For the ladies....tights???

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Bill Sive — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:22:33 GMT

Reviving this topic. Anyone Male or Female use these for training? www.swimmerschoice.com/.../ Comments positive or negative. I am considering them if they help me swim faster for a swim meet.

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Bill Sive — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:26 GMT

Drag Tights - I'm willing to go there. I can start a male syncro team and we can get matching drag tights and do the syncro version of swan lake in the pool. I can see that now at the beginning of the next swim meet. Hilarious. Panty Hose - I am not going to cross that line, no way, no how. Indoor pools I wear a regular drag suit. Outdoor pools I were swim briefs, for tanning purposes. Unless its cloudy, then I might wear jammers.

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savaden — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:59:22 GMT

Wear briefs and you have to swim faster... with an angry mob chasing you! :D Or just to prove that you have the "right" to wear them. There are a couple of women where I swim that wear full body cover swimming. I think it is just modesty. If you are just working out, there is no need to go fast, it's all the same anyway. I always want to go faster, though. Maybe someday I will. :)

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swimshark — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:02:42 GMT

Reviving this topic. Anyone Male or Female use these for training? www.swimmerschoice.com/.../ Comments positive or negative. I am considering them if they help me swim faster for a swim meet. I wonder if they are any better than just using a pair of tights with the feet cut out. We use pantyhose as kids and they held up fairly well for a few weeks.

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Donna — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:46:17 GMT

Stacey. I can relate to the hairy legs... But next week they get shaved, got a meet. Donna

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Former Member — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:13:43 GMT

So true. In my last spinning class, I don't think there were any guys with hair on their legs. I bet they didn't shave because of spinning class!

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Former Member — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:29:59 GMT

Taper/tights wearing time, is my favorite part of the season!! We all look all year long for the most extravegent pair of tights possible, and then sport them for 3 weeks or so leading up to championships and ncaa's. A colorful, happy-making pair of tights makes the extra work of pulling them through the pool so worth it:-D theres actually a website online that sells AWESOME tights, so if any of you ever are looking for some sweet tights to scare away the competition, or have little girls at home who like wearing tights, certainly head there. Morgan

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Former Member — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:46:03 GMT

Off current topic of bikes...but I remember wearing tights 10 or so years ago (wow, I am getting old, fast). I was/am a big dork...and in HS I thought it was awesome to be wearing my sparkly blue tights. Then I thought I'd be really funny and started wearing control-top tights. Yes, I was a real winner. Now I am just lazy and have hairy legs. This does not thrill the husband.

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:26:19 GMT

They've really got to learn how to ride a stationary bike w/o falling off :joker: Too funny. Just too funny.

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:45:41 GMT

In college, I worked summers at the velodrome in Indianapolis. Quite a few riders would ride their bikes to the facility - which had a hairy hill with gravel at the bottom just outside the parking lot. I've picked a lot of gravel out of guys hips, thighs and rears. It was so much easier for both me and the poor rider when there was no hair that needed plucking or pushing when I had the tweezers out. I totally understand male athletes in general who shave.

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:32:07 GMT

I'll take the 5th. Wow was that really 20 years ago...;) See, it wasn't that bad. :p

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:28:04 GMT

Ah, but what a place to meet girls! Straight male dancers can have their pick of the company. ;) I'll take the 5th. Wow was that really 20 years ago...;)

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:25:22 GMT

I thought it was bad dancing ballet as a teen... Ah, but what a place to meet girls! Straight male dancers can have their pick of the company. ;)

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:22:13 GMT

Girls, girls, girls... You're talking about athletes who would respect your athleticism in kind. I mean the poplace in general. Ask 5 random people about a guy in speedos...they will giggle. As for DRAG...that is not a word I would bring into the conversation when talking about shaving legs...I say it improves hydrodynamics... I thought it was bad dancing ballet as a teen...

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:18:49 GMT

Sure they do. Cyclists, triathletes and some runners shave their legs. It makes it easier to clean the cuts and injuries they get when flying off their bikes or falling/tripping on the trail because of poor falling down technique. Just check out La Lance's legs. So true. In my last spinning class, I don't think there were any guys with hair on their legs.

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:10:11 GMT

Right, we get accused of being on steroids, stop shaving our legs, seem to always have wet hair, "smell like the pool" and all sorts of other things that supposed to be bad for girls ... Get some ultra swim shampoo and there is a anti chlorine body wash too. It's made a difference for me... Yeah you get offensive comments but nobody, nobody outside of swimming takes a guy with ladysmoothe legs in a Speedo seriously...at least not on this continent...

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:54:51 GMT

Recently, I saw some guys working out with panty hose on. they wore them under jammers. I owndered if they bought them or were using old ones from their mothers or sisters. I thought, "Mom I need your panty hose." Like I need any more abuse! It's bad enough having to defend Speedos and body shaves the minute someone finds out about swimming seriously. The girls have it easy on that side of things!

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Former Member — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:46:29 GMT

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knelson — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:56:12 GMT

So true. In my last spinning class, I don't think there were any guys with hair on their legs. They've really got to learn how to ride a stationary bike w/o falling off :joker:

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The Fortress — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:27:43 GMT

Very true, my brother rode professionally and shaved his legs ... and continued to shave his legs for ages after too because he liked it better ... I think it also has a bit to do with drag I think they just want to show off their toned quads and diamond calves.

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FlyQueen — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:18:03 GMT

Very true, my brother rode professionally and shaved his legs ... and continued to shave his legs for ages after too because he liked it better ... I think it also has a bit to do with drag

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The Fortress — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:13:43 GMT

Yeah you get offensive comments but nobody, nobody outside of swimming takes a guy with ladysmoothe legs in a Speedo seriously...at least not on this continent... Sure they do. Cyclists, triathletes and some runners shave their legs. It makes it easier to clean the cuts and injuries they get when flying off their bikes or falling/tripping on the trail because of poor falling down technique. Just check out La Lance's legs.

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FlyQueen — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:00:23 GMT

Like I need any more abuse! It's bad enough having to defend Speedos and body shaves the minute someone finds out about swimming seriously. The girls have it easy on that side of things! Right, we get accused of being on steroids, stop shaving our legs, seem to always have wet hair, "smell like the pool" and all sorts of other things that supposed to be bad for girls ...

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Allen Stark — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:06:16 GMT

In high school we would swim in sweat suits and tennis shoes. It made us feel like we were really doing something,but I expect it was bad for our stroke mechanics.

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Former Member — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:42:41 GMT

I probably wouldn't do it now, but I did in HS. We wore them with the old striped team suits from the 60s or 70s - very stylish. :laugh2: