This 'cool-down' hoodie could solve all your gym outfit temperature woes
LONDON -- Finding an outfit for the gym is much akin to Goldilocks' struggle.
If your outfit isn't making you feel too cold on the way to the gym or too hot while you're working out, it's making you feel even hotter on your way home. As if going to the gym wasn't hard enough as it is.
Athletic-wear brand Xavier Athletica could be about to bring an end to all of our workout wardrobe dilemmas.
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Xavier Athletic has designed a "cool-down hoodie" that optimises your temperature both pre- and post-gym, and means you don't need to carry around a change of clothes.
The hoodie is made from premium loop-back cotton, and contains Tencel and silk.
"Our signature hoodie has unique thermal properties that keep you cool in hot temperatures and warm enough in cold temperatures through tiny pockets of air, whilst preventing skin irritation after your work out," creator Nikki Lynds-Xavier told Mashable.
"It's a fabric that breathes, as nature intended. No hi-tech wizardry required, it just lets your skin get on with its temperature control thing without stress or strain," she continued.
According to Lynds-Xavier, the hoodie's thermal qualities keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It's down to all those tiny pockets of air caught between the fibres, apparently.
It doesn't come cheap, though. You'll have to fork out £129.99 ($190).
Perfect if athleisure's your bag; not so perfect if you're on a budget.
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
