What's in your gym bag?

[Tracy]

I have a majorly LARGE gym bag and I'd love to pare down.

I have some ideas about how I can achieve this, but I was wondering what and how you ladies manage all of your accoutrements when you go to the gym...and of course, what you take. http://www.longhaircareforum.com/forums/images/graemlins/poke.gif http://www.longhaircareforum.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Here's what's in mine:

FULL SIZES OF most (this is the first problem - I just don't have enough little containers! Hmph)

VO5 conditioner (for CO washes full size)
Dove Shower Gel (this one at least is a trial size)
Keracare Silken Seal
Leave In (Pantene Bottle, Motions inside, I use it cuz the bottle is smaller)
Dream Curls (full size)
Moisturizer
Shower Puff
Facial Gel
Makeup Bag
Change of clothes
Flip Flops for the day http://www.longhaircareforum.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Cocoa Butter Oil for after Shower
Cocoa Butter Lotion

A Lock
Headphones
A magazine or book

I wear my clothes to the gym to workout

[Cami]

Hey Tracy! http://www.longhaircareforum.com/forums/images/graemlins/wave.gif
The only items that I carry in my gym bag are:

A jump rope
hand and leg weights (for jogging on the treadmill)
Muscle and Fitness training book

I plan to add a set of head phones, and that's about it. I go to the gym immediately after work, so I just shower and stuff once I get home. Or, I'll work out before I go to work and then shower and stuff. What times do you go to the gym? Do you go during your lunch break or something?

my workout clothes
a towel
cd headphones & a couple cds
nikes
batteries
my workout schedule
a water bottle

[Nina_deF]

a towel
t-shirt
bikeshorts
socks
funky training shoes
a lock
Nivea bodylotion
4 rubberbands

[Tracy]

So people aren't taking SHOWERS at the gym then - yeah I go to the gym in the morning.....before work and it's close to the job, not the house, so I go to work directly from the gym...


Ok then.... http://www.longhaircareforum.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I do ocassionally, when I have somewhere to go after the gym. But on those occasions, I'll take whatever I'm wearing, shampoo/condit, soap, lotion, deodorant.... but usually I'm going to the gym AFTER work, and then home again, home again, jiggity jig http://www.longhaircareforum.com/forums/images/graemlins/trampoline.gif

[NubianPrincess]

workout clothes and shoes
towel
cd player and a couple cds
batteries
water bottle
lock
lip balm
hair brush
body wipes

I don't shower at my gym, it's just a 5 minutes away (walk)from my appartment
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[smlwndr97]

I'm extremely phobic about showering at the gym, so I don't unless I have been swimming - in which case, I have to rinse that chlorine out of my hair. In my gym bag I have:

a towel
Extra Cds
lock
Sweat Pants
tshirt
Discman

I usually wear my gym clothes to the gym and then change into my sweats for the ride home. I shower at home.

-monique

[lunalight7]

Tracy-I dont even have a gym bag...just a fanny pack that has my keys, gym card, money, and lip balm in it. In the warm weather, I walk to the gym in my workout clothes and walk home. In cold weather, I drive to the gym before work. Then I come home, shower, and dress for work. For some reason, the thought of showering at the gym skeeves me out....

[LiLi]

Hi Tracy. I'm new here (been lurking for a while though). I too go to the gym first thing in the morning for cardio and right after work for weight training. I have alot in my gym bag as well. It's not a big problem because I keep the same things in the bag like soaps, shampoos, makeup, etc., and the only thing I have to add everyday is the clothes that I am wearing to work and undergarments since I go to the gym with my workout clothes on. Also I don't have a regular gym bag. I use a messenger-sling bag and it has alot of compartments for my things and is easier to carry.

[Supergirl]

Girl,

Nothin' but some deodorant! But that's only when I take a bag--like if I'm gonna be coming from somewhere else. Otherwise, when I go to the gym--I usually am coming from home and heading back home.

[Nessa]

too bad, I can't go to gym.

[carrie]

CD player
Towel
chalk
wrist wraps
wrist straps
conditioner
body wash
lotion
change of clothes