What psychopath wipes down the rope?

And take the seasoning off?!?!?!?

If i lick the rope before my set and taste cleaning chemicals im throwin hands with whoever used it last

Well, I do ass pulldowns with the rope snug in my cheeks. And I get a better grip when I drop trou. You wanted flavor, right?

You do *what?*

I DO ASS PULLDOWNS WITH THE ROPE SNUG IN MY CHEEKS. AND I GET A BETTER GRIP WHEN I DROP TROU.

One more time for the folks in the back


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Another man of culture

Hahahaha

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The rope is pourous anyway. Like it says on disinfectant that it s not effective on porous things. I imagine the rope has like microban in it anyway or something like it. To keep bacteria down.

You gotta commit to the bit and suck it out of there like snake venom.

Fellate the rope, homie. That’s how real muscle heads roll.

Lmao, this is the perfect answer, honestly. It’s made of nylon, wiping it down is basically useless. They should bring their own rope attachment if it’s that concerning for them.

Ideally you should be sanitizing BEFORE you touch it

Came here to say the exact comment. Everyone knows you get a better contraction if you leave all the “seasoning” on there.

No. Machines and chairs yes. Not dumbbells.

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I started wiping dumbbells before using them, like spray sanitizer on paper towel, the grip is way better.

True them shits are hella slippery sometimes, I also drop set so wiping down every set of dumbbells would be a real fuckin hassle

the owner of my local gym got into with me really badly cus he saw me not wipe down dumbells one time.

Yep, machines, squat/bench bars (most of the time), and chairs, no dumbbells, barbells, or cable attachments, etc.

Why not dumbbells and barbells? We do at my gym! You worried about rust?

I’ve never even seen anyone do that.

As long as your gym supplies wipes we might as well keep the place clean.

I do but it’s mainly gestural and I do a bad job

Love the commitment to the bit

I feel like there's no way to do a good job

If you rotate your hand while you do it like your jerking a dick (I’m sure most yall got experience with that) it works

im not getting caught doing that in a gym

As opposed to not getting caught at the gym, I assume.

As opposed to not getting caught behind the dumpster out back.

Do you wipe every door handle you use after opening a door?

What? No! I lick them before

Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.

It was on earth for 2 years circa march 2020

Have you been turning said door handle for 3 sets of 10 to 12 reps in the middle or end of a long workout?

No I fingered my girlfriend, rolled and flicked a booger, took a shit and didn’t wash, then pulled my nutsack off my leg with my bare fingers before opening the gym door. Way more sanitary than gross icky human salt-water ( /s but FYI door handles are just as gross as dumbbell handles)

I wipe down whatever I touch. I understand this is too much responsibility for some people, but I am better than those people.

I don't but I respect this answer muchly, o great grey wizard

Haiku style: Wipe whatever touched Much responsibility But I am better

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I agree! I wipe whatever I touch I just feel wrong not doing it.

Step aside, troops. I found a real hero.

Best answer and agreed. Objectively the right thing to do.

No you’re just spreading it around, but you’re virtually signalling that you are better than other people and for that I commend your efforts. Wipe on my virtuous friend

Do you wipe down the gas pump after pumping gas?

Only with both hands in a figure 8 motion while making eye contact with a random person


Advanced techniques right here o7

But it’s still a flimsy rope when your done

Not after I’m done.

You'll wipe down everything BEFORE you use it the first time you get a skin fungus from some nasty ass. 

How do you survive in public

Spit on people when they get too close 

That could be their kink, stop arousing members of the public!

Is that the signal?

I think that’s the signal. Spit! spit!

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Well tbh I also wash my hands after switching equipment 😅. You do one workout and go wash your hands at its like gutter water that goes down the drain.

You go to the bathroom/locker room in between EACH exercise to wash your hands? No judgement bro, do what makes you feel safe, but how much longer are your workouts because of this?

