Since it’s a Quarter Quell, no expense has been spared with designing the new Arena. While Katniss’s first Games took place in a forested setting, these Games are set in a lush tropical jungle complete with a circular ocean pool. As Katniss notes, this aquatic setting is “no place for a girl on fire.” As always, the Gamemakers have filled the Arena with horrors like genetically modified jabberjays, vicious howler monkeys, blood rain, and poison gas. However, as Wiress notes, there’s a trick to the timing of each threat. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock!

Product Information: Jacket, Top, Pants, Shoes, Earrings, Bracelet

The tributes are given identical uniforms to wear during the Games; this time around, they all don a sleek wetsuit that’s suitable for the climate and terrain of the Arena. As I noted in the previous Geek Chic article about The Hunger Games, at the gym I sometimes pretend that I’ve been reaped as a tribute so I can motivate myself to work out harder. (Weird, maybe, but it works!)

While ratty T-shirts and sweats are perfectly acceptable gym attire, I find that I feel more confident and motivated when I wear cute, well-fitting exercise gear, like these yoga capris, silver top, and sleek running shoes. For a fun Catching Fire-inspired touch, add a golden bracelet as a reference to the tribute token that Effie gives Haymitch.

Fun fact: you can purchase the actual training outfits used in the movie, but be warned: the jacket alone will set you back a cool $500.

What did you think?

Would you wear these outfits? Did you see Catching Fire? What did you think? What other geeky inspirations would you like to see? As always, let me know in the comments!

P.S. Fellow Whovians, what’d you think of the 50th Anniversary Special?