Gym germs · 4 min read

The gym has 362× more bacteria than a toilet seat — and your towel is on the floor

You touch gym machines all workout. Then you pick your towel up off the floor and wipe your face with it.

LOOM ACTIVENovember 2026

1What is on it

Nobody thinks about it. Everybody does it. You drop your towel for one set. Your bottle goes under the bench. Your phone sits by your foot so you can watch the timer. Then you pick it all up and carry it to the next machine.

In 2017, a team tested 27 machines at three gyms. They counted the germs on each one. The free weights were the dirtiest.

Germs on one square inch

A public toilet seat3.200 CFU

Gym free weights1.158.000 CFU · 362×

Both bars are drawn to scale. FitRated tested 27 machines at three gyms in 2017. Treadmills had 74× more germs than a public toilet tap. Reported by CBS News.

Those are the machines you hold all workout. Your towel moves the germs from your hands to your face, and the floor adds whatever people walked in on their shoes.

2What it costs you

Three things happen every workout

None of them feel bad at the time.

01 Your towel carries the germs It is the one thing you put on the floor and then put on your face. Down on the mat between sets. Then across your neck. Same towel, the whole workout.

02 Your stuff gets kicked and lost A phone by your foot can get stepped on. A bottle rolls away when someone drops a weight. The worst part is the one you notice later: you left something behind.

03 You keep stopping your workout You should be resting. Instead you are bending down to find your phone, or walking back for your bottle. Three or four times every hour. It is not a big deal. It just slows you down, and that makes a workout feel like a chore.

3The fix

Keep it up at chest height

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01Pack it like a normal bag. Bottle, phone, towel, keys, charger.

02Stick it on any metal. It holds up to 5 KG.

03Move to the next machine and take it with you.

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