“These towels are a great invention & durable, as a CrossFit instructor of 8 years, I recommend these to all my clients”
“I'd tried everything. Bigger towel from home, wipes, spraying the bench before and after. The towel still ended up on the floor and my skin still ended up touching the bench. This is the first one I tried that's actually built for a gym bench instead of just being a towel you take to the gym”
You bring a towel every session. It's been failing you every time.
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.
You have probably tried at least two of these.
It covers more of the bench. But nothing holds it, so it slides down while you train and ends up bunched behind your back.
The bottle is empty half the time. And it only helps if the person before you actually used it.
You wipe it, then lie straight back down on it. There is still no barrier between you and the bench.
It stays put for a while. But every fold makes the towel shorter, so your skin ends up touching the gym bench anyway.
All four leave the same two things unfixed. Too short for the bench, and nothing holds it in place.
Survey figure: Treadmill Reviews via Global News, 2019.
Regular towelPhone, 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.
Move from machine to machine without picking a thing up off the ground.
The mechanism
The hood goes over the headrest and the bench itself holds the towel down. Nothing to grip, nothing to adjust. That is the whole mechanism, and here is what the rest of your session looks like because of it.
Hood over the headrest, towel down the bench. The whole pad is covered, top to bottom. Two seconds, and that's the last time you touch it all session.
Nothing to reach down and straighten. Nothing scrunched up behind your back. Nothing sliding off halfway through a set. You're thinking about the reps, not about what you're lying on.
Clip the optional magnet strap to the frame. Your phone and keys are in the pocket and still within reach, instead of down on the rubber collecting the shoe dirt everyone else walked in from the car park.
Magnet it to any metal surface, or hook the strap over a door or rail. Dry in a couple of hours, instead of sitting damp in your bag until the next session.
Most people take two. One in the bag, one in the wash.
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Hooded design
Full-length coverage
Magnetic strap (optional)
Zip pocket
Absorbent and quick-dry
Odour-resistant
Ink needs a flat, continuous surface, and terry loops break the image up. So anything patterned is printed on smooth microfibre suede instead. It photographs well. It's also the thinnest face you can put on a towel, with the least surface area.
Printed suede
Flat face
The pattern needs a flat surface to sit on, so the loops go. What you gain in print you lose in thickness, and in somewhere for the sweat to go.
Plain suede
Flat face
Soft and silky, and it dries fast. There is just very little of it, so sweat sits on the surface instead of going anywhere.
Waffle weave
Open grid
Light, packs small, dries fast. Genuinely good for travel. On a bench it is the wrong tool, because the gaps that dry quickly hold nothing.
Microfibre terry
Raised loops
Thousands of raised loops instead of a flat face. That's what makes it plush, and it's what gives it the surface area to take sweat in rather than push it around. At 300gsm it's the thickest of the four, and it keeps working when a thinner towel has given up.
Heap of ways to make a towel look good. One way to make it work.
Six plain colours. We went with the boring one that actually works.
★★★★★Dan T.Personal trainer Verified purchase“This towel is amazing. The other ones I've tried are too thin and don't absorb sweat as much or feel plush like a towel.”
Fabric images are illustrations of construction types, not photographs of any particular product.
You'll spend $60 on pre-workout, $100 on protein, and thousands 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.
140cm covers the whole bench, and the hood holds it there so it can't slide off.
Covers the whole bench. 140 x 55cm, so your skin never touches the pad.
Hood goes over the headrest. Nothing to reposition, nothing to pick up off the floor.
Zip pocket for phone and keys. Six colours to choose from.
30-day money-back guarantee
Estimated delivery 17th – 25th September
NOTE:Sold only through VIVID
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 any bench or pad, so the towel is held by the equipment rather than resting on it. It cannot creep, so it cannot reach the floor, and there is nothing to reach down and straighten between sets.
At 140 x 55cm it covers the full length of a bench and drapes over both sides instead of perching on top, so your skin never meets the vinyl. The zip pocket takes your phone, keys and gym pass.
There is also an optional double magnet strap, sold as an upgrade rather than included in the $39.95 towel. It holds the towel to any bar or frame between exercises, so it stays off the floor even when you are not using it. Those magnets are NdFeB – neodymium-iron-boron, the strongest permanent magnets commercially made. That is why the strap holds a wet, heavy towel on a vertical bar without creeping, and why the grip does not fade with use.
No antibacterial coating, because there is nothing to wash out. The performance is in the weave: 300gsm microfibre terry that takes sweat in rather than pushing it around, and air-dries in 2 to 3 hours so it is not damp for the 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.
Free shipping on orders over $120. Tracked, wherever you are.
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 it stays at $39.95 instead of $70. 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.
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
“These towels are a great invention & durable, as a CrossFit instructor of 8 years, I recommend these to all my clients”
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, we're not going to inspect the packaging. If it slides, bunches, ends up on the floor, or won't fit your equipment, that's a refund. And if you just don't get on with it, that's a refund too.
Try it on your own equipment. That's the only test that counts.
Thirty days to change your mind.
30-day money-back guarantee. Free shipping over $120.