Running with shirt off

Loop hole: fish net shirts and half shirts.

What is their reasoning behind mandatory shirts especially for off-campus runs? How can a school administration have oversight over runners running off-campus?

Could just take a shirt and cut a lot of holes:

https://trailmag.co.za/holey-shirt/

because one old lady complained (no joke), and we tried to ignore it but the coaches go with us when we go off-campus and they're enforcing it

Holey shirts wrote:

What is their reasoning behind mandatory shirts especially for off-campus runs? How can a school administration have oversight over runners running off-campus?

Could just take a shirt and cut a lot of holes:

https://trailmag.co.za/holey-shirt/

Can't believe that article missed my favorite one:

Ron Hill

Their are no performance benefits to training shirtless. You save some laundry, and money not buying singlets but you aren't going to be faster

Train how you race, you race with a singlet, why cant you train with a singlet?

Unless you race with your shirts off then you shouldn't train with them off whether or not a rule has been put in place.

OP, this website has absolutely everything you need. Just present this to administration:

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/10-reasons-why-exercising-shirtless-can-be-the-most-empowering

B1G wrote:

Unless you race with your shirts off then you shouldn't train with them off whether or not a rule has been put in place.

Why? Should they not wear t-shirts either? Or pants when it's cold? What does what they race in have to do with what they train in?

spartan_runner wrote:

because one old lady complained (no joke), and we tried to ignore it but the coaches go with us when we go off-campus and they're enforcing it

Start running in a thong or banana hammock and see if the ol' bat likes that any better.

Hey, if swimmers can do it....

Our school admin did the same thing, but said it's only applicable within a certain distance of campus. Meanwhile the swim team, football team and basketball team have their shirts off all the time.

Two main reasons to have your shirt off.

1. Vitamin D: Ought to be called Hormone D, but that's beyond the scope of this post. Anyway, you don't get vitamin D from the sun via your face and only a very small amount from your forearms and legs when standing upright. The torso is the main area you get vitamin D from the sun. You need to stockpile your vitamin D during the summer and soak up as much as you can in the months where the sun is not very high overhead. Vitamin D deficiencies are common due to how much we are inside and how much clothes and sunscreen we wear outside. Vitamin D has a massive effect on all aspects of our well-being. Those will low vitamin D are at much higher risk of weak bones, weak muscles, depression, suicide, general apathy and anything else that comes with low vitality.

2. Chances of getting heat stroke are much higher with a shirt on during the warmer months of the year, but this pales in comparison to point #1.

In general, athletes will perform better and increase their kinesthetic awareness more with less clothing on and whatever clothing they do have on is best if it's form fitting. Obviously societal norms come into play here so that has to be balanced.

If you are off campus there is literally nothing they can do, it's not illegal to run shirtless. Even if the coaches are with you the school still doesn't have authority over you off campus, especially for something as stupid as an old hag complaining about the boys 6 packs. For workouts on the track you could wear a singlet with holes in it as other members have mentioned.

1. I think people are assuming op is university and talking runs done on personal time. I’m pretty sure op is in high school and talking about high school training runs with their coaches during school time.

2. No amount of “proof” of benefits of running shirtless will change the administers minds

spartan_runner wrote:

My school administration is trying to ban all runners from taking their shirts off on all off-campus runs. Does anyone have any good research on the benefits of running shirtless?

There are no benefits to running shirtless. If you're racing in a shirt, you should train in one, too.

You should thank your administrators for teaching you how to conduct yourselves with class, which includes never going shirtless in public.

Public school? If so whole team has come down with rare skin condition causing too much chafing with shirts on. Endemic disability requiring reasonable accommodation under Section 504 of rehabilitation act.

You’re welcome.

Free_the_thigh wrote:

1. I think people are assuming op is university and talking runs done on personal time.

Pretty sure absolutely no one assumes this. The same thread topic about high schools attempting to ban shirtless running seems to come up every summer. Don't administrators have more important things to do with their time than bother with this?

Don't do it wrote:

If you are off campus there is literally nothing they can do, it's not illegal to run shirtless. Even if the coaches are with you the school still doesn't have authority over you off campus, especially for something as stupid as an old hag complaining about the boys 6 packs. For workouts on the track you could wear a singlet with holes in it as other members have mentioned.

Um... I don’t think you know how college athletics work.

If the temperature is above 75F and I am not racing, I go shirtless. Shirt's gonna come off after the first mile or so anyway, so it's one less thing to carry.

The men's t&f team at the private catholic college in my hometown run shirtless quite a bit too , not to mention the public university as well.

If you're allowed to run off of campus, remove your shirt after about a mile and put it back on when you're close.

Shirtless & Free is the Way to Be.

Can’t believe nobody mentioned the biggest benefit of running shirtless. No bleeding nipples.

I’ve had some skin cancers that said all those years of going shirtless was a bad idea.