The importance of buoyancy in a neoprene for triathlon

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If the buoyancy is correctly distributed throughout the neoprene we will make sure to have a correct positioning in the water.

Our collaborator Zone3, tells us in this article the importance of buoyancy at the time of choosing a neoprene for Compete in Triathlon.

Zone3, as experts in sports equipment and in wetsuits for triathlon, they know that the world of sports is increasingly and. Where before it was enough to have a bicycle with two wheels to be able to aspire to win a Tour of Spain now you need completely differentiated equipment depending on whether it is a mountain stage or a time trial. In athletics the importance of proper sneakers is paramount. In baseball the professionals use bats with different weights depending on their physical constitution. The world of triathlon has been equally affected by this maelstrom of trying to scratch every second to the clock and in which the use of specific equipment is becoming increasingly important.

And we do not kid ourselves, if you start from the start with a disadvantage remarkable in your equipment you may lose despite having a greater physical capacity. Today Proper equipment can give a competitive advantage against our rivals enormous, while a poor team can ballast us even during training.

The choice of a good neoprene triathlon is essential, both to obtain this advantage during competitions and to be able to overcome our limits during training and in this way also improve physically.

One way to get better results in the triathlon swim test is ensure good buoyancy: much of the energy invested in this test is simply to keep afloat.

If the buoyancy is correctly distributed throughout the neoprene we will make sure to have a correct positioning in the water. This It translates directly into faster and more effective. Have a perfect positioning and investing less energy in trying to float allows us to make a greater advance at a lower cost in each stroke.

But not only the buoyancy along the neoprene must be well distributed: Different areas of the body require different degrees of buoyancy. We do not want to have the same buoyancy in arms or legs as in the chest area.

For this reason, a good triathlon wetsuit must have different thicknesses in different panels, in such a way that each zone is optimized to the most suitable degree of buoyancy to obtain ideal performance at the lowest energy cost.

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