Gymshark vital seamless is back, but is it better than ever?
Well, hello. Welcome, welcome back if this isn't your first time. I'm Demi, your friendly neighbourhood
fitness friend, and today we are going to be talking about Gymshark vital seamless.
Now, the vital seamless is one of Gymshark's most popular collections
and I personally have had a bit of a love-hate relationship with it over the years.
I love it because the material is fantastic, you can do any kind of work out of it, all the way
from low to high impact, and be just fine but, I hate it because the waistband! It kills me!
Every single time, I get in a new super cute colour of vital seamless, I have my fingers crossed,
I'm hoping that this time when they say extra small, they mean extra small and it will fit me
just right without the gaping, but every single time disappointment. But now, they've brought it
back as the vital seamless 2.0 and they claim they've fix the problems with all the waistbands so let's
test it out for ourselves and see. So in order for us to get a good idea of just how much changes
have been made, I will be comparing a new pair of vital that I just got in to an old pair I got. I
think I got it in, not the last drop, but the drop before that when they did a vital seamless one.
Now, in that drop I was talking about, I got the vital seamless shorts and leggings in this gorgeous
cherry marl colour because I thought it would look just great on my skin tone, but like I said before
with the variation in sizes, you can see from looking at the extra small in the shorts and
leggings that they're not even the same. I'll bring it up closer so you can see. Okay, so here
it is clearer for you. the shorts are at the top the leggings are at the bottom, and you can see even
placed end to end that the shorts are slightly bigger than the leggings. Now, variation of sizing
is kind of a little bit of a big gripe of mine, and it's not just Gymshark that's guilty of this,
a lot of activewear companies do this where the extra small in one collection is different from
another, and sometimes even within the same collection they can be completely different.
However, with the new vital seamless you can see that that problem appears to have been
fixed. Now, these are the shorts on top again and the leggings at the bottom placed end to end,
and you can see that they're pretty much the same. Alright, next I'm going to compare like for like,
old versus new, starting off with the shorts. Now, these are the old vital seamless in cherry marl
I think, and then these are the new ones in the warm taupe. You can kind of see that the old ones,
the waistband is like straight up and down and the new ones the waistband is more tapered, it goes in.
The new vital also has a much thicker waistband than the old one does, the old one is a lot thinner
but still thicker than the rest of the material, same with the new one.
Speaking of the material, the material of the new vital is a lot more compressive than the old one
for me personally, I find the old one had a bit more stretch and give to it. Alright, here we
have the new vital on top of the old one just so you can get a better idea of the difference
in the waistband. These are both an extra small by the way, so you can see the new one has a much
smaller waistband. I tried to line them up as much as possible, but they didn't really because
of the tapered waist on the new one. Okay, I swapped them around, and put the old one on top of the new
one just so you can get an idea of the length. You can see the new vital shorts are slightly longer
than the older ones are, and they also have smaller leg holes than the old ones did. Next, we're moving
on to the leggings. Um, the old vital still in that same cherry marl and new one also in warm taupe,
both an extra small. Again, you can see the changes in the waistband from that straight up and down
to the more tapered fit, same thicker waistband that the shorts have and they're made of pretty
much the same material as the shorts were. Okay, again I've laid one waistband on top of
the other and you can see the difference in the size between two extra smalls, the new one being
slightly smaller than the old one and you can see apart from the waistband, they're pretty
much the same size and the same length, but again the new vital have smaller bottom holes,
cuffs than the old ones do. So, in our side by side try on we're going to start off with the shorts
before we move on to the leggings. So, the shorts we have the old and the left and the new on the right.
You can kind of see the difference in the waistband already even just for me standing there.
The old one clearly has way more room in front than the new one does.
As I turn to the side, the gaping on the waistband becomes more obvious, where with the old one it's
basically just coming off my waist and the new one just kind of sits much closer. When I would wear
the old shorts to work out, I tried folding it over to kind of minimize that waistband gapping, but
that didn't help it just looked just as bad, so I would just leave it. From the back, again, you can
see the gaping still. They've kept the contouring pretty much the same on both pair of leggings, but
it might be more obvious on the old one than the new one because the old one is more of a marl
fabric, where the new one is more closer to a solid colour, both colours I have are squat proof,
but again these are more opaque colours that I tend to lean to, so I don't know what would
happen if you got a lighter colour. The new shorts hit me much lower than the old ones because they
are much longer, so that means when you're working out, doing squats, lifting they might be less likely
to ride all the way up and give you too much exposure. Okay, moving on to the leggings, again
very similar thing regarding the waistbands that you saw on the shorts, it's not as bad on the old
leggings as it is on the old shorts, because as I showed you earlier, the leggings have a smaller
waistband than the shorts for some reason, but you can still see the gaping when you turn to the side,
whereas on the new one, thanks to that tapered waist, it just kind of sits a lot closer. Again,
gapping gets worse when you squat down, but they are still both squat proof, and they both hit me about
the same length as well. Okay, last thing we're gonna go over is the vital seamless sports bra. I
unfortunately don't have an old one to compare it to because I think I mentioned it on here before that
that style sports bra is really not necessarily my favourite, but I did get in the new one just to see
how it compared to my memory of previous vital sports bras I've had and, I can tell you that the
new one definitely provides you with more support. It's a little bit tighter, especially around the
waistband, so I would say if you found the old by the seamless fits you a bit snug, with this
one you might want to consider sizing up just so that waistband is not cutting into you too much.
More of a medium support than the old vital was. The contouring also looks a little bit different
to me, like there seems to be more contouring on the under boob than the older ones had, if I remember
correctly, but I don't think even a new one has necessarily changed my mind on how I feel with
regards to the style. I don't know, I just kind of want them to switch it up a bit and give
something a little bit different. So, overall would I recommend the new vital seamless 2.0?
I would say, yes. They made some great strides towards improving the waistband.
I still had a little bit of room in there, but that might just be because I have a smaller waist
compared to the rest of me, and also even compared to the extra small size guide, so keep that in
mind. Hopefully, they come out with a few new colours, because I will be getting them. I'm kind of hoping
they relaunch the cherry marl in this new 2.0 style and material so I can have that like nude
colour for myself that fits just right. Well, that's it for me today. Thank you so much for watching.
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