Anti Monkey Butt Powder
What is Monkey Butt you ask? Well, according to the Anti Monkey Butt website it is a term used by motorcycle riders to describe the soreness, itching and redness that occurs when you ride and sweat on a motorcycle for hours. If you have to walk bowlegged like a monkey to prevent your skin from rubbing, you have Monkey Butt!
Now that we have that cleared up let us replace the words "motorcycle riders" and "motorcycle" with "cyclists" and "road bike" and re-read the above sentence. Now you can see how this fits in to a triathlete's life!
Ohhhh, all starting to come together now?
As triathletes we spend a lot of time sitting on our butts! In a normal Half Ironman training program it is not unusual to have over 8 hours a week sitting on your butt in the saddle and even more if training for a full Iron Distance. And you know what this leads to right? Monkey Butt!
We have all been there. That soreness and irritation in that area that is not fun to have soreness and irritation. We get off the bike and sort of slide our shorts down just a little bit so they no longer contact skin. We do that goofy looking wide legged walk and cannot wait to change our shorts and when we finally do we have Monkey Butt. Not very good times my friends.
The good news is there is a solution and it is aptly named Anti Monkey Butt Powder. So when the nice folks at Robin Leedy & Associates sent me some Anti Monkey Butt Powder to sample the least I could do was try it out and write up a review.
The Review:
Day 1 - It is a Wednesday evening and the temperature is 92 degree with about 70% humidity. It is soaking wet hot outside. I opened up the Anti Monkey Butt Powder and the thing I liked was that it had a pleasant smell. Very talcum powder like but not nearly as strong. It was liberally poured onto my chamois in my bike shorts and then I pulled those suckers up. The first thing I noticed was that I did not notice a thing. The powder absorbed right into my chamois - excellent! I jumped on my bike and within about a mile was already dripping sweat.
After about 30 minutes it was time to head back to the house. Once back I remembered the whole purpose of this ride was to try out the Anti Monkey Butt Powder. That is very cool because it meant I forgot all about it and the reason I forgot all about it was that I had zero irritation - Zilch, nadda! Trial One was very successful.
Day 2 - The first trial was extremely positive but it was such a short ride that I figured an additional test on a longer ride would be needed until I could write my final review. Bike is loaded on the car and I was off to Deussen Park to get in 25 miles. I got there and once again sprinkled a liberal amount of the powder onto my chamois and was off. It was 84 degrees at 7am and you could literally see the humidity in the air. It was an extremely uncomfortable morning which is exactly the test conditions that were needed.
The total ride time last one hour and thirty-five minutes over 25.33 miles. Not one time did I need to stand up and readjust the junk on the saddle or shift to one side or the other to prevent irritation. And just like the ride on Wednesday no Monkey Butt was experienced. My backside actually felt pretty good. I would even go as far to say that my butt felt rather soothed!
Conclusion:
After two rides in hot and humid conditions I feel confident in giving Anti Monkey Butt Powder two enthusiastic thumbs up. This stuff does what it says it does which is absorb excess sweat and reduce frictional skin irritation. In my opinion the best thing about Anti Monkey Butt Powder is that it is easy and clean to apply. I have tried a similar gel based product in the past which is messy and cumbersome to apply. The powder delivery system of Anti Monkey Butt Powder is much more convenient when compared to the gel based ones.
Anti Monkey Butt Powder also comes in gender specific formulas. Meaning that the gals should use the pretty looking and smelling Pink Bottles:
And the guys should use the manly looking Yellow bottles:
Now after reading how I no longer have a red and irritated bum you are probably wondering how you too can rid yourself of the dreaded Monkey Butt. The Anti Monkey Butt Powder can be purchased at the company website (here) or if you cannot wait another minute you can run out now to a number of different retailers (here).
The total ride time last one hour and thirty-five minutes over 25.33 miles. Not one time did I need to stand up and readjust the junk on the saddle or shift to one side or the other to prevent irritation. And just like the ride on Wednesday no Monkey Butt was experienced. My backside actually felt pretty good. I would even go as far to say that my butt felt rather soothed!
Conclusion:
After two rides in hot and humid conditions I feel confident in giving Anti Monkey Butt Powder two enthusiastic thumbs up. This stuff does what it says it does which is absorb excess sweat and reduce frictional skin irritation. In my opinion the best thing about Anti Monkey Butt Powder is that it is easy and clean to apply. I have tried a similar gel based product in the past which is messy and cumbersome to apply. The powder delivery system of Anti Monkey Butt Powder is much more convenient when compared to the gel based ones.
Anti Monkey Butt Powder also comes in gender specific formulas. Meaning that the gals should use the pretty looking and smelling Pink Bottles:
And the guys should use the manly looking Yellow bottles:
Now after reading how I no longer have a red and irritated bum you are probably wondering how you too can rid yourself of the dreaded Monkey Butt. The Anti Monkey Butt Powder can be purchased at the company website (here) or if you cannot wait another minute you can run out now to a number of different retailers (here).
AND ...
Tomorrow morning I will be running a Give-Away and one lucky guy and gal will each have multiple chances to win a bottle of Anti Monkey Butt Powder. Check back tomorrow for details!
Jeff
**Disclaimer: This product review is my opinion alone. Only my butt was used to conduct the research and no monkeys were harmed during the review. Product was issued to me free of charge but other than sample product I received no compensation for the review.**
**Disclaimer: This product review is my opinion alone. Only my butt was used to conduct the research and no monkeys were harmed during the review. Product was issued to me free of charge but other than sample product I received no compensation for the review.**
