www.Thatsfit.com is hosting a competition for Safe Side Towels
Matt Barker is the creator of the Safe Side Towel and he has a pretty scary story to go with it!
Matt claims he used to bring a towel to the gym and use it to wipe sweat off the benches but also wipe the sweat off his own face. Apparently one day this dangerous practice caught him a staph infection which ended up infecting his lungs and gave him pneumonia! Scary stuff.
After experiencing that he decided to make a towel that has two sides to it. The face side, and the gym side. One to wipe other people’s sweat and one to wipe off yours! Brilliant thinking if I do say so myself. (note: by “side”, I mean half the towel is dedicated to wiping your face and the other half to wiping the benches.)
Though if you’re like me, you wipe other people’s sweat off with your pants by rubbing your knee on it or sitting on it. It’s only sweat! Imagine what else you’re sitting on throughout the day! My trusty www.bodybuilding.com towel is for my face only!
If you’re interested in winning a set of Safe Side Towels, head on over to http://www.thatsfit.com/2009/06/15/be-fit-and-healthy-with-our-safe-side-towel-giveaway/
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I like the idea of two different sided towel. One side should be thick and the other side should be soft and antimicrobial. While I am working out I bring my own towel and lay it out on the bench then do the work out then again wipe the bench. Now I will not have any experience like that.
I heard about half a year ago of a towel which has a brown corner which you use for drying your bum. That way you know which part of your towel is safe to wipe your face or not!
To be honest though, I don't think either towel will become popular.
I've never even bothered putting a towel on benches when I use them. I prefer to have the grip from the plastic surface and if some sweat comes off my back, (or my chest when I'm doing leg curls) I just wipe it off with my clothing. My towel is for my face only, and usually I only have a really tiny one slightly larger than a face washer. That's all you really need….
If you think logically about it, if you're putting sweat on your towel then putting your towel on the bench, you're getting sweat on the bench anyway! Think of the gym bench as a public bench… Afterall, it basically is!