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Protection, comfort and performance clothing Aiding in exercises and sports activities

PROTECTION, COMFORT AND HELP THE PERFORMANCE THE CLOTHES IN THE EXERCISE AND SPORTS ACTIVITIES

Introduction

It was fairly typical for individuals to be in appropriate clothing for the sports that are involved in for obvious reasons it may meet the unique demands of sports. Clothing in life provides the design, comfort and safety within the bounds of modesty. Middlemas, (1997) says that the cloth adorn the body, hide defects and take support high-clothes. It may designate the person holds a rank or type of work performed or the origin of a person and allegiance. However, the sportswear combines these functions and also different individuals or teams from each other depending on the sport. It also offers an advantage from psychological well-dressed people or teams derive inner satisfaction that creates a sense of feeling good, strengthening the personality and self-esteem of the wearer (S.).

According to Watkins (1984), clothing is the most intimate environment and making its environment unique is that she carried everywhere with the individual, creating his own room and its own climate climate in much of our surroundings. Therefore, the need of sportswear is important because the sport environment is full of unique features that are producing lesions.

Several situations exist where clothing is the best protection against impact. In contact sports, body padding provides the only protection o possible sources which Garrick (1972), seen as a unique problem and that although we can not completely avoid the injury producing situations where contact with another player results of the alternative, he says, is to accept the inevitability of injury production situation in sport and attempt to reduce the likelihood of actual injury. For example, football helmets, shin guards and pads to contain and disperse the force of contact body. Similarly, new technologies such as the introduction of artificial turf took office and created the need to change clothes protection as a fast and efficient way or means to avert new types of injuries that began to appear. More importantly, increased activity sport requires a provision for the maximum freedom and safety clothing to enhance movement and check the impact on the Contact. It is a fact that if people do not fight against their clothes they can actually do move.

Perceived clothing in sports

According to Garvin (2003), "Production increases the heat of the year. At an exercise in conditions of both hot and cold, the major dilemma is the dissipation of heat generated by muscle activity. Wearing apparel generally represents a layer of insulation and imposes as such a barrier to heat transfer and evaporation from the skin surface. The problem of clothing in sports has probably captured the imagination of fashion designers, sports psychologists and coaches for as long than any other problem on the ground. However, the scope of the field of designing clothing for sports creates an approach which balances in the creative process of strategic control and the aesthetic. In response, a new type of clothes brand must emerge to provide innovative solutions for clothing issues in sport.

According to Watkins (1984), clothing in sport is seen as a scientific field that covers the physical, psychology and kinesiology, which is closely allied to the anatomy, physiology and biomechanics. Perhaps the biggest branch Kinesiology offers a useful basis for the kinematic design clothing that covers the description of the motion variables and not the factors that cause displacement. Thus, the clothes used for specific sports should protect the skin against damage, preventing the body from heat and cold in contact and contactless sports. Change the dressing is however based on the particular sport, weather, occasionally, standards and societal values etc. For the purposes of this paper, clothes in sport is regarded as not ending with the stuff, but covers accompaniments or accessories such as shoes, socks, gloves, suspenders, a mask, helmet, shin guards, belts etc. as required and stipulated in the rules governing sports and in accordance with standard specifications. Essentially, any modification of the conventional physical appearance is designed as clothing. For example, if a tennis player is wearing shorts and a white shirt, white linen and socks showing the beauty of a game exclusive to the kings and queens, it would be funny to see a goalie in field hockey in wearing the mask, gloves, boots and an "oversized shin pads. Both garments are unique in tennis and hockey, respectively, offering protection, comfort and mobility, but the accessories goalie hockey is being give extra protection by concealing weaknesses because of the dangerous nature of the game while trying to maintain optimal circulation.

Gavin (2003) found out "clothing can serve a protective function by reducing heat gain by radiation and thermal stress. He said that recent research suggests that neither the inclusion of modest amounts of clothing nor the clothing change thermoregulation or thermal comfort, during exercise in warm conditions. He suggested that future research should include conditions that more closely mimic outdoor conditions, where high labor rates, large airflow and high relative humidity can significantly impact thermoregulation.

Features clothing in sports

(a) Protection:

Clothing designed for use in sport is made identifying critical areas of the body of the maximum exposure to provide the necessary protection. The use of protective clothing is considered as vital to ensure the safety of participants (Dejonge, Ayers and Branson, 1985). The ability to protect the individual or team remains paramount. The clothing worn for the task specific sports should protect the skin against damage and prevent the body from heat and cod. The weather plays a important role in the choice of clothing. It is therefore the place of the coach / physical education instructor at the choice of fabric, should be protected the individual (s) / team of weather conditions. However, protection and movement are often in opposition in the sports equipment being because that when the body is fully protected against impact, body movement is difficult or impossible and where the equipment on ha n constraints on sports protection has often been sacrificed (Watkins, 1977).

