Ladies who workout : what do you do with your rings?

Athena_fit
Athena_fit Posts: 55 Member
edited November 13 in Fitness and Exercise
Hello! So I went shopping for my engagement ring/wedding band today and I found one set that I like...obviously this is a big purchase so I have to think it over!

So do you ladies take off your wedding ring when working out? Do you feel it is in the way? Do you leave it in the gym locker? I feel almost stupid asking this, but working out many times a week this is a concern for me (I lift, do hiit, spinning, etc. )

Have any of you broke your ring while working out? How delicate is it, do I need to take it off ? I mean, I don't want to leave it in the locker...

Any thoughts? What do you guys do?

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  • JeepHair77
    JeepHair77 Posts: 1,291 Member
    Take them off. Not so much for fear of damaging them, but they'd be very uncomfortable. My fingers swell.
  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
    i dont work out with rings on. They bend way too easily. some women put them on their necklace or a carabiner on their keychain. i usually toss mine in my gymbag pocket but i always worry i'll forget about it and lose it. i haven't yet, but i still worry.
  • Athena_fit
    Athena_fit Posts: 55 Member
    JeepHair77 wrote: »
    Take them off. Not so much for fear of damaging them, but they'd be very uncomfortable. My fingers swell.
    And where do you put them when you workout?
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    edited November 2016
    You will probably find you will have to take your rings off. Nasty calluses and blisters can occur and if your rings are a high quality, the metal of the equipment rubbing on gold will wear them down prematurely. Also, depending on the set, the integrity of the stones settings could be compromised - stones lost :'(

    Since I am at the gym 5 days a week I don't wear rings during the week anymore. It made me sad to begin with, but common sense prevailed. I have an antique gold band (grandma's wedding ring) that is only 9ct gold that I wear, weekdays, and put it on a 9ct chain around my neck at the gym. ( like on like metal and ct value reduces wear)

    Maybe less expensive ring with a chain bought on your honeymoon could serve the same purpose for you.

    Cheers, h.
  • Sumiblue
    Sumiblue Posts: 1,597 Member
    I only wear a wedding band and I take it off. I can't lift with rings on-ouch! I lift at home so it's no big deal. If I went to a gym I'd leave my rings at home.
  • JoanJutt
    JoanJutt Posts: 2 Member
    I keep all of my days jewelry in a hard-sided sunglass case or watch case inside my purse, locked in my locker. I never, never wear it when I work out. It gets in the way, and I also worry about losing it while I am working out.
  • PoisonDartFrog
    PoisonDartFrog Posts: 220 Member
    I dont work out with my rings on (cardio ok, but not weights). I take a safety pin and pin them to the inside of my shirt, near the collar where i can feel they are still there, but do not need to worry about loss in the locker.
  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    In purse in locked locker.
  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    I also do not workout with them on. I accidentally left them on once years ago, and my engagement ring band snapped while lifting. I keep my in a locked gym locker or at home if I remember.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    I don't wear my ring. The band banging against weights was an irritating feeling. When I was part of the Y, I left my ring at home so I didn't have to worry it would be stolen.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    When I had rings, I left them at home. I have no rings to worry about these days, but I know a fair number of people who just fasten them into their laces.
  • Sara1791
    Sara1791 Posts: 760 Member
    I wear a plain platinum wedding band - no stones. I haven't worn my engagement ring in years. The band does cause some extra blistering/callous on my palm, just below the ring.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    I don't wear them. If I'm working out outside the home I also leave them behind entirely.
  • Athena_fit
    Athena_fit Posts: 55 Member
    middlehaitch wrote: »
    You will probably find you will have to take your rings off. Nasty calluses and blisters can occur and if your rings are a high quality, the metal of the equipment rubbing on gold will wear them down prematurely. Also, depending on the set, the integrity of the stones settings could be compromised - stones lost :'(

    Since I am at the gym 5 days a week I don't wear rings during the week anymore. It made me sad to begin with, but common sense prevailed. I have an antique gold band (grandma's wedding ring) that is only 9ct gold that I wear, weekdays, and put it on a 9ct chain around my neck at the gym. ( like on like metal and ct value reduces wear)

    Maybe less expensive ring with a chain bought on your honeymoon could serve the same purpose for you.

    Cheers, h.

    Thanks for your post - what you're saying is basically what I think will happen. I'm super tempted by this piece of jewelry...i never really had anything nice or fancy and we are not rich what-so-ever so it would really be something special...

    But I can't get out of my head that it's silly to get such nice jewellery when I workout and cook everyday...I feel common sens would eventually prevail and that it will make me sad. Plus the stress to loose it or having it stolen at the gym...or bloody fingers haha.

    Such a first world problem, but it has so much meaning, i wanna do the right thing!

    Thanks again!
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    edited November 2016
    Every metal known to man makes me itch. I had to stop wearing jewelry years ago.

