Honest AYBL Pulse collection review!
Hey guys! Today we are reviewing the Pulse collection from AYBL and comparing it to Gymshark's Ombre seamless collection! This was a well-loved collection by Gymshark, so lets do an honest review and see who really does ombre better!
MY MEASUREMENTS
- Chest: 29 in, 73 cm
- Bust: 35 in, 89 cm
- Bra size: 32 DDD (70F EU sizing)
- Waist: 25.5 in, 65 cm
- Hip: 38 in, 96 cm(widest part)
- Thigh: 22.5 in, 57 cm
- Calf: 15.5 in, 39 cm
- Inseam: 30.5 in, 77.5 cm
- Torso: 65 in, 165 cm (measured in a loop)
- Height: 5’9”, 175cm
- Weight: approx. 150 lbs / 68 kg (changes all the time tbh)
Hey guys! Today we are reviewing the Pulse collection from AYBL and comparing it to Gymshark's Ombre seamless collection! This was a well-loved collection by Gymshark, so lets do an honest review and see who really does ombre better!
MY MEASUREMENTS
- Chest: 29 in, 73 cm
- Bust: 35 in, 89 cm
- Bra size: 32 DDD (70F EU sizing)
- Waist: 25.5 in, 65 cm
- Hip: 38 in, 96 cm(widest part)
- Thigh: 22.5 in, 57 cm
- Calf: 15.5 in, 39 cm
- Inseam: 30.5 in, 77.5 cm
- Torso: 65 in, 165 cm (measured in a loop)
- Height: 5’9”, 175cm
- Weight: approx. 150 lbs / 68 kg (changes all the time tbh)
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 Hey guys, and welcome back to my channel.
00:17 Today I am reviewing the Able Pulse Collection,
00:19 which is an ombre seamless collection
00:21 with the original Gymshark ombre seamless.
00:25 So I have Able's ombre in three different colors.
00:28 I have this really cute pink color,
00:29 this gray to black color, and then this blue color,
00:32 which I'm wearing the sports bra of right now.
00:34 And so I used to have the Gymshark
00:37 like peach pink ombres, ombre leggings,
00:41 and I have a bunch of video clips with me in them
00:43 that I'm gonna reference in this video.
00:45 But these are actually Gymshark dupes from Nepoagym.
00:48 So these don't have like a Gymshark logo or anything,
00:50 but I've already done videos comparing them
00:52 and they are like exactly the same.
00:54 So I will also be using this as a comparison point
00:57 just so we can really get down to the details
00:59 of who does the ombre better.
01:01 Like I said, from Able.
01:02 They're known on Instagram as BAble,
01:05 but I think the brand is just called Able.
01:07 So this collection is called the Pulse Collection
01:09 and they have a sports bra and leggings.
01:11 So I'm gonna talk about the leggings in the first half
01:13 and then I'm going to get into the sports bra.
01:15 Okay, so since we're talking about leggings first,
01:17 the price for the leggings is $36,
01:20 which actually is like a mid-range price point.
01:22 I've seen, I have a few Amazon leggings
01:24 that are actually like getting close to $30 as well.
01:26 And Gymshark's I believe was at least 45.
01:30 I wanna say more like 50 to 55.
01:32 So these are definitely much cheaper than Gymshark's.
01:35 These are also a great mid-range price.
01:37 So you still get like a little bump in quality
01:40 from like, let's say like some Amazon leggings,
01:43 but it's still a really great deal.
01:44 So for the fabrics, I'm gonna talk about Able first.
01:47 Their fabric composition is a nylon polyester elastane
01:50 and it feels very plush and thick.
01:52 It has a lot of stretch to it.
01:54 So the Able is definitely thicker than Gymshark's.
01:57 The fabric of the Able's kind of reminds me
01:59 of a Gymshark like original flex legging
02:02 or a Gymshark camo.
02:03 Both leggings have a marled texture.
02:06 So the actual leggings look very similar
02:08 when you're not like touching them,
02:09 but they definitely feel a lot different.
02:11 The Gymshark has a slightly more slick feel
02:13 while the Able's are a little more cottony
02:15 and like a thick knit material.
02:18 I don't think either one has more compression than the other.
02:20 I think both, I would give them a light compression.
02:22 And as for which one has more stretch,
02:24 I think I would say the Able has more stretch,
02:27 but Gymshark definitely isn't stiff by any means.
