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NICK10980 posted 3 years ago.
Here is a decent article on wetsuits and triathlons. Maybe it might help.
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BrianMc posted 3 years ago.
You are a lot more bouyant in a wetsuit than without one, no matter what type of water you are in, since the material is less dense than water. It brings the legs more in a streamline with the rest of your body, and from what I have observed, will cut swim times by about 2 minutes over 1500m.
Have fun in your tri on the weekend, and good luck
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beads1985 posted 3 years ago.
Also if the wetsuit you have is tri specific they are engineered to make you properly buoyant.
So you can lay level in the water.
The outside of a tri specific wetsuit is smooth which helps you glide thru the water.
The article NICK10980 links to is pretty good.
Nothing to it, but to do it
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WayNorth posted 3 years ago.
It seems that the better you are as a swimmer, the less the wetsuit buoyancy helps.
The disadvantages if you are not accustomed to swimming with one are a sense of chest restriction and some shoulder restriction (though manufacturers try to minimize this).
Triathlon gadfly Dan Empfield discusses the wetsuit issue in detail on slowtwitch.com
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o2Ripper posted 3 years ago.
Ok, well, I'll stick to what I know, and thats my Orca wetsuit! Thanks for the input/article's everyone.
-Branden
"Its an addiction"
All of the Tri's that I have done in the past have been in the ocean, but I have one coming up next weekend in a lake, and was wondering the advantages to a wetsuit in a lake. Obviously there is one in the ocean due to the salt water and bouyancy, but what about in a lake? My thought is that it makes you a tad more bouyant, but - there isnt any evidence from me, that would make that assumption true. Input? :D
-Branden
"Its an addiction"