    Pity. I've shrunk back down to fit into my original size 4 engagement and wedding rings and now I can't wear them. (I wouldn't wear them to the gym.)
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Another vote for no rings while exercising. I take my rings off before bed and put them on in the morning after my post-exercise shower. I've seen those silicone rings but don't feel the need for one.

    If I go to the gym I leave my rings in my gym bag, locked up like everything else.
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  • buffalogal42
    buffalogal42 Posts: 374 Member
    I just wear a platinum band but when I work out, I slide my ring onto my sunglasses and stick them in my purse in my locker.
  • Alisonswim46
    Alisonswim46 Posts: 208 Member
    I never take them off. Only when I do open water swimming races.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    i don't have any, but the married lifters in my club take theirs off. one of them told me some horror story involving a callus and his wedding ring and i'm-not-quite-sure-what-happened except there was bleeding involved. the ring was fine, but he had to take a couple weeks off until the wound healed.
  • knittnponder
    knittnponder Posts: 1,953 Member
    edited November 2016
    I lift weights, do kickboxing (wearing boxing gloves) and jiu jitsu (no jewelry allowed) so I take my rings off for all of those things. I have a water bottle with a carabiner clip on it so I just put my rings on the clip. I take the water bottle with me everywhere so there is no concern about losing them or having them stolen. I can slip them back on as soon as I'm done with my workout.
  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay Posts: 1,804 Member
    I workout at work, so can safely leave my rings well hidden in my locked office. That said, I've been leaving my wedding ring on for my cardio+resistance bands+bodyweight workout class and it's been fine. I wouldn't wear them to lift.

    And I'm still waiting for my fingers to thin out enough to wear the whole set again. Am now 10 pounds lighter than when that was last possible. Apparently, pregnancy made my fingers fat (or swollen). :tongue:
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I wouldn't leave them in a locker

    If I take them off I leave them at home

    If I'm at the gym and have them I'll wear them and cope with the additional hand trauma, or ask my trainer to hold them, or wear gloves over them

    But I wouldn't leave something that preciousi a gym locker
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,232 Member
    GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
    Every metal known to man makes me itch. I had to stop wearing jewelry years ago.

    Pity. I've shrunk back down to fit into my original size 4 engagement and wedding rings and now I can't wear them. (I wouldn't wear them to the gym.)

    @GottaBurnEmAll - I have a friend who swears by paining the inner surface with clear nail polish. She says it stops her getting any reaction.

  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
    Every metal known to man makes me itch. I had to stop wearing jewelry years ago.

    Pity. I've shrunk back down to fit into my original size 4 engagement and wedding rings and now I can't wear them. (I wouldn't wear them to the gym.)

    @GottaBurnEmAll - I have a friend who swears by paining the inner surface with clear nail polish. She says it stops her getting any reaction.

    I... can't imagine putting nail polish anywhere near a diamond ring. My wedding band has diamonds in it, and they're prong set in parts. The other half is channel set.

    I have an awful picture from when it first started snugly fitting me again here:

    pmlfbsu1r0um.jpg
  • Misssynth
    Misssynth Posts: 179 Member
    I take off my ring for weight training before I leave the house and keep it in its box. It gets in the way and hurts my finger when lifting, and my gloves don't fit over it anyway. I leave it on for running though.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,616 Member
    I have a plain tungsten band as my wedding band. It stays on. In fact, the only time it has come off is for surgery.

    I didn't want rings with stones that could become dislodged or catch on things or whatever, or something I'd have to worry about when I'm out and about being active.

    So my engagement "ring" is actually a bicycle wheel which my husband built for me. :)
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
    Every metal known to man makes me itch. I had to stop wearing jewelry years ago.

    Pity. I've shrunk back down to fit into my original size 4 engagement and wedding rings and now I can't wear them. (I wouldn't wear them to the gym.)

    Do i just have sausage fingers or are our sizing systems different? I could have sworn i wear like double that size in rings.


    Anyways, OP i would recommend wearing it on a necklace with you at all times. I don't trust putting my rings in my purse or in a locked locker. I know that might seem a little crazy but i'd rather have something so expensive with me at all times.

    Not that i have a wedding ring, but i do wear a couple rings, earrings, and necklaces of high-value (sapphire, diamond, or amethyst) and I've had stuff stolen out of my locker and i've had my purse stolen before.
  • EttaMaeMartin
    EttaMaeMartin Posts: 303 Member
    LEAVE AT HOME!
  • EttaMaeMartin
    EttaMaeMartin Posts: 303 Member
    GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
    Every metal known to man makes me itch. I had to stop wearing jewelry years ago.

    Pity. I've shrunk back down to fit into my original size 4 engagement and wedding rings and now I can't wear them. (I wouldn't wear them to the gym.)

    HAVE THEM RE-SIZED?
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