Is wearing tight cloths in the gym normal?

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I'm a female and seeing other females wear tight clothing in the gym is irritating. By tight clothing I'm referring to active leggings(like Nike, or Under Armour) and lululemon tank tops. Those articles that are especially bright colored are even more irritating to me. My reasoning:

1) Tight clothing isn't comfortable.
2) The gym isn't a fashion show.
3) It seems like a ploy for attention from men.
4) If you aren't fit, and it seems the least fit women wear the most elaborate active wear, people are staring at your saggy ass.
5) Tight clothing probably retards your ability to equilibrise body temperate.

There are even some men at my gym who wear tight flamboyant clothing; it's equally ridiculous. Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine.

I condone wearing very little clothing if one is doing cardio or other intense exercise. That's understandable.

I am female: I condone this behavior.	59
I am female: I reproach this behavior.	29
I am male: I condone this behavior.	82
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SangoNyappy

11 years ago

I've never been to gym and never plan to so I don't care.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  That's pretty sad.
  
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  - SangoNyappy
    
    11 years ago
    
    Why? Because I'm comfortable with my body?
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      No, because you are not the best you, you can be.
      
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      - SangoNyappy
        
        11 years ago
        
        what
        
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charli.m

11 years ago

There's this girl at my gym who wears skintight leggings with a pattern of bare muscles and ligaments etc. It freaks me the fuck out. She's thin as a twig, though. To be honest, I don't really take all that much notice of what the other women are wearing.

I wear baggy clothes that are comfortable and breatheable and easy to move in.

I go to gym that is only for women.

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- [Old Memory]
  
  11 years ago
  
  I've seen pictures of those type of leggings; that would be pretty trippy. O.o
  
  When I worked at a gym, my 42-year-old boss would have a workout on her lunch break. She would wear brightly coloured lycra shorts (normal enough), but with a thong unitard over top of the shorts. The unitard part looked like a bathing suit, but it wasn't, it was just the athletic style in the 80s. She was in really great shape.
  
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  - Anonymous Post Author
    
    11 years ago
    
    ha! But that sounds kind of awesome!
    
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    - [Old Memory]
      
      11 years ago
      
      Some men thought so.
      
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NeuroNeptunian

11 years ago

Those tight clothes don't hinder my movements. I have more difficulty working out in looser clothings because it flops around and during an especially intense workout, will rub my thighs raw.

I don't care about gaining attention. I'm there to work out. If I wanted attention, I'd put on a cocktail dress and go show my fine ass off at a club.

I get considerably hotter wearing my high school style gym clothes due to the friction of the clothing on itself and on me. I'm glad you know more about my body temperature and my individual needs than I do.

Obviously, you know the answer to your own question. If it irritates you, get over it or find yourself a private Gym. I'm not working out to please anyone but myself and I will dress as comfortably or as uncomfortably as I damned well please. That's the problem with going out into public, sir or ma'am, you kind of have to put up with the public part.

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- howaminotmyself
  
  11 years ago
  
  I agree. I prefer form fitting clothes during a workout, baggy clothes don't move with the body and I get tangled in them.
  
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  - NeuroNeptunian
    
    11 years ago
    
    Gah, and when I am lifting weights I sit down and the shorts don't stay in place so when I get up my leg peels off the plastic-leather benches =\
    
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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  I was not personally addressing you.
  
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  - NeuroNeptunian
    
    11 years ago
    
    Oh, well that changes everything.
    /sarcasm
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      Have you ever noticed that when you respond to topics, you often reply as if it was addressed to you specifically? As if I know you, or should care for your reasoning.
      
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      - NeuroNeptunian
        
        11 years ago
        
        If you don't care for anyone's reasoning then why did you post here? For your health? For accolades like noticing what people wear is an achievement? So that we'll all agree with you? (you must be new) If that's the case then I don't think I quite agree with YOUR reasoning.
        
        Now quit staring at my ass.
        
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        11 years ago
        
        I'm having a really funny thought about seeing this little spat going on between you two and then learning that you've got a fat ass IRL
        
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kingsleycrowne

11 years ago

It wouldn't really bother me if they were wearing tuxedos I'm just there to work out and when I work out I'm not focused on anything other than my personal goals.

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- BallsToWall
  
  11 years ago
  
  Exactly. Who cares what the rest of the people is doing at the gym, you should only care about yourself.
  
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  - Anonymous Post Author
    
    11 years ago
    
    should would could
    
    my point is that it's annoying and distracting to see people in Pom Pom shorts, see through shirts, and/or tights that get sucked into their anal cavities. I don't understand the fad. If was so necessary, men would be doing it too.
    
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    - [Old Memory]
      
      11 years ago
      
      And men are doing it, to a different extent. Many of us wear compression shorts: form-fitting, synthetic fabric boxer briefs. They're comfortable, allow for *better* temperature regulation and *better* range of motion. A lot of men wear compression shirts too, and those are comfortable too- also allow for better temperature regulation, they don't get soaked with sweat- but I think they're overkill.
      
