Workout Do or Don't? Wearing Shapewear to Exercise (I Did It but

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Would you ever wear shapewear to exercise? We turn to shapewear to smooth out lines under our clothes—so why not at the gym too? There are plenty of brands that come with built-in shapewear (some of them even say their styles will slim you to an entire size smaller)—and, because they're made for sweat, they have flexible fabrics that wick away moisture. For me, comfort is the No. 1 thing I consider in workout gear. I don't want anything that rides up, falls down, or puckers or rolls in any way whatsoever. I hate tugging on clothes when I'm trying to work out, and I don't like feeling constricted. So that's pretty much why I've always shied away from anything that might have sucking-in capabilities. But I surprised myself when I turned to a shapewear leotard thing for my morning run today. It was more of a MacGyver kind of moment: My cold-weather running pants felt too low and slippy on my hips, and I knew I was going to be irritated and messing with them while jogging. My solution was the shapewear, which ended up providing a kind of traction for my pants that kept them exactly where they
Would you ever wear shapewear to exercise? We turn to shapewear to smooth out lines under our clothes—so why not at the gym too? There are plenty of brands that come with built-in shapewear (some of them even say their styles will slim you to an entire size smaller)—and, because they're made for sweat, they have flexible fabrics that wick away moisture. For me, comfort is the No. 1 thing I consider in workout gear. I don't want anything that rides up, falls down, or puckers or rolls in any way whatsoever. I hate tugging on clothes when I'm trying to work out, and I don't like feeling constricted. So that's pretty much why I've always shied away from anything that might have sucking-in capabilities. But I surprised myself when I turned to a shapewear leotard thing for my morning run today. It was more of a MacGyver kind of moment: My cold-weather running pants felt too low and slippy on my hips, and I knew I was going to be irritated and messing with them while jogging. My solution was the shapewear, which ended up providing a kind of traction for my pants that kept them exactly where they