Fitness Fashion: What Does Your Gym Outfit Say About You?
- WRKOUT:MODE
- Feb 5
- 4 min read
Updated: Feb 12
There are some obvious reasons for wearing fitness clothing in the gym, such as sweat wicking qualities to help keep your clothing as dry as possible and your skin comfortable to reduce irritation, or structured design in footwear to help prevent injury.
However, not everyone is necessarily as concerned with the function of their outfit, as they are with the aesthetics, instead preferring to get their sweat on in style rather than dressing appropriately for each gym session - no judgement here, we promise!
The question is, when it comes to fitness fashion, what does your gym outfit say about you, if anything at all?
Let’s explore some common examples:
#1 - ‘The Fashion Footwearer’
If you’re coming to the gym to run, lift weights or train and you’re wearing the latest Alexander McQueen trainers (for example), you probably didn’t get the memo or are just not that concerned with the benefits that professional specialist footwear can bring to your session.
Fashion footwear generally refers to lifestyle trainers, designer sports shoes and other fashionable options that (originally) may have been made for the gym when they first launched – for example, the Air Max 1987 aka Air Max 1 – but technology has since evolved and now we have access to a variety of training shoes designed to be used for all forms of exercise.
#2 - ‘The Outdoor Ranger’
This person will come to the gym in everything from construction boots to heavy maintenance gloves, to a huge feather-down coat with a woolly hat, and denim jeans.
Likely to be someone who has either stopped off at the gym after work, or someone trying to get in a few bench press or squat reps before going in to work for the day.
#3 - ‘The Hoodie and Cap Trainer’
Low-key, incognito and probably does not want to be noticed, this person is usually at the gym for serious business. These folks are either celebrities or are just attempting to sneak in, train for 2hrs and leave without interruption.
"...train for 2hrs and leave without interruption."
#4 - ‘The Gym Bro / Gym Sis’
When it comes to actual fitness attire that is coordinated and part of an outfit, whether team sports, athletics or some other kind of sports club, these people are either aspiring pros, semi-pros or actual pros.
These gym users are serious about what they do and it reflects in their attire, literally all the gear and all the idea.
#5 - ‘The Gym Mis-match-erciser’
They may be a beginner and early into their fitness journey, otherwise, this is someone who literally does not care what they wear and potentially gets dressed for the gym in the dark to further add to the element of surprise when they arrive.
They are probably just as shocked as everyone else at the non-existent coordination of their fitness attire!
#6 - ‘The Casual Non-performer-wearer’
These would be your ‘Athleisure’ and ‘Streetwear’ (Tech fleece) attendees, purely there ‘for the ‘gram’, to capture content and look like they are serious.
Their heart is in the right place, just need to get them onto a piece of fitness equipment to actually workout and possibly break a sweat!
Summary
Whether you’re looking for support (e.g.: sports bras and compression tops etc), comfort, temperature regulation or pure performance, there are a plethora of reasons for deciding to wear what you do when going to the gym.
When it comes to fitness fashion, we don’t judge, just wear what makes you happy, wear what makes you feel good, wear what allows you to train at your best and helps you to get into your own kind of WRKOUTMODE!
Let us know in the comments which of these 'modes' describes you!
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