      Guys wear gym shorts over compression shorts, while girls usually just wear those skin-tight leggings with nothing else over them. I think thats partially because shorts that fit like speedos are kind of obscene for men to wear in public. But it also reflects the overall status of women in society, and I think that's what you're driving at.
      
      Certainly some girls like going to the gym just to see the reactions they get as objects of desire. But lots of guys go to the gym dressed like douches just to get women's attention too. Thats how some people are. I don't see why it *bothers* you.
      
      What kind of irks me are those shoes that are designed to look like bare feet, with the toes and everything. Those are fucking weird.
      
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    - BallsToWall
      
      11 years ago
      
      How exactly is it distracting for you? I'm genuinely asking. How does it affect you? How does it affect your workout? I pretty much ignore everyone when I'm working out, I get into my own little world. Maybe you're more easily distracted. However the fact that it bothers you it's not their problem. They're not gonna start dressing differently because it bothers you. So you can either suck it up, or whine about it online forever. Not being mean, just my honest opinion btw.
      
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      - Anonymous Post Author
        
        11 years ago
        
        I am an easily distracted person, in fact, but that's beside the point. I am more interested behind the dynamics of that kind of behavior, and how it affects me socially. I was wondering if anyone else had these kinds of thoughts. I am not whining, and dont need to suck anything up.
        
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davesumba

11 years ago

There's a practical reason for wearing tight, form fitting clothing. It allows for a much wider and easier range of movement. Ask any track athlete with world records.
So get down off of your high horse and stop judging girls for wearing clothes that are specifically designed and sold to work out in.

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sograceful

11 years ago

Shove a dumbbell up your ass, stretchy clothes are comfy. When you're at the gym worry about your workout not the "fashion show" other people choose to put on.

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Darkoil

11 years ago

I love seeing a bit of 'camel toe' while I am working out.

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Jlkelley92

11 years ago

I actually find tight work out pants the easiest and most comfortable to work out in because loose kind rides up on me or moves around a lot causing it to interfere with my workout but the tight workout pants stay where they are supposed to and are sweat resistant. I honestly see more people with tight workout clothes over people with baggy and I don't understand why they would want to wear something so loose.

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scamps027

11 years ago

I like tighter fitting pants because I feel like it makes my legs look good. Alot of people do this because it makes themselves feel better about themselves so if you don't like it, then just don't look.

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intellectuallychallengedmaybe

11 years ago

not sure how to vote on this one, but its an interesting entry.

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[Old Memory]

11 years ago

I'm a guy and I wear compression shorts (form fitting) at the gym instead of boxers or underwear. They're comfortable, they give my boys support and they actually keep me cooler. So as for temperature regulation I don't think that tight clothes are necessarily bad, it depends on the material and such. Besides, its not as important for women to wear pants that will keep them totally cool while working out. For us guys, its bad news bears for our junk to get too hot, and that happens pretty easily.

To my knowledge most form fitting clothes don't restrict movement, if anything they allow more range of motion. However, there is a difference between *tight* clothes and *form-fitting* clothes. Assuming that we're talking about the form fitting leggings that some women wear to the gym, I don't think those impede performance. But I can't speak for strictly tight (but *not* form-fitting) clothes, like those slim cut yoga pants or whatever.

From my limited perspective, as a man, I don't think its much of a problem. And I'm saying that as objectively as possible.

Also, I don't know what gym you go to, but at my university's gym most of the girls wearing form-fitting pants are pretty attractive to say the least :]

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  I go to a gym in Chelsea and we all basically look like a bunch of homos(joke). I don't mean form fitting, I mean TIGHT, sheer OR excessively skimpy/flashy.
  
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  - [Old Memory]
    
    11 years ago
    
    I guess I don't understand the difference between TIGHT and form-fitting
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      For example, one woman had bright pink leggings; I could see her vagina through them. Lips, pubic bone shape, everything. She was just walking around like that's normal.
      
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      - [Old Memory]
        
        11 years ago
        
        I mean I understand what you are saying. I like it when I see fit women wearing extremely tight clothing at the gym. What you described is something that I see pretty often, and I think its really hot so I can't be objective. I'm just talking out of my ass
        
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Kiddles9

11 years ago

I personally just wear a t shirt and either yoga pants or shorts. Nothing to baggy or to tight. I don't like extremely baggy clothes because I find the fabric rubs up against my skin, and I don't wear to tight because personally I don't feel comfortable enough to wear tight tops. I don't know whether it is or isn't comfortable to wear skin tight because I never have. But it doesn't both me when other people wear skin tight clothing it's their body maybe they find that comfortable. I try focus on my work out and nothing else, other wise I'll get self conscious.
It really doesn't matter.

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