Fitz_Hulk Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 Exactly as the title suggests - how often do you do laundry? Specifically, activewear laundry - I find myself going to the gym/training with pole dancing up to four or five times a week. I've only got so much activewear, so do I need to launder it literally every time I wear it? Help a sister out! Quote that girl writes race: awesome/class: ranger I post a lot on instagram "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Link to comment
Khuja, Dwarf Tank Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 The only true activewear I have are my cycling shorts, I wash them after each ride.Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Khuja the level 2 Dwarf Ranger STR 2|DEX 1|CON 1|STA 1|WIS 3|CHA 2Current challenge Past Challenges: Challenge 1 (Challenge 1's missing posts) Challenge 2 Challenge 3 Challenge 4 Link to comment
RisenPhoenix Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 I've worn shorts I've lifted in a few sessions before, assuming I didn't get them all sweaty and gross. I wear my aikido gi/uniform usually a couple of days before I swap it out for a fresh one. But by and large, I typically wear things once and then wash with few exceptions. Over the years I've built up enough active wear that I'm not washing everything every week, but I do have to do laundry at least every other week with all the clothes so I can keep working out. Quote RisenPhoenix, the Entish Aikidoka Challenge: RisenPhoenix Turns to Ash "The essence of koryu [...is] you offer your loyalty to something that you choose to regard as greater than yourself so that you will, someday, be able to offer service to something that truly is transcendent." ~ Ellis Amdur, Old School Link to comment
Echoceanic Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 I have no real active wear - my size is really hard to get. I exercise in old leggings and a sport bra I keep tightened with a safety pin in the back (the straps went loose on me). I wash them when they feel gross. Considering I exercise 2 times a week (bodyweight), that is once or twice a month. You find your own level of neatness and the way you feel best. If you sweat a lot when you exercise you might need to wash them more. Quote "... However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." - Stanley Kubrick "Difficult for myself? Agent... I was born difficult for myself." - Clint Barton Challenges: #1 #2 (mini) #3 (mini) #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 My Fitness Pal - inactive Link to comment
Stardust Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 I sweat like I'm a river, so I wear everything once. Slowly building up so I have a week of activewear, then I can launder once a week. But mostly, when it's all been worn, I wash it. Quote You're a ghost driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust. What do you have to be afraid of? Current Challenge - Starting Anew Link to comment
Raincloak Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 If it doesn't stink or feel icky, go ahead and wear it again. If it does, wash it. You can make clothes last longer between washings if you hang them up inside out and let them air (preferably in sunlight) after use. Most of the stinky bacteria are anaerobic, and they like damp dark conditions. This won't remove the oils and minerals your skin leaves on stuff, but it will reduce smells and evaporate the water that sweat is mostly made of. Also, hot dryers are bad for the stretchy fabrics they use to make activewear. Always hang dry your athletic gear, do not put it in the dryer. 2 Quote Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Hylian Assassin 5'5", 143 lbs. Half-marathon: 3:02It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Link to comment
Adventuresarah Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 I do laundry daily because I have a big family. But, not my athletic clothes. I don't put them in the dryer so I only wash them weekly. I could never wear them twice because I sweat too much. Quote Link to comment
DyDy Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 I do three different sets of sports, so I have three sets of clothes. Each of these sets I wear 1-2 times max. In between, I let them air. Works fine for me, have never been called out for being to smelly. Quote Epic Quest Character | Battle Log Challenges: #1 Link to comment
Super Starling! Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 I only wear my activewear once before throwing it in the hamper. I've found that putting on fresh underwear every single time before I exercise helps a lot with keeping my activewear nice for as long as possible. (TMI? MAYBE.) I have a lot of activewear because I use things like poshmark.com and local thrift stores to round out my collection. That way, I don't have to do laundry as often. I only do laundry when I'm totally out of something (socks, underwear, jeans, activewear -- whatever runs out first). I am lazy AF. Quote Super Starling! aka Leah Felicity Lucci Instagram | Portfolio | Ravelry Jan 1 - Feb 4 Challenge: Keep 2018 From Being a Dumpster Fire Link to comment
curryfiend Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Once a week - I'm gross. The laundry machines in my building are stupid expensive. :\ Quote "Strength without determination means nothing...determination without strength is equally useless!" -Godo, FFVII NF Academy Profile Link to comment
Lueretius Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 Myself, my partner and 2 kids along with 2 dogs, I (by which I mean the royal we because i'm sure i'll somehow get in trouble if my partner things I'm taking all the credit for housework) have to do a load every 2 days. Thankfully all my active wear is really cheap so I throw it through the dryer every time without a care that its wearing quickly. Quote Link to comment
Gredge Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 I have two kids, so there is at least one of load of laundry being done per day in my house. For work-out stuff, I wash it after wearing it once. Especially my Jiu Jitsu gi. BJJ is a grappling art, and if you've ever done high-school wrestling, you know the kind of skin funk that you can get from rolling around and being sweaty. Quote Link to comment
