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I have searched here and didn't see any thread on this. How do you guys manage your incontinence at the gym?

Maybe I have a unique situation, but I have to have some kind of "cupping" support when I run or workout. So normally I swear a jockstrap or speedo-like swimsuit to the gym for support, and then I wear the diaper over it for incontinence. McDavid has a new performance supporter that is mesh and wicks moisture away.

Compression shorts don't work for me for two reasons. First, my boys get bunched up between my legs, instead of pulled up front, and I hurt myself when running or swimming. Second, the compression shorts bunch up the diaper and squeeze it making it less absorbent.

So far this has worked for me but I am wondering what other guys use as an alternative.

I have just joined a new gym by my house, both to get in shape, and to force myself to overcome some of my anxieties about changing when I workout. It is kind of stupid that I change in the restroom at work, in restaurants, but changing at the gym is a bit nerve racking.

So, any thoughts?

For swimming I wouldn't worry that much about it. Don't care what they say, everybody pees in the pool. Swim diapers aren't meant to hold urine anyways, only feces.

If you do a lot of running try something simpler like a pullup style garment. That should be able to hold you for an hour or two without causing major problems... and really any incontinence garment should function just like an athletic support, if a diaper is applied properly things shouldn't be bouncing around anyways.

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I go to the gym regular and have had some of the same problems with diaper bunching.I just go on nobody looks anyway.I don't use the compresson type shorts,if anyone noticed they never said.

I've been going to my local YMCA for almost 11 years now and it has not slowed me down at all. Now I don't work out with weights or run on a tread mill, but I do work out some times on the other machines. Normally I swim and there's no problem there. As I shower to leave, as I finish out a workout in the wellness center, I just take a plastic bad they have there in the locker room and dispose of my soiled diaper as I shower.
There use to be a changing stall which they removed and never did re-install. So now I take my clothes with me and hopefully no one is in the handi-cap stall where I'll put on a clean diaper. This has worked over the past 10 plus years.
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I had a gym membership for about a year. I used to go workout on the weight machines and run on the treadmill. I just wore an Abena Extra and a pair of gym shorts with a light weight T-shirt. A pullup garment would not work because I have both bladder and bowel issues. So I just wore a tape-on diaper. The only thing that bothered me when I was working out was raising my arms above my head to do exercises like Lat pull downs. When my arms went up, so did the shirt and the diaper showed. This only happened once. I solved this by investing in some plastic pants and I tucked the diaper down inside. It also quieted down the noise of the brief so no one heard me. Nobody ever saw me. And I worked out for about a year but I had to cut back on my finances and my gym membership had to go.

I do like to bike. I have a hybrid bike and I wear a diaper and some athletic gym shorts with a cycling shirt. I can ride for like 10 miles if traffic is light. The diaper holds up.

I used to run, but that didn't work out. I couldn't run wearing a brief and the brief didn't hold up. But I at least tried it.

I do swim in the summer. I live in FL and we go to the beach and the waterpark. I wear a Gabby's swim diaper to the pool and the beach. I have never actually had to use one, I try to empty my bowels and bladder before I get in the pool. So far it has worked. The water park we visit actually has a sign in multiple places that says "diaper dependent patrons must wear a swim diaper". Kind of makes me laugh.