(b) The comfort and mobility

Comfort and mobility are examined together because they are closely linked and when one is aware that the key element in apparel in the sport is to maximize traffic (mobility), comfort and minimize discomfort generate, then the attempt to separate the two would fall. Ease of mobility is specifically related to comfort and function. Jaffe (1979), says comfort like the feel of fabric air permeability and the amount of static cling, thermal insulation and the movement of the limbs. Muscles, bones and joints work in unison with the system of levers and forces which produces mechanical advantage in the same way as other mechanical devices, machines sand can make the movement possible. Movement requires time, energy and space which are also dependent on age, health, sex, race, build, packaging, fatigue, psychological factors - aesthetics and motivation may influence the degree of movement. Thus, to measure the success of any protective clothing, and each individual must be able to move easily into the garment, without undue effort.

Mobility is often reduced as increased protection is in sportswear. Materials and rigid foams used in many items of sports equipment such as protective custody of the hip belts, hip, shin guards, chest protectors, etc. keeps women confined in May movement. The possibility is that as more padding added reach and speed of movement may be impeded (Watkinns, 1984). Nevertheless May clothing in sport has always been done with increased capacity to expand and contact with the body during movement thereby increasing mobility.

General Criteria for sportswear

Dejonge, Ayers and Branson (1985), noted that clothing inappropriate left the team / person remains exposed and cause acute health effects and chronic exposure to adverse dermal and impact. Similarly Fayemi and Louisa (1980), the feeling of being wrongly dressed for leisure, for example, a game of tennis or football can be very uncomfortable and ridiculous. In light of this, several authors (Peterson, 1977; Jaffe, 1979; Watkins, 1977, 1984, Dyson, 1971; Morchouse, 1971) have attempted to provide criteria for the use f clothing in sports. A standard expression is given.

In cold environments, clothing should:

Be garment made of thick fabrics or wear several layers that are over one another, so that the layers of air spaces consist of a set of clothes. The thickness required may vary lot with physical activity of the individual and the basic rate of the body's metabolism (BMR).
Allow to air and water flow freely around the body surface so that moisture vapor body can pass into the environment and transpiration can be avoided.
Absorb radiant energy from the environment and be non-conductive so that heat from the body are not made to the environment.
Allow freedom of movement (so that the metabolism can be increased by physical activity).
Keep the core body, torso and head warm so it can send excess heat to the end.
Allow protection adjustable so that overheating that causes perspiration can be prevented.

Gavin (2003), noted that most reports do not affect tissue clothing on thermoregulation in the cold, he has yet recorded reports demonstrating an effect and concluded that the manufacture of clothing alters thermoregulation during and after exercise in cold, where the fishnet construction offers greater heat dissipation.

In hot environments, clothing should:

Provide minimum coverage and maximum ventilation at the base of the body.
Prevent physical effort which would further increase metabolism.
Being white or light colored to reflect sunlight to facilitate cooling convection and evaporation of sweat, if outdoor exercise.
Be made of materials that can absorb sweat.
Such so that would prevent heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
Allow freedom of movement.

It is relevant Note that in hot environments, increases in extra clothing insulation causing more rapid increases in temperature during exercise and imposes a barrier to the evaporation of sweat (Gavin, 2003).

Conclusion

Clothing remains an area vital for sport, regardless of how or heat acclimatized athletes are hydrated. This is the area that has fashion designers as manufacturers, athletes and coaches that users and others concerned with studies of movement by making participation in sports as safe as possible. Sportswear offers protection, comfort and mobility and the achievement of these individuals, athletes and coaches must have sufficient knowledge of the selection and use and ensure optimum movement pattern.The conclusion is that while designing clothes in sport remains the preserve of fashion designers, adequate knowledge of the selection and utilization to ensure optimal movement model based solely on users.

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About the Author

The author Peter Gbolagade Akintunde is a lecturer in University of Calabar, Nigeria. He has many articles in reputable journals and seven books in his area of specialization to his credit, head Cross River State Nigeria Association for Physical , Health Education, Recreation, Sports And Dance (NAPHER.SD) for 10 years and a consultant in Administration, Organization and Management of Sports and Fitness Programmes.

Charles Bassey O’Neil is an Exercise Physiologist in University of Calabar, succeeded Dr P.G. Akintunde as the Chairman of NAPHER.SD and still the incumbent chairmen, the first Chairman of Cross River State Sports Commission, and has many articles in renowned journals to his credit.

Department of Vocational and Special Education

Faculty of Education

University of Calabar

Calabar, Cross River State,

Nigeria.

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