Competitive swimwear

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Competitive swimwear generally refers to the apparel, equipment and accessories used in the aquatic sports of swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, triathlon and water polo.

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Female Swimsuits

Male Swimsuits

A drag suit is a pair of loose or baggy speedo-style trunks that competitive swimmers may wear over their inner suit during training to provide extra resistance (or drag) from the water. Drag suits are meant to be worn over a long period of time to wear in the material and possibly tear the fabric. The more worn-in, torn or ripped the drag suit, the more resistance it provided the swimmer. Swimmers often knot up tears in a drag suit to prolong its life and increase resistance. Since drag suits make swimming more difficult, swimmers do not often wear drag suits in competition, unless they wish to continue training undisrupted through the duration of a meet. Drag suits originated as old, torn speedo-style suits that swimmers would wear over their normal speedos. Since the late eighties and early nineties, universities and swimming-intensive high schools/boarding schools began to order custom drag suits for their teams. Men's suits were usually boxer brief style suits, each with team names and/or logos on the rear. In the late nineties, the boxer brief style suit was manufactured in a mesh-style trunk by the major swimsuit manufacturers, including arena, Speedo, AgonSwim, Nike and TYR.

The LZR Racer swimsuit for both men and women is a new addition to the Speedo swimwear company. Since its recent creation, this new and improved swimsuit has lead thirteen individuals to break world records in mainly freestyle, backstroke, and Individual Medley events. This new product offers 10% less drag than a Fastskin FSII, 5% less drag than a Fastskin FS Pro, 5% better oxygen efficiency, and is 4% faster in starts, sprints and turns. The fabric used to design this suit is both lightweight and water-repellent. The swimsuit comes equipped with a core stabilizer (which is simply part of the suit itself), that holds the stomach's core muscles in in order to maintain the best body position under water for longer periods of time. Though all of this is true, the most prominant feature of this revolutionary LZR Racer swimsuit is its ability to cause one's body to slide through the water with hardly an form of resistance whatsoever.


Accessories

-Raceview Goggle -Women's Air Seal XR Mirrored -Vanquisher Optical -Aqua Racer -Pro Slicer ii Goggle -Sprint -Air Seal XR Mirrored -Air Seal XR Goggle -Aqua Racer Mirrored -Jr. Vanquisher Optical -Jr. Vanquisher Plus -Sengar -Jr Pro Anti-Fog Goggle -Sprint Mirrored -Sengar Jr. Goggle -Air Seal -Speed Socket -Speed Socket Mirrored -GCG Goggle -Mirrored Sengar -Vanquisher -Women's Vanquisher -Vanquisher plus

-Silicone -Latex

Training Gear

[edit] References

www.Speedo.com

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