# What's in your gym bag? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 24, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772 "2004-05-24T12:12:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772/21 "2004-05-26T13:08:28Z")
I recommend buying one of the travel toiletry kits. [LLBean sells them](http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=34904&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&parentCategory=4525&cat4=2936&shop_method=pp&feat=dp50). They are great for keeping your shampoo, deodorant, soap, etc all together and organized. It also hangs so that everything is accessable. I have one, in which I keep an extra set of all my bathroom stuff. It’s great for the gym, but it’s also useful when I travel. I just bring it along and I know I have all the toiletries that I need without having to pack my whole bathroom up. So, my gym bag has: Toiletry kit Shorts T-Shirt White socks Boxer shorts Sneakers That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772/22 "2004-05-27T02:09:15Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Helmet, gorget, body armor, arm armor, leg harness, elbow pads, two basket-hilt broadswords (one plastic hilt, one bar stock), one cross-hilt broadsword, right demi-gauntlet (lost the left one), a pair of mitten gauntlets and my fighting tabard…\* Whoa! Full-contact aerobics. Definitely not a gym for wimps. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772/23 "2004-05-27T02:12:15Z")
Og on a crutch. What’n the lollypopland happened there?! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772/24 "2004-05-27T12:52:13Z")
Hand and foot-pads. Mouthguard. **Biofreeze**. Ahhh!. . . . . ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772/25 "2004-05-27T15:32:05Z")
I turned into a gym brat last year. In my gym bag: [ul][li] gym shorts[/li][li] t-shirt[/li][li] sneakers[/li][li] weightlifting gloves[/li][li] small towel for weight room[/li][li] regular towel for shower[/li][li] toiletry bag containing: shampoo, gel soap, deodorant, styling putty (I’m so vain), hairbrush[/li][li] portable CD player[/li][li] water bottle[/li][li] combination lock [/ul][/li] Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772/26 "2004-05-27T15:40:58Z")
I have never been “in”, and the lack usually doesn’t bother me, but: > [@](#): > > styling putty (I’m so vain) ??? What the hell is “styling putty”? It sounds like spackle, to use if you’ve dropped your free weight on your earlobe, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Papaveraceae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@Papaveraceae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papaveraceae)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772/27 "2004-05-27T16:12:12Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I have never been “in”, and the lack usually doesn’t bother me, but: > ??? > What the hell is “styling putty”? It sounds like spackle, to use if you’ve dropped your free weight on your earlobe, or something. Styling putty is kind of like spackle for your hair. Usually comes in a little pot with a lid, and is made up of a thick water based gel with lots of adhesive added. Kenra makes a really yummy smelling one. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772/28 "2004-05-28T06:29:42Z")
On master-class days, 1x week, when I’m probably going to be fighting, a big duffel bag containing: helmet mouth guard chest protector fingerless gloves shin guards foot protector booties (there _is_ no good intimidating name for those) gi top and bottom under-gi tanktop belt (red) hairbrush pony band water bottle(s) roll of paper towels (for drying off sweaty gear (and sometimes self!) post-class I’m the idiot child of master class, so I tend not to be ordered to really fight full-on yet, but I want to be fully padded if I need it. My parents paid a lot of money for my teeth, so I prefer to keep them in their current conformation :D. My main class, 3x week, where I’ve trained since white belt, a plastic grocery bag with: gi top and bottom under-gi tanktop (when I’m not planning on pinning the gi shut to save myself a layer - the dojang’s on a high floor, no air conditioning (or heat, for that matter), no windows, directly under the roof, so in the summer, it _starts_ over 90-100 degrees in there, and we work pretty hard.) belt maybe a hairbrush, usually not I always feel slightly silly carrying the duffel bag - it’s pretty big and intimidating looking, and I’m neither. And people are always surprised to see demure, skirt-wearing me with it, although it’s also kind of fun to screw with their heads a bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-gym-bag/246772.md?page=1)