How do you wash your workout clothes?

I would never lower my standards and do laundry.  Give them to my wife.

But in all seriousness she's a stay at home mom so she does do the laundry lol.  Regular wash and just hang dry.  The detergent is a sport wash if memory serves...

Used to use Winn detergent but can't find it anymore 

We just started using another brand (whose name escapes me).  The jury is still out on it.

I used to just use regular detergent and occasionally add vinegar to the wash and soak.  They seemed clean until I put the shirts back on.  Just a few minutes of wearing the shirt I detected the faint stench of old stink.  I started using Penguin wash and never have that problem.  Then I couldn't find Penguin, I could only find WIN and it worked too.  Now I can't find WIN, but I can get Penguin again.  I have tried the Tide Sport, but in my opinion it just perfumes everything, and we have senstive skin in this household.  My hubby breaks out when I wash his stuff in Tide.  The Penguin or WIN never caused skin problems.

jami

Hm, I never tried a specific sports detergent. I used to swear by the vinegar pre-wash and Charlies soap in the normal cycle. I'm open to change, though, because I've lost an item or three to stinkiness.

I *always* air dry, though.

I've heard good things about Charlie's soap, glad you brought it up!

Oh and the poster above you--I forgot to add "shower wash" to the poll, I do that when the maid is on holiday

What is a penguin????

I just added it!

It's a common brand of sports-specific detergent.

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Never heard of Penguin either.

I just do a normal wash and air dry everything except for swimsuits. I hand rinse those until they get really old and stretched out. The old suits I wear for open water swims in the lake or pond and they start to turn a little brown. I can't get that out washing by hand so those go in the washing machine sometimes.

What i would like to know is how often do people wash their clothes? 

when they start to smell pretty bad.  if i can smell them on a moving bike that means its time to wash.

I shower in whatever I worked out in, then rinse, and hang dry. This gives me a lot of mileage out of them. (no pun intended) 

When i do have enough stuff for a load of laundry, it's cold water wash, detergent (I use the unscented, but for no particular reason), a little bit of liquid oxyclean. No fabric softener. I hang mine dry--but DH's stuff goes in the drier.

I will wear the same pair of smartwool socks for a few weeks at a go. :p Seriously, showering in yoru clothes is the way to go. Okay, yeah, you do get some weird looks sometimes at the gym, but whatever.

The exception to this is things like jackets, tights, vests--i.e. outerwear. No showering in those. Also, I don't normally rinse out the bike jersey (but I do for a shimmel)/long sleeve shirt.

Basically, the layer next to my skin gets rinsed in the shower.

Never heard of Penguin until now either.  Can Penguin be used in a high efficiency washer?

Andi

x2.  I run with a girl that I don't think holds the same philosphy and I'm always trying to stay away from her as it makes me want to gag.

Air dry first.  With two triathletes in the house, pretty much every doorknob around is occupied with drying out athletic clothes during the two-a-day workout periods.  We have a large supply of Febreze just to keep the place from smelling like a locker room.

Win detergent (fine in high efficiency washers) and line dry.  Swimsuits get a fresh water rinse right after each swim and run through with detergent maybe every couple weeks.