What do you generally wear to the gym?

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I’m at quite a trendy gym and feel like only one of a few people who don’t wear super tight hot pants and a bra style top to the gym. I don’t want people ogling me or to look like I’m going to a pole class instead of the gym.

Equally though, I think wearing my old scruffs perhaps means I don’t feel my best either. I guess I’d like a middle ground but would be interested to know what others are wearing as I feel like the only one who doesn’t want 80% of my body on show most of the time!

Leggings and oversized t shirt. Don’t care what anyone else is wearing or what they think about what I’m wearing

Gym vest, Gym bra and leggings. Always keep the vest on. 💪Always.

Cropped leggings, sports bra, loose racer-back vest. All in sports fabrics. All black. Cannot stand exercising in ordinary cotton t-shirts or vests.

Leggings, industrial sports bra and high neck oversized tank top, I get too warm for a t-shirt

Oversized gym shark t shirt and leggings or cycling shorts for me. I still have my makeup on from work as I go to the gym in the evening and I’m not going to be washing my face until after the gym. I don’t really care what anyone thinks about this, I just focus on what I’m doing tbh

I’m leggings and a t-shirt. I’m not sure if it’s been said but there are some gyms where things like ringworm etc are rife so I refuse to have skin touching the equipment. Although I clean equipment I know not everyone does. The women look fab and good for them if they feel comfortable but it’s not for me. Social media has everything to do with it as per but I’m all for the more people we can get working out the better.

I usually wear leggings and a sport bra, in summer shorts and a sports bra. I get really sweaty as my go to is 40 mins as fast as I can on the bike so I need something that won't flap around or be drenched in sweat. I also feel that I've worked hard for my body to look how it does and noone really sees it other than in the gym so I like to show it off! If I see some one with a great phisique I admire it not ogle it.

I don’t do any ogling, and I don’t notice others doing it either - thank god, lol. Generally everyone is focusing on themselves and what they are doing. Well, apart from the power lifter types, but I don’t go to that part of the gym! I wear lululemon, or SB 3/4 leggings mostly and a fitted top (not a cropped bra top generally), as that’s what I like to wear. Thankfully there are all sorts in my gym and I have never seen posing, full make-up etc there, but I assume my gym is not fertile insta ground, lol.

I don’t understand full make up - you are there to work which means getting sweaty, make up would slide off 😂🤦‍♀️

I wear cropped leggings and a technical t-shirt. I do a lot of things like mountain climbers so it needs to be fairly fitted to stop it from sliding up and flashing everything!

Sweaty Betty leggings and occasionally jogging bottoms, gym tshirt ( M&S ) but I don’t go to a showy gym , and I do a lot of daytime classes which tend to be a mix of mums and pensioners lol

Just to clarify that no, I don’t ogle anyone. And yes people are free to wear what they want.. however I do often notice some men at my gym ogling the ladies who wear very little and personally if that were me I would be very uncomfortable. If they don’t care, more power to them!

I have had comments or just people trying to test the waters with me in regular clothing and that’s uncomfortable enough for me. Not to mention I’d find it a sensory thing too having bare skin out everywhere.

didnt mean to come off judgmental though, I just never saw people in my area of the gym (not a heavy cardio space) so decked out in makeup and like a previous poster said, scrunch bum tiny shorts that leave little to the imagination and low cleavage push up bras before the social media landscape was how it is.

but then I think some people at my gym do treat it as a fashion parade and some of them are filming with tripods and what not and don’t seem to care if others are in the background.

Leggings, loose and baggy racer back vest top over a sports bra. An old hoody or sweatshirt over the top to arrive and go home in. Im jot a cannot the camel toe unitary look...plus too fat and old for it!

Leggings, sporta bea, sweat wicking vest, long line runnig t shirt. In summer I will swap for shorts and a racer back vest.

Wearing make up to the gym sounds fairly insane.

The Sports Direct sweat wicking T-shirts & shorts that I used to go running in.

The only time I pay attention to what people are wearing at the gym are when I want to know what the writing says on their tops.

I wear leggings (sweaty Betty) and a loose fitting sports tshirt, often from under armour, also have a couple from primark which are surprisingly good. I switch to shorts in summer, but I would never wear a crop top or anything that showed my belly. Not in a million years.

Squat proof leggings and t shirt for me, often with a baseball cap. Make up would melt off my face and feel horrible. I like to get in, get the job done and get home.

If I go to gym straight from work, I don't take my make up off. I would expect most people are in same position and they don't actually put make up on specifically for gym.

CRZ leggings and a sports tshirt. I've got some llama leisure leggings too - basically something with a pocket for my phone and locker key. I've got cropped leggings, I'm not ready for shorts yet though. I have googled various smaller tops while looking at other people's logos in the gym but I haven't found anything with sufficient coverage that'll do for the summer.

There's a full range in the gym of >70 yo lady in the smallest sports bra I've ever seen, a man knocking 80 who wears a wolf fleece, all the gym bros, some teenager who wears a beanie hat and a hoody with the hood up all the time, and a bunch of dance school girls with contoured make up/hair gelled buns/off the shoulder sports bras. Whatever I wear isn't going to stand out.

I don’t go in the evenings. I think some people really do ‘dress up’ for the gym which is why I find it so strange! False eyelashes and all 🧐

I go in the early morning on WFH days & since I only live a few mins walk away, I go home in my kit & shower when I get back. It works nicely.

I suspect that the 6am crowd might be less bothered about makeup & being instagrammable anyway.

This is why I prefer the gym at the local leisure centre, all ages, shapes and sizes, some of the trendier gyms I got sick of waiting for equipment while people took pouty selfies, barely broke a sweat and then left

Leggings and Tshirts. Nothing to distract me, leggings and sports bra underneath are the most effective things to work out comfortably, but my loose tshirt means I don't have bare skin on the mat/don't worry about how I look.

I wear M&S leggings, and one of my half dozen Primark cotton T-shirts. At my gym, there’s a full range on women, from very baggy old tracksuit bottoms to skin-tight bare-midriff designer stuff, with a few who wear those weird bum hole leggings. Men mostly seem to wear shorts of some sort and racer back vests.

I wear my old M&S jog/rugby pants & big Tesco tee-shirts.

Nobody looks at me nor I them.

Frankly I don’t give a toss.

Yeah I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. This is the crux of it. I love the gym as it’s local to me, walkable, modern, offers things other gyms don’t etc.. but it definitely fits that brief. There is an older gym a bit further out which was more of a leisure centre too and fits the description you said!