Posted: 7/11/2004 6:35:55 AM EDT
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Anyone wear Under Armour? I bought some to try and so far so good. It's a little expensive so I'm debating whether or not its worth it. Do you other wearers feel there's any benefit to the stuff? |
| I wear UA at work under my body armor, and I'm on motors. Summertime downright sucks. I used to wear cotton t-shirts. After a day at work, I would literally have to come home and stand in the shower to take my t-shirt off just to wring all the sweat out. I will never wear cotton t-shirts again. I even wear UA under dress shirts. It's more costly, but the comfort is worth it to me. |
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I wear UA daily under my body armor. I wear it when i'm off duty. In fact if i have a any sort of shirt on you can bet i have UA on as well. This stuff rocks. What it does is moves the sweat from your body to the outside of the UA . It keeps your outer shirt dry and leave you feeling cooler. Great stuff. Well worth the money if you live and work in a climate like mine. J |
It is supposed to keep you cooler by allowing your skin to breathe and by not absorbing sweat like cotton. I've been wearing mine under body armor for a few days and like it so far. It "feels" like it works but I don't want to fall prey to subconsciously wanting it to feel better than cotton because its not cheap. I guess it really does work because others here like it also. I wonder if anyone else makes a similar product that's cheaper? |
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I have a few UA heat gear shirts that I wear under body armor, as well as two loose gear tees that I wear around either by themselves or under another shirt. The difference between UA under body armor and body armor with out UA is like night and day. I worked a detail once where I was in body armor + suit for about 24 hours straight and, although I wasn't exactly fresh as a daisy and ready to go 24 more hours by the end of it, that was the first time I had worn the UA shirt and I felt so much better than with a regular tee shirt. No hot spots, no walking-sauna feel of a soaked cotton undershirt under the armor, no funk, etc. Also, the liner of my body armor slides easily over the UA material rather than bunching up and clinging to a sweaty cotton undershirt. I also highly recommend their boxer shorts and boxer briefs. After trying them out a while back, I have stopped buying cotton ones altogether. |
It keeps you warmer than cotton ever could. Wicks moisture away for runner or people that work hard in the cold. It's expensive I'll admit that but worth every penny at the end of my 12 hour day. 
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| I sweat ALOT!! A cotton Tshirt keeps me cool by absorbing all the sweat and keeping it next to my skin. So the UA keeps you cool by keeping your skin dry? Or does it just make you more comfortable/dry rather than make you cooler? I'm still not getting how this stuff works. |
Yes it does. You still sweat obviously but it doesn't get absorbed into the shirt so it dries extremely quickly. I wore one outside the other day and it feels like you have no shirt on; the breeze passes straight through it. A cotton shirt won't do that. |
- Cotton doesn't keep you cool, the water in your sweat absorbs heat in order to evaporate and some of that heat comes from your body so it has a cooling effect. Any molecule of liquid water that is attached to the cotton fibers in your t-shirt is a molecule that is wasted because it hasn't evaporated yet. Since the fibers in the UA don't hold the water the water evaporates and cools you down more efficiently. - Since the UA stays dry you stay more comfortable - Since the UA keeps you dry, your pits are less of a warm moist environment for bacteria to grow so you don't smell as sweaty. That doesn't mean you won't stink after a hard days work, it just isn't as bad. |