Well I have a few things I want to know about women who wear leotards or swimsuits and if they have to take them off if they are peeing. I get that putting on a leotard or swimsuit is very similar and I gather that people step into them and then pull them up but how many pieces does it come in and how do you put your arms in the arm bit of a leotard and then and if there is a zip or fastener something like a zip or fastener that holds it up? Also if it is that or a swimsuit do you have to take it all off or push it down to pee and I notice that leotards tend to be more shiny and made of stronger materials than swimsuits which tend to be a bit less good or sturdy and it could be potentially embarrassing if a gymnast was in a competition and then had to go off somewhere and pee or a swimsuit and take it off but at least it wouldn’t be as bad as what happened to Paula Radcliffe during the Athens Olympics when she stopped in the marathon and sat down for a pee and I believe alot of gymnasts put some gel on their skin to prevent the dreaded leotard wedgie so I would like to know if anyone knows anything about this?
I was a dancer. I wore lots of leotards. I’ve worn my share of one piece swim suits, as well. Yes you have to pull them down from the neck. The neck hole in leotards are very stretchy. Swim suits have straps not sleeves so it’s easier.
As for the putting on of the leotard, you step in and pull it up like any pair of shorts or the like. When you get up to your waist you put one arm in and then the next and wiggle it up to your shoulders. It stays up being made of spandex or other stretchy fabric lends to it clinging to you. No fasteners are needed.
Never heard of the gel for no wedgie. There’s sticky stuff to keep the bottom tight to your butt, mainly for performances
The very very worst is tights and leotard with a skirt or pants over. You basically have to get buck nekkid down to your knees in the stall just to take a pee then wiggle back into all of it and adjust everything in a space that quite often has you bashing both elbows at once. I do not miss those days. Mechanic’s coverall is similar but not so tight fitting but you still have to make sure you don’t dunk a sleeve in the terlet.
Yep. I was gonna mention the tights. My Dance instructors all required us to wear tights, as well, to class and rehearsals. Gymnasts don’t wear tights (the leg part like panty hose).
You pray there are no puddles on the floor of the stall.
I had a couple of coulotte dresses inmhigh school. They zipped down the BACK. The designer obviously hated women.
~ VOW
In a swimsuit you just pee in the pool. Duh.
They don’t have to take them off before peeing. But it’s less messy if they do.
The OP’s questions are a bit too specific and a little creepy to me as a guy.
That said, if you’re a female competitive swimmer, you probably don’t bother to pull down the incredibly tight swimsuit because as Chinese swimmer Fu Yuan Hui explains: “So normally it takes 20-30 minutes to get it on.” Here’s a video of adorable Yuan Hui accidentally snapping the arm strap on herself and her explanation of her super cute reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI9mc5M4AZo
I’ve heard that one-piece snowsuits (for skiing and other winter sports) are just as bad. And in the winter, you have the added hazard of melted snow on the floor.
Good heavens - I didn’t know they wore such tight suits. Is that for streamlining? I wonder that it doesn’t interfere with breathing.
In powerlifting, they wear supersuits of very strong, multi-ply material that have straps over the shoulders and go down to mid-thigh. This is to store the energy of descent in the material and make it easier to come up under a squat. But the supersuits also take quite a while to get into, and typically lifters will take the straps off their shoulders between lifts. But it makes you walk funny nonetheless, because between that and the knee wraps the lifter cannot bend at the waist or knees and has to waddle like a penguin.
I was at a meet where bench shirts were allowed, and lifters with the shirts on couldn’t lower their arms - it was like a body cast. And they had more trouble benching the empty 20 kilo bar than they did their opening weight, because it was hard to pull the bar down to their chest to start the lift.
But it is the same thing with supersuits as with leotards - better go before you start putting on the outfit.
Rock climbing, powerlifting, and wearing a leotard - make sure you pee before you start, because afterwards you are committed.
Regards,
Shodan
Not to rain on your parade, but I found the questions a wee bit breathlessly specific, too.
Cyclists will also wear skinsuits or bib-shorts that require undressing to pee.
A Finnish friend told a story about himself where he had to take a dump while out on a long snowmobile trip. He undid everything, squatted behind a tree, and did his business. Only when getting everything back on did he realize that he’d shat in the hood of the snowmobile suit.
It’s all about aerodynamics with swimsuits. There were some huge advancements in the early 2000’s leading to full body suits that were significantly faster than anything else, and since then the PTB have changed the rules to slow down the arms race (ha!). There are more restrictions on what is legal so the suits rely on form-fitting shaping and the fastest legal materials.
It’s…uh…research for his book. Yeah.
Thanks for the info. I remember when the full body suits came out but none of the discussion since.
Don Schollander, who won several gold medals back in 1964 before it became common to win multiple golds, talked in his book Deep Water about shaving all the hair off his body to assist in streamlining. I read the book and wondered how significant the difference would be, although I suspect every little bit helps at that level.
Regards,
Shodan
This wouldn’t be the 'Dope if it wasn’t pointed out that the aerodynamics only come into play for the fraction of a second it takes for the swimmer to go from the starting block to the water. From then on, I believe, it becomes hydrodynamics.
This is going off on a tangent but it’s safe for work. How did women use the bathroom in a big skirt?
Victorian realities-How did they use the toilet?
It does (cite) but having done it for big races I have to think the main benefit is psychological. It feels different and it’s a big group commitment thing, so the race seems more special/important.
One hopes.