Who does not want to be healthy, feel great and look good? One of the main ways to bring this desire to life is to go in for sports. There are many sports for health and physical development, and sports swimming is one of the most effective and enjoyable types of training. Swimming helps to relieve the spine, increase the useful volume of the lungs, exercise endurance, relieve muscle tension and has many other positive effects. But in order to engage in swimming, one desire is not enough. We also need a special inventory. It will be discussed further.
Inventory for fans and not only
If a person is engaged in swimming just to rest and relax, he absolutely does not need to purchase a large amount of equipment. A simple swimming cap and glasses are enough. Yes, and not everyone takes glasses, but they manage with one hat. But if swimming for a person has become a favorite sport and he seeks to achieve any significant results in it, then you can’t do without additional equipment:
- shoulder blades that are worn on the hands and help in developing strength and technique of stroke;
- a swimming board for the development and training of rowing legs;
- sausage for swimming, for the development of the upper shoulder girdle.
What is a swimming board and hand blades, more or less represent. But what is a sausage?
Essential accessory for a swimmer
Kolobashka is a special device in the form of a figure eight. They are made of material with good buoyancy in order to withstand the considerable weight of the athlete with a small dead weight. Also, it must be resistant to physical influences, does not crumble, do not get wet and have antibacterial properties. Typically, manufacturers use a special foam with an admixture of polyethylene. Even a dozen or two years ago, no one knew what a sausage is for swimming, and now no athlete can do without it. Especially if the athlete is really serious about training and is focused on the result. Using this swimming equipment is very simple. It is clamped between the hips or lower legs. Sometimes an athlete is additionally fixed with a rubber ring of his foot in the ankle area to completely exclude their mobility.
What is useful for the athlete swimming sausage
Using a simulator such as a sausage, the athlete intensively trains his arms and shoulders, strengthens the upper part of the body and works out the accuracy of the movement of the hands, while not being distracted by his legs. Also, the athlete has the opportunity to pay more attention to the intensity and correctness of breathing. This is if the bun is sandwiched between the hips. And if this swimming device is fixed in the lower leg area, the athlete also needs to make additional efforts to keep the body in the correct horizontal position, as a result of which much more muscles come into action, the training goes much more intensively.
Finally
Recently, opinions began to appear about the fact that a sausage for swimming is not a very necessary simulator and it is quite possible to do without it by applying a different training technique. That there are special exercises that replace the function of the sausage. Nevertheless, it is difficult to agree with these conventional wisdom. Why reinvent the wheel and complicate the life of an athlete if this is a tool that many sports masters in swimming and Olympic champions have used in recent years and thanks to which they have been able to hone their skills and achieve all the goals and results set for themselves.