Does anyone else fight to use the fans while on the treadmill at the gym?

I only use the gym treadmill when it is absolutely necessary. I never use a fan.

How did you escape the mental institution?

given that you only go on the treadmill once every month or so I think it's perfectly reasonable you use the fan when you are their.

I always got a lot hotter in spin class than i did on the treadmill, but maybe it was all the soccer moms idk.

I thought this was going to be about the little dinky fan on the treadmill, which made your story funnier to me. I wouldn't troll them on purpose, but if anybody says anything to you, you should definitely respond with something like, "I do that for the wind resistance to make it like running outside."

Tristate wrote:

I only use the gym treadmill when it is absolutely necessary. I never use a fan.

No one cares. This thread is not about you.

No. I don't fight to use a fan.

I don't want to use a fan. Fans don't make you stronger. The more difficult the run then the more that I get out of it. I often turn the heat up to 80F in the gym in order to get the most I can out of the work out. The heat makes running cold races so much easier and trains me to run better during hot the hot summer months.

If you need someone to cheer you on when exercising, you are doing the wrong regimen.

trtrtr wrote:

I got done running and was pulling my pants back on

This is what prompted the "mean faces"

Any Which Way But Loose wrote:

trtrtr wrote:

I got done running and was pulling my pants back on

This is what prompted the "mean faces"

Because I was running in shorts?

lol this was a good one. keep showing up early

I use a small portable fan that clips to the treadmill, which greatly reduces sweating. I can't tell if the guy cranking the temperature to 80 while on the treadmill is joking. You already sweat way more on a treadmill than you would outside, I think it's silly from a training perspective to make it even worse.

zxzczx wrote:

How did you escape the mental institution?

He used the HVAC duct?

My gym asks for feedback once a year, and this year I complained that the air circulation is horrendous. There used to be air vents in the ceiling that moved air around a bit, but they did a renovation that either shut them off or got rid of them, so there's basically no circulation in the gym. It's noticeably warmer between the treadmills than it is twenty meters away from them. The problem is that a lot of hobby joggers like to sweat a lot on the treadmill and the cardio area isn't well separated from the weights (weight lifters tend to like the warmer temperatures), so I'm not sure much is going to get done. We had bad air a couple months ago and they brought in a giant air filter with a fan that pointed towards the treadmills, and that was wonderful.

When I was a kid my dad's apartment building had a gym, and I'd always get into fights with this one old dude about whether the fan should be on or not when we were using the treadmills. He would walk, which I respected, but he was adamant that the fan could not be on because it made it too cold, and he'd actually just walk up to it and turn it off. Drove me nuts. The gym management didn't know what to do so they just sided with whoever got there first.

at my gym in the cardio room there are no fans whatsoever. In the summer I can barely hold 8:30 pace without risking heat exhaustion in a 45 minute easy jog

theres one overhead ceiling fan, which barely does anything at all, and it's always off. I always try to run 'under' it if possible, and crank it to its sad little level 3 30 rpm 'high' setting

I think everyone other than me likes the cardio room 'hot' so they can get their sweat on.

note: I am neither fast or in particularly good shape. But what I do excel at is heat/sweat production

I've had no fewer than [3] complaints launched against me and I had to defend my membership [I think I was close to being cut] before they heard my version of the story re: excessively sweating on the treadmill

One lady in particular went just absolutely wild on me I think because some spray from my pit sweat was nailing her on my easy jog lol. Apparently I am 'that guy' that people point to and attempt to stay away from [I dont smell terribly un-expected and use a lot of deoderant but obv no anti-persperant as that stuff just doesnt work and is counterproductive]

I thought the fans at the gym were for moving the air from flatulence towards others.

I sweat really easy too. For me the sweat has always caused me to get cold and uncomfortable. I even had this

problem when I was in my 20s. I'm 60+ now and it has not changed. I hate like heck having a fan on me. Even

without one it can be uncomfortable using gerbil machines. I am able to adjust + add clothing somewhat. But

of course if you add a fan that really complicates things. Why would anyone go to the gym to avoid sweating?

Certainly if you are indoors exercising it should be okay to sweat! Use a towel morans.

Run outside.

The people in the spin class enjoy a healthy lifestyle. You are alone , and consumed with other peoples lives .