The Tea on Gymshark Quality - My HONEST Thoughts
So today we're getting down to some not so pretty details of #Gymshark. We all know Gymshark has been pumping out releases but does their quality match the hype?? Is Gymshark worth it? What is the TRUTH about Gymshark quality?! Watch and find out!
✮ MY MEASUREMENTS ✮
➡ Chest: 29 in, 73cm
➡ Bust: 35 in, 89cm
➡ Bra size: 32 DDD (70DDD EU sizing)
➡ Waist: 25 in, 64 cm
➡ Hip: 37.5 in , 95 cm(widest part)
➡ Thigh: 22.5 in, 57cm
➡ Calf: 15in, 38 cm
➡ Height: 5’9”, 175cm
➡ Weight: approx. 145 lbs/65-66kg (changes all the time tbh)
✮ MY MEASUREMENTS ✮
➡ Chest: 29 in, 73cm
➡ Bust: 35 in, 89cm
➡ Bra size: 32 DDD (70DDD EU sizing)
➡ Waist: 25 in, 64 cm
➡ Hip: 37.5 in , 95 cm(widest part)
➡ Thigh: 22.5 in, 57cm
➡ Calf: 15in, 38 cm
➡ Height: 5’9”, 175cm
➡ Weight: approx. 145 lbs/65-66kg (changes all the time tbh)
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00:00 What's up guys?
00:01 So today we are gonna be spilling some tea,
00:05 exposing, whatever you wanna say,
00:08 but I'm going to be talking about my issues with Gymshark.
00:13 Not just specifically my issues with the brand in general,
00:15 because I think there are a lot of,
00:18 like there's been a lot of controversy
00:19 about the prices and everything recently.
00:21 I've been a customer of Gymshark for over a year now,
00:23 and I have some items that I've had for about a year.
00:27 I've had items that I've had for less than a year,
00:29 and I just have some issues with them.
00:32 Gymshark is probably one of the most popular
00:34 activewear brands at the moment.
00:36 They're very hyped up, they're all over Instagram,
00:39 they have millions of followers,
00:41 and I would definitely say that people often compare them
00:45 to Lululemon in terms of like two big brands of activewear,
00:49 and I just really don't think that they compare
00:51 in the quality to Lululemon.
00:53 I've had pairs of Lululemon leggings
00:55 that I've had for six or more years,
00:57 and the worst thing that have happened to the leggings
00:59 is that I've gotten some pilling,
01:01 and that is just, you know, that's expected,
01:03 but I've never gotten any rips or tears,
01:06 they haven't become sheer or anything,
01:07 they haven't stretched out,
01:09 and I really can't say the same about Gymshark.
01:11 Today I'm going to be going through
01:13 a few of my pieces of Gymshark activewear that I've had
01:16 for, I'll tell you how long I've had each one,
01:18 and just the issues with it
01:21 and how it has not held up with quality.
01:24 Another thing to say is that Gymshark
01:26 continues to raise their prices.
01:28 They're really pumping out the launches very quickly,
01:30 and I just think that sometimes
01:31 they might be ignoring quality in a way.
01:35 I feel like no one really talks about this,
01:37 and I feel like I really needed to show you guys.
01:41 I do still purchase from Gymshark,
01:43 I really think that their stuff is very cute,
01:45 but it's never something that I see
01:48 as my most high-quality items.
01:50 So my very, very first item I ever got from Gymshark
01:54 was a pair of their Flex leggings,
01:56 and I have to say I don't love their Flex leggings,
01:59 I don't think they're very flattering at all.
02:01 I mean, the waistband is just so short,
02:04 and I personally love a high waist.
02:05 I'm very confident with my body,
02:06 but I don't like wearing things with low waist,
02:09 'cause I just don't think it's very cute.
02:11 And what has happened to these
02:13 is within my very first few times of wearing them,
02:16 the waistband, it just really seems like it's stretching out.
02:20 Can you see?
02:21 It looks like, so the actual elastic part
02:25 is now here, and this is just the fabric.
02:28 It really, you can't quite see,
02:31 but it is just really sheared out around the seam,
02:35 and it just makes me uncomfortable
02:37 that maybe that might be going away.
02:39 And I also want to say
02:41 that I take very good care of my activewear.
02:43 I am very careful with all of my clothes.
02:45 I barely dry any of my clothes.
02:47 I wash all of my activewear in garment bags,
02:50 or they're not called garment bags,
02:52 but little delicates bags in my laundry.
