high school bans shirtless running

my high school has never permitted boys or girls to go without shirts while running. we often did so and were then told we need to wear them the week after an administrator saw. we always ditched shirts the moment we left school grounds.

it's funny they don't allow shirtless running as a lawsuit could happen. sweat evaporates quicker directly from the skin than to have a sweat soaked shirt. but one high school kids don't properly hydrate in the first place and two (i understand financial difficulties of kids) by some singlets to workout in or heck some wife beaters.

My high school banned shirtless running while on our campus track, but I went to a Jesuit school. I always assumed the rule was to prevent tempting the priests and our pedophile coach, Tom McCarthy

The Waterboy wrote:

If men can go bare chested in 95 degrees, why not just have your daughters go bare chested in 95 degrees too? It's equal right? Both not wearing the same garment and exposing the same part of the body?

Oh, is there a such thing called modesty, perhaps a term that applies differently to a man than it does a woman?

You get the idea

Yes, I get the idea that you are sexist. I also get the idea that if you made that crack about my daughters going shirtless in the same room as me, you be picking teeth out of your shit for several days.

envewi wrote:

Yes, I get the idea that you are sexist. I also get the idea that if you made that crack about my daughters going shirtless in the same room as me, you be picking teeth out of your shit for several days.

Whoa, stand back everyone! There's an internet tough guy in the house.

It would be really interesting to me to hear what most people think of modesty and its importance. As a coach, I don't like my guys having the distraction, as a parent I wouldn't like my daughter running around in spandex and a sports bra, and as a religious person I'd like to think there's a speck of innocence left in our society where girls understand the absolute control they have over a guys mind and help us control the addiction.

o-factor wrote:

... I'd like to think there's a speck of innocence left in our society where girls understand the absolute control they have over a guys mind and help us control the addiction.

So your weird addiction to 14 year olds is somehow my daughter's problem? Freak.

o-factor wrote:

It would be really interesting to me to hear what most people think of modesty and its importance. As a coach, I don't like my guys having the distraction, as a parent I wouldn't like my daughter running around in spandex and a sports bra, and as a religious person I'd like to think there's a speck of innocence left in our society where girls understand the absolute control they have over a guys mind and help us control the addiction.

Are you a coach, parent, and a religious person?

Just curious. I'm all three.

Guys will get distracted by the girls anyway. At that age they can't help themselves. That's what they do whether the girls are completely covered in sweats or wearing a bikini. It comes with the territory.

I'm hoping that if you're a coach you're not fighting off some addiction? Hopefully you're just remembering what you were like at age 17. I remember what I was like - a real idiot!!!

My high school did the same thing.

It was because the girls team complained. We also just take our shirts off once we leave campus and put them back on when we get back to campus.

The high school where I coach at hired a new AD at the beginning of cross this past season. Our old AD used to be the cross coach and he let the kids go shirtless for years and then this new guy bans it and never gave us a reason. I let our kids go shirtless anyway. Just be cognizant of where the AD is and tell the kids to ditch their shirts a half mile/mile into their run right when they leave campus. Our AD's a baseball guy so he doesn't really pay attention to us so we're able to get away with it.

Research has been done that running with or without a shirt does not change a runners core temperature durastically. Infact studies show that wearing a shirt on a hot sunny day will slightly lower ones body temperature. So what if you have to wear a shirt, your training for a race and your shirt should be the last thing you worry about. Where there is parents there will always be complaints about something and the school has to take in everyones concerns no matter how logical.

I like it when high school boys run shirtless.

Here is a piece of advice, you should just become so good that you can just do whatever you want to do, including run with your shirt off.

o-factor wrote:

It would be really interesting to me to hear what most people think of modesty and its importance. As a coach, I don't like my guys having the distraction, as a parent I wouldn't like my daughter running around in spandex and a sports bra, and as a religious person I'd like to think there's a speck of innocence left in our society where girls understand the absolute control they have over a guys mind and help us control the addiction.

OK, as long as you are interested, I think you should not be a coach, and should stay away from children. How about we bundle them all up in ankle length clothing and burkas, so you don't have to worry about your strange mind?

At my college the guys could run shirtless, which we did all the time. I never heard that the girls absolutely could not run shirtless but none of them did, so I assume it was a rule. My college is affiliated with the Mennonite Brethren, which used to mandate men and women sit in separate sections of the church sanctuary and even enter/exit from separate doors. Essentially, there was probably some sexism involved in making that rule up.

acoachesperspective wrote:

Hopefully you're just remembering what you were like at age 17. I remember what I was like - a real idiot!!!

Absolutely! I just thought that it was important to use sports as an opportunity to teach other important things - if you're an administrator and you made that same decision, what would be your rationale?

Can we PLEASE move on to something more critical.....freeballing

our team has had no progress with lifting the ban on shirtless running because our coaches will hear none of our problems. to make matters worse, we now have to wear reflective running vests in broad daylight. my school sucks

o-factor wrote:I'd like to think there's a speck of innocence left in our society where girls understand the absolute control they have over a guys mind and help us control the addiction

As far as innocence goes, I have a fool-poof operation for ending your addiction once and for all. How about we liberate our innocent civilians by taking an x-acto knife to your privates?

It's nice to hear there are ADs across the US that have limited intelligence and cave to any complaint for any reason. Our AD made this rule two years ago (also made it a rule you could not wear watches - they are jewelry and too dangerous). Being the almighty savior himself, we had to follow the rule. We have a split mens/womens program and we now meet off campus for every practice except track workouts. We have to. It is hot here and stupid rules are just that, stupid.

We abide by the rule during track workouts but that's it.

We also complained that swimmers don't wear shoes and he passed that rule this season (just kidding).