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Add to FavoritesFor starters, I'll state that I am an athlete and working out is a day-to-day basis kind of thing. When I work out I usually where a t-shirt and jogging pants or a tank top and jogging pants.
The reason for wearing pants is that I learned over the years that you become lighter on your feet with heavier garments. This is a fact because when ever I run a mile around the track in sweat pants/sweat suit in five minutes and thirty seconds, I can do it in four minutes and ten seconds in my uniform at my track meets. It honestly works; when your body adapts to the weight, you lose more weight, but you also gain endurance and stamina.
If you always worked out like this, in a couple of weeks time you will be able to go further, and longer (and I don't just mean around a track or on a treadmill). Your body gets stronger and you start to feel absolutely great or greater when you remove those clothes and have a look at yourself. Trust that isn't peachy cake at the beginning but once you get into the hang of it it'll start to show promise.
To me, running in shorts aren't bad, but I'm looking for the more beneficial route which would be, for me, wearing pants.
Look at it this way: (and this is just an example here) five pound loss: running in shorts, two miles, everyday for a month; Five pound loss: running in pants, two miles, everyday for three weeks. There's a difference. And the difference indeed counts on if you're working hard. Not two miles a day, half a mile every two hours. No way, it won't be that effective that fast.
Exercising with pants on is effective also (cardio, aerobic). Like I said before, the heavy garment (or heavier than shorts) makes you sweat. When you sweat from working you can tell that your body is losing something. Salt and fat. Basically.
Test yourself. Do a week of running in shorts, and then a week running in sweats. Write down the results and let everybody know the difference, if there is none and your thoughts. I'm trying to convince everybody my opinion should be considered to be inserted into more people's lives. That's how you develop good health (with the right eating habits), better self-esteem and a nice body. I know you want to.
It's not just about wearing pants or shorts. It's about getting better at it. At whatever physical exercise you're trying to perform. So for writing my opinion I just wanted to add some side notes in here to back up my statement and hopefully get someone, anyone, to try out my method. I want to gaurantee that you will progress.
You'll know better endurance and stamina when you can exercise, sing a song and everybody actually understands the words. Enough said.
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Shorts
Ever since I was a teen I've been involved in some type of fitness regime. Yoga, Pilates, Jazzercise, spinning, jogging, power walking, kick boxing or just hitting the gym every day, fitness is part of what I do. Inevitably the question is asked, which do you prefer for workouts, pants or shorts? Through the thirty-some years of my fitness career, my answer remains the sameshorts. No matter where I am, what the activity or what the weather, you'll always find me clad in shorts. Even in the New England winters, jogging down an icy sidewalk rimmed with snow banks, I still wore skimpy Lycra shorts. Yeah, I turned a few heads and caused a few fender benders, but certainly that wasn't my fault.
Shorts have a way of liberating me, exposing my flesh to whatever it is I'm involved in. For activities that are leg-intensive, like jogging, spinning or power walking, shorts leave my legs feeling unhindered. I focus less on the effort exerted on my calves and thighs, and more on the harmonious movements of the body as a whole. There is no discomfort of bunched up material, or sweat-soaked lumps of fabric. My legs can breathe, even as my lungs breathe.
I've also discovered there is safety in wearing shorts, especially at the gym. More than once my Lycra workout pants have snagged on various pieces of gym equipment, causing me to trip or stumble. Not a fun prospect when you're carrying a pair of twenty-five pound free weights!
Another thing I enjoy about wearing shorts during my workouts is I can see the bulge of my muscles (or lack thereof). I can admire the result of all my sweat and pain, or, sadly, notice there are no results. I can also easily see the muscle group I'm working. This is useful when, for example, I'm using a machine to work my quadriceps. As I lift, I can observe the intended muscle group, and make adjustments to my path of motion if necessary. Pants don't allow one to inspect the very important outline and definitions of the muscles being worked.
It would be difficult to discuss working out without mentioning sweat. With an average of about 2.6 million sweat glands in our skin, it appears that sweating is not only quite natural, but welcome. Especially when you consider the importance of sweating during a workoutit's the body's way of cooling itself. Without sweat glands we'd all die. Personally I enjoy feeling the warm trickle of sweat on my body as I'm working out. It proves to me that I'm in the cardio-zone. And it is so cleansing. Pants hinder that sensation. Sweat collects in the waist band, crotch and thighs, and distracts me from my main purposean angst-free workout.
In conclusion, shorts are my one and only choice for workout clothing. That's a no-brainer. However, if you were to ask me what fabric I prefer for my shorts, like Antron or Lycra, Spandex or cotton-polyester-spa ndex, Coolmax or Supplex, well that's a totally different question...one best left for another article.
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