Let's talk about the most necessary inventory for swimming training in the pool. What devices are most effective to use to progress.

Inventory for swimming and training in the pool

A visit to the pool usually does not raise your question: “How and with what to visit it?” You probably already have swimming trunks or shorts, and in almost any pool there are freely available boards for swimming and some other sports equipment. If you set yourself the goal of learning to swim, master effective equipment, increase speed, in this case you will need specialized devices. In our article we will make a brief overview of the most common objects used by swimmers.

Swimming trunks, swimwear, shorts, costumes

Perhaps the most necessary inventory for swimming. In any case, without a bathing suit, the pool will not be allowed! In most cases, choosing a bathing suit, we are guided by our views on the style. In the first place for us is the color and shape, as well as the price. With irregular visits to the pool, this method justifies itself. Another thing is if you decide to regularly visit the pool. Chlocation and other chemicals present in the water of the pool in order to clean it are able to turn an ordinary bathing suit into unsuitable for use in a couple of months of regular visits. Therefore, athletes are recommended to buy goods of specialized brands, the range of which is aimed at regularly visiting the pool. For example, Speedo marks his bathing costumes Enduraance Plus, and the brand Arena This Waternity. These technologies guarantee the safety of your bathing suit for several years of regular training in the pool. A separate category – competitive costumes. If you plan to play at swimming competitions, the FINA certification is the main criterion, the correspondence of which is confirmed by the logo and barcode applied to a bathing suit.

Men usually choose between classic swimming trunks and swimming-boxers. Among professionals, boxers are practically not found. Classic swimming trunks are universal, moderately open and comfortably sit on the body. Differ on Slips and Briffs, the former in the lateral part is narrower. Separate category of starting swimming trunks (hydroshorts). We will immediately note, to train in them – Moveton. Typically, such swimming trunks are made of expensive tissues and are created for optimal compression of the swimmer muscles, and also provide a higher body position relative to the surface of the water and have the least resistance due to the smoothness of the material.

For women, swimwear for the pool differ in the thickness of the straps and a closed or open back. Optimal swimwear with wide straps sewn on the back of the cross on the cross.Such a swimsuit tightly fits the body, the straps do not crash into the skin, and the design of the straps provides complete freedom of hand and blades when swimming. In competitions, women are allowed starting costumes, representing overalls-buckets to the knee. As a product of high technologies, they positively affect speed, reducing water resistance, provide a higher body position in water and carry out muscle compression. The downside is a high price and low resistance to chlorine.

When choosing swimming trunks or swimsuit, be sure to pay attention to the size. When dressing or shooting, you should not have discomfort. A bathing suit should fit tightly to the body, hold on tightly and not form folds.

A cap

The most controversial item of the wardrobe for the pool. Usually bathing or hate hats or vice versa, they are happy to put them on. Let's look at it from the point of view of a swimmer. The cap reduces water resistance during swimming. Helps glasses dressed under the hat, not to fly in the water. It retains the heat of your body, since most of it is lost through the head. At the same time, your hair does not fall into the water of the pool, clogging it and the cleaning system. In the end, a hat is a fashion accessory. And besides, they are often given out in competitions and you can save it as a keepsake, using later in the pool.

Previously, latex and fabric hats were used. Now most of the hats for swimming are made of silicone. They are anti -allergenic, ellastic and comfortably sit on their heads since ways to stretch more than twice. More expensive silicone hats are made so that they completely fit their heads and do not create wrinkles. Recently, combined hats made of silicone, and from the inside from Likek, have also become made, which allows you to combine comfort and low friction with water. Hats are usually not divided in size, but differ only in children and adults.

One of the most important training conditions in the pool is the presence of convenient glasses. In addition to the seemingly obvious improvement in the view under water, glasses also protect your eyes from the harmful effects of chemistry used to prepare water in the pool. At the moment, there is a huge number of manufacturers on the market and each has a large line of glasses for all occasions and for any head.