02:29 I would just say Able is just the tiniest bit stretchier.
02:32 So now onto the waistbands.
02:34 So the Able waistband is a double thickness
02:36 and it's ribbed in texture.
02:37 It also goes about right above my belly button,
02:40 just the tiniest bit higher than Gymshark's.
02:42 The waistband is much more tightly fitted than Gymshark.
02:45 I will insert a video clip
02:46 of my original ombre seamless from Gymshark,
02:49 but their waistbands just stretched out so much.
02:51 And I don't think they were ever like quite right
02:53 at my waist.
02:54 There's something about the Gymshark waistband,
02:56 just really didn't fit your actual waist.
02:58 It was always gaping.
02:59 And I always saw the athletes in the videos
03:01 with the waistbands gaping, wasn't cute.
03:04 The Able waistband actually tapers in a decent amount
03:07 and I haven't had any stretching out
03:09 and I've done at least three workouts in these.
03:11 Yeah, you can definitely tell that the waistband
03:13 is higher on the Gymshark.
03:14 It's a solid like centimeter or more higher,
03:17 but you can also see that on the Gymshark,
03:21 the waistband doesn't really come in very much.
03:23 It's just kind of like pretty continuous
03:26 with the side of the legging.
03:27 So you're not really gonna get much compression
03:28 and it's also not gonna taper in very much,
03:31 but there's actually a lot of tapering in
03:33 on the waistband for the Ables.
03:35 And I really didn't have any gaping for these.
03:37 So I think that's a really good attention to detail
03:39 for them because I hate when the waistbands gape.
03:42 Also, you can see a slight difference in the ribbing.
03:45 The ribbing on the Ables is a little more tightly knit
03:47 and the ribbing on the Gymsharks
03:49 is a little more separated.
03:51 The Ables are just a little bit above full length for me.
03:53 So not quite full length, but I am five foot nine.
03:56 So I'm on the taller side.
03:57 So if you're shorter, they probably would be full length,
03:59 but they're just a little bit above full length for me.
04:02 I have a video clip that directly compares
04:03 the booty contouring,
04:05 but the booty contouring on the Ables is very subtle.
04:08 You'll see in the video clip,
04:09 but the Ables just have this kind of like ribbed material,
04:12 kind of like the waistband underneath the booty.
04:16 So kind of like compresses slightly underneath your butt,
04:19 which kind of helps like lift the butt a little bit.
04:21 And that's like definitely very helpful.
04:23 I feel like without this,
04:23 you would have a lot less shape in these leggings.
04:26 And this booty contour is million times better
04:28 than the Gymshark booty contour,
04:30 which I will insert clips.
04:32 Even after I tried to pull it up,
04:34 that booty contour was in my mid thigh.
04:36 And it honestly just made my butt look saggy and not cute.
04:39 And I didn't like it.
04:40 So Able wins the booty contour,
04:43 literally million times over.
04:44 Comparison of the booty contours.
04:46 So you can see on the Ables,
04:47 the booty contour is just like this ribbed material,
04:50 kind of like the waistband,
04:52 but just below the butt.
04:53 And it just kind of squeezes your like thigh
04:55 in a little more and kind of accentuates the booty
04:57 a little bit, but nothing crazy.
04:59 And the Gymshark is obviously very much more pronounced.
05:02 They have like these little dot details.
05:04 And when it's on,
05:05 you can very much see there's a booty contour,
05:07 but you can't so much see
05:08 that there's a booty contour on the Ables.
05:10 And some of you guys have been requesting
05:12 that I show like the seams on the leggings.
05:13 And these seams actually seem pretty good quality.
05:18 I haven't had any loose stitching.
05:20 I haven't felt any tightness.
05:22 I did a leg day in these
05:23 and I didn't feel like the seams
05:24 were like restricting me in any way.
05:26 There's actually a decent amount of stretch to them.
05:28 So good seams here.
05:29 The leggings also have some nice raised detailing
05:32 all the way down the legs
05:33 and kind of connecting from the waistband.
05:36 And I've got the sides of the leggings
05:37 so you can see some of the details.
05:39 They have very similar detailing down the side.
05:41 They have kind of this raised detailing
05:43 that goes all the way down
05:45 and then into some more like complex raised details.
05:48 They just add like a little nice bit of like texture
05:50 to the legs and Gymshark has the same.
