Gym Clothes

mloc

what kinds of clothing do people here wear in the gym?

I've been meaning to go out and get some new stuff, nothing fancy, a few pairs of shorts and a sleevless t-shirt or two.

I've always worked out with full length training pants, especially in the last few months to cover up a huge size difference in my legs caused by injury, but I think I'm at the stage now where shorts would help for visualisation during squats and calf exercises.

Is there anywhere good around to get decent tank top type things for working out in? I'm not huge or anything, but my body shape is such that with standard t-shirts I can look a bit odd, my shoulders chest and back being much wider than my waist, so it can kind of hang off me. I tried wearing one of those tight nike pro things, but I'm not sure about them... great for running etc but maybe not weights.

any ideas?

iregk

I personally wear football jerseys. Reason being is that they conduct sweat away from your body a lot more effectively than other tops. There is one guy in my gym who wears the full long sleve nike paint on top. The looks he gets is priceless. It looks ridiculous.

TerrorFirmer

I wear jerseys a good bit as well for the same reasons as above.

I see a fair few people even doing weights in full clothing including big hoodies, I can only imagine it as unbearable but each to their own.

justsomebloke

I have 4 pairs of the same €18 addidas shorts, if it ain't broke don't fix it;) , aswell as a couple of other pairs of shorts and then just tshirt, I am a bit cheap on the ol clothes. For me the big thing is footwear and I rotate between 5 different pairs of trainers. God bless the arnotts sales

yomchi

Very comfortable for squating and deadlifting

Dragan

Jon man, you gotta work on your shoulders dude, plus you look a lot like that Borat chap "am happy for to meat you!"

Anyway, i have a little stable of gym clothes that i wear....just comfy t-shirts and tracksuits. Nothing special.

yomchi

Dragan wrote:

Jon man, you gotta work on your shoulders dude, plus you look a lot like that Borat chap "am happy for to meat you!"

Anyway, i have a little stable of gym clothes that i wear....just comfy t-shirts and tracksuits. Nothing special.

yes i am likings they ways my shoulders are lookings now...

iregk

HavoK wrote:

I see a fair few people even doing weights in full clothing including big hoodies, I can only imagine it as unbearable but each to their own.

I saw a guy in the gym yesterday in jeans and a shirt. Now I mean a proper suit type shirt. He lasted 10mins before he was kicked out.

Smellyirishman

Same as jsb, few pairs of the same addidas shorts that I got in the states for about $10 then a couple of sleeveless t's.

TerrorFirmer

iregk wrote:

I saw a guy in the gym yesterday in jeans and a shirt. Now I mean a proper suit type shirt. He lasted 10mins before he was kicked out.

My friend did that once, after he forgot this gym gear. And then his phone rang while he was benching, so what does he do but answer it, so there he was, a guy in jeans and a shirt lying on the bench casually talking away in full proper clothing, with this big queue of guys giving him dagger eyes...didn't bother him!

tribulus

Usually shorts if i'm dl'ing or leg work and any old t-shirt. I don't really buy gym clothes, more i just find an old t-shirt at the back of my wardrobe and just throw it on!

j@utis

I don't care about my gym clothing too much either. I mean those three little holes in the crotch of my pants are there for better ventiliation etc...
But I have something to say about guys wearing shorts in my gym. I'd say >80% of them have those funny 'chicken' legs: wry, hairy and sooo thin as you can gues their upper bodies are developed very well. They better put trousers on if they can't be bothered to work on legs!
p.s. I'm a woman. I like staring at guys legs/arses, is something wrong with me?

tribulus

j@utis wrote:

But I have something to say about guys wearing shorts in my gym. I'd say >80% of them have those funny 'chicken' legs: wry, hairy and sooo thin as you can gues their upper bodies are developed very well. They better put trousers on if they can't be bothered to work on legs!
p.s. I'm a woman. I like staring at guys legs/arses, is something wrong with me?

of course not! id do it to (to girls of course!) yeh there's plenty of "lightbulbs" around in my gym, the few that attempt leg work usually do 1/4 rep squats and no hamstring work

mloc

thats why im currently using trousers, i used to have well proportioned quads, hams and calves, but after an injury (embarrassingly witnessed by the majority of the UCD science faculty, I keep meeting people all the time who say "oh that was you in that stretcher?!"), they've shrunk. Some I'm back under the squat rack again trying to build them up.

Transform

I regularly wear the nike tops and really you will end up looking like the male equivalent of the overweight lady muffin top if you are not in tip top shape.

Gym clothes are very important to me and i tend to buy more gym clothes than regualar clothes but when its your job to be in great shape who wouldn't.

Get most of mine when i go to america on business or holidays, much better selection