The Equipment at Your Gym Is Covered in Bacteria

No one wants to sit down in a puddle of someone else's sweat at the gym, so PLEASE wipe down the equipment after you're done with it.  But even if you do, there's still a LOT of bacteria accumulated there . . .

  

Researchers recently took samples at three different gyms to see how gross the equipment was.  It turned out almost everything was pretty disgusting, and 70% of the bacteria they found was the kind that can make you sick.

  

Three things that were absolutely COVERED in bacteria were free weights like dumbbells . . . the handlebars on exercise bikes . . . and the handlebars on treadmills.

  

Just to give you an idea, here's how gross they were compared to a few other things we touch every day.

  

Free weights had 34 times more bacteria than a lunch tray at a cafeteria . . . 64 times more than an average water faucet . . . and 362 times more bacteria than a TOILET SEAT.  Which AREN'T actually that filthy.

  

The handles on exercise bikes and treadmills were even grosser.  They both had about 40 times as much as a lunch tray . . . 75 times as much bacteria as a faucet . . . and over 400 times as much bacteria as a toilet seat.

  

The craziest part of that story?  You'd expose yourself to ten times LESS bacteria if you ate lunch off of a toilet seat instead of a lunch tray?  

  

(FitRated.com)

Originally posted on May 17th, 2017


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