Health Clubs & Athletic Facilities

Locker rooms, showers, pools, saunas, steam rooms - all sources of water are notorious for mold growth. Exercise equipment, mats and towels can carry dangerous pathogens. Club members are health conscious and expect a hygienic environment.

Health clubs are a seemingly perfect place for microorganisms to thrive. With many people coming in and out, touching multiple surfaces and sweating in close proximity to one another, a common perception is that gyms are dirty, dank and dark.

Many training facilities have used our state-of-the-art services to maintain a clearer and safer environment for their professional and scholastic athletes. Microbe Guard™ antimicrobial services help maintain cleaner, less exposed conditions for athletes, coaches and trainers.

Many in the fitness industry remember an undercover investigation that aired on ABC News: Primetime in early 2005. After swabbing a number of items in a typical health club, testers found staphylococcus, streptoccus viridans, diptheroids, E.coli and candida, which causes yeast infections. A similar story was aired on the Today show. Research from the University of Arizona found that some cold and flu viruses can survive on surfaces for up to 72 hours.

A Study of sports equipment at two fitness centers in a military community published in the Clinical Jornal of Sports Medicine in 2006 showed benign bacteria and the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold, were on 63% of equipment surfaces that had contact with hands. Weight equipment was significantly more contaminated than aerobic equipment.

Wrestling mat antimicrobial protection

There are a number of infections that are unique to wrestling. Some of these diseases include staph infections, H1N1, impetigo, herpes simplex type 1, (which includes shingles, chicken pox, cold sores, conjunctivitis and shin lesions clinically known as herpes gladiatorum). These diseases are transferred mostly though contact with unsanitized  wrestling mats. Microbe Guard™ can target these germs.

Our unique bacteria-fighting product creates an environmentally-friendly and non-toxic antimicrobial coating that works non-stop for the entire season. Wisconsin Schools - click here for a SPECIAL OFFER!!