05:53 It has like a little raised detail there,
05:56 kind of goes down to these little like raised lines
05:59 and then more down to the bottom.
06:00 And they both actually kind of have
06:02 a little back of calf detailing.
06:04 Gymshark is much more prominent.
06:05 So you're definitely going to get like a lot of calf shading
06:08 but on Able, it's just very subtle,
06:10 much like their booty contour is very subtle, which I like.
06:13 It's just like, if you're looking close there's texture,
06:15 but if you're far away, there's not.
06:17 So both for Gymshark and for Able,
06:19 the logos are just kind of like a vinyl press on,
06:22 which I don't really love the vinyl press ons
06:24 'cause I felt like when I was wearing these the other day
06:26 that I just felt like these can just like peel off.
06:29 Like after you've washed them a certain number of times,
06:31 it just doesn't seem like they're gonna like stay very well.
06:34 I wish they maybe like embroidered their logo
06:36 onto the legging 'cause that just adds
06:37 like a little bit more of like a luxurious feel.
06:40 So in terms of sizing,
06:41 these come in size extra small to large.
06:44 I wear small on these and I'm a small
06:45 on basically everything about a four to six in Lululemon.
06:48 And these fit basically perfectly.
06:51 There was a tiniest bit of extra room around the crotch area
06:55 but not in a way that gave me a lot of single camel.
06:57 Like there was just a little bit of extra space,
06:59 but I felt overall the fit was really good.
07:01 It didn't have any waistband gaping.
07:03 I felt like the legs fit me very well
07:05 and it didn't feel like anything was pulling too tightly.
07:07 So are they true to size?
07:09 I would say yes, true to size,
07:10 but if you are in between, then I would size down
07:13 because these do have a lot of stretch to them
07:14 and they're just like the tiniest bit on the big side.
07:16 And all of the colors I have are exactly the same
07:19 in sizing and stretch and all the sizes were very consistent
07:23 so that makes it very easy for ordering.
07:25 So in terms of cellulite,
07:26 I would call these cellulite friendly.
07:28 They don't have any compression,
07:30 but the material is very thick and plush
07:32 and I feel like that helps hide the cellulite very well.
07:35 And it also has the marl texture,
07:36 which always helps as opposed to just a plain colored legging
07:39 and I would say they're more cellulite friendly
07:41 than Gymsharks because they do have that added thickness,
07:43 which I think helps a lot.
07:45 So my new thing for testing if something is sweat proof
07:47 is just to drop a little drip of water on them
07:49 and see if you can see it or not.
07:52 And you could definitely see the drop
07:54 when I put it on the leggings,
07:55 but the marl texture does mask it a little bit.
07:58 So I'd say these are sweat friendly, but not sweat proof.
08:01 As for camel toe, the Able leggings
08:03 didn't give me any camel toe, no single or double camel,
08:06 which is great.
08:07 The Gymshark ones have this raised front seam
08:09 and the fabric is a little thinner.
08:10 It did lend itself to some camel toe issues at some points,
08:14 but the Able ones, it was all good.
08:15 So for the booty scale,
08:17 so I give the Able leggings a medium to high
08:19 on the booty scale.
08:20 They don't have a lot of compressions,
08:21 so they don't squish your butt down in any way,
08:23 but they do have that little bit of like booty contour
08:25 underneath that kind of sucks in the area
08:27 right below your butt,
08:28 which helps just like add a little bit of extra shape
08:31 to the booty.
08:32 I wouldn't say it's like the highest on the booty scale
08:34 because with seamless leggings,
08:35 sometimes you can get like a little unibut appearance.
08:37 So not like high booty scale,
08:39 but my butt looks pretty good in these.
08:40 I was pretty proud.
08:41 And compared to the original Gymsharks on the booty scale,
08:44 these are way better because the original Gymsharks
08:47 with their booty contour that was more like a thigh contour
08:50 wasn't cute on the butt, made me feel saggy.
08:52 So, and squat test.
08:55 Let's just give a little round of applause here.
08:57 (claps)
08:58 All of these leggings are completely squat proof.
09:01 I am a major hard ass on my squat test.
09:03 Like I have a ring light, I have natural light,
09:06 I have everything and I am looking for any bit of sheerness
09:09 in these leggings all completely past 10 out of 10,
09:12 no issues.
09:13 And compared to Gymshark,
09:14 I'm just gonna show a squat test
09:16 of my old peach pink ombre ones.
