Pritikin Blog Can You Get Sick from the Gym? How to Avoid Germs at the Gym

Is the gym full of germs? Experts put the gym to the test. Taking bacterial and viral culture swabs of surfaces at the gym where people put their hands, researchers found little risk of exposure to pathogenic bacteria on exercise equipment. However, there are a lot of rhinoviruses (runny nose causing viruses -the common cold)...