The gym was especially crowded today because of the holiday, so all the different types had to co-mingle and jockey for position. The casual cardio club was in full effect, performing their favorite exercise: thoroughly cleaning off every machine before use.
Now, I get not wanting to drown in someone else's sweat to do some machine flys and I'm all for being courteous to your fellow clubmembers, but people are so over the top with the way they wipe down machines, you would think they must go about the rest of their day in a hazmat suit. People spray the machines down like they are giving it a deep cleaning. One older lady just kept one of the spray bottles with her as she did her circuit. One asshole practically emptied out the dispenser in one go so he'd have enough paper to powerclean the three ab machines he used sat on for 10 minutes while texting. He was wearing a long tshirt and and sweatpants, so there was no possibility of the benches even touching his skin. Even after someone cleans a machine off, the person who is standing there waiting to use it usually gives it another wiping down.