The main categories of glasses are training, starting and for open water. The most common is training. Their task is to provide you with maximum comfort while in water, which is achieved due to the soft silicone gasket at the place of contact of lenses with the skin. Thanks to this, glasses are attached to the face and do not allow water flow. An important difference in glasses is the construction of the nose.It can be unregulated, replaceable or fixed. The last option is the most preferable, but you also need to choose such glasses as carefully as possible. But even the best glasses with silicone rims leave traces on the face. Sometimes there are glasses with inserts of neoprene, a material that does not attach to the skin, but tightly adjacent at the expense of its spongy structure. Such glasses are much more comfortable when wearing and reduce the compression effect, but are much more expensive. Also make sure that the rubber band does not crush too much, it also affects comfort.

The starting glasses are usually called “Swedes” – glasses without silicone gaskets between lenses and skin or such a gasket is very thin. The main task of such glasses is the maximum improvement in hydrodynamics. “Swedes” are sold in disassembled form, lenses, strap and nose bridge, and suggest that you yourself will collect them and set them only for yourself. Such glasses are very tightly adjacent to the eye sockets and are very miniature. As a result of this, they have a much worse review in them. Recently, starting glasses appeared on the market Speedo Fastskin, which I have developed silicone gaskets, in shape as the most smoothing the face around the eyes and partially even walking under the hat. Despite external attractiveness, in their form they are not suitable for everyone and often formed for athletes individually. Therefore, the bulk of athletes gives their preference to the Swedes. But not in conditions of mass start. Earning a dissection with such glasses is very simple.

Open water glasses are most like training, but have large lenses. Their main goal is to increase the circular review. Often mirroring is applied to such glasses to prevent discomfort from the rays of the sun.

Manufacturers of most glasses during manufacture apply special anti -recovery coatings to the inner surface of the lenses. Over time, they are erased, so a variety of sprays and fluids from fogging are produced. Using such compositions, remember that after processing the glasses, you should wait a little a little while the liquid part of the composition evaporates. Otherwise, severe discomfort is possible. And no one has canceled the grandfather, but from this no less effective method from fogging – saliva.

Pay attention to the color of the lenses. Children are recommended to buy only transparent so that they see well what the coach shows them, and the coach always saw the eyes of students. In general, the lighter the lens, the more light it passes. The darkened, smoky lenses are good for swimming in well -lit pools or in open water, protecting from bright light and smoothing glare. Orange and yellow lenses, on the contrary, are suitable only for rooms and increase sharpness.For people with poor vision, there is a wide range of lenses with diopters.

Swimming board, kolobashka

The swimming board is made of light, floating material and serves to teach swimming, improving technology and special training. All boards for swimming are divided into two categories: swimming boards for training legs and kolobashki. Combined boards are also found, that is, a board for training legs with a recess in the middle, which facilitates its holding.

A classic leg training board has the shape of a rectangle with rounded edges for better sliding. The boards of triangular or wedge -shaped are more technical, allowing you to change the level of load on the muscles, depending on what end you hold it. Such boards are also more maneuverable. In children's boards, for convenience, they often make shafts for hands. Two methods of holding the board are distinguished: near and long -term grip. With near grip, the board is taken in the front edge, the forearms are on the board. In this case, only the legs work. With a distant grip, you hold the board only behind the neighboring edge on outstretched arms. In this case, the load on the muscles of the back and lower back increases.

Kolobashka is a specialized swimming board without using legs. Usually it has the shape of an eight, which allows you to reliably fix it between the legs. The main task of the kolobashki is to raise the swimmer's feet as high as possible to the water level, thereby reducing the resistance. This is convenient in cases where you work out the swimming technique and you need to “turn off” your legs, concentrating only on the work of your hands.

shoulder blades

Swate blades are special training devices dressed in the palm of the swimmer. The shoulder blades are used to develop the strength of the rowing and its technique, as well as on the development of speed qualities. The action of the blades is based on an increase in resistance and support during a rowing, due to which the swimmer feels better water. The increased load on the muscles of the hands and back during swimming in the shoulder blades increases your strength. The shoulder blades differ in shape and size, as well as training goals.

