I seem to always get the treadmill next to the guy that smells like crotch rot.
Would you say something? It smells so bad I want to hurl, plus there’s no other cardio machine open.
Please don’t say the smell of guy crotch rot helps your w/o:-)
thnx
-J
[quote]tekgrl wrote:
I seem to always get the treadmill next to the guy that smells like crotch rot.
Would you say something? It smells so bad I want to hurl, plus there’s no other cardio machine open.
Please don’t say the smell of guy crotch rot helps your w/o:-)
thnx
-J[/quote]
It’s a gym. While I expect for most people with the facilities to bathe on a regular basis and not walk around all day smelling like corn chips, feet, cheese and onions, I completely understand that any guy who has actually been working hard for the past hour probably won’t be smelling like Hugo Boss or Cool Water. Women have a more keen sense of smell so you could very well just be smelling the results of sweat and heat and, frankly, any guy who is serious doesn’t expect to finish a workout AND cardio smelling like roses.
[quote]tekgrl wrote:
I seem to always get the treadmill next to the guy that smells like crotch rot.
Would you say something? It smells so bad I want to hurl, plus there’s no other cardio machine open.
Please don’t say the smell of guy crotch rot helps your w/o:-)
thnx
-J[/quote]
as long as we are on the topic of bo, can we discuss vagina’s that smell like rotten tuna from ten feet away? jesus. some women just shouldn’t leave the house, especially in thin tight pants, much less go the gym, work up a sweat and spread their nasty smell everywhere. some times the scent lingers in the air and on the machines long after they leave the immediate area too. it makes me scared to sit on the stationary bikes some times.
i think it was outkast who summed this scenario up pretty well?
This thread makes me glad I workout at home 
The stoner behind the counter at GNC told me that the smell of rotten crotch during and post workout can increase lean mass gains by up to 300%.
Depends whether or not it’s regular b.o. or regenerated stale b.o. (aka eau de rotten cheesesteak). If it’s the former, suck it up and continue with the workout. If it’s the latter, call the local health department to have that gentleman deloused, and then permanently banned from that facility.
[quote]Jillybop wrote:
This thread makes me glad I workout at home
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Your avatar makes me glad I don’t have a rabbit =P
you say that the smell bothers you, but science tells us otherwise. i can’t wait to hear what the ladies say about this:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For women, apparently there’s nothing like the smell of a man’s sweat.
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, faster heart rate and other effects.
They said the study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, represents the first direct evidence that people secrete a scent that influences the hormones of the opposite sex.
The study focused on androstadienone, considered a male chemical signal. Previous research had established that a whiff of it affected women’s mood, sexual and physiological arousal and brain activation. Its impact on hormones was less clear.
A derivative of testosterone, it is found in male sweat as well as in saliva and semen. It smells somewhat musky.
“It really tells us that a lot of things can be triggered by smelling sweat,” Claire Wyart, who led the study, said in an interview on Wednesday.
The researchers measured levels of the hormone cortisol in the saliva of 48 female undergraduates at Berkeley, average age of about 21, after the women took 20 sniffs from a jar of androstadienone. Cortisol is secreted by the body to help maintain proper arousal and sense of well-being, respond to stress and other functions.
Cortisol levels in the women who smelled androstadienone shot up within roughly 15 minutes and stayed elevated for up to an hour. Consistent with previous research, the women also reported improved mood, higher sexual arousal, and had increased blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.
Yeast, not so much
For comparison’s sake, women also smelled baking yeast, which did not trigger the same effects.
This was the first time that smelling a specific chemical secreted by people was shown to affect hormonal levels, the researchers said. The women had no skin contact with androstadienone.
The researchers used only heterosexual women in the study out of concern that homosexual women may respond differently to this male chemical.
Wyart said while this marked the first time a specific component of male sweat was demonstrated to influence women’s hormones, other components of sweat may do similar things.
The study did not determine whether the increase in cortisol levels triggered mood or arousal changes or whether those changes themselves caused the cortisol elevation.
The researchers also said their findings suggest a better way to stimulate cortisol levels in patients who need it, such as those with Addison’s disease. Instead of giving cortisol in pill form, which has side effects such as peptic ulcers, osteoporosis, weight gain and mood disorders, smelling a chemical like androstadienone could be used to affect cortisol levels, they suggested.
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[quote]MANONFYA wrote:
you say that the smell bothers you, but science tells us otherwise. i can’t wait to hear what the ladies say about this:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For women, apparently there’s nothing like the smell of a man’s sweat.
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The smell of sweat is NOT the same as the smell of crotch rot. Are you serious? That’s like saying that the “scent of a woman” is the same as the above referenced stinky bitch you can smell from 10 feet away. Sweat is hot — stench is NOT.
[quote]Jillybop wrote:
This thread makes me glad I workout at home
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Same here.
However, after the end of a training session, the workout room smells like man sweat and testosterone. Maybe that’s why my friend Katie continues to come over and workout when me and my training partners are finished.
I have no personal knowledge of what a rotten (or fresh) male crotch smells like. You might try spraying some air freshener around whenever he is around though.
[quote]MANONFYA wrote:
a good study
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But there have also been different studies that proved scent to be linked to attractiveness.
In it, women were given scents of men to identify whether or not they smelled pleasant or unpleasant, without being shown who it came from.
Later they were shown pictures of the men who gave the scent samples, to identify who they found attractive or unattractive.
The results were combined to find that the samples that smelled pleasant were from men whom the women found to be attractive, and the unpleasant ones from the men who were found to be unattractive.
So, maybe the guy is just ugly and smelly.
i had a workout partner that reeked of ammonia, but thats the only time ive smelled someone, not to mention from 10 feet away. where do you live france?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
It’s a gym. While I expect for most people with the facilities to bathe on a regular basis and not walk around all day smelling like corn chips, feet, cheese and onions, I completely understand that any guy who has actually been working hard for the past hour probably won’t be smelling like Hugo Boss or Cool Water. Women have a more keen sense of smell so you could very well just be smelling the results of sweat and heat and, frankly, any guy who is serious doesn’t expect to finish a workout AND cardio smelling like roses.[/quote]
Yeah but there’s always that one guy who keeps wearing that special t-shirt over and over again. You know the one that he leaves in his bag for weeks on end. I can’t stand that smell nor can I stand the smell of perfume in the gym.
[quote]thighlord wrote:
Yeah but there’s always that one guy who keeps wearing that special t-shirt over and over again. You know the one that he leaves in his bag for weeks on end. I can’t stand that smell nor can I stand the smell of perfume in the gym.
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Hey I resemble that remark!
[quote]Irish Muscle wrote:
stop doing cardio. End of discussion
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(sarcasm on)
Yea exactly. So what if your goal is too increase cardiovascular endurance or improve body composition. Stop doing cardio!
(sarcasm off)
You out to tell the person to get it checked out. My cousin died of crotch dot.