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How to Actually Use Gym Showers: Safety, Produc...

The gym shower is one of the most consistently avoided facilities in fitness culture. Gyms have a reputation for unclean showers, and while this reputation is sometimes deserved, the alternative...

Football and Field Sports Skin Care: Equipment ...

Football players, rugby players, and field sport athletes face skin care situations that combine the high-contact infection risks of grappling sports with the UV and environmental exposure of outdoor athletics....

Jiu-Jitsu and Wrestling Skin Care: Preventing R...

Jiu-jitsu, wrestling, and grappling arts create skin care situations that most athletes never encounter. Prolonged skin-to-skin contact with training partners, contact with shared mat surfaces, and the physical stress of...

Triathlon Skin Care: Managing Three Sports, Thr...

The triathlete's skin care challenge is unique because it combines three sports with three distinct skin environments in a single race — and in training, those three environments repeat across...

Rock Climbing Skin Care: Callus Management, Fla...

Rock climbing creates highly specific skin demands that no other sport replicates. The friction between fingertips and rock that makes climbing possible also creates a characteristic skin condition in climbers...

Swimming and Chlorine: What Pool Water Does to ...

Swimming in chlorinated pools is one of the most damaging regular activities for skin health. The same chemical that makes pool water safe to swim in — chlorine — is...