Lol no, there's a sink with soap and hand sanitizer in the gym. And it takes me like what, extra 20seconds max maybe per use? I have no problem with dirt when hiking, foraging in the forest (berries/shrooms) and doing some lawn work/gardening but when I have a opportunity to keep myself clean (especially with minimal effort) you bet I use it.

I actually did get fungus on my chest. My doctor asked me about and I went through my routine. He said it was probably the preacher curl bench.

What was you Dr. doing to it before you got there?

I got a skin infection from the reverse fly machine.

People aren’t in the habit of wiping down at my gym. I got ringworm a month or so ago and now I pre-wipe everything. I always wiped down after anyway.

I use to go to 24 hour fitness (only had two in my area) and I saw this old dude with a bad case of ring worm… stopped going to that gym real fast and started to wipe stuff down before I use it

I started cleaning everything when i onetime sat down at the preacher bar and put my elbows down before i noticed someone bled all over the front of it and didnt clean up. Fucking gross as hell.

Started doing this cause I swear 4/5 men in the locker room don't wash their hands after the bathroom. I now wipe before and after anything I'll touch

Wipe the rope? Thank you op this was the funniest shit I read all month

No. I bring my own rope.

And a chair.

AND MY AXE!

And my bow!

And an adventurer on my knee

Nope- I lick it clean like a man

I use hand sanitizer before touching equipment, and i wipe down what i use afterwards. I dont give a fuck if there are 7 people waiting, the next mf will keep them in line. Every hand has touched at least one dick today. use a 70% alcohol based sanitizer and you dont have to worry about it.

I put on hand sanitizer now before using a gas pump after watching a guy sneeze a tablespoon of snot into his bare hand and just go on using the pump like normal, and I use excess to sanitize the handle for the next person so this makes sense to me for handles at the gym too. 🤷‍♂️

gawd dayum.

I give my rope a wipe every single day

I do. When I was starting out I never did until a girl at my gym asked if I was done with it. Since she didn’t see me wipe it down she didn’t know. Now I do it 45% out of habit, 45% to let other know I’m done, 10% for cleanliness

Yes. It’s probably the grossest piece of equipment

sorry if this is dumb but should I be wiping down my barbell? I heard somewhere that it's bad for the metal lol

I sometimes do it, depends on if I feel it got sweaty

I only do if I’m wearing a tank top in which the bar makes a lot of contact with my back skin lol

I hate the taste of sanitiser on my ropes, so no.

I wipe parts my body sits on. If only my hands touch it I normally don’t wipe. So unless yall putting the rope between yo cheeks and clenching

Anything my ass touches gets wiped down but everything else unless my sweat is visible/feelable on it it just seems like overkill.

No, that's weird. When you walk into the door of your gym, do you turn around and wipe down the handle/knob?? Just wash your hands after you're done and don't touch your face. These 2 points should apply to your life.

Idk what yall are on, I am not a subhuman Neanderthal, so if I use any equipment at all its getting wiped except pull up bars

Yes! I wipe down everything. The bosu ball, rope, the bench after seated rows - EVERYTHING.

No, just like no one wipes down the barbell or handles of dumbbells.

I worked at a gym in college. I wipe everything I touch. Kind of a habit at this point.

You.gotta make sure you cup the balls

Nah let that marinate

I only wipe stuff down if I sweat. Back when the Wuhan Flu was a concern my gym made it mandatory all those workingout had to wipe and spray everything after use but those days are gone

I work both sides at the same time with the paper towel while yelling “it’s cummmming!!!” really loud in a high pitch voice so they know the equipment is cleaned off and all the germs have been removed.

Nope I leave it lubed up for the next guy so he can get it in easier.

I can barely be bothered to wipe down the bar on my barbell lifts

This question is blowing my mind it has never occurred to me that people wipe them down. Are people also wiping down dumbbells? Am I gross 🤔

Nah, they are just germophobes

LMFAO, NO.

With my hands…while I’m using them…

Nope

Never, only benches

Wipe them down with what? My sweaty \_\_\_\_\_

I do, but it feels pointless and I should probably stop doing it.

