Every material.
Named, not hinted at.

Recycled polyester knitted with a small share of elastane, finished to move sweat off the skin and dry fast. It is the lightest thing here and the least forgiving: it shows a wet patch sooner than cotton does, and a light colourway will show it plainly. That is a property of the fabric, not a fault in the garment, and every light tech colourway says so on its page.

Long-staple combed cotton in a fine rib. It holds its shape through the shoulder better than a flat jersey and recovers after a wash instead of growing. It is heavier and slower to dry than tech jersey by design — this is the fabric for lifting and for the rest of the day, not for a conditioning session.

A heavy loopback fleece brushed on the inside face. It is warm, it is dense, and it is the one fabric here that will visibly relax with wear — cuffs and hem soften and the body drops slightly in the first month, which is what a good hoodie is supposed to do. Anything sold as fleece that does not do this is stiff for a reason.

Knitted in the round on a circular machine, so the garment has no side seams at all — nothing to rub under a bar or a strap. The trade is fragility: a seamless knit will snag and run on a rough collar or a velcro strap, and a pulled thread in a seamless fabric cannot be repaired the way a seam can.

A light four-way-stretch woven with a ripstop grid through it, used where a knit would go baggy. It sheds a scuff off a rack or a bench that would fluff a jersey, and it is noisier and less soft against the leg than a knit short. Nothing here is waterproof; a ripstop weave is about tear strength, not rain.

A wide-gauge knitted mesh used for panels and for the back of a cap, where airflow matters more than coverage. Held up to the light it is exactly as open as it looks — it is a ventilation panel, and it is placed where an item needs one rather than anywhere it would be decorative.

Cotton woven in a waffle grid rather than looped into terry. It dries in a fraction of the time, which is the whole reason to choose it for something that lives in a gym bag, and it is markedly less plush than a terry towel. It also gets more absorbent over the first several washes as the mill finish comes off.

Flat woven nylon strap, bar-tacked at every load point. It does not stretch under load, which is the point, and it will abrade rather than tear — so a webbing item announces its wear as fraying at the edge long before it is close to failing. Keep it off a hot dryer; nylon glazes.

Two walls of 18/8 stainless with the air pumped out from between them, so temperature transfers through the lid and the base rather than the body. It will not hold a drink cold forever and nothing that claims to is telling the truth; what it will do is stay cold for a full session without sweating onto the floor. It is not dishwasher-safe — heat and detergent kill the seal.

A clear impact-grade copolyester, BPA-free, used for the shaker body because it survives being dropped on a rubber floor in a way glass and brittle plastics do not. It scratches with time and it will hold a faint smell if you leave it sealed and full, both of which are properties of the material rather than faults in the item.

A compression-moulded EVA midsole on a solid rubber outsole. On the lifting shoe the midsole is deliberately dense and barely compresses — a soft sole under a heavy bar is the opposite of what you want — while the trainer runs a softer durometer for the walking and the conditioning either side of a session. Neither is a running shoe and neither pretends to be.