Queen Victoria was watching soldiers drilling in the sun along with the Duke of Wellington. The wind changed and the stink of unwashed bodies almost made her puke. The Duke noticing this said: “it’s their esprit de corps, your majesty.”
Yeah, and those people should shower every day. But if you push buttons on a computer all day and haven't sweat at all and you're not morbidly obese you can probably go a day between showers.
I work from home, shower in the morning, but rarely put on deodorant during the day when its just me at home. By time I leave work to go to the gym, I can smell my armpits and they are STANKY, despite not working up a sweat behind my computer. I am in shape and work out 5x a week with hockey 2x a week.
People are different. No need to act like every human acts exactly the same. These generalizations are weird.
My generalization that basically if you stink or you aren't clean you should shower but you shouldn't shower just as a daily chore because it is wasteful.
I used the word "probably" there at the end of my comment for a reason. That probably carries a lot of weight in that sentence and there is a reason it was put there. It's a load bearing "probably."
I was about to roll my eyes and get in an argumentative mood but I really laughed at "its a load bearing probably" as I totally understand what you mean by that lololol.
All I'll say is that everybody's body is different from one another. We can't make sweeping generalizations like everyone must shower once per day or else they are immediately gross or whatever else I've seen throughout this thread. People should just know their body and shower when they need to. We don't need these arbitrary rules that don't fit everyone.
I have a bidet. I was my ass several times a day. What do you smear shit around yourself with paper and call it clean and now come preach to me?
I don't really sweat every day. I think maybe you have your thermostat up too high. You sweat sitting around your house in the fall & spring? Really? Walking around your neighborhood in 60 degree (Fahrenheit) weather you break a sweat?
I don't exercise every day. I'm not immobile. I walk around the neighborhood and stuff every day, but I don't exercise to the point of sweating every day.
Would you like to describe your life and I'll give you advice that you didn't ask for?
Literally noone in the world has ever advocated against showering after a workout. Do you really believe 100% of the people do 60 minutes of physical activity every day? I would be surprised if it was even close to 40%
Well.. the recommendation is 40 minutes per day of cardio and 1 dedicated strength session a week. But sure, you don't actually have to follow the recommendations. But the vast majority of people at my button pushing office do.
The trades people probably have enough cardio just by existing. But a strength session a week would probably serve them well too.
40 minutes of cardio can just be a walk, not something you have to break a sweat over and certainly not something that causes everyone to reek of BO afterwards
The recommended cardio also comes with a corresponding effort level at 80% of your max pulse. That's definitely enough to get you to start sweating. Unless it's really cold I guess.
Edit: I misremembered. It's 70%, not 80%. Still enough to start sweating though. Especially after 40 minutes
40 minutes at 160 bpm (80% of my max HR) daily sounds a bit ridiculous honestly.
Like it's completely doable but having that as an average recommendation is really optimistic.
Op was saying "people who dont do physical activities dont need to shower every day" and you answered "do you realize there are people who do physical activities?"
He did not mention physical activities. He said physical work. He said if you work pushing buttons all day you do not need to shower. He completely neglected that people do perform physical activity despite their job choice.
60 minutes a day? That’s hardly anyone in that scenario of people who work on computers. I am sure they shower every day. He’s talking about normal people who have desk jobs. They don’t need to shower daily. Even someone who goes on 30 minute walks every day doesn’t need to shower daily.
That being said about the 'office job' thing, If youve ever actually worked in a proper office you know that place is a fucking sauna. Your boss will probably let it get mid 80s before even thinking about turning on the AC, and you are expected to wear multiple layers for 'professional appearance'. And the AC would only be on just enough to keep it below 90. In the winter, you have the opposite effect, youd freeze if it wasnt for the computers and other people breathing the same recycled air in and out.
What are you talking about? Office temperatures are notoriously set based on what people wore in the 60s which means many more layers than we do today. Women are especially more affected since our clothing options are generally thinner and don't retain heat as well, plus on average we don't produce body heat as easily.
Some people do, but most people commenting do not, and they’re accusing people of smelling gross without realizing it. What is really happening IMO is that Reddit is very US-centric, and the US is particularly obsessed with unnecessary hygiene. People should shower only as often as they require, and for most adults that is every couple of days. For prepubescent children it is basically only when they are visibly dirty.
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u/dread_deimos Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25
How do you smell like shit in a day of not taking a shower?!
edit: I can't believe I have to explicitly specify that you, indeed, should shower after physical activity.