When looking for gym clothes, you generally need to consider two main factors: moisture management and breath-ability. Feeling and fit are also important, but when it comes to the actual fabric of exercise apparel, it's good to know how sweat and hot air affect the clothes.
Moisture management refers to what the fabric does when it becomes damp or wet. For example, if the fabric resists absorption, it's considered moisture-wicking. If it becomes heavy and wet, it's not what you want.
Breath-ability refers to how easily air moves through the fabric. Breathable fabrics allow hot air to escape, while tighter-knit fabrics keep warm air close to your body.
Below, find a description of the most common fabrics in workout clothes:
Polyester
Polyester is the main material of fitness fabrics, you can find it in almost everything you pick up at an athletic wear store. Polyester is incredibly durable, wrinkle-resistant and moisture-wicking. It's also breathable and lightweight, so your sweat evaporates through the fabric and you'll stay relatively dry.
Despite its lightness, polyester is actually a pretty great insulator, which is why many brands use it in cold-weather workout clothes in addition to tanks, tees and shorts.
Nylon
Another very common fabric is nylon,it is soft, mold- and mildew-resistant and stretchy. It flexes with you as you move and has great recovery, meaning it returns to pre-stretched shape and size.
Nylon also has a fantastic tendency to wick sweat from your skin and through the fabric to the outer layer where it can evaporate. You'll find nylon in nearly everything, including sports bras, performance underwear, tank tops, T-shirts, shorts, leggings and cold-weather sportswear.
Spandex
You may know spandex by the brand name Lycra. It's extremely flexible and stretchy, making it great for people who do workouts that require a large range of motion, such as yoga and weightlifting. This synthetic fabric is found primarily in skin-tight clothing, such as track shorts, leggings and sports bra.
Spandex isn't the best at wicking moisture and it isn't the most breathable, but those aren't meant to be the key benefits of this fabric: Spandex stretches up to eight times its usual size, offering unrestricted, comfortable motion in all movement patterns.
Bamboo
Bamboo fabric is also made into gym sports wear now, because bamboo pulp yields a lightweight natural fabric, it's definitely a premium fabric. Bamboo fabric offers several features that all fitness aficionados adore: It's moisture-wicking, odor-resistant, temperature-regulating and insanely soft.
Cotton
Cotton fabric is extremely absorbent, it does have some redeeming qualities: Cotton washes very well and doesn't hold onto odors like some other fabrics. Some of clothes like t-shirt and stringer vest used more by cotton fabric, its popular.
Mesh
Some of gym clothes are made of mesh fabric, as it light weight, breathable, and have much stretchy, which is very soft, this kind of fabric has better air permeability , especially when we are exercising, which helps us to sweat better.
Post time: Jul-14-2022