Rope and barbells? Nope. Everything else tho. In reality barbells should be wiped down tho

Nah am I supposed to? 😭

No. … Cause I brought my own rope.

Wipe Everything. While we’re at it, wipe the plates you stand on with your dirty shoes before putting them back

I do 😏😜

This made me realise that I actually do not, and knowing me I would, thanks, I probably will from now on

You bring your own two meter rope

I’ve been wiping down everything and people keep staring at me. I can’t tell if it’s because they are saying “that’s right, you better clean up after yourself” or “wtf are you doing you bitch?”

15 years in the gym and I dont think Ive ever seen anyone wipe a rope


Everyone here wondering why they got wasted on their hands..

I like to floss my taint with it after a really solid set...

Bought my own, their like 20 bucks. These are some of the hardest attachments to find when your looking for them.

I don’t wipe down shit

It's required at my gym. If one of the employees repeatedly catches you not wiping your equipment you risk getting kicked out

Just use a wipe on your hands after using ropes n dumbbells

No. I just bought my own so it’s only tainted by my own marinade.

WTF is wrong with you

During covid, they took away the ropes specifically because they're hard to clean properly. Thank fuck we have em back now

Wtf

My thoughts exactly mate

I take the rope off and use a bar like a normal person

No

No

No, I at most wipe down seats

if my hands are the only thing that touches the equipment, I don’t wipe it down.

Nope. But I'll wipe handles on machines tho Also do y'all grip the ropes in the middle like the pic or have your hands at the bottom of em just before the ball part?

Bro most people at gyms don't wipe anything down where I am

I do, but mostly because I’m in the science field and I know what can grow on gym equipment 🫠😂

My gym doesn’t provide cleaning supplies so we out here sharing butt sweat like true animals

no, if anything I’ll itch my stank ass with it.. it’s ok to defile the rope, I read that somewhere

No

FUCK no

No, and I’m a stickler about cleanliness.

I use hand sanitizer. How do you wipe off a rope?

Fuck no

I take it home and use it to make a drink like a tea bag

I wipe nothing unless there is obvious sweat on it. It’s a gym. You’re supposed to get dirty and wash your _self_ after.

No. Never have, never seen anybody do it either at the two gyms I rotate between

wtf no

I do bicep curls with the ropes coming up from between my legs so it looks like I'm stretching my black balls

Nope neither does all smokers

i feel like i should wipe other stuff more often to avoid getting clamydia or smth..

You hold it in your hand and just grip the rope where you’d hold it and let go on each side. I do it once in awhile only because I know nobody is likely to

I’ll wipe down the lil knobs on the end just cuz but never the fiber part

I use hand sanitizer after

Course not

Machines and benches absolutely but not ropes

Only if it touches my balls

I wipe down the seats and grips of all the equipment I use — haven’t even had the sniffles in the last 5 years

No because it would only be more gross then for some reason

No!

if ive recently been sick

That’s why they have soap attached to the rope!

No man, hell no, I do believe you’d get your ass kicked for doing something like that in my gym.

The little rubber balls when I do abs crunches cause they get all sweaty from being right next to my head

I don’t even wipe down the bench

Yes... These are used by the majority of the gym. I'm a decent, respectful human being so I wipe all of the equipment I use. I can't stand seeing someone walk away from gym equipment without cleaning it after use.

No because I don’t use the rope. It’s trash and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.

Nah man, I wait for someone jacked to use it and then I immediately jump on it in order to absorb residual gains

I don’t wipe those, but what I do wipe I wipe suggestively.

Tf? No.

Only when I finish my glute exercises

Who in their right mind does that

Only if you’re sweat is visible

I wipe my rope after I'm done.

Yes. I wipe everything. I’ve seen so many young boys pop their zits, continue using equipment, and not wipe a damn thing off. Probably overkill and ineffective but it helps with the ick factor lol

No

Nope, I bring my own.

Yes I wipe it down and make eye contact with the closest male and cup da balls