Most people know about compression clothing by now. The controversy surrounding its ability to help athletes optimize his/her performance potential has helped its sales success in this largely niche market. You may also know that people love its ability to wick moisture away from the body, or to help keep your body insulated during cold condition training. Until now the compression garments were largely homogenous except for color patterns and labeling. They all did, pretty much, the same thing. Their distinctive differences are about to change. One company, Thunderstruck, is coming out with a compression garment that actually repels would be pests, such as mosquitoes and the like.
Is this a great idea or what? Most people would agree athletic training usually takes place, for the most part, during warmer weather. Yes, save for winter Olympic sports. Given any warm weather marathon or biking event you'll find people competing in these events half naked either to show off their physique or because it's just too damn hot out. These folks are just ripe for mosquito feasts, fire ant attacks, gnat swarms and other hostile critter attacks. Every cross training athlete knows unless you have "glops" of bug fighting stuff...keep your shirt on. The practical implications that an exercise outfit would have in not only enhancing your performance while helping to properly regulate your body temperature, but also in thwarting malignant pests from feasting on your post workout body are understandably advantageous. The clothes conform to the body, so if it's a matter of showing off your new chisels then that's fine because the garments already do that.
These pest fighting clothes won't be out until a little later this summer, but when they come out you should already have your order reserved. Most runners, bikers, and other field training athletes love anything that will help them get to the next level. If you can do it without being "pestered" who wouldn't want it? Distinctive advantages are what make products popular and their companies successful. It's these kinds of ideas and thinking outside of the box, which allows for paradigm shifts in what we consider the norm.
Just as Peanut butter is to Jelly, some combinations are not obvious until someone reveals their hidden compatibility. If you don't like peanut butter and jelly try something else. The point is there is a winning combination that works for you, but you may not have tried it, yet. Until you've tried it don't knock it. It will be exciting to see what other advances will come about in sports equipment technology.
It would be great if someone would just invent clothes that can suck fat out of your system. It may not be around yet, but that doesn't mean someone isn't working on it. For now let's get out there push our bodies to the limit and give it all we've got. But, for goodness sakes keep your shirt on. You don't want to be the marathon mosquito feast.
Carlos Rosario is the owner of Focused Life a getfitnesswear.com fitnesswear company that specializes in fitnesswear, athletic shirts and yoga apparel. If you'd like more information you can visit his website at
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