Why speedo swimwear

There are also different types of swimwear for those with different preferences. For example, for women, there are swimsuits and kneeskins to choose from. For men, there is the choice of jammers, swim shorts, or even briefs. The FastSkin range has been developed specifically for sport and has become a must-have amongst those racing professionally. Like other products, the FastSkin range caters for all ages and sexes. The FastSkin performance suits offered by Speedo include the Racer Elite 2 and the Racer X, both offering excellent competitive advantages and a variety of colour variations.

Speedo has developed the Racer elite 2 and Racer X suits alongside professional athletes and used their experience and opinions to develop the perfect racing suit. Speedo's performance isn't just limited to adult swimmers, Speedo has developed FINA approved performance racing suits designed for junior swimmers. The FastSkin range of accessories boasts just as many great features and scientific development as their racing suits.

The most popular of Fastskin accessories are the Fastskin Elite Goggles. Featuring customisable colour schemes, mirrored lenses, excellent protection and most importantly, a fast, low profile fit!

On top of traditional swimwear, Speedo also produces a number of swimming accessories. So if it's your first swimming lesson, or you're on the blocks for a national championship, Speedo will have you covered from day one!

This is why thousands of swimmers trust Speedo to provide all of the essentials for their time in the water. The crazier the idea,the better. We used those techniques to pull out interesting facts and work around ideas. They scanned athletes in 3-D, creating avatars so computational fluid dynamics software could uncover where turbulence and drag were being created, similar to racing car teams that use aerodynamic modeling.

That began the most revolutionary aspects of the system: redesigning the goggles and cap. They scanned the heads of athletes from around the world and merged the results in a software program to generate an average head shape, one that fits 95 percent of people. Santry, who has developed helmets for cyclists, noted that time trial racers use an aerodynamic teardrop shape. A new 3-D printer at Aqualab fabricated prototypes of the cap and goggles for testing within hours, rather than sending drawings to a manufacturer and waiting weeks or months.

For the suit, the team spent a year inventing a new fabric that creates compression changes across its surface where more lycra is knitted into some areas. The suit constricts the stomach the least and the chest, buttocks and hips the most, attempting to mold swimmers into an unblemished tube. Speedo has applied for nine patents for the Fastskin The company says only six machines in the world are capable of producing the compression fabric; it owns all of them.

In the final stages of testing, athletes wearing the suits were pulled in a high-tech pool lab at the InnoSportlab De Tongelreep in the Netherlands recorded by underwater cameras and a drag measurement system. Speedo claims the Fastskin-3, when measured against a standard suit , reduces passive drag, the resistance produced by a swimmer's body while it is held in a streamlined position, by By measuring oxygen in and out of the body while swimmers pulled themselves over an underwater ladder, researchers at Iowa State reported the system improves oxygen economy by 11 percent.

It allows a swimmer to go harder for longer. Speedo scanned its key athletes to create a 3-D avatar to size the suit. Just wearing the Fastskin requires athleticism. Some female swimmers, who step into the suit through an armhole, reported it took them as much as an hour to wriggle into it on their first attempt. Santry says it can be done in 10 to 15 minutes with practice. It can feel a bit alien. How much faster does that tight, tubular fit help a swimmer in a meter race? Ultimately, though, the proof will be in the pool in London.

Santry hopes to get down to London to see a few races. Meanwhile, he's already working on the next generation of suit for the Rio games. This feature is courtesy of Smithsonian.