09:19 And you will just see the horrible sheerness
09:21 that is those leggings.
09:22 I give them like a two out of 10 on the squat test.
09:25 Now that we are done with the leggings,
09:27 it is time to move on to the sports bras.
09:30 For the sports bras,
09:30 I'm mainly just going to go over the Able one.
09:32 I do have the Gymshark one.
09:34 This is the Gymshark dupe version.
09:36 And I'm going to compare like side by side how they look,
09:38 but I'm not going to go into like too many details
09:40 on the Gymshark one.
09:41 So the sports bras are $31.
09:43 So kind of about the same as the leggings,
09:45 just a little bit less.
09:46 Some details.
09:47 So these have about medium to high coverage.
09:49 As you can see, I'm not showing any cleavage.
09:52 The sports bra definitely has a nice scooped neckline.
09:55 I love the design of the straps.
09:57 So it has a nice little racer back,
09:59 but then it has this little cute cutout opening.
10:01 So it has this little strappy looking back,
10:04 but it still has like a decent amount of coverage
10:06 in the back.
10:06 It's not like thin straps.
10:08 Since I tend to wear my sports bras as shirts in the gym,
10:10 like I don't really wear a shirt on top.
10:12 I like to look for a sports bra
10:13 with a decent amount of coverage.
10:14 So I don't feel like completely naked.
10:16 The sports bra also has some cute detailing.
10:19 It has some of that raised detailing that the leggings have.
10:23 So they have like a few cute little lines in the front,
10:25 a few in the back, as well as some perforation details.
10:29 The sports bra is also very soft.
10:31 So first of all, it's very soft in feel,
10:33 but it's also very soft like in like structure.
10:36 There's no hard structural elements.
10:38 There's no underwires, anything like that.
10:40 And the sports bra also doesn't rub on my armpits.
10:42 Sometimes sports bras, if they're cut too high,
10:44 it can rub on your armpits,
10:45 but I have plenty of room here
10:48 and it's not doing any chafing.
10:50 So as for fit and sizing,
10:52 I am a 32 triple D and I have a small in this.
10:56 And it honestly, I could have sized down to an extra small.
10:58 It's like a little, there isn't too much gaping,
11:01 but I just feel like it's like a little bit loose
11:03 and I would have liked a little bit more compression.
11:05 If I had sized down,
11:06 I feel like I would have gotten a nice amount of compression
11:08 and this could have been like a medium support sports bra,
11:11 but because it was just a little bit big on me,
11:13 it is more of a light support.
11:15 So yeah, I would definitely say size down for this.
11:17 I already have a larger chest,
11:19 so I'm usually between small and medium for sports bras,
11:21 but this small is just a little bit big for me.
11:24 But even with this larger size,
11:25 I didn't really have any like crazy amounts of gaping.
11:28 So I'd say the fit on the sports bra is overall really good
11:31 and like it's shaped very nicely.
11:32 I have to compare the sizing
11:34 of the Gymshark sports bra to the Able
11:35 and the Able definitely has like a significant amount
11:38 more room.
11:39 So I'm gonna go ahead and continue to say size down in this.
11:43 My only complaint is that the pads are not my favorite.
11:46 They do have a nice amount of coverage,
11:47 which I really look for in a pad.
11:49 If it's too small of a pad,
11:50 it can just kind of look like a little circle on your boob.
11:53 But these, they got like a little bit deformed
11:55 in the shipping process, I think.
11:57 The first day I wore them,
11:58 one of them had like a big dent in the boob
12:00 and it just like looked like there was a big dent on my boob
12:02 and it didn't really bounce back super well.
12:05 So I'm gonna try maybe washing these and that'll help.
12:07 I definitely think that you need the pads in this bra,
12:09 especially if you got the wrong size like me
12:11 because it just does add a little bit more structure
12:14 and support to the bra.
12:15 So overall, I'm really loving these Able sets.
12:17 I think they did an incredible job of their leggings.
12:19 I wish the sports bras fit me a little better.
12:22 So I'd be like a little more confident wearing these,
12:24 like doing like a little more medium impact exercise.
12:27 But yeah, guys, I think that compared
12:29 to the original Gymshark Ombres,
12:31 Able did an incredible job,
12:33 especially with the waistband and the booty contour.
12:35 So let me know if you guys enjoyed this video,
12:38 give it a thumbs up if you did
12:39 and I will see you next time, bye.
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