Cropped tees and thongs...

I follow a variety of health and fitness personalities, bloggers, trainers, gurus, .... And I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the lingerie pics of ladies exercising. Small sports bras (or rather, torn tight cropped tee-shirts), short shorts (cross between a boy short and a thong, aka panties), and sometimes, because let's face it, showing your calves would be pushing it, knee-high socks (hooray for modesty).  

Before I get comments that I am 'shaming' women for their workout attire, let me be clear: If you can get your sweat on in your sexy time clothing in a gym or on a track (or wherever you build that smokin' body), all I have to say is WOW! I am not that brave... I fear that without my track pants, & baggy t-shirt I will be served papers to attend court for indecent exposure. 

I cannot imagine the stress I would be under waiting for the inevitable: my butt to swallow up part of those teeny tiny shorts, or my cropped shirt to lose its focus on covering my breasts and sliding up exposing boobies that have nursed 4 babies (**all babies were my own). I have enough trouble keeping my hair tied back (why the heck did I think bangs would look good) and my runners double knotted, than to worry about if I am hairless enough, tanned enough, and dehydrated enough to rock the workout bikini. 

STOP YELLING AT ME (those of you who are now upset that I am suggesting these beautiful, 3/4 naked, beastmode fitness fashionistas are narcissistic...), I am just highlighting that I frequently have pokey legs (not slow...but prickly, thank you child #3), a fierce fish belly tan (on a positive note, I could flag planes if stranded), and retaining something or an other (usually food...but let's say water). I will happily don a bikini on the beach, around the pool, or taking the dog for a walk (just making sure you are paying attention)...but in those situations I am not lifting, pushing, pulling, stretching... I am hanging onto the said suit with both hands for dear life because I know a kid somewhere is lurking, waiting... (We have all been there, playing in the pool, swimming with a child and then realize some part of your bathing suit has been removed, liberating you for all to see). I expect this....but not when I am bench pressing, or deadlifting (oh the horror!). 

Track pants, t-shirts (size BIG), and ankle socks (I am a bit of a floozy) are what I need to get my workout on. You are welcome. 

Stay happy & healthy 

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