Padding at the Gym

 If you insist on going to a public gym while in diaper training, you must absolutely remain mentally strong and be super confident. If there was any place for your diapers to be easily discovered, it’s working out at a public gym. Gym shorts do not provide adequate discretion while performing any exercise while in public. Now, I am not saying that you should stop working out altogether, I’m suggesting that you should tweak some things to adjust to your new padded situation.

Before I get into it, I fear that those who insist on going to a public gym while diapered will not succeed in diaper training because they are unable to be flexible. Those in diaper training must make certain sacrifices in order to achieve their dream. Going to the gym is one of those. Swimming is another. Wearing certain clothes is yet another. You must be able to adapt to your new normal, that is, wearing diapers 24/7. For example, if people start to notice your diaper while you work out at a gym, surely you’d feel shame, remorse, and embarrassment. This creates negative associations and feelings with your diapers, in turn leading to a higher rate of failure. Now, I’m certain that you don’t want to fail out of diaper training, right? Right!

I’ve always advised that you do not wear a diaper to the gym while in diaper training. If you’re still in the early stages of training, you could continue to wear your normal underwear to the gym so long as you go right back into diapers once you get home. When you start unconsciously dribbling into those undies during your workout or after you’re done peeing, you will need to wear a pad inside of your workout underwear. These pads are not designed to contain a bladder’s worth of pee, they are designed to contain very small dribbles and nothing more. They are meant to keep your undies and bottoms safe from the random wet spots. You’d have to wear close-fitting undies for pads, meaning that boxers are entirely out of the question.

If you wear a pull-up or a diaper to the gym, you’ll quickly learn that working out destroys the padding inside the diaper. The padding will lose its ability to absorb as well as it normally would, leading to leaks happening far sooner than one would normally expect. I recommend that you try to push whichever product you choose to wear to its limit to see what it can and can’t do in any given circumstance while at home. You wouldn’t take an untested product out in public, right? Of course not.

If you start chafing from working out while diapered, try using rash cream. It is often thick enough to prevent chafing and it’ll heal your skin at the same time, too. You could also look into other solutions like changing the kind of exercise that causes the rash/chafing to something that’s easier on your body. Instead of a public gym, you could work out at home. There are quite a lot of exercises one can do at home to stay in shape. Furthermore, most apartments have a small gym one can use.

Lastly, keep in mind that working out makes you sweat a ton. To replace your body’s fluids, you will need to drink more than if you hadn’t worked out to get back to the level you need to be at to continue training. Training doesn’t happen if you don’t have any urine left, after all.