To say something to people who go from sauna to pool and vice versa without showering

[DyslexicScientist]

A few people do this in my leisure center. I think its beyond grim, there are cold showers and the pool is not designed to be a cool plunge pool. Its not even cold.

Would you say something to these grim and unhygienic people?

Can't see what the problem is. If you are so worried about hygiene then you shouldn't use a public swimming pool where all sorts is going on anyway.

Thing is OP your original complaint wasn't about manky pools, but about not showering between sauna and swimming pool because it aggravates your asthma.

What makes you think rich people are any more likely to follow correct pool etiquette?

I'm sure it would all be better in Germany. You used to post about Germany/pools/gyms/some such other guff right? Course you did. So off you go - EasyJet flights are cheap.

I'm with OP.
I don't get the posters saying 'it's just water in the shower, it wont help''

Of course the shower will help. Even if it's 'only water'. It's 'running' water, and running water will wash away most of the sweat from the sauna and will prevent that sweat from being transfered to the pool.
So showering before entering the pool does help.

I was once in a public pool in the Austrian alps, and underwater you could see perfectly from one end of the pool to the other. It was amazing.
I think it was because everyone showered before getting in the pool.

They are more hygienic than we are and it shows.

What's really grim at my (independent) gym is people going straight into the sauna, in underwear or even workout gear from their workout. No shower in between, and sitting there in their sweaty clothes.

My gym sauna (segregated - one in the women's, another in the men's shower areas) has to have notices asking people not to wear trainers in the sauna!

Some people are just unthinking and inconsiderate.

Is this the same pool where people swim in the wrong lanes?

I swim hard so there is a massive amount of my sweat n the pool.

I do think everyone should shower properly before swimming, to remove beauty products mainly. After that, though, very new sweat isn't really 'dirty'.

Didn't you have another thread recently where you wanted to advise your fellow swimmers on their technique as it wasn't satisfactory in your eyes?

Maybe you should stop going out swimming

I think swimming pools are manky at the best of times

Agreed. My ventures into them are only if I'm in a properly posh hotel and you have a fair chance of getting the pool to yourself.

I don't care whether people shower before swimming or not.
If I was that precious I wouldn't use a public swimming pool.
We all sweat, we all have bodily fluids and I have never heard of anyone dying because they swim in a pool that has, God forbid, a sweaty or even dirty person in there.

I am a clean person with good hygiene but this obsession with germs and dirt really pisses me off.

I am a clean person with good hygiene but this obsession with germs and dirt really pisses me off.

100% Agree. Sick of people going around looking form something to go "errrrgh" about.

If chlorine doesn't kill it you have a problem. It destroys swimwear. Bacteria doesn't have a chance!

It's unhygenic. So its wrong. No-one in a spa in Germany or the Netherlands would ever dream of not showering.

It's unhygenic. That's what people are saying. But why? As far as I know moisturizers and products are far worse for the pool than new, fresh sweat. The smell from sweat is byproduct from microbes breaking down the components, not the sweat itself which is water, salts and some other harmless stuff. How is sauna sweat different to swimming hard sweat?

I know people feel icky about it but is it actually harmful or unhygienic?

Oh goodness, if only we were German! Life would be great why did we bother with D Day I wonder

Human stew, petri dish.. no public pool for me thanks

I wonder how the people who are so disgusted with sweat and fluids cope with sex. I can't see how they tolerate it.

Ah but, one at a time, with someone whose hygiene standards you're familiar with - ok - a mass orgy with randoms - not so much

I agree that without soap and still wearing a sweat/chlorine soaked swimming costume a quick shower isn't going to make much difference.

YABU. I hate showers and don't use them before going in the pool. It's over the top

I am a clean person with good hygiene but this obsession with germs and dirt really pisses me off.

Yep! It's precious and ridiculous lol

I remember reading an article explaining why you get red itchy eyes from chlorine in a pool. You don't. It's when chlorine binds with pee - that causes the irritation in our eyes. Chlorine doesn't magically zap and disinfect instantly, you know. Takes quite a bit of time.

And somebody who is dirty enough to need a shower before swimming isn't going to become significantly cleaner by walking under a shower.

However, something that does seem to have disappeared from uk pool design is a foot bath on the way to the pool. Did people have really dirty feet or did they contain really strong chlorine or was there just no concept of showers?

I remember when it was standard at public pools to have to walk through a little pool of sheep dip disinfectant and a hard (usually cold) shower before you could even get close to poolside. I wonder why that stopped being a thing.

Great minds!