POLL: Okay Gentlemen: Jock Straps? Compression Shorts? What are my options?

**Tiny Tim** · 01-26-2006, 06:32 AM

Okay.

Time to get serious.
I've just been working out in Boxer Briefs (Yes - they do make them in sizes to fit fatties like me....even my lard butt can be fashionable at least in my black Boxer briefs

) a pair of shorts, and a T-shirt.

My dad, out of nowhere goes "You're wearing a Jock when you lift, aren't you?"

I was like - "Dad, I haven't worn a freaking Jock Strap since I played Football." (That was 20 years ago in High School.)

Somebody told me about compression shorts. I have ZERO experience with those.

So, any suggestions? Am I fine just lifting in my underwear, or do I really NEED a Jock Strap? (aka the infamous "Athletic Supporter".)

Tim

**Baldsnake** · 01-26-2006, 06:41 AM

Jocks are a joke and always have been except for maybe, just maybe basketball and track and field to keep the family jewels from jarring. Protective cups in all contact sports are mandantory. Most athletes I know in competetive sports like vollyball, baseball, basketball,skiing, etc. feel snug briefs are a lot more comfortable. Weight lifting....come on....jock....why?? Contact bench press??

And if you are tiny Tiny...hell, just air em out.

**Sammie Jr** · 01-26-2006, 07:10 AM

Tim, It will be very hard for you to get compression shorts in your size but I have noticed that under armor has some pretty large sizes made for athletes so don't give up if you decide to go the for the compression shorts.
As for me I have to go with baldsnake briefs are fine.

**Tiny Tim** · 01-26-2006, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by Baldsnake

Jocks are a joke and always have been except for maybe, just maybe basketball and track and field to keep the family jewels from jarring. Protective cups in all contact sports are mandantory. Most athletes I know in competetive sports like vollyball, baseball, basketball,skiing, etc. feel snug briefs are a lot more comfortable. Weight lifting....come on....jock....why?? Contact bench press??

And if you are tiny Tiny...hell, just air em out.

I'm not talking about a cup, that's a totally different thing. I'm just talking about a Jock strap, to keep your jewels tight against the body. It is claimed to help keep you from getting a hernia.

Okay cool - because I'm happy wearing the boxer briefs. I just didn't know.

Tim

**jaguarr** · 01-26-2006, 07:43 AM

Booooorrrrrn freeeeeeeeeee!

jag, who would workout naked if the window of his home gym didn't face the rest of the neighborhood...

**Baldsnake** · 01-26-2006, 07:55 AM

Jag would have checked "a smile" above if he had the choice.

Inguinal hernia...the kind that drops down into the scrotal sack. Lesson in layman language. When we were iddy biddy iddiebiddies in mommas womb we were all the same sex except for a triggering chromasone. If you were becomming a boy your ovaries dropped down tubes (fallopian) into the scrotum (labia on the girlies) and became testicles behind the penis (clitoris on the girlies). The uterus became your prostate. OK? Here is the rub. Those tubes remained behind and are covered with a very thin membrane. If you are inherently weak in that area and you strain just right you tear the membrane and your intestine drops down into the tear. Not good. So wearing a jock to prevent this is as effective as an elbow brace for a sore wrist.

Baldie

**phikappa** · 01-26-2006, 08:34 AM

I typically wear boxer briefs by Under Armor.

http://www.underarmour.com/ProductDe...=31&pf_id=0067

**Mark1T** · 01-26-2006, 09:08 AM

I just wear my regulars. I do not like the way jock straps hold my business

Yes, this thread is just a little uncomfortable

**GSCampbell** · 01-26-2006, 09:11 AM

Just plain underwear. Sometimes I wear big floppy clown shoes to shake things up but that's a story for another day

**GREENFEATHER** · 01-26-2006, 01:24 PM

I wear tight skivvies, no jock, no compression shorts and I sure as hell ain't going COMMANDO!! Where the hell did that saying come from anyway? Running through the woods is the last damned place I would want my cajones flopping to and fro, not to mention chaffing !!

Jag, that was way too much info bro!!

**resurrected** · 01-26-2006, 01:26 PM

whitey tighties all the way............ Love that carressing feeling of my lower extremities.

**jdonyx** · 01-26-2006, 01:28 PM

well I might be the only one here, but I do were a jock when I am working out, basically because during cardio/ legs I had a low, very low groin pull which had me out of commision for a while (from working out and with Da' Wife), which doesn't work at all!

I Have to protect my BOYS!

