Just wanted everybody to know I didn't do my laundry last night, so this morning I didn't have any clean workout tops, so I will be working out in my sports bra tonight. Everybody cool with that?
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04-10-2015, 11:35 AM #271Follow my 2018 competition prep here:
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04-11-2015, 04:49 AM #276
I dress like that occasionally. Most of the time because I have my own gym, I'll even go completely topless on occasion (Its a private gym)
The reason? If it's in the 80's and boiling hot my last leg session looked like this.
Squats 5x10 With a widow set of 20 reps straight after the last set 1 minute break between sets. No break between the widow set.
Single leg squats 3x20, Box jumps 2x25
Leg curls 5x20
Then I did some prowler pushes.
I did a ton of volume in an hour. To feel comfortable I ended up going "topless" If i'd be in a publicy gym "boy" or booty shorts and a sports bra might have been what I wore.
If someone looks do I give a ****? No. if they want to look and enjoy it good on them I can't complain if it's out there nor would I.
But it was entirely to feel comfortable. I see guys take off their ****ing tops in the gym all the time and usually unlike the women the guys leave the bench press or whatever ****ing covered in sweat.
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04-11-2015, 11:48 AM #277
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I don't personally wear such to the gym, but certainly can see how one might be more comfortable in the smaller attire. I don't own boy shorts for the gym but do need some new shorts soon as the boy basketball shorts fall off if i attempt to wear them anymore beyond bedtime. And while my stomach is too fluffy, I will admit that last time when I wore the tight sleeveless shirt, it was so much more comfortable for lifting. It was nice not having all of the shirt material over my shoulders and near my neck. Sure, stomach sticks out some and when I do any lifting that involves bending over, cleavage might show, but eh, I'm learning not to care so can focus on lifting heavier. Won't be wearing just a sports bra for a long time still, but maybe some day.
In fact, at the commercial gym I go to right now, I haven't really seen anyone in just a sports bra and boy shorts. Tight spandex pants, sure, but maybe in summer that will change. I do, however, often get the shirtless guy display as there is a group of guys that goes almost every night (or we have a similar lifting schedule) and one of them has to take his shirt off for many lifts. Deadlift, rack pulls, cables, dumbbells, machines... One of his friends also takes off his shirt on occasion, but most of the time it's just the one guy. On occasion another is taking pictures or they stand for a while and chat in front of the mirrors. I'm still not quite sure what is going on there some of the time.
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04-12-2015, 02:34 PM #281
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Yep! When me and my sisters were teenagers, my Mum used to say that we never put our washing in the hamper because we hoped that if we left it long enough it would drag itself to the washing machine.
One day in the future when I am ripped and looking awesome I will strut around the gym in shorts and bra, not quite here yet
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04-14-2015, 10:19 AM #285
I don't see anything wrong about working out in just a sports bra and pants. If guys or girls look, that's up to them. I am not doing it for attention - it is just what I am most comfortable in. I also don't own any workout shirts. When it gets chilly, I puton a jacket.
Wearing tops will be useless because I tend to over heat quickly - plus extra laundry.
If you don't like what you see, don't look. I'm not trying to wear skimpy clothes to workout, I am just trying to be comfortable. I don't see how it is any different to fitness models wearing just a sports bra and pants? Do people say anything about that? NO!
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04-22-2015, 03:20 PM #288
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i think we wish we all wouldve been there. that gym has been #blessed
those are dooooope, i mean i probably would suggest not wearing them in the gym unless youre comfortable with brahs staring, cuz they will. i would :/ but besides that they look great!!"Everything not saved will be lost." - Nintendo 'Quit Screen' Message
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04-25-2015, 07:41 AM #295
Lately I've been wearing a sports bra and kind of baggy running shorts. I do it for comfort, plus I like seeing my own progress in the mirror Mostly when I'm lifting my skin starts getting itchy - I have no idea why, maybe the sweat. Fabric sticking to my skin makes it worse, so it just feels better without anything there. It's a small gym that's open very early and very late, so I try to go at times when it's more likely to be empty because I do feel a bit self-conscious when there are other people around. I'm not quite sure if it's 100% appropriate to dress like this in my gym, but it's a gym...I figure people should feel comfortable and it's not like nobody wears sports bras in the world...
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04-25-2015, 08:02 AM #296
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04-25-2015, 10:02 PM #297
It's been this way as long as I can remember, but I hadn't really let it affect my workout clothes until about a year ago. I was always a bit self-conscious, but finally decided being able to work out comfortably is more important than avoiding weird looks. I think part of it is just mental also, like when I rest between sets I scratch/pick at my legs as they burn, which just makes them even more itchy! Although maybe it's worth trying to change detergents (I doubt it's that because I've worn brand new shirts before that had never touched my current detergent and the sweaty-itching seemed just as strong).
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04-26-2015, 07:42 AM #298
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Unless there was something on those shirts from the factory that irritated your skin. There are lots of places that carry sensitive skin/fragrance free detergents, that's where I started when trying to figure out what was causing my man to itch. It didn't totally solve the problem, but it did help. Keeping his skin moisturized also helps. It's sounding though like this is over your entire body, not just the areas that would be covered by clothes? I've heard of people being sensitive to their own sweat, to where they had a burning itch all over their body any time they perspired. That kinda sounds more like what you could be dealing with versus a sensitivity to laundry detergent.
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