Nike thermal underwear: characteristics and tips for choosing
Thermal underwear is an indispensable element of clothing for professional athletes and for fans of sports and outdoor activities. This type of underwear appeared relatively recently thanks to modern technologies and materials. Nike has also developed its own unique lines 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, which ensures an even distribution of heat and moisture removal from the body. The choice of material depends on what function this type of clothing performs:
- allows moisture and air to pass through;
- retains heat and prevents overheating;
- maintains body hygiene, has an antibacterial effect;
- does not restrict movement (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 to wick moisture away from the body and ventilation. Therefore, most models for professional athletes are performed made of synthetic fabrics that do not absorb perspiration, or are made of 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.
The newest sports series Hyperwarm Flex made of high-tech seamless knitwear with various moisture-wicking and mesh inserts, with crimped details at the joints.In such a suit, you can comfortably run even in severe frosts.
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Nike thermal underwear isn't just for athletes. It is indispensable in everyday life for both adults and children. The company presents individual models of men's, women's and children's underwear. In addition to underwear items of clothing, thermo pants, thermo shorts are produced. For example, such clothes as thermal jacket are used for walking, for outdoor activities, for fishing in the cold season.
It is heavier and warmer and uses merino wool, cotton and synthetic fleece.
Special requirements apply for baby underwear. According to sanitary standards, fabrics for children's clothing should contain more than half of natural fibers. We should also mention such a product as thermal socks. They are produced for summer and winter sports as well as for everyday wear. In the production of thermal socks are used special fibers coated with silver, which ensures their antibacterial properties.
Selection Tips
Depending on the season, thermal underwear should have different properties that serve one purpose or another. For example, in summer, thermal underwear with a sweating and ventilation function is suitable for people with an active lifestyle. Indeed, in summer, the most important task of such underwear is to remove moisture from the body, "cool" it so that the skin breathes unhindered.... In the cold season, the task of thermal underwear, on the contrary, is to preserve 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 the thermal underwear should be. Conversely, the less movement and the colder the environment, the denser and heavier the fabric. An example is football thermal underwear. It should remove moisture as quickly as possible. For football in the summer, a single-layer version with a pronounced cooling effect is better suited. The winter version of linen consists, as a rule, of three layers: 1 - moisture-release coating, 2 - fleece for warmth, 3 layer - dense wind protection.
When choosing thermal underwear, you should take your measurements and take into account your height, then select the necessary data on the size chart on the site and add it to the basket. Nike provides a 60-day warranty and free return to help you know if your underwear is right for you and replace it if needed.
Wearing rules
Since thermal underwear is a piece of personal equipment and an extremely delicate thing, some rules of wearing and care should be followed.
- You should choose thermal underwear strictly in size. It is necessary that it is not too cramped, but also not too loose.
- Wear only on a naked body, over underwear.
- Wash exclusively by hand or gentle wash at a temperature not exceeding 40 ° and dry in a horizontal position away from heating appliances.
- You can wash it quite often: as it gets dirty. High-quality thermal underwear will not lose its properties from this.
The following video provides an overview of Nike's popular thermal underwear.
