Our favourite has got to be COS’ technical gym bag, newly launched as part of their best-selling activewear range. (Which – FYI – includes some of the best yoga leggings we’ve ever slipped on).
It has been crafted from recycled fabric, and is seriously spacious. Room for your sports bra, reusable coffee cup, running trainers and wireless headphones. And it can be worn either cross-body or slung over your shoulder.
We’ve also developed a serious sartorial craving for everything in Stella McCartney’s most recent collab with Adidas (as we always do) – this spirit-lifting orange gym bag included. It’s roomy, has a zip closure, comes with a detachable inner shoe bag for muddy trainers come winter and it’s great for long weekends in the country. Race you to the checkout.
A solid and stylish gym bag is, without a doubt, one of the most important pieces of kit to buy if you’re returning to the gyms when they re-open this weekend. Because how else will you carry all of your chic workout clothes then head straight off for a picnic? Exactly. That tatty old tote bag no longer has a place.
Joking aside, there really is no better time to invest in one of the best gym bags to take you from sofa to spin class in one fell swoop. And luckily, there are some seriously stylish pieces to be snapped up, that won’t look out of place in the pub/park/on your first post-lockdown weekend break.
Yep: all of the the gym bags we’ve selected have more than one use – ‘cos frugality is fashionable and we’re all for wardrobe repeating in the name of sustainability. There are holdalls which also double up as the best weekend bags ever, rucksacks which have been voted – time and time again – the very best for running, and totes that’ll look genuinely stylish as you whiz your way through the underground to your first day back in the office.
