A Liverpool, England resident was recently banned from his gym for sweating too much. That’s like getting thrown out of a grocery store for buying food, isn’t it?
Andy Heatman, who had been a member of the Cheshire Lines gym for over four years, was approached one day while he was riding an exercise bicycle. A staff member sniffed him and later asked him to come to an office where he was told there had been fifteen separate complaints about his body odor.
He was then barred from the gym, which he found out was not a practical joke when he tried to return the next day and was physically stopped from entering the gym–the gym he paid money to use.
Heatman has since quit Cheshire Lines, joined another gym (that told him specifically he was allowed to sweat as much as he liked) and gone around the British news circuit discussing his public humiliation and personal hygiene habits.
The sad part is that part of Heatman’s job as a psychiatric nurse is to teach his patients about cleanliness. Therefore, I assert that the man knows plenty well how to use a stick of deodorant and should perhaps have been left alone.
No one can control the amount of sweat they produce while performing an intense workout, and the idea that the managerial staff of a fitness club would take action against someone who sweats, well, we’ve simply reached a new low this season. I wonder what summer will bring.
For more on the gym’s misconduct, I MEAN, Heatman’s struggles, read the full article here.
Image: Liverpool Echo
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