An indispensable element of clothing for professional athletes and for lovers of sports and outdoor activities is thermal underwear. This type of underwear has appeared relatively recently due to modern technologies and materials. Nike has also developed its own unique line of these functional items.
Characteristic
For the manufacture of thermal underwear, the Nike brand uses fabrics made from natural fibers (cotton, silk, merino wool), synthetic fabrics (polyester, polyamide, spandex, polypropylene), as well as mixed options. The most modern types of materials have a cellular structure that provides uniform heat distribution and moisture removal from the body. The choice of material depends on what function this type of clothing performs:
- passes moisture and air;
- keeps heat and does not allow an overheat;
- preserves body hygiene, has an antibacterial effect;
- does not constrain movements (for this, almost all fabrics contain elastane or lycra);
- protects from the wind.
It should be noted that the most important function of thermal underwear is still the removal of moisture from the body and ventilation. Therefore, most models for professional athletes are performed from synthetic fabrics that do not absorb sweat, or are made from two-layer materials. For everyday wear and for children, linen is made mainly from natural fabrics.
For summer and winter sports, as well as for everyday wear, the brand has developed various lines of underwear: pro Core, Dri Fit, pro Combat.
Newest Hyperwarm Flex Sport Series made of high-tech seamless knitwear with various dehumidifying and mesh inserts, with corrugated parts at the joints of the joints.In such a suit, you can comfortably run even in extreme cold.
Kinds
Nike thermal underwear is created not only for athletes. It is indispensable in everyday life for both adults and children. The company presents separate models of men's, women's and children's underwear. In addition to wearable wardrobe items, thermal pants and thermal shorts are produced. For example, clothes such as thermal jackets are used for walking, for outdoor activities, and for fishing in the cold season.
It is heavier and warmer, in its production merino wool, cotton, and also synthetic fleece are used.
Special requirements to children's underwear. According to sanitary standards, fabrics for children's clothing should contain more than half of the natural fibers. We should also mention such a product as thermal socks. They are available for summer and winter sports, as well as for everyday wear. In the production of termonoski used special fibers coated with silver, which ensures their antibacterial properties.
Selection tips
Depending on the season, thermal underwear should have various properties that serve one purpose or another. For example, in the summer, for people leading an active lifestyle, thermal underwear with sweating and ventilation function is suitable. Indeed, in summer, the main task of such underwear is to remove moisture from the body, “cool” it so that the skin breathes freely. In the cold season, the task of thermal underwear, on the contrary, is to maintain body heat, while removing excess moisture.
Based on this, you can give universal advice on choosing: the higher the activity and physical activity, the higher the air temperature, the thinner and lighter should be thermal underwear. And, on the contrary, the less movement and colder around, the denser and heavier the fabric. An example of this is soccer thermal underwear. It should remove moisture as quickly as possible. For football in summer, a single-layer version with a pronounced cooling effect is better. The winter version of the linen consists, as a rule, of three layers: 1 - a moisture separating coating, 2 - a fleece for heat, 3 layer - a dense wind protection.
When choosing thermal underwear, you should take your measurements and take into account growth, then select the necessary data on the size table on the site and add to the basket. Nike provides a guarantee and a free return of goods within 60 days, which makes it possible to understand whether the linen is correctly selected and, if necessary, replace it.
Wearing rules
Since thermal underwear is a subject of personal equipment and an extremely delicate thing, Some wearing and care rules should be followed.
- Choose thermal underwear should strictly in size. It is necessary that it is not too tight, but not too loose.
- Wear only on a naked body, over underwear.
- Wash exclusively either by hand or in the gentle wash mode at a temperature not exceeding 40 ° and dry in a horizontal position away from heating appliances.
- You can erase quite often: as it gets dirty. High-quality thermal underwear from this will not lose its properties.
The following video provides an overview of the popular Nike thermal underwear.
