How do you keep your gym clothes from stinking up your luggage?

[OverThereTooMuch]

Gym clothes/shoes can get pretty funky, especially if they don't have time to air out.

What do you do to keep the "funk" to just your workout wear, instead of making everything else in the suitcase smell awful?

[manneca]

All my clothes get packed in separate giant zip locks. Especially my vibram five fingers which stink up everything. The plastic bags mean I don't worry if something leaks or my luggage sits in the rain.

[Swissaire]

I use a gym bag for sports and workouts, and a luggage case for travel.

The plastic zip bag will only contain the moisture and odor, especially the shoes. Give those dogs some air.

Washing clothes with soap would be nice now and then. Nice to others at the very least.

[Silver Fox]

A quick rinse in soapy water, roll them up in a towel and stomp all over them to get as much of the moisture out as possible, pack them in a plastic ziploc type bag after squeezing as much air out as possible. As for the shoes, well the best stuff I have ever found is Gran's foot powder.

[SkiAdcock]

Those anti-static sheets you put in the dryer help to eliminate odors in shoes (any type, not just workout shoes).

I usually try to air out work-out clothes in the hotel room, but then when I pack for the return they go in a plastic bag.

Cheers.

[OverThereTooMuch]

Washing clothes is nice, but not always possible depending on the travel schedule. Ziploc solution sounds interesting, and is definitely cheap to try out. How well does it contain the odors though? I don't normally put stinky stuff in them

[Silver Fox]

Originally Posted by OverThereTooMuch

Washing clothes is nice, but not always possible depending on the travel schedule. Ziploc solution sounds interesting, and is definitely cheap to try out. How well does it contain the odors though? I don't normally put stinky stuff in them

Very well, although I don't put massively stinky stuff in them either.

[Consultette]

I haven't seen anyone post this yet... Space bags are great for compressing gym clothes and prevent any funky smells from reaching your other clothes. They are sort of like gigantic ziplocks only better.

[annerj]

I sweat a LOT....I try to hang any workout clothes up to dry.

For those workouts where its right before the flight (or after i check out of the hotel) I will still try to hang them in the car to dry a bit.

All workout cloths go into a seperate plastic bag (usually the dry cleaning back from the hotel).

[brp1264]

Originally Posted by Consultette

I haven't seen anyone post this yet... Space bags are great for compressing gym clothes and prevent any funky smells from reaching your other clothes. They are sort of like gigantic ziplocks only better.

These are what I use for all my dirty clothes. I have a few, one of them being the Eagle Creek here.

Basically, I pack all my gym clothes, undershirts, underwear, socks, and anything else I don't mind getting wrinkly in these compression bags. On the trip home, I use one or two of them for all my dirty laundry, and it keeps everything else in the suitcase dry and smell-free.

[longwaybackhome]

When I went away in February and April, I overpacked and ended up mailing home my dirty laundry (as well as a poster, books and a puzzle). I don't recommend that.

[tlglenn]

I've used giant garbage bags. Yeah, the inside smells funky when I get home and dump out the dirty clothes. I've also used a piece of baggage dedicated to dirty clothing.

[TruckeeTriGuy]

One of the great things about today's tech exercise clothing is that it dries quickly, so a quick hand wash in shampoo gets most of the funk out of clothes, and they dry fast enough that you won't travel with wet clothes.

I also use the instant coffee packs left in the room to de-funk my shoes. I put one pack in each shoe, sometimes even in my dirty clothes bag, and this seems to dramatically reduce the funky smell.

[Gigantor]

I eat lots of lentils and sauerkraut.

The subsequent gas produced overpowers any odors from stinky gym clothes.

[whackyjacky]

Miracle fabrics ! I wear a lot of polyester on the road. Just take a shower with them on, hang them up, and in a couple hours they're good as new. For the shoes - baby powder or dryer sheets.