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David Beckham is a big fan of SoulCycle, the sweaty, dark, dance-Spinning class beloved by trendy fitness aficionados—from male models to middle-aged housewives—in half a dozen cities across the country. His workout uniform for the intense 45-minute classes is usually loose, dark, and skin-baring. If you’ve ever been to an extra-hot Spinning class at SoulCycle, Flywheel, Torque, or any of the other umpteen other places, you’ll recognize this as the correct choice.

Unlike, say, Bikram yoga, where loose clothes would really get in the way, you are more or less stationary in a Spinning class, which means you can keep it relatively breezy with your outfit. This is one of the major lazy-man advantages to Spinning—the sitting and the ability to wear couch-level clothes.

Wearing dark colors makes sense if you don’t want to put your sweaty parts on display when you finally make your way to the parking lot. You can keep a low profile in black, and also it kind of fits the dance-club vibe of the classes. Some call it Health Goth, others call it common sense.

Beckham leaving SoulCycle in October.

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The choice of shorts over compression tights is a no-brainer as the class involves swaying your butt in very close proximity to someone else's face. Beckham’s D.I.Y. tank top is also a logical choice (see: intense sweating), but, for the record, that's as much cutoff sleeve as we're willing to forgive—grown men don’t wear skank tanks.

So now you know how to dress for a Spinning class and that David Beckham, walking marble statue, considers it an essential part of his workout routine. Kind of hard to ignore it at this point, isn't it?

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