**jaguarr** · 01-26-2006, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by GREENFEATHER

I wear tight skivvies, no jock, no compression shorts and I sure as hell ain't going COMMANDO!! Where the hell did that saying come from anyway? Running through the woods is the last damned place I would want my cajones flopping to and fro, not to mention chaffing !!

Jag, that was way too much info bro!!

G.I. Joe is a well known nudist. Didn't you get the memo?

jag

**GSCampbell** · 01-26-2006, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by jaguarr

G.I. Joe is a well known nudist. Didn't you get the memo?

jag

So does he have that indoor-outdoor carpeting hair . . . um . . . everywhere Jag?

**Mr. Someday** · 01-26-2006, 02:25 PM

Am I the only one who immediately thought of White Goodman after reading the title of this thread??!!

I'm wondering where you can get those shorts that have the pump attached to impress the ladies?

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/21/im...YET68_0621.jpg

**jdonyx** · 01-26-2006, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by GREENFEATHER

I wear tight skivvies, no jock, no compression shorts and I sure as hell ain't going COMMANDO!! Where the hell did that saying come from anyway? Running through the woods is the last damned place I would want my cajones flopping to and fro, not to mention chaffing !!

Jag, that was way too much info bro!!

Going Commando - I think that is a Friends refernece or maybe it was Seinfeld...

**jaguarr** · 01-26-2006, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Someday

Am I the only one who immediately thought of White Goodman after reading the title of this thread??!!

I'm wondering where you can get those shorts that have the pump attached to impress the ladies?

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/21/im...YET68_0621.jpg

Purple Cobras! Hissss! LMAO!

jag

**Baldsnake** · 01-26-2006, 03:55 PM

Hey, leave my purple Cobra outta this!!

**Tiny Tim** · 01-26-2006, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Someday

Am I the only one who immediately thought of White Goodman after reading the title of this thread??!!

I'm wondering where you can get those shorts that have the pump attached to impress the ladies?

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/21/im...YET68_0621.jpg

Great movie!

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!" - Patches O'Houlihan

Tim

**GREENFEATHER** · 01-26-2006, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by jaguarr

G.I. Joe is a well known nudist. Didn't you get the memo?

jag

OK, I have to draw the line at disparaging remarks about a REAL AMERICAN HERO!!

**jaguarr** · 01-26-2006, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by GREENFEATHER

OK, I have to draw the line at disparaging remarks about a REAL AMERICAN HERO!!

Yeah, well at least I'm not wanting to know if the carpets match the drapes on the guy, like certain people who shall remain nameless...

Originally Posted by Baldy

Hey, leave my purple Cobra outta this!!

This will freak people out; Baldy's purple Cobra has a steering wheel and can go over 200 miles an hour!

jag

**GSCampbell** · 01-26-2006, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by jaguarr

Yeah, well at least I'm not wanting to know if the carpets match the drapes on the guy, like certain people who shall remain nameless...

I'm not nameless! I am, however, completely freaked out by that astroturf hair - always have been.

**layinbrix702** · 08-29-2011, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by jdonyx

well I might be the only one here, but I do were a jock when I am working out, basically because during cardio/ legs I had a low, very low groin pull which had me out of commision for a while (from working out and with Da' Wife), which doesn't work at all!

I Have to protect my BOYS!

Here Here. You aren't the only one. I ALWAYS wear a jockstrap when doing any sort of athletic activity. Commando otherwise, but when you need support for the boys, jockstrap is the only way to go IMO....perfect support, nothing soggy creeping up yer bum

**crupiea** · 08-29-2011, 11:32 AM

I used to wear a jock but lately i have been just going indian.

**Marius_Ursus** · 08-29-2011, 11:42 AM

I go commando unless I'm competing in which case I wear boxer briefs.

**hammerfelt** · 08-29-2011, 12:11 PM

One issue you may run into with boxers if you are squatting is ripping them out.

**Wildtim** · 08-29-2011, 02:11 PM

WOW five years later and the jock lives again!!!

**mseawell** · 08-29-2011, 06:29 PM

Jockey Pouches for me.

**nt4sell** · 08-29-2011, 06:29 PM

going commando came from.....well commandos. in wet humid environments jungle rot sets in really quickly, if your wearing briefs or boxer briefs they will hold alot of moisture and you get no air circulation. so the commandos went commando to keep from loosing their little buddies.

**Karl_Hungus** · 08-29-2011, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by layinbrix702

Here Here. You aren't the only one. I ALWAYS wear a jockstrap when doing any sort of athletic activity. Commando otherwise, but when you need support for the boys, jockstrap is the only way to go IMO....perfect support, nothing soggy creeping up yer bum

You realize that you are replying to a 5 year old post?

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