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- Medical Video: Elliptical Pool Table - Numberphile
- 1. Swimsuit or swimming trunks
- 2. Swimming goggles
- 3. Swimming cap
- 4. Kickboard or swim buoy
- 5. Pull buoys
- 6. Fins or frog legs
Medical Video: Elliptical Pool Table - Numberphile
Swimming is a sport that has very complete benefits. Swimming not only provides health benefits but also life safety. Therefore, many people try to practice swimming skills. Swimming with the right technique is also very necessary, not carelessly. This is needed so that you more efficiently spend energy while exercising. To practice your swimming technique, you need some support tools so that the exercise time becomes more maximal. Then what swimming equipment is needed when swimming? Let's find out below.
1. Swimsuit or swimming trunks
Don't underestimate a swimsuit or swimming trunks. Swimwear or pants are designed specifically for use when in water. Swimwear or pants designed with materials that are very minimal in storing water.
This is needed so as not to disturb you in the water so that your clothes do not aggravate your movements in the water. This is different from ordinary T-shirts that easily absorb water.
Also, make sure that your swimwear is the right size for your body. Don't get too big or too small. Using different swimsuits with normal clothes, look for a bathing suit that really fits with your waist and body curves. Because, when the swimsuit is not right, in the water your clothes feel swaying, like they want to come off, and this makes it uncomfortable.
2. Swimming goggles
Swimming goggles are swimming equipment that protect your eyes from exposure to chlorine in the pool water, and help you see clearly under water. Use swimming goggles whose size fits right around you.
If it is not tightly tied, then the water can enter into your swimming goggles, make your eyes sore, and cannot see clearly under water.
3. Swimming cap
When swimming, your hair will also be wet with water. To reduce exposure to pool water containing chemicals, swimming caps are the swimming equipment that you need. The possibility of wet or moist hair is still present when using a swimming cap, but at least the swimming cap reduces chlorine exposure in the pool water, indirectly all the hair is submerged in the pool water.
Not only that, swimming caps also make it easier for you to swim in the water. Just imagine, water that is submerged in water will store water easily, and this makes the movement of your head heavier. While the swimming cap material does not store water, it actually cuts the water that passes through it because the material is slippery when exposed to water.
Moreover, if you have long hair, swimming without a swimming cap is quite annoying because the hair will break down on the face. Even if you ponytail, but over time swimming strands of hair can come loose and you must again tidy it up again. Unlike when you use a swimming cap, the hair will go into the hat and not interfere with your swimming movements.
Of course, swimming caps must be installed properly and correctly. You should also choose a swimming cap made from latex.
4. Kickboard or swim buoy
Buoys are swimming equipment made of foam or plastic that floats. Buoys are available in large or small forms, varying. The purpose of using this swimming float is to practice leg movements.
How to use this swimming float is the position of the hand holding it in front. Holding your float will automatically float. Using a float is done to rest your hands but train to reserve your swimming legs.
Swimming buoys don't mean specifically for people who can't swim, sometimes this is what many people consider. This pool float is precisely for training leg strength for new swimming or trained ones. Both still need kickboard to train the strength of his leg muscles.
With kickboard usually the feet will feel ache faster because you are swimming only driven by the leg muscles without the help of hand muscles.
5. Pull buoys
The opposite of kickboard, pull buoys is swimming equipment functioning otherwise. Yes, pull buoys or a foot clamp serves to train the hand when swimming. Pull buoys also float like kickboard.
Pull buoys used with a pin in the groin or on the leg. Your feet must be tight pull buoys can not be separated. Because the feet must be tight, the legs cannot help you move in the water, the only thing that can pull you forward is the hand.
This is where the ability of your hands and upper body muscles will be trained. The hands will pull your body without the help of feet. Pull buoys are good tools for building upper body strength.
6. Fins or frog legs
Want to kick your feet while swimming faster and stronger? Swim fins are the tools you need. Like shoes, fins are used in the legs with a longer and wider end.
Fins will make you harder to kick, but once a kick with fins allows you to shoot further than the usual kick without fins.
