Debate users @Lidl Drip and @Mr Bones Wild Ride on if skintight leggings are appropriate workout attire.

This only really became a problem after fat acceptance and the MeToo bull hockey. I don't care if a woman is wearing tight clothing, I only care if it compliments their figure. Plus sized gals, good on ya for getting out there and working for a better body; just wear something flattering until ya don't look like a tightly wrapped sausage. Plus, a little mystery is sexier than showing it all off. I don't want to know how loose ya are by your cameltoe just as much as I don't want to see some gym bro's grower.
WHY DOES NOTHING FIT IN WOMENS' CLOTHING POCKETS
It's so they can pester their man to carry things for'm.
 
In a compound exercises maybe but that's okay you're not trying to isolate a muscle.
If you're finishing off a muscle / muscle group then you should do an isolation exercise.

Most time just using your mind and having decent form is enough to mostly target the muscle / muscle group you want.
and honestly it mostly doesn't matter unless you're trying to break records. A bad form in a squat is using your lower back to get the weight up, not your quads did a bit more work than your glutes on rep 12. you want to focus on more quads? Do Front squats with an Elevated heel. More hamstrings? Elevated toes. Glutes? Do a hip/glute Bridge before squats. You want to wear skimpy clothes fine by me. But don't pretend it's for form check and don't get mad when people stare at your attention-seeking outfit.
 
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On this "issue", if you can even call it that, I feel like whatever someone wants to wear to feel good about themselves and be happy, they should just go ahead and do it. As long as it's not extremely inappropriate or nasty or w/e...sexy clothes within reason on a good looking person? Hell yeah go for it. If you find yourself becoming Frustrated looking at a sexy lady then you are just living wrongly. you are supposed to enjoy looking at attractive things.

If you happen to be a jealous woman you must simply use the things that bring you jealousy as a tool to help motivate you to achieve a goal that will trivialize and eliminate the poisonous feeling. If you happen to be a frustrated man because a pretty lady won't give you attention and looking at them reminds you of that fact then that's a You Problem unfortunately and should never be taken out on others. These things can be fixed so that you are now others motivation, so that loneliness is no longer a concern. Then you will not care what others do and rather cheer them for partaking in the things that provide them with positive self-esteem. Negative feelings like jealousy or loneliness should not be something a person resigns themselves to remain soaking in...the tub must be drained. The more we all do this the happier overall we will be

idk, I am very pro- people doing things that bring them happiness and make them feel good about themselves. If someone chooses to remain in their misanthropic cocoon rather than seeking exit strategies and alternative avenues to happiness for themselves, I feel sorry for them but that is simply not The Way.
 
"The gym wasn't very popular with women historically"
"OH BUT YOU ARE WRONG, SEE, HERE ARE OLD PICTURES OF WOMEN IN THE GYM, THE EXISTENCE OF EXCEPTIONS DISPROVE THE RULE YOU SEE"

Cute. I knew you'd do that.:lol:

Lol, you didn't catch my edit, quick trigger boy.

And don't be disingenuous. You said:
The gym was pretty much a male safespace until 2011 ~ 2013 ish
You had to be a special type of person if you had a gym membership in the 2000s, it definitely wasn't something that was pushed as heavily as it is today, and certainly wasn't popular with women at all.

100% false. Just about every girl/woman I knew in the 80s and forward had gym memberships/went to the gym. And used the whole thing. And it wasn't unusual, reserved for the Bev Francises of the world, or anything other than fully coed. I do not know what is wrong with people right now.

Yours is literally the most anhistoric, retarded view I've read here in...at least 10 minutes.

