Thousands of people go to their local fitness centers each day with the hope of improving or maintaining good health. Fitness centers and good health should go hand and hand and most of the time customers come away with a sense of accomplishment and renewed self image. Sometimes however fitness centers and germs can greatly affect those hopeful positive outcomes.

Visualize for a moment a room filled with treadmills, stair climber machines, stationary bikes, weight machines, and then add multiple sweaty bodies, constant rapid exhaling and inhaling, hot tubs, steam from showers, wet floors, wet towels and clothing, these kind of things are perfect breeding grounds for mold, fungus, bacteria and viruses.

Fitness centers and germs such as MRSA, athlete’s foot, ringworm, colds, and even influenza can rapidly spread in this kind environment if proper precautions are not strictly followed.  The obvious procedures of cleaning equipment with sanitizing wipes before and after use will greatly reduce microbes from attacking the skin of individuals, but that is just the beginning. 

• Never share towels, razors, clothing, shoes, or socks with anyone.  Don’t keep wet clothing or towels in lockers.
• People should avoid fitness centers and other public places if infected with influenza or any type of respiratory illness until symptoms have abated for 24 hours.
• Keeping hands away from eyes and face is always a good idea; germs enter the body easily by contact with any mucus membranes.
• Don’t use other’s soaps or deodorants
• Use shower shoes
• Wash hands before leaving fitness centers

With all the breathing and moisture, air ducts in the air conditioning systems can grow mold and fungus and disperse these microbes into the ambient air as well as circulate bacteria and viruses.  Air purification is all too often overlooked in public places of assembly. Many people think if you can’t see it or feel it, it can’t hurt you.  Allergies, colds, influenza, bacteria, and viruses are acquired and spread through the air people breathe. Air filtration is very effective; however destroying malignant microbes in the ambient air is the best way to significantly reduce the spread of these germs in the air.

Photocatalytic Oxidation is the technology proven to destroy malignant microbes. Zandair™ products use this technology in their air purification/filtration systems. Zandair™ has the system that is right for your facility and can help you have a clean healthy environment for your customers, employees, and you. Call or contact a distributor near you.