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In olden times, men at the gym wore… whatever. Seriously, you’d look around and 90 percent of the dudes there would be in an outfit that would be equally appropriate for eating a whole pizza on the couch.

We’re talking raggedy T-shirt—maybe with the sleeves cut off—and shorts. Shorts with no adjective. Shorts whose only “performance benefit” was that they were made of mesh and had once had a workable drawstring.

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That was before compression shorts.

You’re familiar with compression shorts. But you may not understand why they came to be such a big thing, or what they’re good for in the first place. Like any athletic trend, compression clothing hit the market with claims it would make you work out better, recover faster, and feel cool doing it.

And suddenly when you looked around the weight room, half the guys were wearing high-tech knee-length tights—either underneath their old shorts, or instead of their old shorts (which is a ballsy move—pun intended).

How did compression gear get such a tight grip on the market?

And what are

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