Let's Get Physical...

In the last couple of weeks I've added some new fun pieces to my ever growing gym wardrobe which I wanted to share with you and do a little mini post on, If you know me in 'real life' you'll know I'm not really a gym person. I don't enjoy being sweaty. I'm not sure I actually know how to run and I consider 'burpee' a curse word. But it turns out that after the age of about 24-ish, i think it was, you can't just keep eating and never exercising. Devastating really as one thing I do love is eating. So whether I like it or not I'm going to need to exercise and keep exercising. Turns out tho the more you do it the more you kind of do like it (*not burpees.), my trick has been to find exercise that I love rather than drag myself to a gym or class that I dread going. I tend to do 2-3 classes a week which are either Ballet Barre (A cardio workout using Ballet moves) or Pilates/Yoga (best exercise ever). Now if you've never had a go at either of those classes you might be mistaken into thinking they are 'easy' classes. They aren't. Just ask the lads who do thai boxing at the same gym who have tried coming along, but they are more my kinda class. If your not a typical gym person (or if you are and you fancy something different) I would definitely suggest giving them a go! If your local let me know and I'll pass on the details, you can come along and help peal me off the floor at the end... 

  

Anyway back to the clothes, Gym clothes can be scary. They aren't flattering and you can feel like you don't look great in them until your a gym pro and how do you become a gym pro when you don't want to wear the clothes to go to the gym in the first place? its a vicious circle, right. Well for me I just make them fun. I know an all black outfit would be more slimming but when I'm doing a 'downward dog' and the blood is rushing to my head I like to look upside-down at the brightly coloured bottoms, smile and remember it will be over in an hour. 

So my first outfit is mostly Nike (trainers, leggings and sports bra) I brought the bra and leggings from a local Nike outlet so unfortunately can't give you the links but here are similar ones for the bra here and the bottoms here both on asos. 

The vest is from Deliciously Ella, A picture of it came up on my suggestions page on instagram and I loved the wording on it! It arrived quickly and while I love the style but I would want to say to anyone who is thinking of buying it that the quality is that of a small business selling printed tops, its not the same as if Nike or a larger brand had made it. There are other slogans available and I think there was other colours too? I went for a medium and they are a generous fit as it says online. Including postage it was just over £25 and you can find them here.

Now these leggings I LOVE, they just make me smile. Again I actually saw these on Instagram, I follow an illustrator called @hollysharpe_drawings and shes collaborated with a company called Society 6 who have made several of her designs into these fabulous leggings, it was a tough choice to pick one but I went for these as they went with my tops! keeping it simple. You can see her collection of gym leggings here. 

While on the Society6 website I searched for 'Leopard print leggings' and found these ones, as they had a free P&P offer that weekend I thought I'd make the most of my order and get these too. you can buy them here. The website itself is American? (I'm pretty sure). So everything was in US dollars but a google converter got the price spot on in pounds. I was really pleased there was no customs charges either! (I might have just been lucky on this one, as it does vary with other items I've brought online from both Australia and the USA) and they arrived about a week later! 

Both tops shown here are from H&M (I love their gym wear) I brought these at the beginning of the year, they have washed amazingly and are still going strong. They also do this vest in black if you want to tone down your outfit too! 

Hope this has inspired you to 'get physical' as Olivia Newton John would sing (and is singing round and round in my head through this whole blog).

Thanks for reading! Sophie x