Exercise Hair

• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose).
• What time of day and week do you work out?
• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors)
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it?
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising?
• What would you like to know?

• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose).

• What time of day and week do you work out?

• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors)

• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it?

• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising?

• What would you like to know?

krissyhair said:

Please interact with all of the ladies with their acts together trying to stay fit in the gym with a few stats about your hair.

• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose).
• What time of day and week do you work out?
• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors)
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it?
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising?
• What would you like to know?

Please feel free to update at any time with what you did for your hair while exercising recently, or tips for anyone else.

It's not a challenge, but let's help each other.

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• What is the state of your hair? - Relaxed
• What time of day and week do you work out? - Mornings, before work
• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors) - Gym and outdoors
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it? - Oh yes. I take spin classes. In addition, I am doing the C25K program and as such I sweat a lot especially at my hairline. I sweat less when I do weights.
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising? For my workouts, I catch up my hair in a ponytail and wear a sweat band to absorb some of the sweat. Immediately after exercising, I remove the sweat band, to allow my hair to dry faster. The thing is I only have approximately 45 minutes between the end of my class and the time I am scheduled to get to work. As such, most days I wear my hair in a ponytail or bun for work.
• What would you like to know? How to get rid of/minimize the grays. Because of my workouts, I have to get a black rinse at least every 3 weeks.

Loving said:

• What is the state of your hair? - Relaxed
• What time of day and week do you work out? - Mornings, before work
• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors) - Gym and outdoors
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it? - Oh yes. I take spin classes. In addition, I am doing the C25K program and as such I sweat a lot especially at my hairline. I sweat less when I do weights.
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising? For my workouts, I catch up my hair in a ponytail and wear a sweat band to absorb some of the sweat. Immediately after exercising, I remove the sweat band, to allow my hair to dry faster. The thing is I only have approximately 45 minutes between the end of my class and the time I am scheduled to get to work. As such, most days I wear my hair in a ponytail or bun for work.
• What would you like to know? How to get rid of/minimize the grays. Because of my workouts, I have to get a black rinse at least every 3 weeks.

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krissyhair said:

Please interact with all of the ladies with their acts together trying to stay fit in the gym with a few stats about your hair.

• What is the state of your hair? My hair is natural and I alternate between curly and straight styles.
• What time of day and week do you work out? I try to work out in the morning around 7 AM Which doesn't leave much time before I have to go to work
• Where do you work out? I mostly work out at home doing Cardio or DVD routines.
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? My scalp and face get super sweaty. My hair is low porosity so the strands themselves don't get soaked.
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising? If its straight then I will add a balm and put up into a bun and tie down my edges. I try to leave the scarf on my edges for at least 20 - 30 minutes after to keep edges laid
• What would you like to know? How do ladies maintain a curly style (wash n go out braid out/twist out without it getting puffy and sweated out at roots?

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krissyhair said:

Does it make you gray faster, or does it make the rinse wear off?

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krissyhair said:

Please interact with all of the ladies with their acts together trying to stay fit in the gym with a few stats about your hair.

• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose).
• What time of day and week do you work out?
• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors)
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it?
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising?
• What would you like to know?

Please feel free to update at any time with what you did for your hair while exercising recently, or tips for anyone else.

It's not a challenge, but let's help each other.

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• Natural
• Fell off the wagon. Aiming to re-start yoga and Pilates 30mins daily next wk & running in the spring
• Will be home, later outdoors
• YES!
• Before: nothing, french braids. After: rinse well + scritch + preen + air dry
• Is anyone using laser-cut thongs to workout? Any leads on a good compression bra for itty bitties?

Loving said:

• What would you like to know? How to get rid of/minimize the grays. Because of my workouts, I have to get a black rinse at least every 3 weeks.

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• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose).-NATURAL
• What time of day and week do you work out?-5AM-MON-/WED/FRI
• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors)-GYM
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it?-YES/CARDIO-KICKBOXING
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising?-BEFORE PIN IT UP/AFTER LET OUT TO DRY-THEN UPDO
• What would you like to know?, I'M GOOD, ILL WATCH THE OTHER COMMENTS,

• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose).

• What time of day and week do you work out?

• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors)

• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it?

• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising?

• What would you like to know?

• What is the state of your hair?

• What time of day and week do you work out?

• Where do you work out?

• Does your routine make you sweat a lot?

• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising?

• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose).
  • Natural
• What time of day and week do you work out?
  • 5 to 7 times a week 30 to 90 min
    • Weekdays afternoon or early evening
    • Weekends morning
• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors)
  • Outdoors
  • Home
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it?
  • Yes - my workouts consistent of one or more of the following
    • Running
    • Heavy Lifting
    • HIIT Routines
    • Plyometrics
  • If I don't break a sweat I haven't worked hard enough
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising?
  • Before: most of the times nothing, sometimes a scarf to tie it down
  • After: Scarf to smooth it down and reset my style for about 15-30 min
• What would you like to know?
  • nothing but great thread!

• "What would you like to know? How do ladies maintain a curly style (wash n go out braid out/twist out without it getting puffy and sweated out at roots?"
  • Before I started wearing loose twists 24/7 I wore stretched styles or braid outs in a bun. To keep my hair from reverting too much I'd put it in a pony tail or bun, place a scarf on immediately after working out and didn't remove either until my roots were dry.

Babysaffy said:

I'd like to know if it's worth taking the time to straighten my hair only for the regrowth to revert when I sweat it out in the gym a day or a few days later.

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• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose). Natural, twists in a low bun
• What time of day and week do you work out? Early morning (5 or 6 a.m.), 3-4 days
• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors) Outdoors
• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it? Yes. High intensity cross training, similar to Insanity. Mix-up of core, cardio, strength training
• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising? Before: Slap on a Buff (soft stretchy headband) to absorb some sweat. After: Sometimes take down, apply Philip Kingsley Scalp Toner and massage, apply Oyin Hair Dew to ends and re-bun. Other times adjust bun to look normal, let sweat dry, and keep it moving.

• What is the state of your hair? (Natural, relaxed, protective style, loose). Natural loose

• What time of day and week do you work out? Either in morning before work or in evening after work depending on day of week

• Where do you work out? (Home, gym, outdoors) Mostly at gym

• Does your routine make you sweat a lot? If so, or if not, what is it? Yes. Spin, body works, and yoga

• What do you do to your hair immediately before and after exercising? Stick a ponytail in my bang area so it's not hanging in my face. I wear primarily wash n goes so I really don't have to worry about sweating.