Clothing in the gym

[Sapiens]

I have seen this going around - do you agree with him?

I think I do, I really don't understand the current trend of ridiculously small shorts shoved right into arse cracks and bandeau bras for working out.

I go to the gym 2/3 times a week and feel no need to dress like this.

Or, are they just 'dressing for themselves?'

I wear a longline sports bra and running shorts in the gym, occasionally trunk type shorts too. I'm always hot, and I don't like having loose material flapping around when I'm running or lifting weights.

If anybody doesn't want to look, they can look at something else or maybe just get on with their own workout. I'm not asking anybody to pay any attention to me at all, and provided I'm comfortable I don't care whether they do or not provided they leave me alone.

Me too. I’m a straight woman but I am transfixed by them (not in a judgmental/sexual way just how they work) when I’m on the rower as the running machine position makes the scrunch bit in my eyeline and if I look down I’ll get a sore neck. There’s one woman who goes and I think the stitching has gone wrong and it looks like she’s put them on and then shoved her finger in her bum hole to make the effect more “arresting”.

I don't think knitting is for any man lacking self control. Handling not one but two phallic shapes and putting them in and out of holes constantly. What on earth are you thinking 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I agree that there is a lot of athletic wear aimed at women that is not designed for exercise but if a woman wants to wear that knowing she's not being properly supported then that's her business. When I am in the gym I'm focusing on my workout and that's all I have the energy to do.

It's mostly pretty normal clothing where I am. The odd woman in skin tight, brightly coloured stuff or those ridiculous bum scrunch shorts but not enough to get worked up about. It's gym clothing, not Armageddon. If the guy doesn't want to see them, he could modify his own behaviour and go at quieter times. Nobody is obliged to change the surroundings to his preference. He clearly hasn't got respect for women to be such a knob about their clothing anyway.

I go to several gym classes and l have never seen these before. They look revolting

This is almost outing because I am so vocal about it in real life - I absolutely hate that somehow we've convinced women and girls that being "free to wear anything" seems to require wearing tight clothes. I hate that on PE days the boys wear trackies or baggy shorts and the girls wear leggings or tight shorts - my tween is not in the slightest bit sexualised in her leggings but the message we're sending frustrates me endlessly. And this has been going on since she was a toddler. For years I forced her into trackies anyway, but I can't anymore. She wants to wear what the others wear AND buying trackies for tween girls in plain black is almost impossible....unless I want to buy boys ones, which again, DD doesn't want. We had a pair with a ridiculous pink stripe (pink = girls, you know) but at least she wore those. They're too small now sadly.

So I'm ALL for fighting back against this at a wider, societal level.

BUT... that doesn't change the fact that if a woman is wearing lycra, and it's tight and/or revealing and she feels comfortable in that, she 100% has the right to do that and men must stop with their whining about how it makes them uncomfortable. Stop invading women's spaces with your bodies and your eyes and let them get on with it.

Edited to add: the saddest bit about it is how often women who, in my opinion, are really attractive with lovely figures, don't actually look GOOD in these outfits. The ones who are slim but wobbly, for example. They're gorgeous and womanly but would look better in something else. But perhaps that's just me.

Never seen those leggings before but 🤮🤮🤮🤮 just why?!

Some men, and women for that matter, don't know where to put their eyes when half clad women workout in the gym

You keep your eyes in your head and don't look at the others person body. Honestly it isn't hard.

I don't think I've ever been in the gym where the machines have been facing the free weight area or that close to another machine where someone's arse would be in direct eyeline (ie a rower directly behind a stair climber)

The machines and the mats/weights in the gym my son goes to are in rows. It's absolutely possible that someone on the mats with free weights has their back facing a machine in the way @SiriAlexa describes.

@CatamaranViper

At our gym the rowing machines all face towards the main gym floor and directly at a weight machine area, then beyond it to towards stair climbers and other equipment like that. The screens on the rowing machine are low and small. The person on the machine (I use them too) will look at the screen to check rating, distance, etc, but may also gaze beyond it and of course one’s back will be straight and eyes forward.

The weights machines at our gym all look directly at the stair climbers. Actually there are loads of places in our gym where this could happen, ie. sitting in a fixed position with eyes forward, and looking towards others in the gym.

I don't like his "woe is me" tone but can we stop pretending not wanting to see arse cracks and fanny flaps makes you a rape apologist. I'd be most put out if the men in my gym started wearing shorts that pulled thier bum cheeks apart and perfectly showed the outline of thier cock and balls.

You don't have to like it but they're not obliged to dress to please you. Practise the ancient art of looking somewhere else. Isn't there a screen on the cardio machines? A mirror to watch your form in the weights section? Yes, there's a temptation to stare - overcome it! You're disciplined enough to be at the gym!

I'd never heard of scrunch bum leggings until now. Are they from the porn world?

You think a woman working out is equal to soft porn 😂 if men get turned on by a woman in shorts and a work out top that’s on them - women aren’t responsible for men’s libidos

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what makes teenage boys hard - i mean ewww

There's a difference between wearing clothes that make you feel cool and having your tits hanging out and your arse crack in everyone's face.

Personally I feel it's a good of the man to say it. Many men don't actually want this infront of them, they know what kind of tone it sets.

My 10 year old goes to the gym and I sit in the waiting area watching him. Personally ( and im really no prude) I find it weird that he has to encounter women literally looking like they've dressed up for the bedroom.

I'd guess they're trying to acclimatise for hotter weather... I wear extra layers for my main sport to compensate for the difference between Scotland and central Europe...

I doubt it, they're not THAT filthy. They're just stupid looking shorts/leggings with padding on the bum and ruching at the crack. They look absolutely ridiculous and we will all be laughing at them in a few years (except for those of us who are laughing at the things now). But at the end of the day, they are just bad fashion. They're not a moral issue. People who wear them have crap dress sense, nothing more. People who get outraged at them like they're demonic are much more of a problem.

Eh?? Loads of women complain that men shouldn’t wear speedos, especially older or overweight men. There are quite regular threads on it, usually triggered by someone moaning about French swimming pool rules. Ditto cycling shorts or any other tight sport-specific clothing.

Of course anyone can wear whatever they like.. and some people like to wear overly sexual clothes and be looked at.

having your tits hanging out and your arse crack in everyone's face.

You see women at the gym with their tits hanging out and their arse cracks up in everyone's faces? Really?

Maybe you should move a little further away...

Thanks. I didn't like to google it Just people on here talking about how they emphasise the anus etc made it sound like they were porn-y. I guess it's part of the same aesthetic as the Kardashian big arse/butt-lift thing (which I thought was pretty much over, but what do I know, I'm old).

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Yep that's what I said.

They look desperate for attention. I have a very good figure and I'm curvy in all the right places. Would I see fit to have more of my titties on show that not ? Not at the gym no.

Women wearing a crop top and shorts at the gym is in no way comparable to porn, it’s not women’s responsibility to change what they wear because he gets turned on easily.

I am more bothered by all the women in brightly coloured patterned leggings they are an intimidating bunch.

as far as the porn claim goes that is on the looker not the wearer. I have been naked in saunas with other people and there is nothing sexual at all.