Anatomical shoulder blades of medium and large sizes are used when swimming with a rabbit, while the fingers for fingers are used in Brasse and Butterflya. Depending on the size, shape and number of holes in the shoulder blade, the load on the muscles and joints is regulated. Be careful in choosing the shoulder blades, volumes and composition of training with them. Having incorrectly calculated your strength, you can easily get an injury. It is also not recommended to use the shoulder blades if your technique is far from perfection since in this case you may develop incorrect muscle memory with a rowing.

Eights

Eights are specialized shoulder blades that resemble an infinity in shape. They dress with one loop on the forearm, and the second on the fingers.The main task of eights is to improve the technique of swimming by rabbit due to the formation of the correct handling technique. With an improper trajectory of the hands above the water, such shoulder blades will subside. Also, sometimes eights are used to improve the technique of swimming BRAS.

Antilopathians, eggs

Another specialized type of shoulder blades that resemble an egg in shape. Thanks to the smooth shape and elastic bands for attaching to the palm of your hand, they reduce the area of ​​the support of the palm on the water, thereby forcing to concentrate more during the rowing at the work of the forearm. “Eggs” can rarely be found on sale, so their absence can be compensated by swimming with a hand clenched into a fist.

Snorkel

The respiratory tube is a hollow tube with a walk, allowing the swimmer to breathe, without raising his head from the water. This is very convenient if the novice swimmer trains the groove technique and the position of the body in the water, without being distracted by lifting the head from the water for inspiration. Also, the tube allows you to swim longer with greater intensity, since each breath in which you breathe, raising your head, slows your advance.

When choosing a pipe for swimming, do not mix them with tubes for diving and snorkeling. Specialized tubes for swimmers are usually produced with the central rather than lateral location relative to the face and are equipped with an elastic band to fix the head for the head on the likeness of glasses.

As a special case of special equipment for training, there are pipes with valves that limit the flow of air. These devices are used for hypoxic training aimed at developing the work of the lungs in order to achieve better oxygen disposal.

Flippers

Swims for swimming are mainly associated with diving. At the same time, this is the necessary inventory for training swimming. With regard to training in the pool, flippers allow us to swim much faster, increase the strength of the legs and flexibility of the joints. Swimmers mainly use short flippers that do not give significant growth in speed, but significantly increase maneuverability, as well as improving the position of the legs in the water due to the creation of a larger area of ​​the support. Monolasts are used by athletes who improve the swimming technique of butterfly.
Funas give an athlete a feeling of water when driving at a greater speed. Due to the larger area of ​​the support created by the fins, the case rises higher to the surface of the water, developing a sense of flight above the water.

Feet fixators

The latch is an elastic strap that binds and controls your legs during swimming. Typically, such devices are used when swimming with a colobashka, completely excluding any work with your legs. When teaching the swimming technique, butterfly, the use of the latch fights with the lighting of the legs, thereby developing muscle memory.

Side -belt

This belt increases the power of resistance to centrifugal efforts and improves the groove technique. The fins create a centrifugal effort at the time of the peak of the rowing, which makes the swimmer turn the hips at the right time in order to avoid touching the fin with the hand.

Shorts with pockets, brake belts, parachutes

These devices are aimed at creating additional stream resistance. Typically, these are swimming-boxers consisting of two layers. The first layer of material is very perforated with small holes, while the second layer is smooth. Also on some models there are pockets gaining water. Typically, such swimming trunks have more durable seams, as they experience a large load during swimming. The brake belts are similar to its intended purpose and are a wide belt with hard convex plastic pockets or a belt with a parachute likeness, also creating resistance under water. “Parachute” is a belts with a long belt with a large pocket tied at the end, creating maximum resistance. Swimming with the inhibitory effect develops the strength and power of the rowing.

The variety of inventory for swimming at the beginning can lead to confusion. Feel free to ask for advice from your coach or more experienced in swimming a friend when choosing certain devices. Some devices are good at the beginning of training in the development of basic equipment, others, on the contrary, only with confident swimming. For example, the choice of too large shoulder blades can lead to injury, and excessive classes with a board in the legs to the detriment of swimming in complete coordination will negatively affect your speed when swimming with a rabbit.