Once a year, whether I need it or not.
Seriously, I DO NOT allow a morning to pass without a shower and shave. I work out in the mornings. I am not getting around anybody at all until that is off of me.
The only time that I didn’t do this was way back when I would go to the field, and then you do the best that the circumstances will allow. When you came back in from whatever you were doing out there, you’d smell like a poorly-kept slaughterhouse in Arizona in mid-July. A long hot shower after peeling your evil-smelling utilities off was up there close to sex in its enjoyment; utter bliss. :-)
As long as you shower before you work out, regardless of the sweat which you towel off, you're good for the day............
I remember a guy from a racquetball club who obviously didn't shower often. Even the exercise equipment he used smelled after he left...........
Personally, I can't function until I have a hot shower in the morning.......
Ping to the Seinfeld episode with the stinky cab driver...........
North Central Florida in August, annual training/ARTEP in an artillery unit, displacing every few hours or oftener.
“Who wants a bath?”
Everybody on the deuce and a half for the tank trail ride to Sand Hill Lake for a bath with a gator guard with a rifle and spotter on the hood, just in case, pure heaven, got dusty again on the ride back but we were in clean drawers and didn’t stink.
Same for a winter ex in Germany, pop the cargo hatch on the 113, heat a quart of water in your steel pot on the squad stove, drop pants and at least wash off the top layer of funk, ahhhhh!
I know what you mean.
We were working in Alice, Texas, close to 110 that day.
On the way back to Corpus we had to keep the windows rolled down, couldn’t stand the smell of ourselves.
Used to go backpacking in the high mountains or desert for up to two weeks at a time. Tried to keep clean but it just doesn’t work well.
You start itching after two days and that lasts for three or four days. After that the itching mostly stops, but the odor doesn’t.
The first shower after return to civilization is indeed wonderful.