All you Y swimmers, I need some advice! Or maybe I just need to rant. Sometimes I swim at a community pool. There's a BIG sign right before you leave the locker room to "shower before entering the pool" and wouldn't ya know it...not everybody does. Invariably, I end up smalling/tasting lotion, grandpa-strength aftershave, hairspray, deoderant and what have you the whole workout. Don't these people realize what they do? How can I make them stop??? I don't understand why they don't shower. I just don't.
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Originally posted by Tom Ellison
I do not use that stuff....and I cannot remember ever showering before a workout....
I take a shower in the morning and one before bed at night....but never before going in the pool....
I have smelled that stuff though...but is was never a big deal....
Two showers a day - three people wrapped into one (Tom, Mr. Moose, Ralph) Do you alternate off days? Or does one of you just never shower?
Seriously though - I swim at my Y when it opens at 6:00. Nobody showers before getting in, as there is no hot water at that time. I don't know if the water heater isn't on yet or what it is. I have started the showers and let them run for 10 minutes before giving up. After I swim - usually around 7:15 to 7:30 there is plenty of hot water????
Originally posted by Tom Ellison
I do not use that stuff....and I cannot remember ever showering before a workout....
I take a shower in the morning and one before bed at night....but never before going in the pool....
I have smelled that stuff though...but is was never a big deal....
Two showers a day - three people wrapped into one (Tom, Mr. Moose, Ralph) Do you alternate off days? Or does one of you just never shower?
Seriously though - I swim at my Y when it opens at 6:00. Nobody showers before getting in, as there is no hot water at that time. I don't know if the water heater isn't on yet or what it is. I have started the showers and let them run for 10 minutes before giving up. After I swim - usually around 7:15 to 7:30 there is plenty of hot water????
