To ask why people feel the need to shop in their gym clothes?

[ChiefOfStaph]

I'm sure it has been asked before but as the title says...why do people feel the need to walk around shops in their sweaty gym clothes?

Do so many people not have time to shower and change after a workout but then manage to find the time to walk around shops? Are they the same people who like to take selfies in gyms to post on social media?

I suppose each to their own and at least gym clothes are better than pyjamas!

I'm assuming you're not getting up close and personal with these gym clad individuals.

Relatively fresh sweat doesn't smell does it? Sex is a sweaty business isn't it.

And I actually wear gym clothes almost every day for the school run.

1. I might get time for gym
2. Even if Im not going It is quicker than ironing stuff when running late.

Always washed and presentable for pick up though.

Because I don’t want a foot full of verucas by showering at the gym when I could just go home and shower at my leisure after I nip to the shops. Terribly sorry OP, I shall do body pump in my Chanel suit and heels from now on.

Don't belong to a gym, never have done. But I do run marathons/half marathons, triathlon, rowing - all outdoor sports for which I train outdoors and get sweaty and then make my way home, sometimes stopping at a shop on the way, before I have a shower and collapse. HTH

Never noticed. What I do notice is health care workers out and about in uniform on their way to work. My Mum said they had to come to the hospital in their own clothes and then change into uniform.

I prefer to be sweaty in my gym clothes at the shops because then it shows that I have been working out and am not just parading around in my gym clothes for no reason.

And I am usually in the shops in sweaty gym clothes because my gym has no shower and I am on my way home.

I wouldn't go clothes shopping in my sweaty gym clothes right enough, that would be horrible.

I call at the shops on my way back from a run.
I do get the wearing gym clothes if you've not been or going to the gym . I've been in the pub on a Saturday night and 2 girls dressed for the gym sat drinking . I'd not do that but each to their own .

I work my runs around the supermarket shop.

I go for a run then call in and do my shop on the way home, just trying to do my bit to save the planet.

For full disclosure, no I can't take the bus (we don't have any), I live in the arse end in nowhere so have to drive, I shop at Aldi so much cheaper than an internet shop, I'm sweaty but not smelly

I go in to the shops in my riding gear. Even if I changed, I'd still stink. Least with the riding clothes it makes sense.

I guess I could go home, have another shower, wasting water, using more petrol, etc just to go into the shops. But I thought mumsnet loved trying to save the planet? Can't have it both ways. Pick one, save resources or waste them.

I often stop at the shops on my way home from a run or put running kit on in the morning and end up wearing it all day before running in the eve it is not indecent, I'm not sure how or why my attire affects anyone elses shopping experience....?

I live in a village which us 5 miles from the nearest town - where both the gym and supermarket are. It makes sense and is better for the environment if I shop straight after going to the gym. The showers at my gym are useless and it takes forever to wash your hair in the trickle so I prefer to shower at home.

My gym doesn't have showers and is within a 1 minute drive from 3 supermarkets and various shops. 9/10 I drive straight home to get showered, but one the on the occasion where I need a pint of milk or loaf of bread etc I nip into one of the supermarkets

I wear job type clothes/yoga pants most days cause they're comfortable as hell plus I walk my dog, a lot, so its convenient and I'm not sweaty. Most people who work out I'm sure would prefer to shop after gym and then head home rather then go home, shower and then go back out again, it would be pretty pointless imo.

My gym is next to a supermarket. I usually call in the supermarket either before or after going to the gym. I hardly sweat so don't feel any particular need to change until I get home.

I just went to the local supermarket in my gym clothes. DS came with me in his PE kit (which he’s been wearing all day). On the way there (and in the shop) we saw loads of people very similarly dressed (including kids from his school also in PE kit).

They’re just clothes. Comfortable ones. I did a Pilates class hours ago but haven’t changed or showered because I was neither sweaty nor stinky afterwards.

I often wear lycra leggings and an oversized jumper. I very sporadically run and never go to the gym. If someone looks at me and gets offended in the supermarket because I look like I've been working out... well then I'm winning because at least someone thinks I've been exercising!

Am I the same? One of these people that go to the supermarket after mucking out in the horses?? Smelling of eau de horse, hay in my hair and snot on my shoulder

I don't care, I haven't got time to go home and shower after gym or horses before going shopping

Not only are gym clothes better than pyjamas, they are better than people who never exercise wearing leggings or tracksuit bottoms.

I thought it was a Karcrashian thing

I think I'd give people nightmares if I uploaded a selfie of me in gym stuff 🥴

Of all the things to criticise and moan about OP, you couldn't find anything better than this? Not an exerciser, are we OP?

You do realise some people might go to the supermarket before they go to the gym? Or that some people actually exercise outwith a gym environment? I cycled to the supermarket today, which meant I entered it in running tights, because I wear them for cycling in.

I generally find that people who make these sort of comments aren't that well dressed themselves and mistake shapeless tops and those odd looking canvas knee length short for being well dressed. And gym clad people aren't the ones who smell in the supermarket...

Because I walk 5km to the gym, do a workout, and a swim, so I'm carrying the towel and togs for a swim, then do the supermarket on the way home, carrying the wet towel and togs, plus what I get from the supermarket. I'm obviously not going to add makeup, and streetwear to the load I'm carrying 5km home after a work out.

Plus I really couldn't give a shit what anyone other than people I actually know and care about think about how I'm dressed and look.

(Oh, and I love seeing Eau de Horse people out and about, they're my tribe. I always want to ask them about where they ride/what they ride, where they livery. . .)

Because they want to.

Depends what you mean by ‘in their gym clothes’? Clean workout clothes because they like them? Totally fine. Sweaty gym clothes because you desperately need a snack or have realised there’s no loo roll at home after a workout? Probably not ideal but also fine. Wearing your sweaty gym clothes around the shopping mall? Not fine.

Most of the school mums wear gym gear for school run also which I don't get why