She swore by compression gear as a means to increase oxygen blood flow to the muscles, helping them to recover faster.
After wearing compression sleeves over my calves following the Women’s Half Marathon later that month, I was a believer. I wasn’t sore and loved the snug fit of the sleeves.
I knew then that I wanted to try out compression shorts since my hamstrings and quads are often sore after long runs.
Thanks to the kind people at Aspaeris, I was able to try out the Aspaeris Pivot compression shorts and my belief in the benefits of compression clothing was further solidified.
The Aspaeris compression shorts are tight and thick, but comfortable. They don’t dig into my skin. They are snug, but don’t make me feel strangled.
According to Aspaeris, the shorts “offer a unique two-layer design. The top layer supports your muscles while the bottom layer guides you into position. Breakthrough, patent-pending compression bands are cross-knit into the fabric that creates muscle memory to help prevent ACL injury and improve your performance.”
Snug as a bug in a rug. 
The shorts come in a variety of colors including black, white, red and navy blue.
And now YOU have a chance to win a pair of Aspaeris Pivot compression shorts!
To enter this giveaway, simply comment below telling me about your greatest athletic achievement or a personal athletic goal you have for yourself in the future.
I will randomly select a winner on Monday morning.
Good luck!
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A huge accomplishment for me was completing my first marathon! And now, I’m excited to do one again!
My greatest athletic goal that I have for the future is completing a half marathon before I graduate college! (next may)
Im looking forward to my first race in 4 years in my new hometown!
My greatest goal so far is completing my first half marathon!
my goal is to qualify for the olympic trials!!
My upcoming goal is to run my first official 5k for our local St. Patty’s Day Race!
my friend and I are starting now to train for the Disney princess half marathon a year from now. we are in law school so training time is limited, so we figure a long training period is a good option for us. we plan on doing lots of shorter races before then!
I want to run a 10k in under 1 hour and complete my first marathon!!
Run my first half marathon
I am going to run my first half marathon this year! I have been running off and on for the past couple of years and decided that I really wanted to stick with it this time so I’m committing to a goal.
My greatest athletic achievements thus far is swimming throughout college and high school, there were many times in college I wanted to quit. And my greatest achievements coming up are spinning for 6 hours and running 2 half marathons in April!
I’m currently training for a half marathon. I’ve never run more than a 5k, so fingers crossed it goes well. 🙂
I am hoping to run another half marathon in 2012 after having broken both my feet on different occasions in 2011.
I’m running the NYC half in March so these would be perfect! Running has definitely been one of my greatest achievements so far!
My personal goal for the future is to run 5k in less than 30 minutes! I just haven’t been able to break the 30 minute mark!
My greatest achievement so far is finishing my first 10K in under an hour. My goal is to finish my first half marathon in May in under 2 hours!
My goal for the year is to run another half marathon, and to do an obstacle run with my husband! I have been wanting to try compression gear to help speed up the recovery process. 🙂
My greatest athletic achievement was running 5 miles for the first time. After my foot heals from an injury, I am going to run a 10K and start re-training for my first half-marathon!
I plan on running my first 10k and half!!
My ultimate goal is to some day run a half marathon. I would be so proud of myself!
My personal athletic goal is to run a half marathon! The one in disney would be awesome!
Those shorts look awesome! I’m training for my 3rd half marathon right now (in 3 weeks!)
My accomplishment is running 2 marathons and training for my 3rd.
my goal is to run a 10k…getting there!
My new goal is to complete 2 months of Insanity!
I registered for the Milwaukee Rock n Roll half marathon just the other day! I was a competitive swimmer in college; since graduating, I have been kinda lazy. I have always wanted to complete a half marathon but never had the guts to register. I finally decided now is the time to do it and registered on a whim….it may be a little too ambitious of me but I’m definitely excited!
My greatest athetic achievement is running 3 half-marathons.
I have recently found a joy in running and signed up for my 1st 5k!! These would really help! 🙂
Have you tried foam rolling and compression socks? I have had lots and lots of IT band issues and now foam roll after my runs and it helps a tremendous amount!
My biggest accomplishment is running 2 half marathons, but unfortunately I have been suffering from an IT band injury ever since. I have recently taken up biking and my goal is to complete a triathlon.
I hope to run a half marathon soon!
I ran my first half marathon last spring and subsequently got pregnant and had my first baby…. now my goal is to complete 13.1 post-baby……a much bigger achievement in my opinion!
i just decided to run a half marathon at the end of next month so i’m kicking my running into high gear!
I finally ran a mile in under 10 minutes. 9:25 to be exact. I’m not a natural runner so it’s taken forever to get here!
Greatest achievement…Disney World Half Marathon. Future goals… Denver Rock N Roll Half Marathon, Disney World Full Marathon!!
Im training for my first 10k in April!
to run the 5K I walked last year!
I am training for my first half marathon in a month- Dallas Rock n’ Roll half and have so far stuck to my training schedule and am set to run the whole 13 miles next weekend to have confidence that I can do it 🙂
The first marathon I ran my goal was to finish…check 🙂
The second marathon I ran, I wanted to do it for something bigger than myself so I ran for BEDA (binge eating disorder association) because I was inspired by clients suffering @ the medical nutrition therapy practice I work for: http://www.rbitzer.com. check 🙂 (i raised over $800 and qualified for the boston maraton)!
My goal now is to give my body a much needed rest (no marathons for this year) and help people in my life train for half marathons while taking yoga…That is until the 2013 Boston Marathon :)…It’s about balance!
I qualified for the Boston Marathon (before the times were changed!) I haven’t quite found the motivation to train for the new times =)
my greatest athletic achievement thus far is when I ran a half marathon when I was in high school!
My goal is to run the Hampton Rockfest half marathon this fall!
I haven’t tried compression gear yet, but I want to! My fav athletic accomplishment is running the Detroit Marathon in 2010!
accomplishment to this point is a 1/2 marathon.. running the Disney Princess Half tomorrow a.m. and hoping for a full marathon somewhere down the road 🙂
choose me choose me! lol- I ran a marathon and it was a big freaking deal. NEVER EVER AGAIN lol
my goal for this year is to run my first half marathon!
I want to complete the Marine Corp Marathon this fall!
I am LOVING what my compression socks are doing for my calves/ankles…shorts would be awesome!
Prior to this morning, the longest I had run was 39minutes. Today I pounded out 65!
I hope to complete a half marathon sometime this year, hopefully by May!
I am running my first ever 5K on St. Patrick’s Day, and I would like to eventually run a half-marathon!
I hope to participate in a Tough Mudder race one day!