Man barred from gym for sweating too much

[Princess L]

Mar 31 2008 Laura Sharpe
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A KEEP-FIT fan has been barred from his Merseyside gym after complaints that he was sweating too much.

Andy Heatman, from Maghull, was left humiliated after he was told there had been 15 complaints about his per- sonal hygiene. The 42-year-old psychiatric nurse, who teaches patients about cleanliness and hygiene, was confronted by staff at Cheshire Lines Health Club, in Maghull.

He said: “I was on the bike doing part of my usual routine when a member of staff walked over and sniffed me.

“I felt a bit paranoid but it was later in the week I was taken into the office to be told about the complaints.

“I kept waiting for the punchline but there wasn’t one, and when I went back as usual later in the week I was stopped from going any further than the entrance.”

The father-of-three said he was angry and embarrassed about what had happened and now feels paranoid about his body odour.

He said: “I work out for two hours, four or five times a week. I use the bikes, treadmill and cross trainer so of course I sweat.

“But no-one has ever said anything about my body odour, I use showers, shower gel, deodorant just like everyone else.”

But all is not lost for Mr Heatman, after he signed up at a gym closer to home where managers said he was allowed to sweat as much as he liked.

Mr Heatman added: “I’ve been with Cheshire Lines for four years and paid over £1,200 to them, and this is how they treat me.

“The last time I went on a bike and someone came on the one next to me I felt paranoid but I think I’ve got beyond that now.

“I’ve signed up at Total Fitness (at Switch Island) and they just laughed when I told them about the complaints. They said that if I wasn’t sweating then I wasn’t working hard enough on their equipment.”

Mr Heatman and his wife, Jill, have demand a month’s refund from Cheshire Lines, £25.

Cheshire Lines gym owner Bill Martin said: “We did everything humanly possible to avoid humiliating him.

“We have standards here as well as any other gym has standards.”



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[kolja]

There's a couple of folks at my gym who could probably use a talking to about either laundry or hygiene....

I completely understand that folks are going to sweat and it's never going to smell pristine in a gym, but when one person can singlehandedly make a quarter of the building gag-worthy, there just might be a problem... 

[Hugo Chavez]

No testosterone allowed...   Fantastic gym

[Hugo Chavez]

There's a couple of folks at my gym who could probably use a talking to about either laundry or hygiene....

I completely understand that folks are going to sweat and it's never going to smell pristine in a gym, but when one person can singlehandedly make a quarter of the building gag-worthy, there just might be a problem... 

Yea, WTF... I hate it when some dude walks by and totally fucks with the smell of my peach papaya skin cream

[onlyme]

I had a guy at my gym who sweat more than any person I have ever seen.  And everyone complained about him because he would sweat and not clean it up.  I mean puddles where it would splash when you walked in it.  He would do the Elliptical and sweat so much nobody could get on it again without stepping and holding onto a bunch of sweat.  It was really bad.  Something was wrong with him.  One day after he was done I went outside to tell him that he needs to bring more clothes so he could change more and some towels.  He ask Why?  At that moment one of the girl members walked by and said because you are disgusting and everyone has asked you before to clean up.  Well after that I never saw him again.

[Dos Equis]

I had a guy at my gym who sweat more than any person I have ever seen.  And everyone complained about him because he would sweat and not clean it up.  I mean puddles where it would splash when you walked in it.  He would do the Elliptical and sweat so much nobody could get on it again without stepping and holding onto a bunch of sweat.  It was really bad.  Something was wrong with him.  One day after he was done I went outside to tell him that he needs to bring more clothes so he could change more and some towels.  He ask Why?  At that moment one of the girl members walked by and said because you are disgusting and everyone has asked you before to clean up.  Well after that I never saw him again.

We had a guy like that at the Bishop 24 Hour.  I called him Pizza the Hut (from Spaceballs).    Left a trail everywhere he went.  Disgusting. 

[TechnoViking]

depending on how much of a melting pot you live in, what really sucks is living in a next to all white communtiy and having a guy from india working out almost everyday at your tiny few thousand square foot gym......

At what point doesn't he understand that the gym is fucking packed and everyone is on the opposite side of him at all times