lunch and I’m positive I saw him bolting for the men’s room, so mayyybe…”
No they don’t. At least mine doesn’t. Probably because they clean their toilets and showers.
Find a new gym. If they’re not cleaning the shower, what else don’t they clean?
As I said, it’s been a universal experience in the 5 or so different gyms I’ve tried so far. I’m obviously not going into the bad smelling shower because the women’s showers actually are clean. So idk if that can be blamed on the gym
I’m saying this without knowing anything about your gym. But in my experience. There are often more guys than girls who work out at a gym. Guys are more likely to go to the gym more often, with a set routine and put in some work.
Where am I going with this? More guys, who sweat more, use the shower and thus it becomes dirtier, quicker. Simply due to there being more guys that use them. And then it starts to smell more. Especially, when the staff doesn’t clean the showers very often. And doesn’t do a very thoroughly job either. Dirt and bacteria accumulates as a result and stink up the place.
the fact that you’ve experienced this at multiple gyms, I don’t think is attributed as much to guys shitting in the shower, as I would say it’s the multiple gyms that are consistent in not cleaning their showers.
The gym I go to have a sheet inside the locker room where the cleaners sign off every time they clean the toilet and showers. According to the sheet, they do so regularly, and by the cleanliness of both the showers and the toilet. I believe them.
No, they don’t.
It’s either a weird coincidence or in perhaps that the fitness chains areusing the same plumber and that guy is doing a shit job.
One possibility: Guys will keep the same crack-sweaty shorts in their locker and use them over and over without washing them. It doesn’t take too many doing that for the aura take over the locker room. Some guys really have no sense of personal hygiene.
If it’s specifically the showers, then the staff are not cleaning things up properly.
Could be just poop, but combining old man smell, body odor and mold will make some gnarly stench. Still someone needs to get out the cleaning supplies.
burgermeister@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No. If I went to the showers and they smelled like poop I would leave that gym.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yep, if showers smell like shit, its cause theres shit somewhere.