4 ms·
If you wash your clothes after working out the study seems moot, they let the clothes ripen for 28h unwashed before testing.
by Schnitz 3y ago
If you wash your clothes after working out the study seems moot, they let the clothes ripen for 28h unwashed before testing.
- Riseed 3y agoI don't know anyone who does laundry every day, so this seems like a reasonable thing to try to figure out.
- rmellow 3y agoPut clothes in a laundry bin after use and leave it out of the way. Do laundry weekly. Years old gym clothes will smell just fine.
- JohnBooty 3y agoI would certainly hope that nobody throws wet sweaty balled up clothes into a hamper. Got to let them dry out first. Cotton or synthetic, that is an absolute mold/odor recipe.
- Dylan16807 3y agoOh, yeah, the methods section says they put the wet clothes in a sealed plastic bag.
- JohnBooty 3y agoYeah, and I think that's a pretty poor method. It seems like more of a simulation of "what happens if you accidentally leave wet gym clothes in your gym bag in your car" or "you wear a sweaty shirt for three weeks straight, possibly because you are fighting in a war" instead of what happens during typical use.
- notacoward 3y agoExactly. I wear all-synthetic when I run or hike, because cotton will get damp and heavy and uncomfortable (potentially unsafe when hiking). I throw it in a hamper with a lid - separate from my regular one - when I'm done, and I do laundry a couple of times a week. I have shirts and smalls that I've been using nine years without a problem under this regime. One key, I think, is that I use a "color booster" (bleach alternative) specifically to eliminate the poly funk. Doing a load of laundry for a single set of workout clothes is horrible environmentally. Even when our kid was young, it was every other day at most, and I was running more than that at the time.
- Schnitz 3y agoMy workout clothes go in the washer as I get into the shower, I find it too gross to accumulate sweated through workout clothes.
- Riseed 3y agoIf my workout clothes are sweaty, they come into the shower with me. A rinse is good enough until washing day, and uses no extra water/power.
- cpfohl 3y agoOh. Do you know anyone with kids? We do multiple loads a day!
- Riseed 3y agoYes, I know people with kids. They did do multiple loads daily for the first few months but stopped doing laundry every day once each baby was ~6mo. (Though neither parent found time to make workout clothes sweaty during those months.) When I was a kid, our three-kid family did laundry once a week and there were fewer than 7 loads.
- wkdneidbwf 3y agogo on a long hike or bike ride in fully synthetic garb—you will absolutely reek by the time you get to your car. if you’re talking a 1 hour workout, then i agree. the bummer is that synthetic materials are so comfortable to wear during exercise compared to cotton and so easy to care for compared to merino wool. i just accept it and smell like my body has been turned inside out after long exertions.
- balfirevic 3y ago> go on a long hike or bike ride in fully synthetic garb—you will absolutely reek by the time you get to your car. That's not universal and it hasn't been my experience at all (up to, let's say, 8-10 hour hikes).
- 0_____0 3y agoI'm a nearly scentless freak (confirmed by friends, acquaintances, lovers) and will, at the end of a 10 hour hike, smell less than my old housemate did fresh out of the shower. It's body chemistry I reckon.
- ipqk 3y agoAre you East Asian by chance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor#ABCC11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor#ABCC11