Photo of Houston In home personal trainer Melissa who goes to the gym practically every day in addition to the training she does with her clients, in order to keep a sexy lifted butt with a workout she can only do easily at a fully equipped gym.

One of my links, Deep Fitness, has an article on a sister site, INeedCoffee.com, about "Gyms for Hypochondriacs". This is a great site and I laughed when I read the article because it IS true that gyms bring you in contact with many germs... but so does just plain old LIVING!

I believe that MOST people who work out regularly find that the benefits from exercising and building strength and increasing flexibility, outweigh the risk of occasionally getting a virus from the gym.

I go to the gym and exercise every day, and often go as many as three times a day if there are some great kick boxing or spinning classes going on. Most physicians will say that for the normal adult population, EXERCISING regularly is very beneficial. I am NEVER sick but I have built up my endurance to the prevalent germs.

As a comparison, remember how physicians always prescribed antibiotics for children who were sick...but recently, medical studies are showing that over prescribing antibiotics has made children resistent to those very same antibiotics, and now, sick children have to take stronger and stronger antibiotics to get well...Physicians are wanting to reserve prescription drugs for more severe cases and give the immune system a chance to kick in on its own first.

In simple terms, it is beneficial to allow your body EXPOSURE to normal environmental germs so it can build up a natural immunity to them.
You don't have to WALLOW in germs... but avoiding a gym is not the solution. Instead, take a few simple precautions to help protect yourself from colds and other infections.

1) Wash your hands before and after workouts at the gym..using soap. 2) Use a towel when working out. (this is required at most gyms) and wipe the machine you plan to use before you use it and again after you are finished. 3)Do not go to the gym when you are sick. 4)Hire Melissa at Citiflex.com to be your very own personal trainer, because I bring the gym to YOU and I PROMISE I won't come if I am sick!! =)