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Multi-functional hooded gym towel

The ultimate bench barrier

140cm covers the whole bench, and the hood holds it there so it can’t slide off.

  • ✓ Zip pocket keeps your phone and keys with you
  • ✓ No stopping to fix your towel
  • ✓ Stop picking your towel up off the dirty floor
  • ✓ Walk in with the right kit, not a bath towel

Estimated delivery 4th – 12th November

30-day returns Secure checkout

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Stays put
Magnet strap
Zip pocket
Ultra-absorbent
Car seat cover
Product details

The gym towel that was actually sized for a bench.

Most gym towels are an afterthought. They are half the length of the bench. They creep down and end up on the floor. They have nowhere to put your keys. And they go back in the bag wet.

VIVID fixes all four.

The hood goes over the headrest of most benches and seated machines, so the equipment holds the towel in place instead of it resting on top. It stays put through your sets, so there's nothing to reach down and straighten.

At 140 x 55cm it covers the full length of a standard bench and drapes over both sides, so your skin stays off the vinyl. The zip pocket holds your phone, keys and gym pass.

Choose the magnet version and a double magnet strap is built in. It clips onto steel racks and frames between exercises, so your towel stays off the floor. The magnets are neodymium, the strongest type of permanent magnet made, and we've tested the strap holding 5kg on a flat steel surface.

There's no antibacterial coating to wash out over time. The performance is in the fabric: 300gsm microfibre terry that soaks up sweat instead of smearing it around, and air-dries in 2 to 3 hours so it isn't damp for your next session.

Size: 140cm x 55cm. Material: 80% polyester / 20% polyamide microfibre terry, 300gsm. Care: machine washable; magnet version in a wash bag.

This is not a gym accessory. It is the layer between you and the bench.

Shipping and delivery

Free shipping on orders over $100. Tracked, wherever you are.

Australia5–13 business days
Rest of world5–13 business days
ExpressAvailable at checkout
Shipping costCalculated at checkout
Orders over $100Free

Every order ships with tracking. You will get the number by email as soon as it leaves the warehouse, and you can follow it the whole way.

We are a small business, so we are honest about this: we are not next-day. Your towel comes from our fulfilment partner rather than a warehouse down the road, which is part of how we keep the price where it is. If you need it by a particular date, email us before you order and we will tell you straight whether it will make it.

If tracking has not moved in a few days, or the estimate has come and gone, message us. We will chase it from our end rather than leaving you to it.

Returns and guarantee

Use it for 30 days. Don't like it, we'll refund you.

Take it to your gym and hook it over the bench. Use it, wash it, use it again. If you are not happy inside thirty days, email support@vividfitnessgear.com and we will refund you.

Not “if it arrives damaged.” Not “if it is unused and in original packaging.” Used and washed is fine. If it slides, bunches, ends up on the floor, or will not fit your equipment, that is a refund. And if you just do not get on with it, that is a refund too.

If something else has gone wrong – the wrong colour turned up, a seam is not right, the magnet strap is not gripping the way it should – just message us and tell us what happened. We would rather hear about it and sort it out than have you quietly write it off. A real person reads every email and we usually reply the same day.

We are a small Australian business and this is our own product, made and remade batch by batch on the back of what customers told us was wrong with it. We would not put a guarantee like this on something we did not trust.

– The VIVID team

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“Complete game changer. Hood is great, towel never falls down, zip pouch for keys and the magnet is awesome for cables so I don’t have to leave my towel on the ground. Great material too.”

★★★★★Mitch Y. Verified purchase
140cm
Full bench coverage
6
Colours to choose from
30-day
Money-back guarantee

You bring a towel every session. It's been failing you every time.

Regular towel
VIVID towel

The bench you're about to lie on was used minutes ago

Someone was on it before you. Maybe they wiped it down. Maybe they didn't, and over 30% of gym-goers admit they don't. Or maybe they did bring a towel, and it only covered the middle, so their sweat went onto the vinyl.

The spray bottle is empty half the time, and there's nobody on the floor to fill it, because floor staff cost money. None of that is going to change.

The only thing between you and that bench is whatever towel you brought with you. That part is yours to control.

How many times did you pick it up last session?

You lay it down, get set, and by the second rep it has already moved. So you sit up and straighten it. Then it bunches behind your shoulders. Then it creeps down past your hips.

Eventually it goes over the end and lands on the floor. You pick it up without knowing which side was face down, and that is the side that goes back on the bench.

Four sets in, you are managing a towel instead of training.

Regular towel
VIVID towel

The floor is the worst place for your phone. It's where it always ends up.

