#4 Spandex

You know you're a rower when the amount of spandex in your closet starts to out-number the amount of  your normal day civilian clothes. Rowing changes your life in many ways, particularly your wardrobe.

Every sport has their so called uniform. In rowing you need tight fitting clothes, making spandex a rower's best friend. You can't escape it, everyone wears it, even the middle aged men with beer bellies.

It's the only acceptable clothing in rowing as it allows you to move freely, where baggy clothing and your everyday sweats get in the way. Pretty much half of what the sport of rowing is all about, is showing off you jacked and uneven tanned body, what better way to do this than in spandex.

When you first start,  you think "No way am I ever going to wear that." Before you know it you are wearing spandex head to toe and you realize that it isn't so bad (and secretly love it). All the 'cool kids' are wearing it and let's be honest your butt doesn't looks to shabby either.

Awesome!

100% badass, yet completely safe