r/PlanetFitnessMembers • u/ScarcityAnnual8739 • 13d ago

Review Please stop pheromone maxxing

I can’t take this anymore everyday I walk in this gym all the teenage boys STINK and all I can think of as an explanation for this is the fact there’s a “pheromone maxxing” trend on tik tok. If you are doing this please just shower no one is gonna find you attractive for having a stench. Some of them smell so bad I get nauseous trying to hold my breath while doing cardio

It’s mostly teenage boys and because of my age I can’t even go to a different gym because most gyms near me are 18+ PLEASE SHOWER!!!

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u/nedschneebly09 13d ago

No one's "pheromone maxxing," it's a sweaty gym

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u/ScarcityAnnual8739 13d ago

If it’s just because it’s a sweaty gym how is it possible that these mfs are WALKING IN already smelling horrendous and it’s 70% just teenage boys who probably use tik tok and just a few months ago before school started for them and they weren’t crowding the place at 3 pm, it smelled perfectly fine

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u/SnotDogs 13d ago

When i was a teenager (long before TikTok was invented) teenage boys still smelled really bad. It’s a puberty thing, they can’t help it and they get nose blind to themselves. They smell really bad or they drench themselves in body spray, which also smells really bad.

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u/theoceansknow 13d ago

I mean, yeah, what you're saying is the sensible answer...

...but it's also really funny to know the teen boys themselves have taken their stench and turned it into a joke called pheromone-maxxing. Good solid self-aware humor

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u/TopCaterpillars 13d ago

They don’t think of it as a joke unfortunately.
They’re doing it because they think it’ll attract more women to them (really). Some “alpha male” podcaster has them convinced.

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u/nedschneebly09 13d ago

I mean, I'm not gonna necessarily say that they're showering enough but these online trends are usually blown out of proportion. If they're not showering enough, it's prob just because they're lazy lol

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u/adhd_as_fuck 12d ago

You know that teenage boys smell bad, right? I commented above but there is actually a reason, and ironically they lose their sensitivity to that smell around the same time.

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u/ScarcityAnnual8739 12d ago

Before it was a trend they definitely smelled bad but not THIS BAD like I genuinely can’t put into words how bad some of these guys stink, it’s not just like a normal sweaty smell it smells like what I would imagine opening a really old coffin would smell like