RunningAHEAD - Topic: Compression or loose running shorts?

jmwbos

posted: 8/11/2008 at 12:10 PM
modified: 8/11/2008 at 12:11 PM

Training for my second marathon. Typically logging about 40 - 50 miles per week. My weekly long run ranges from 14 - 24. I have sever back pain associated with a consistantly tight outer left hamstring and my right Piriformis. I've noticed when I wear my tri or compression shorts, I can usually run further and slightly faster. If compression shorts really help isolate and limit muscle range, why doesn't everyone use them? Surely, it's not just because most men are shy about well...showing the boys off?! Any experience or thoughts?

jmwbos

posted: 8/11/2008 at 12:11 PM

Quote from jmwbos on 8/11/2008 at 12:10 PM:

Training for my second marathon. Typically logging about 40 - 50 miles per week. My weekly long run ranges from 14 - 24. I have sever back pain associated with a consistantly tight outer left hamstring and my right Piriformis. I've noticed when I wear my tri or compression shorts, I can usually run further and slightly faster. If compression shorts really help isolate and limit muscle range, why doesn't everyone use them? Surely, it's not just because most men are shy about well...showing the boys off?! Any experience or thoughts?

sdewan

2010 Goofy Trainee

posted: 8/11/2008 at 4:22 PM

Quote from jmwbos on 8/11/2008 at 12:10 PM:

Surely, it's not just because most men are shy about well...showing the boys off?!

No, that's the only reason.

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream...

RustinSPE

Mr. Muscle

posted: 8/11/2008 at 7:15 PM

I find they help me but only during colder training/races. It helps blood flow and it keeps the manberries warm. Of course I wear other shorts on top. That solves the "humble" problem.

protoplasm72

posted: 8/12/2008 at 12:13 AM

I find them hotter and less comfortable. I don't really have any pain that they would help with so I don't wear them. I do some runs in my tri shorts just to get used to them for tri's. I don't notice any difference in the way I feel after wearing them.

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