Gym bag checklist
Split into the things that live in the bag and the things that go in today. Restock the first group on a Sunday and the second takes thirty seconds.
33 items
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The items
- Lives in the bag
- PadlockThe single most common reason somebody trains in their coat.
- Spare socks
- Small towel
- Shower gel and shampoo, travel size
- Deodorant
- Hair ties and a brush
- Plasters
- A plastic bag for wet kit
- Packed today
- Training top
- Shorts or leggings
- Sports bra, if you wear one
- Trainers, the right ones for what you are doing
- Underwear to change into
- A second top if you sweat through the first
- Training
- Water bottle, filled
- Headphones, charged
- Membership card or app, logged in
- Lifting straps, belt or gloves, if you use them
- Resistance band
- Your programme, written down rather than remembered
- After
- Flip-flops for the shower
- Something to eat within the hour
- Clean clothes to leave in
- Hair dryer, or accept the walk home
- Every time you get home
- Empty the bag the same day
- Wet kit straight into the wash
- Refill the water bottle and leave it out
- Put the padlock back
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Questions people ask
- What should always live in a gym bag?
- A padlock, a spare pair of socks, shower gel, a small towel and a hair tie. They weigh nothing and each one has ended somebody's session by being absent.
- How do I stop the bag smelling?
- Empty it the same day, every day. Nothing else works — not sprays, not a second bag. Wet kit left overnight is the whole problem.