Can you jog shirtless

We know that working out shirtless has plenty of benefits: No nipple chafing on long runs, less laundry at the end of the week, and a perfectly line-less tan. Plus, this dude got hot girl friend requests overnight when he went running without a shirt and got caught on camera. So to create the ultimate guide on going shirtless, we caught up with Aaron Williamson , former Marine and fitness consultant to our current cover guy Zac Efron.

But, keep these loose guidelines in mind:. No one wants to be in the 5th minute of a WOD snatching their brains out and thinking about a tri-blend aggressively massaging them into asphyxiation. Make sure you have a towel to clean up after yourself, and if you sweat profusely, make sure you have at least two towels or a beach-sized towel.

Wear deodorant. And yet I still maintain that there are times in these dog days of summer when shirtless running is acceptable. Having thought an awful lot perhaps too much? In fact, your gym should not even allow shirtless exercise. You are clearly already insane, and disinterested in hygiene. For you, wearing a shirt is just putting on airs. Do wear a shirt if you commute to work by running.

And even then we have to ask: Who exactly commutes to work by running? It would be just as well, since wide, open areas are most optimal for stripping down, just as enclosed, densely populated workout spaces—i. Traveling abroad Err on the side of caution. Nothing is worse than a boorish tourist.

Venice has long struggled with topless tourists in summer, who stroll along its canals as though they were still out on the Lido. In a conservative country like Japan, where there is a huge running—and trail running —scene, social mores require you stay clothed, even when running through a remote forest of Japanese maple on a day with 95 percent humidity. In other words, leave your inner Matthew McConaughey stateside. For the ladies The freethenipple campaign is a movement claiming that women should the same right to toplessness as men.

Today there are 37 states in the USA that still arrest women for this same freedom.