02:55 I turn them inside out
02:56 so that I don't damage the outside of the clothes,
02:58 and I have never dried any of this stuff ever.
03:01 So you cannot say
03:02 that I am just not taking care of my activewear,
03:04 'cause also all of my other activewear holds up fine.
03:06 But yeah, here's the outside of the waistband.
03:09 It's definitely just stretching out a bit.
03:10 You can see on the top, it's kind of fraying a little bit.
03:13 There's a piece of the elastic that is coming out there,
03:17 and I just don't think that this should happen.
03:19 I don't even wear these that that much
03:22 because I don't love them.
03:24 Also, the crotch area on these leggings
03:28 is really, really tight.
03:29 It really doesn't stretch very well.
03:31 You can kind of tell that this part isn't really,
03:34 the string isn't very stretchy,
03:36 so whenever you're trying to stretch at the gym,
03:39 it really feels like it's pulling,
03:40 and I'm always, I just am waiting for the day
03:42 that mine go in the crotch.
03:44 Actually, my friend was just telling me the other day
03:46 that her very first pair of Flux leggings,
03:48 she had to get rid of because she got a hole in the crotch.
03:51 You should not, if you're making active wear,
03:53 it needs to be able to hold up for stretching.
03:55 You should not be getting holes in the crotch.
03:58 And also on the seam, you can see it's very fuzzy.
04:03 It's become very fuzzy from rubbing together a lot.
04:06 My thighs are together.
04:07 I mean, as a brand that caters towards athletic people
04:12 who like building their muscles,
04:14 you should expect some thigh rubbing
04:16 because people like to build their legs.
04:19 My next item, I don't know if this was,
04:21 okay, so those Flux leggings are over a year old now,
04:25 which I don't think is too long
04:26 to expect a pair of leggings to last,
04:29 especially for a $40 pair of leggings.
04:31 And this is the next item I got is this Flux crop top.
04:36 And I did get a small in this,
04:38 which maybe I should have gotten a medium in this,
04:41 but after one of the very first times I wore it,
04:44 it got a big hole in the armpit.
04:47 Like, do you see, look, there's my finger.
04:49 Big hole in the armpit.
04:51 And like, I just like, you know,
04:55 I don't think their sewing jobs are very strong
04:57 if you're getting holes.
04:58 Like, that's just not cute.
05:00 And like, I should probably fix this at some point.
05:03 To be honest, I still wear it
05:04 when I'm not doing upper body days
05:06 or I'm not like lifting my armpits up a lot.
05:08 But I just don't think that's very acceptable for,
05:11 like, I'm serious.
05:12 Like, one of the first times I wore this,
05:14 maybe even the first time I wore this,
05:16 the, this hole happened.
05:18 And I just don't think that's acceptable.
05:21 Like, you get, the seaming on the other side
05:23 seems a lot better than on the one side.
05:25 Maybe it's just as a defect,
05:27 but you're probably not gonna be able to see this.
05:28 But the little strings, yeah,
05:31 all of this area right here
05:34 just looks like it's kind of falling apart.
05:36 And I have had this now for probably just about one year.
05:41 It's just not okay.
05:42 Like, I don't wanna be walking around the gym
05:43 with a big hole in my armpit.
05:45 Like, at least it's my armpit, not my crotch.
05:47 And then I've had these leggings now.
05:49 These are the Energy Seamless.
05:52 I've had these for probably a little less than a year now.
05:56 And from about the first time I wore them,
05:58 I started getting runs in the holes.
06:01 And I understand that this is a delicate fabric,
06:03 but I also am very careful about putting my leggings on
06:06 and washing them, as we said.
06:08 But I have several little runs, as you can see.
06:11 See, these are all little runs.
06:13 Like, you know when you're wearing tights
06:14 and you get them caught on something and they run?
06:17 That's what happens to these.
06:19 They just totally get little runs everywhere.
06:21 And I just think that they could've done a little better
06:25 on this, I don't know, on this eyelet detailing.
06:29 A lot of mine have little runs, actually.
06:32 And I just worry about that.
06:33 I also worry about these coming undone in the crotch,
06:37 because again, the crotch seams are very stiff.
06:40 Like here, pulling the leggings,
06:43 I'm getting a decent amount of stretch.
06:45 But when you pull the seams, you get nothing at all.
06:49 And I just don't think it's too much to ask to wear,
06:51 to have a good quality, stretchy stitch.
06:56 No, I have them on both.
06:57 I have runs everywhere.
06:59 Also, if you ever wear, which I do see,
07:04 I used to love wearing Energy Seamless on my leg days,
07:07 because I liked the compression they offer,
07:09 and I just felt like they were great for leg days.