Phone, keys and pass go in the zip pocket, and they stay with the towel wherever it goes.

Choose the magnet option and the towel clips straight onto the cable machine, off the dirty floor and out of the way. No metal? Loop the strap over a rail.

Your space stays clutter free, so you train instead of stepping around your accessories.

The difference

How compares

Side by side with the towel you are probably using now.

Feature
Built for the bench
Regular gym towel
Bath towel from home
Covers the whole bench (140cm)
Yes
No
Yes
Stays put mid-set, no sliding
Yes
No
No
Hooks over seated machines too
Yes
No
No
Off the floor between sets (magnet option)
Yes
No
No
Zip pocket for phone and keys
Yes
No
No
Dries in 2 to 3 hours
Yes
Varies
No

Covers the whole bench. Hooks on. Stays there.

One towel for every bench, every session.

Cover my bench

30-day money-back guarantee. Free shipping over $100.

The fabric

Why we don't print patterns

Printed towels have to use a flat, smooth fabric. It looks good, but it's thin and doesn't soak up much sweat. So we chose thick terry loops instead.

OthersPrinted suede

Printed suede

Flat face

Looks great, but it's thin, so there's nowhere for sweat to go.

OthersPlain suede

Plain suede

Flat face

Soft and quick-drying, but sweat sits on top instead of soaking in.

OthersWaffle weave

Waffle weave

Open grid

Light and great for travel. On a bench, the open gaps don't hold sweat.

OursMicrofibre terry

Microfibre terry

Raised loops

Thousands of raised loops make it thick and plush, so it soaks up sweat instead of smearing it around. It's the thickest of the four.

Plenty of towels look good. Ours is made to work.

Available in six colours.

“Great texture, super thick towelling to soak up sweat. The magnet is super strong and the zip up pouch to keep your keys really handy.”

★★★★★Kiri M. Verified purchase

You already spend more than this on things you use less

You'll spend $100 on protein, and thousands a year on the membership.

The one thing you use most, and keep longest, is your gym towel.

Most people take two. One in the bag, one in the wash. Three covers a full week.

Grey VIVID hooded gym towel covering an adjustable bench, with callouts for the hood, zip pocket, 140cm coverage and microfibre terry
VIVID magnetic hooded gym towel hanging from a cable machine by its magnet strap, plus close-ups of the strap, zip pocket and hood
Two men training with VIVID hooded gym towels hooked over an incline bench and a seated machine
Before and after: a sweat-marked bench with a loose old towel, then a bench fully covered by a blue VIVID hooded gym towel
VIVID hooded gym towels hanging by their hoods
Customer photos of the VIVID hooded gym towel being used at the gym
The VIVID hooded gym towel in all six colours: grey, navy, purple, light pink, red and light blue

Stay protected.

Long enough for the whole pad. 140 x 55cm, so your skin stays off the vinyl.

Hood goes over the headrest. Nothing to reposition, nothing to pick up off the floor.

Zip pocket for phone and keys. Off the floor and within reach.

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Estimated delivery 4th – 12th November

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Product details

The gym towel that was actually sized for a bench.

Most gym towels are an afterthought. They are half the length of the bench. They creep down and end up on the floor. They have nowhere to put your keys. And they go back in the bag wet.

VIVID fixes all four.

The hood goes over the headrest of most benches and seated machines, so the equipment holds the towel in place instead of it resting on top. It stays put through your sets, so there's nothing to reach down and straighten.

At 140 x 55cm it covers the full length of a standard bench and drapes over both sides, so your skin stays off the vinyl. The zip pocket holds your phone, keys and gym pass.

Choose the magnet version and a double magnet strap is built in. It clips onto steel racks and frames between exercises, so your towel stays off the floor. The magnets are neodymium, the strongest type of permanent magnet made, and we've tested the strap holding 5kg on a flat steel surface.

There's no antibacterial coating to wash out over time. The performance is in the fabric: 300gsm microfibre terry that soaks up sweat instead of smearing it around, and air-dries in 2 to 3 hours so it isn't damp for your next session.

Size: 140cm x 55cm. Material: 80% polyester / 20% polyamide microfibre terry, 300gsm. Care: machine washable; magnet version in a wash bag.

This is not a gym accessory. It is the layer between you and the bench.

Shipping and delivery

Free shipping on orders over $100. Tracked, wherever you are.

Australia5–13 business days
Rest of world5–13 business days
ExpressAvailable at checkout
Shipping costCalculated at checkout
Orders over $100Free

Every order ships with tracking. You will get the number by email as soon as it leaves the warehouse, and you can follow it the whole way.