And what's funny? In grad school (waaaaayyy back in the early/mid-90s) I had a friend who had been a college (DII) football starter (qb) - which is to say, fit, muscular, gym habitue. We went to the gym together and he trained me a bit on bigger weights, the "real" gym stuff. No, I was not trying to be a lifter, lol (not even at the level of the flabby male amateurs who follow a 4-hours-at-the-but-only-1-hour-of-actual-movement with a mcdouble value meal). It was recreation, but it was great to be there with someone who had spent much of his life as as a pretty damn good and accomplished athlete. And he offered, and he took me seriously as a human enough to guide and help me train. None of this "oh, stupid women" garbage and "ooh, I don't think you belong there" and "maybe you'd rather take a high impact step class.". Wasn't even a concept. And there was no "don't (or do) wear xyz so I am/won't be tempted to be turned inside-out with lust" bullshit. And yes, he might have been attracted to me, but attraction isn't inherently goony and creepy like people obsess over it now. Just so weird.

People seem so lost (and retarded) now. Your lame takes being exhibit 541.

Sorry but I do stare because if find it attractive @Friend of Dorothy Parker . I know it’s disrespectful but that’s how the male mind works, observation.
That wasn't my point; sorry if I wasn't clear. My point was it is ad and dumb to blame and moralize about women as "temptresses" for wearing workout clothes when working out. ...Which was not what I thought you were saying, but it was what the original (non-kf) comment said.

And rest assured women have also checked men out at the gym.
 
Most of those literally don't, thought. Do you actually tell people you went to the gym when you went to play basketball? You're more pedantic than a redditor and have about the same level of intelligence as one.
Why are there basketball courts in the gym unless people use them? Cause I have been going to gyms since the year 2000 (age 10); and the Durham Y (both locations), the UNC wellness center at Meadowmont, the Joseph Campbell Sports Center at Sarah Lawrence, the Equinox locations at Back Bay and Boston Common, and the employee gym at Boston Medical Center all had a half-court, if not a full court (Durham Y at Lakewood actually had two courts.)

So you’ve moved the goalposts yet again. Are you able to move anything else? Like idk, can you lift?
You're going full yenta, I see.



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Eta: I -a normal woman - have been going to "real" gyms and doing "real gym" stuff since the 80s. And it was never weird or unusual - what century are you in? Where the fuck else are you supposed to work out with weights and machines?

Are you old enough to be posting here?
Nah Dorothy you don’t get it, unless you can post literally half a billion photos of women lifting weights prior to 2013 you haven’t met this idiot’s burden of evidence and the gym was always a male safe space. Never mind that my mom was going to the gym in the 90’s, that you were probably going to the gym around the same time, or that most every college has an undergraduate fitness credit requirement that involves going to the gym. None of that counts because this twit said so, doncha see?
Why do @Mr Bones Wild Ride and @derpherp2 have such similar profile pics?

Also the only thing I've gleaned from this thread is my strategy to never perceive other humans in the gym is a winning one. Who cares about what people are dressed like when my eyes are staunchly affixed to the floor, ceiling, weights and machines?
What do you think all the TVs are for? (Cause I actually don’t know, I get fucken nauseous trying to use a cardio machine and watch TV at the same time.)
 
What do you think all the TVs are for? (Cause I actually don’t know, I get fucken nauseous trying to use a cardio machine and watch TV at the same time.)
Obviously they were put there and designed into the machines to help eliminate the monotony of cardio workouts. I've never paid much attention to them due to music, podcasts/audiobooks and my own thoughts being far more interesting than anything random Television programing can offer. Your case does remind me of how reading during long car drives tend to make people sick due to the bodily disconnect between the motion of the car and the static nature of a words on a page.
 
