What are people's opinion on male middle/ long distance runners shaving their legs?
Should you only do it if your fast (semi/ pro level)?
Is it just to look good?
Girls dig it?
Pros/ cons?
I've always considered doing it and now it's summer contemplating doing it. My running roommate does it and most my training partners do. Quite a lot of sports people do it nowadays too (cyclist, soccer, football).
Summerlegs wrote:
Is it just to look good?
Girls dig it?
You're pathetic
Why do you want to do it? I don't want to hear anything about other people or what they do, but why YOU are debating it. What benefits will you get?
Hell yes, shave 'em. It took about a month of shaving my legs to go from thinking shaved legs looked weird to thinking hairy legs were gross.
It looks good. Mixed responses from ladies. I'm not really bothered by the effort, sometimes I just want to chill in the shower for an extra few minutes anyway, and this gives me something to do. Just make sure you get a good razor. At least for me, my legs are a lot more sensitive than my face.
I shave my legs.
- It makes your legs look more muscular.
- Many girls have actually told me they like how it looks more.
- My past two girlfriends have liked how it felt.
Yes, you can only do it if you are fast though.
Since you're on the fence already you clearly want to do it and just need encouragement.
Let me say that using a razor takes longer, can be uncomfortable (ingrown hairs), is not comfortable to cozy up to, and most importantly...where you do stop shaving? If you go all the way up you are in for a disappointing experience, and if you don't now you have permaboxers made of hair.
Use a hair trimmer without the guard, it's much easier, more comfortable for you and your partner and accomplishes what you are really after.
And what benefits are you after?
- aesthetic maybe, whatever.
- more effective massage (by yourself or therapist)
- easier to tell if you're dehydrated, a little heavy, too lean (unlikely!) etc.
- easier to see symmetries or lack of in the musculature.
- feels faster (sounds ridiculous, I know!, but psychological tricks are great)
I am 50 years old, and I cannot believe how soft, and how gay males are these days. Absolutely pu$$y whipped. And you people don't even realize how pathetic you really are. Buck up and act like a male!
Is it common place for male triathletes and cyclists to shave their legs? I seem to know quite a few that do.
I've always wondered if your body would be necessarily wasting energy on regrowing hair that could be spent on recovery. Do hairs reach a fixed length and then require substantially less "resources" to maintain? Or are the total resources devoted to (re)growing hair inconsequential when compared with the resources devoted to recovery from training?
Buck up wrote:
I am 50 years old, and I cannot believe how soft, and how gay males are these days. Absolutely pu$$y whipped. And you people don't even realize how pathetic you really are. Buck up and act like a male!
Buck up and quit your homophobia
Buck up wrote:
I am 50 years old, and I cannot believe how soft, and how gay males are these days. Absolutely pu$$y whipped. And you people don't even realize how pathetic you really are. Buck up and act like a male!
I'm gay and I gotta tell you: gay men don't do this.
I don't know any of my gay friends who shave their legs. It's usually a weird straight athlete type thing.
That being said, if someone wants to do it, whatever floats your boat, go for it. I think it's gross. (And I'm sure my sex life is gross to straight men so I don't judge.)
It's "weird" and "gross", but you don't judge? Got it.
Your 50 years old and your posting on a young mans forum? GTFO
Mike Honcho wrote:
Your 50 years old and your posting on a young mans forum? GTFO
A young man's forum? You're thinking of DyeStat.
I have for a few years now.
It does actually feel kind of nice and cool in the hot summer , but that's not the real reason. Between trail running and yard work, anything I can do to make it harder for ticks - most particularly DeerTicks - to get on me (or easier to find if they do) is worth it.
Quit worrying about what the fashion police think. Shave your legs. If you like it, keeping shaving. If you don't like it, the hair will grow back in 2-3 weeks.
The same goes for arm warmers, calf sleeves, compression tights, funny looking shoes, etc... just do what you want to do.
fisky wrote:
The same goes for arm warmers, calf sleeves, compression tights, funny looking shoes, etc... just do what you want to do.
Shorts over tights?
Buck up wrote:
I am 50 years old, and I cannot believe how soft, and how gay males are these days. Absolutely pu$$y whipped. And you people don't even realize how pathetic you really are. Buck up and act like a male!
When "Buck up" was our age:
Shave your legs,wear a balance bracelet, go Paleo, do plyometrics. Problem solved.
Summerlegs wrote:
What are people's opinion on male middle/ long distance runners shaving their legs?
Should you only do it if your fast (semi/ pro level)?
Is it just to look good?
Girls dig it?
Pros/ cons?
if you don't have hairs on your legs (like me, male) I don't think you should shave them
Buck up wrote:
I am 50 years old, and I cannot believe how soft, and how gay males are these days. Absolutely pu$$y whipped. And you people don't even realize how pathetic you really are. Buck up and act like a male!
You're 50. Your generation of entitled, greedy, soft, unproductive weaklings produced the housing collapse, an entire generation of failed policy makers and policy making, and private and public debts that will take my generation an entire lifetime to counteract. Also, don't complain too much about this generation, seeing as you're the ones who raised us.
"No such thing bad student, only bad teacher." - Mr. Miyagi
We do what we want. What's more masculine than autonomy? Enjoy your hair and your lack of accomplishments, while I enjoy the dual pleasures of hard work tempered with occasional hedonism, complete with smooth legs, sexually liberated females, and a masculinity that I get to define for myself, not what some other guy defines for me.