Wearing glasses and exercise

My MIL had cataract surgery a few years back. She'd worn glasses since she about 5. She didn't need her glasses for distance afterwards, but did find she needed reading glasses and it was a pain to take them on and off. She got a pair of varifocals with reading at the bottom and plain at the top. I couldn't get used to her without glasses either 😆

Ahhhh just seen the date and realised this is an old thread.

Advice still stands for anyone asking the question but OP I’m so pleased for you surgery went well and your glasses free.

Exercise - just wear them as normal. I do have some neoprene bands that can be used for running etc to stop them
slipping.

Swimming - specsavers do off the shelf prescription googles (you may have to compromise your sight a little!) £25 last time I brought them.

and by the compromise your sight you may have to buy -5.00 if your -4.50 and -6 in different eyes for example.

Do you swim in your lenses @damekindness?
I never have as I was told not to due to infection risk, be interested to know your experience. I just swim blind lol. My near vision is tolerable but my distance is dreadful.
For pilates I don't use glasses or lenses, I put my lenses in for most other activities, but I would go without if I couldn't. You do see lots of people in glasses in the gym and classes, I just find it easier without.

Sorry just realised this is an old thread

Thanks for the update. I noticed the thread is old only after I posted. I was browsing the "active" section so dont know why I found it.

Still wondering how shortsighted you were because my prescription is -10 I dont know anyone so shortsighted.
I dont have that much of a problem either with exercise or walking around places I know without glasses on.

If you had cataract surgery, surely you weren’t allowed to go swimming during the recovery period anyway?

If your glasses fit well you’ll be fine, even swimming.

I am -10 in both eyes with severe astigmatism and if I didn’t wear them I literally wouldn’t be able to see a thing.

I am not sure what is it you are after. People just wear their glasses while exercising. They dont do anything special.

You can buy a little stopper things to put on the end of your frames.

Actually I mostly do yoga without glasses and lot of it with eyes closed. Depends on what we are doing in the session.

How very shortsighted are you?

Apart rom swimming I do my sport with glasses on /figure skating, various dance, yoga, cycling, skiing/

Just wondering - do you wear contact lenses when swimming? Do you manage to keep your eyes completely dry with goggles?

I wear my glasses for everything except yoga (always slip in downward dog etc) and swimming (my eyesight is not that bad I can't see a whole person in the water). I don't swim much anyway. Don't have too much trouble with slippage in other exercise.

I used to use contacts for exercise but these days just wear my glasses for everything except swimming (tennis, running, cycling and fitness classes). The only issue I've had is cycling in the rain, which a cap mitigates somewhat.

For swimming (which I do very rarely) I have a fairly cheap pair of goggles that come in different dioptres - they're off-the-shelf but they do the job for occasional use.

Be really careful about swimming in Contacts even after you’re healed OP. You can get very nasty conditions even leading to blindness from swimming in contacts.

I have some really light metal aviator frames that seem to be the only glasses that don't give me sensory issues.

The aviator style means they are less flimsy than metal frames are usually, and they don't seem to get steamed up. The nose pads mean they don't fall down my face, and the lightweight metal means they don't dig in.
I'm so glad that aviators are actually on trend too.
I have loads of pairs of glasses but these are probably the ones that I'd recommend for exercise, or if you are used to wearing contacts like I did for decades.
Asda opticians are also really good value, so the whole thing with prescription lenses and thinned etc is included in the price.

These ones specifically
https://opticians.asda.com/glasses/details/victoria-grey-london-for-men-vgm103-blue-gun-55x18

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I wear my glasses for pretty much everything. As a pp says put a hat on for running to keep the rain off.

I wear contacts for climbing so I can see properly all the way round - I guess I would probably wear them if I played squash or tennis? Otherwise I cannot see round the outside of my glasses!

I always wear my glasses when exercising. A sports headband helps to keep them in place once you get sweaty or you can get sports straps that attach on.

You can get sports straps to hold them on closely at the back of the head.

Not so much for OP's activities, but there are also prescription sports goggles that are better for sports such as football which arw better designed for a risk of impact for the wearer and the glasses.

I was in this situation a few months ago, with the additional annoyance of having lost a lot of weight so my frames were suddenly too big for my face to the point they couldn't be made to fit. Luckily my prescription wasn't very strong (-2.5) so I could take them off briefly when they really wouldn't stay on (yoga was the main offender here), and I also found that a fabric headband/running buff type thing worn over my ears helped hold them on and stop them bouncing around for sweatier/jumpier activities.

If you only ever wear contacts, suddenly having to wear glasses full time is quite the adjustment, which full time glasses wearers won't understand.