It seems like every 3rd time I go to the Y to lift weights, I wind up with the stomach flu or cold or some other horrible illness about a day later. There's no way this is just coincidence. It's come to the point where I'm afraid to go there because of the germ-factor. And I'm not some germophobe freak either.
I wash my hands and use the purell they provide and always wipe down machines prior to use (I have never EVER seen anyone besides myself wipe down a machine there) but I still seem to pick up germs whenever I go there.
The Y is filled with corpulent flop-sweaty nasty people. I think I might give up the weights and the Y and just get a med ball or do pedestals at the track or something.
Carry on.