What do you do with your sweaty workout clothes afterwards?

[Anonymous]

I try to run in the mornings and then take a shower and go to work. I've always just let my drenched workout clothes (due to the humidity) sit in the bathtub to dry off during the day. But in the past month or so, I've started taking cold baths after my runs which I've heard is better for recovery but I don't know where to put my sweaty workout clothes.

What do you all do with your dripping wet workout clothes? I don't like putting them in the hamper right away because it stinks up real bad and stays damp.

Show me a better way DCUM!

[Anonymous]

I throw them directly into the washing machine where they remain until I do the next load of laundry.

[Anonymous]

In a plastic bag and in the garage until it's time to do a "gym workout clothes" laundry load.

[Anonymous]

Toss them over the shower rod or edge of the hamper.

[Anonymous]

Straight into washer

[Anonymous]

I kind of drape mine over the side of my hamper, then when they're dry, they get tossed in.

[Anonymous]

Since you’re jumping in the tub anyway, I would wear your clothes in to give them a good rinse. Prevents set-in funk. Then hang/drape as usual until dry to go into the hamper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a plastic bag and in the garage until it's time to do a "gym workout clothes" laundry load.

Don't they get all mildewed doing that?

[Anonymous]

I have a gym clothes laundry basket. Stinky sits with stinky.

[Anonymous]

Hang them on the closet doorknob til ready for laundry

[Anonymous]

Ok, what’s the problem with putting them in the hamper like all your other clothing?

[Anonymous]

I hang them to dry out. Moisture breed funkiness. The kind of funkiness that lingers. On a hanger, on a doorknob or towel rack or something.

Then I put them in a hamper once dry.

Then I do laundry when there's sufficient quantity to do a load.

I couldn't imagine regularly washing one workout outfit at a time, and not a full load - that seems profoundly wasteful.

[Anonymous]

DH and I both work out hardcore. I hang mine in the laundry room on one of those over the door hooks until they are dry and then I put them in the hamper. He hangs his over the edge of the bathtub then moves to hamper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, what’s the problem with putting them in the hamper like all your other clothing?

It's a petri dish! Bacteria thrive on moisture, so the funk gets in your workout clothes and stays. They get a smell and funk that lingers past washing. The funk gets deeply embedded in your clothes.

Let them dry out so the bacteria don't multiply and the funkiness can't thrive.

[Anonymous]

I hang my dirty workout clothes up to dry on plastic hangers in the basement utility room, right next to the washer. After a few days when I have enough for a full load (right now every other day because DC runs XC), I pile it all in the washer and add some vinegar to the load with the detergent. Works like a charm. Our clothes never get funky—and we don’t glow in our family, we sweat profusely! Never, ever let sweaty workout clothes sit crumpled up wet!