We are a small business, so we are honest about this: we are not next-day. Your towel comes from our fulfilment partner rather than a warehouse down the road, which is part of how we keep the price where it is. If you need it by a particular date, email us before you order and we will tell you straight whether it will make it.

If tracking has not moved in a few days, or the estimate has come and gone, message us. We will chase it from our end rather than leaving you to it.

Returns and guarantee

Use it for 30 days. Don't like it, we'll refund you.

Take it to your gym and hook it over the bench. Use it, wash it, use it again. If you are not happy inside thirty days, email support@vividfitnessgear.com and we will refund you.

Not “if it arrives damaged.” Not “if it is unused and in original packaging.” Used and washed is fine. If it slides, bunches, ends up on the floor, or will not fit your equipment, that is a refund. And if you just do not get on with it, that is a refund too.

If something else has gone wrong – the wrong colour turned up, a seam is not right, the magnet strap is not gripping the way it should – just message us and tell us what happened. We would rather hear about it and sort it out than have you quietly write it off. A real person reads every email and we usually reply the same day.

We are a small Australian business and this is our own product, made and remade batch by batch on the back of what customers told us was wrong with it. We would not put a guarantee like this on something we did not trust.

– The VIVID team

“I have been in the health club business either operating owning or consulting for 40 years. Working out for 50. This is hands down a brilliant product and is worth every penny.”

★★★★★Jeffery J. Verified purchase
30-day guarantee

Use it for 30 days. Don't like it, we'll refund you.

Take it to your gym. Hook it over the bench. Use it, wash it, use it again. If you're not happy inside thirty days, email support@vividfitnessgear.com, send it back, and we'll refund you. Used and washed is fine.

Try it on your own equipment. That's the only test that counts.

FAQ

Why is a single towel $55?

Our towels have been tested and redesigned around customer feedback. Most gym towels are made cheap to sell cheap: they slip, don't absorb sweat properly, thin out, and get replaced every few months. We went the other way, quality over quantity, with better fabric and construction that costs more to make. We'd rather sell you one towel that actually works and lasts than a cheap one you keep replacing.

How does the hood work?

The hood hooks over the top of the bench or headrest, so the towel stays in place while you train, including on an incline.

What size gym towel do I need, and what is it made of?

It measures 140 x 55cm, which covers most benches and machines from top to bottom. It's made from 300gsm microfibre terry loops.

Will it fit the benches and machines at my gym?

The hood hooks over the top of most flat benches, adjustable benches and seated machines with a headrest or backrest. At 140cm long, it covers the full length of a standard bench.

What is the magnet upgrade?

For an extra $10 per towel, a magnetic strap is built into the towel. It clips onto steel racks and frames, so your towel hangs within reach instead of sitting on the floor.

Will the magnet hold on every machine?

It grips magnetic steel, which covers most racks, frames and cable stacks. It won't hold on aluminium, plastic or some stainless steel. No steel within reach? Loop the strap over a rail.

Is the magnet safe near my phone and cards?

To be safe, keep bank cards, gym key cards and your phone away from the magnet itself. Strong magnets can affect cards with magnetic strips.

Where do I keep my phone and keys at the gym?

Your phone, keys and gym card. They stay with your towel instead of on the floor or in a locker.

How do I wash it?

Machine wash it like a normal towel. If it has the magnet strap, put it in a wash bag first. It air-dries in about 2 to 3 hours.

How is it different from a normal gym towel?

A normal gym towel is small and tends to slide off or end up on the floor. This one covers the whole bench and hooks on, so you're not lying on other people's sweat. It's a physical barrier, not a disinfectant, so keep wiping down equipment as your gym asks.

How much is shipping, and how long does it take?

Within Australia, shipping is $9, or free on orders over $100 or when you buy the 3-pack. We also ship to selected countries, and international shipping costs are shown at checkout. Delivery usually takes 5 to 13 business days depending on where you are.

What if it's not right for me?

You're covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee, even if you've used the towel. Your refund is paid once the towel is returned to us.

Do the 2-pack and 3-pack include anything extra?

Yes. The 2-pack comes with a $5 gift card and the 3-pack with a $10 gift card, to use on your next order or give to a friend. Gift cards expire after 3 months.

I train at home and don't share benches.

Then it's your own sweat soaking into the vinyl you paid for. Over time, sweat can wear down pad covers. A towel that stays on the bench helps protect them.

Stop thinking about your towel. Focus on the workout.

Thirty days to change your mind.

Cover my bench

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