Shirts on or off?? -survey, please reply!

Shirt off.

Some of our guys practice without shirts, even in 40 degree weather. Funny thing is, our girls do not, no matter how hot it gets. That might not seem fair, but they are the rules our coaching staff has made for our team.

Tell the faculty to grow some balls. We didn't wear shirts when it was warm and nobody ever had a problem with it.

Ask them why it's appropriate for the swim team to practice without shirts but not you.

As long as we weren't in the school we could have our shirts off during practice.

OFF. Never a question.

One HS i know had a shirts on rule but they never enforced it.

BYU lets their teams run without shirts on. And thats the school that thinks its inappropriate not to have a collar.

I agree 100% with the swimteam analogy. That's your best defense of it and one that you should feel free to use. It's an argument of body cooling and if your runner feels it's appropriate, then so be it.

I remember in my Catholic high scool that it didn't become a problem until the girls were going around in just shorts and sports bras. That's what caused the whole issue back in my day. I can see where some staff/parents might not like that much skin being shown, but if it's cool in the pool, then I say it's fair in the school.

we weren't supposed to, but the rule was hardly enforced. i only remember being yelled at once for running shirtless on the track

It's kind of the rule of the gym. Any health club you go to.

Must wear a shirt.

We always wore shirts in high school and I believe in college as well.

Now you go on a run off campus and you can take your shirt off and carry it.

proud american from Ireland wrote:

Some of our guys practice without shirts, even in 40 degree weather. Funny thing is, our girls do not, no matter how hot it gets. That might not seem fair, but they are the rules our coaching staff has made for our team.

Same goes for my team. Boys were running w/o shirts yesterday in 55 degree weather, but the girls are not allowed to per the coach. They want to wear their sportsbras when it's hot out, but it's always been a team tradition/rule. I told them "it's a double-standard and no it isn't fair. But you will find in life that most of the time, when there's a double-standard it's the guys who get the short end of the stick."

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My son and the other distance guys were doing a workout on Weds with temps in the 40s - shorty shorts, no shirts. In fact, I got the impression that it's considered somewhat stupid and actually less than manly on his team to do a workout in a shirt if it's above the low 40s or so.

I can't stand my school. They make all males wear shirts no matter how damn hot it is outside. I have been running on the treadmill at 6 in the morning at school when no one else is around except the athletic director and he told me to put a shirt on. Even off campus in the frickin woods with no one around except our team the coaches would make us wear shirts. BS. The swim team doesn't wear shirts

I feel like it's not so much an issue of whether it's appropriate or not. Like someone already said, if guys can go shirtless at the pool, what's the difference? It's more an issue of fairness. When men get hot, they can take their shirt off. Girls can't do that. Most schools won't even allow girls to run in a sports bra.

Then again, girls on the swim team are allowed to wear bathing suits. So why can't they wear bunhuggers and sports bras at the track? What's the difference?

I guess my take on it is this: Either allow girls to take their shirts off too, or just tell both guys and and girls they have to wear a singlet if they get too hot. Wearing a singlet is basically like not having a shirt on, but it covers every thing.

There was no rule against it at my school, which I think was kind of ironic, because even our fastest runners ran in boxers and basketball shorts. Seeing a bunch of dudes pounding out quarters shirtless in BBall shorts would be shocking to me these days, but when I was a part of it, it seemed normal.

Coached for over 20 years. Didn't care what they wore, as long as they did the workouts. On hot days boys and girls were shirtless.

Once out of the building, shirts were optional (for either gender, but only a few girls felt bold/confident enough to do so in HS). Same in college, only the women by then realized that if they wear bikinis outside, they can also wear sports bras outside.

I feel for people having to deal with ADs/administrators that somehow think shirtless = obscene.

All the top girls at our school did the sports bra thing on hot days. I never thought anything of it.