Why didn’t you follow their advice sooner? I should have known that the ladies in my HIIT class – who lift weights, run fast and push me every time I walk into the gym – would steer me in the right direction. For years, I’ve heard them rave about Athleta workout leggings, but I’ve never considered buying a pair for myself because they’re like $100 a pair!
Excellent. Crazy. Expensive.
And yet …… when something is good, I mean really, really good, calculus might motivate me to go there. I totally went there.
What finally drove me to the brink was a pair of used Athleta tights that my friend Nicole gave me. She taught my HIIT class, and she happened to have an extra pair that didn’t fit her, and she passed them on to me.
The first time I tried them on – after I’d stuffed everything I could into them, and there were plenty in the pockets – I started to wonder if I’d ever wear another pair of pants again, because daaaaang… …they were too soft.
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Then, of course, they bent over in the mirror to see if they passed the squat test ……
They totally did. ? No underwear peeking through!
Next, I wore them to class and kept staring at my booty in the mirror because these pants somehow turned it into J. Lo (#GOALS), haha!
I didn’t pull up my pants once during the entire class. Also, the waistband stayed on my hips and the material stayed intact and didn’t stretch at all so the knees didn’t sag.
By the time that class was over, I knew …… I would soon be drinking Athleta Kool-Aid with the other girls.
Later that week, I ended up going to the Athleta store in Corte Madera to buy my first pair because someone in the class mentioned they were on sale. I put the camo at the top (yes, they were still on sale!) .
When I told the salesperson it was my first Athleta purchase, she told me about their generous return policy (if you work out in your clothes and don’t like them, you can still return them with your receipt) and then gave as a new customer, I got a discount on top of the sale.
Sweet!