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Do you think I am incapable of reading?
That - "these thots are responsible for my mental weakness" - is the problem.
It is not mental weakness, it is a physiological response hard wired in men. I'd argue in women too. I suspect you are playing dumb as to the sort of attire we are talking about.
You don't have to "approve" of a woman who may or may not be spilling out of a sports bra or wearing ass-enhancing shorts or leggings while working out (or even puposelessly walking around the lifting area in full beat in between 3-pound curls). But you (the general you) are responsible for your own reaction to a situation. And "her clothes ruined my self-control" is weak. Feel uncomfortably heated up? Look at a book or the ceiling or your own form instead of the girl. Unless she's sticking her tits (li-ter-al-ly) under your nose, you have options. Self control.
Dumb. No one is losing self control, but men will look at these thots dressed this way, and these same thots have the gall to flaunt around in an obscene manner and then accuse men of being "creepers" for looking.
If the clothes are of a type (not bikinis nor ballgowns nor chain mail nor a meatsuit) that is made for the gym, that woman is fine.
Really? Is it fine if her nipples were protruding while showing lots and lots of cleavage, or if her ass cheeks are presented like a baboon's butt while in heat? What about a camel toe, replete with a bit of moisture to accentuate? You really expect men not to notice, to not take a glance at that? Even if a man does have the discipline not to, it is still a psychic toll to deliberately not look at something that you are hard wired to notice. I mention it often--men's eyes dilate, as an involuntary response, at the sight of a naked woman, just as women's eyes dilate at the site of a baby. Men and women are different.
...I fucking HATE muscle shirts, but there's a difference between thinking, "ugh, yuck, those sucked 35 years ago wtf is wrong with you no one looks good in them and ffs cut that scraggly mullet plus your Versace-clone Axe is giving me a headache and your chin-drool is disgusting so I'm going to find a different treadmill," and/vs taking some moral stance that men without taste should be banned from wearing what is colorably gym wear at a gym bc "they are so offensive I no longer feel comfortable at the gym lest my (aesthetic) sensibilities be offended."

...Or if some drip is ridiculously wearing chains and a rhinestone-encrusted fake Rolex at the gym, it would be retarded to insist that he is immoral because he is advertising false wealth and those young women who are (naturly) helplessly turned on by money will be unable to finish their elliptical rotations due to the loin-stirring distraction.
Incredibly stupid, irrelevant analogies that don't bear the barest scrutiny at all.
Video depicting what I am getting at:


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Edit: and here is Sugar Tits on the matter (Bearing's wife)
 
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I kind of see it both ways.

Wearing skinny tight fitting clothes is objectively the right thing to wear when working out. It is just way more practical, and if dudes cant control themselves then they need a lobotomy. That being said, my experience is that people who lift wear these clothes more to show off their bodies and compare themselves to each other. Look at how people who lift dress compared to people who, say, play badminton or handball. There is definitely a gym-culture of dressing to look at your self in the mirror, which is vain, fake and gay. I don't think it is a coincidence that so many bodybuilders troon out. They were always in love with their own mirror image, and they were always shooting up hormones. They just switch the T for the E.

There is a balance between taking care of your self and being obsessed with yourself.
 
To the ugly girl in the gym built like a bag of dry dog food, this is for you. If you get in my way or any other athlete way again I’ll through your yoga mat across the gym AGAIN.
I mati'd you but not seriously. Have you met the What grinds your gears thread?
This is a quote from professional MMA fighter Anthony "Rumble" Johnson.
Why do @Mr Bones Wild Ride and @derpherp2 have such similar profile pics?
They were arguing in the "Debate gypsy @AgendaPoster and his gay entourage about... stuff" thread and bones kept changing avatars.
 
everyone here is missing the fact that bones lives in straya where people walk around almost naked all the time in bikinis and shorts but in other more northern parts of the planet you actually have to cover up due to cold or cultural habits so when someone walks around almost naked with skintight clothing and everything popping up even the most frigid tunnel woman will stare because is rare this goes both ways( male and female) btw due to the trend of breathable skintight clothing in the gym.
 
Really? I’m bored to death. I don’t even dislike any of you but I really wish you all would slapfight less and shitpost more.
The nature of the medium precludes an end to flame wars so long as jannies stay away and both sides are willing to no-sell everything and never stop responding. This can be tiresome but it can also lead to pure gold pretty regularly
 
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