RedStone Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Usually twice a week. (I'm in the same boat as you, 5-6 days per week in activewear, sometimes 2 shirts per day not including street wear.) Quote ~Peace Be The Journey~ one - two - three - four - five - six - seven- eight - nine - ten - eleven - twelve - thirteen - fourteen - fifteen - sixteen - seventeen - eighteen - nineteen - twenty - twenty one - twenty two - twenty three - twenty four - twenty five - twenty six - twenty seven - twenty eight - twenty nine - thirty - thirty one - thirty two - thirty three - thirty four - thirty five - thirty six Link to comment
Sciread77 Posted January 9, 2018 Report Share Posted January 9, 2018 My family includes my wife and 3 children under the age of 5 as well as a dog, 2 cats, and 2 bunnies. We do a load or two of laundry every day. We wash active wear with the next load we do after use. If all of us go swimming or to the rec center we just joined, that's almost a load in and of itself. Quote Adventurer, Half-Dwarf Chaotic-Good Paladin Ne me dites jamais les chances! ¡Nunca me digas las probabilidades! Character Sheet Training Logs Challenges Prepping for Adventure Prep, Adventure Prep Fall Baby, When Are We Again, Anyway?, Whirlwind, The Leaf's Locus, Harnessing Hamingja New Roots More Beginnings, More Roots Cleaning Up Facing The Hailstorm Yo Ho Yo The... Keto Life For Me? Taming the Beast Another Step Towards the Future Baking, Suburban Homesteading, and Health, The Adventurers of the Lucky Vale I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII VIII, IX Spoiler Perennial goals: Sleep 7+ hours a night, retain (and continue to learn) French and Spanish as a family, increase Spanish Proficiency for work and play, read like a maniac on my own and with my kids, carry heavy stuff Long term goals: Cut to 13-15% bodyfat, And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a baaaaarge! -> Someday I'll challenge a Disney world Gaston to a push up contest and win Link to comment
The Battle Chef Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 I typically train at home so I may stretch the definition of "fresh" ever so slightly >.> But I typically do laundry weekly and whatever is dirty, even if worn for just one workout, goes in the wash. Quote The Battle Chef's Log Link to comment
Guest Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 I just ran to the store (one of those extreme literal last 7 minutes before closing type shoppings) and didn't get the facric softener. Normally, the washing machine runs every other or third day (by colors) - unless it's something that has gotten either spilled onto, or gym clothing that get soaking sweated in alongside towels - that's kind of a daily routine. Probably drives my neighbours insane. Quote Link to comment
Frost of the Gloaming Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 It's a daily thing in our house, I don't have a laundry line in the laundry room so I pretty much wash my work out stuff after I use it so it doesn't end up smelling. Quote Between a rock and a hard place, use our finger nails to climb, it's all we know.......... Daily Mile Perfer et obdura: Dolor hic tibi proderit olim Link to comment
leglocker Posted March 13, 2018 Report Share Posted March 13, 2018 I wash my training gear once a week. This includes 4 gis, 7 rashguards, 7 compression shorts, and 4 grappling/boardshorts. With my workouts (Jiu jitsu) it's pretty disgusting if you wear something again without washing. Your partner will get all up in your funk. Quote | Battle Log |Current Challenge: Better Late Than Never| Previous Challenges: 1 | instagram: @gambitbjj | Winner of the Harry Potter PVP Challenge: House Ravenclaw Link to comment
Gainsdalf the Whey Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 General laundry, at hatever frequency that I run out of celan underwear. Active wear, I have a locker at the gym and hang the "in use" clothing on the hooks. I smell the cloths before I wear them each time. I swap them out once they get funky, as I keep a fresh set at the bottom of the locker. As for pole dancing, I recently learned that the poles spin in place and it was like being a kid and finding out the Easter Bunny isn't real. 1 Quote Massrandir, Barkûn, Swolórin, The Whey Pilgrim 500 / 330 / 625 Challenges: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 34 35 36 39 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 Current Challenge "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. " ~ Socrates "Friends don't let friends squat high." ~ Chad Wesley Smith "It's a dangerous business, Brodo, squatting to the floor. You step into the rack, and if you don't keep your form, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ Gainsdalf Link to comment
PettyMort Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 I work out at home so I usually do it in my underwear! General laundry is whenever my partner or myself have run out of underwear, and I do all of it at once. I am trying to develop the habit of doing a small load each day so it's not so overwhelming to fold and put away. But that's a next month kind of goal. Quote Level 1 Dwarven Ranger STR 0 | DEX 0 | CON | STA 0 | WIS 0 |CHA 0 Battlelog | NF Character Sheet Template 2.0 (stats system) | NF Character Sheet Template v3.0 (XP system) (File > Make a Copy), enter your own details, track everything in one place. Please PM me if you have any questions or ideas. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Arthur C Clarke Link to comment
NeverThatBored Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 I do it every two weeks - I don't want to do it more often than that, so I've just accumulated more and more activewear to last long enough between washes. Quote Gargoyle Ranger | Level 49 2022 challenges: 49 (current) 2015-2021 challenges: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 || 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 || 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 || 43 | 44 | 45 | | 46 | 47 | 48 || My epic quest | MEATBALL WARS You don't get better at anything unless you start doing it. Being alive is heckn swell. Link to comment
cjfaun Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 Activewear laundry... uh. As often as I use it, but I don't use it much; most of my exercise at the moment is long-distance walking (so I can get away with anything comfy, heh). As for typical laundry... normally every few days I'll go "oh crap that's a lot of my work tops spilling out of my laundry basket" Quote Henlo! Am kpop trash, gamer gremlin, pokémon go addict girl trying to overcome a work addiction Current 4wc: n/a Current battle log: "I play to win!" Link to comment
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