Why do women wear workout clothes to go for a walk?

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So I guess I'm just mad, then, I'll go to the gym wearing Dockers and a collared shirt after church and go do some clean and jerks. So I guess I'm the opposite end of the clothing extreme.

Considering I did 30 minutes of HIIT yesterday wearing jeans, I shouldn't say much.

It is more logical to wear workout clothes and shower immediately after the workout instead of making your best clothes sweat. It depends on the type of workout you are doing, doing a few clean and jerks is going to be different from doing 60 minutes of high intensity drills or intervals of sprinting.

I walk my dog in regular clothes, but as a consequence I sometimes have to change when I get home b/c it's so humid where I live that, even in relatively cool weather, I come back all sweaty.

Walking can cause you to sweat if you take a physically demanding route.

One word: bewbs.

If I'm going to sweat, it ain't gonna be in my pretty (and expensive) underwire bras. Likewise, if there's any bounce at all (a brisk walk or a jog), my regular bras won't support me. I can't get full range of motion in most of my clothing, either, as women's clothes are more fitted than men's, generally. And of course you can't walk for a long time comfortably in most women's shoes (that aren't made for it).

Not me! If and when I actually do go for a walk (which used to be a lot but hardly ever now) I just need a good pair of sneakers, whatever clothing is appropriate for the weather or season, and some music to listen to. In fact, in the minor city I live in if you were all decked out in workout clothes you'd get some pretty weird looks from other people.

Maybe they are powerwalking around your area? Seems like normal walking, but for normal walking you simply want to reach a certain spot, and normally you go there in a speed,s o that your normal everyday stuff is not full of sweat.

Then they also may like to wear cozy cloth. As a woman if you were normal everday cozy, non crazy, cloth you are often told to look sloppy. So if you want to wear cozy cloth, but dont want to get told to look sloppy, you simply wear sports stuff, because for sports cozy cloth are allowed.

Personally for me, I like them because they are normally easy to wash, elastic = cozy, and you dont have to care much for "What cloth do I wear today?" without looking sloppy. And you dont need to change cloths, when doing sports. ^^Perfect for weekend. Waking up, showering, sports cloth, shopping food, doing housework, cycling for 2 hours, doing garden work, chill out with computer games and all with the same stuff and I dont need to change cloths if my partners friends visit us.

and to hide the speed bumps in their cellulite , or is that another trademark of holy despair and critical enough to formulate leftover baggage found stranded in the dairy isle...

Also, they may not want to sweat up their nicer clothes, and some women feel judged about going for walks in dumpier clothes. I myself wear nicer clothes for walking because I have a public job and live in a smaller city. Lots of people would know me!

This thread made me chuckle. I actually have wondered this myself. If I ever go for a walk, I dress casual. Walking isn't much to me lol. I only dress up for a workout if I'm going to sweat. HIIT = puddle making time.

It's mostly how neurotypicals let other neurotypicals know they belong to the fitness subgroup. Fitness people are proud to know what they know and want to be seen as active, strong and informed people. If an NT sees another NT dressed like a diver riding a bicycle, the implication is that the person dressed like a diver knows a LOT about bicycling, and can be relied on a source of information and inspiration. It has very little to do with functionality, that's just a convenient excuse.