07:11 But now I can't wear them on leg days,
07:12 because if you have a band around,
07:15 if you do band work, do you see how it gets all fuzzy here?
07:20 Like they get all these little fuzzes.
07:24 These are just such delicate little eyelets
07:27 that whenever you're wearing a band around them
07:29 and the band stretches on them, it just ruins it.
07:31 I know that is an issue with the band.
07:33 I don't know.
07:34 Other than that, the Energy Seamless
07:35 have held up very well.
07:37 I haven't had any actual holes in them,
07:39 but I used to be a diehard Energy Seamless girl.
07:44 These used to be my favorite pair of the Gymshark leggings,
07:46 but lately, just because I can't,
07:49 now that I've realized I can't do any band work in them,
07:52 I don't tend to use them very much anymore.
07:55 And now for my last pair of leggings I have a problem with.
07:59 These are the Ombre Seamless.
08:01 I just, so first of all,
08:03 the booty contour comes down to my mid thigh,
08:06 and that's just not very cute.
08:08 So I don't like that.
08:11 But my major problem with these
08:12 is that when I first wore them,
08:14 they were really nice around the waist.
08:16 I felt like they really hugged my waist in
08:19 and offered some compression.
08:20 And after one or two times of wearing them,
08:23 the waistband stretched out so much.
08:25 You can even see it's kind of like,
08:27 it kind of, I don't know, just bubbles a little bit.
08:30 It's just so stretched out.
08:32 And I don't have a very large stomach,
08:34 so I don't really know why it's stretched out so much,
08:36 but I have to pull these up all the time now.
08:38 They're all stretched out.
08:39 I'll insert clips of how stretched out they are
08:42 when I first bought them.
08:44 I promise they were right against my stomach.
08:46 These are a size small.
08:47 I'm a size small in everything else,
08:49 and those all fit.
08:50 It's just these stretch out.
08:51 And I know that some of the gym track athletes will say,
08:53 "Oh, they bounce back after a wash."
08:55 But these have been washed and not dried
08:58 because drying is bad for active wear.
09:01 I've washed these, and every time now,
09:03 maybe after the first time
09:04 they would bounce back after a wash,
09:06 but they no longer bounce back after a wash.
09:08 And it makes me sad because I love the color
09:11 of these leggings.
09:12 I have a matching sports bra and everything.
09:14 I always get a lot of compliments on them,
09:15 but the waistband is just like,
09:17 those are all of the items of Gymshark
09:20 that I've had problems with.
09:22 I don't think I've purchased anything in a while from them
09:26 that I've worn consistently that I've had issues with.
09:29 Now, I have their Flawless Knit collection.
09:32 I haven't had any issues with that so far,
09:33 except I also can't do any band work with my legs in those
09:38 because they have the eyelet detailing as well,
09:40 so it's very delicate.
09:41 I think Gymshark does, for the most part,
09:44 a good job on their squat proofness, which is good.
09:46 Camel toe, there is almost always single camel,
09:49 at least with Gymshark.
09:50 But yeah, I just wanted to share this with you guys
09:52 because I do talk a lot about Gymshark on this channel,
09:55 but I just want you to know that they're not,
09:57 I don't love everything about them,
09:58 and they definitely have some quality issues.
10:00 I mean, holes, stretching out,
10:03 like seams ripping,
10:04 I just think that that can definitely be improved.
10:08 I do think Gymshark has improved on their quality
10:11 from some recent collections I've seen.
10:13 I really like their Camo Seamless.
10:15 I think that their High-Waisted Flex,
10:17 I think their High-Waisted Flex is good,
10:19 but I think they really need to work
10:21 on making their seams more flexible because I can't,
10:23 like I'm a dancer, I need to be able to do the splits,
10:26 do stretching, and I can't do them in their leggings
10:29 because it's so tight.
10:30 So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this.
10:33 Let me know if you've had issues with Gymshark quality
10:35 in the comments down below
10:36 because I feel like I can't be the only one.
10:38 I mean, my friend had her crotch ripped,
10:40 like that's so embarrassing.
10:41 What if you're at the gym
10:42 and your crotch gets a hole in it?
10:43 So yeah, thank you guys so much for watching.
10:46 If you enjoyed me spilling some tea,
10:48 you know, give it a thumbs up
10:50 and subscribe if you're not so already.
10:52 And yeah, thank you guys so much for watching
10:54 and I'll see you next time.
10:55 Bye.
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