Sports magnesia represents magnesium salt which is sold in the form of white powder or solution. It is widely used in sport and generally by people who train with additional burdening and various apparatuses. It likely also is the main indications to use of magnesia as it promotes dehumidification of hands and increase in friction force with a surface of apparatuses. Cheaper alternative is usual chalk and sand, but it is significantly worse than their property.
Magnesia in the form of powder in plastic banks, bags, tubes and even in the form of the pressed briquettes is on sale.
Properties and use of magnesia
The main property of salt of magnesium is its ability to well absorb skin fat and any other moisture. It is necessary to use it in case a surface of a shell or a palm damp. Use of powder of magnesia in sport is obligatory when performing:
- Press lying to avoid a vyskalzyvaniye of a bar and its falling on a breast or the head.
- Squats that the athlete was not filled up forward, and the bar did not fall on a back.
- Various presses when using a bar and a dumbbell as there can be a falling of a shell on different parts of a body.
- Pullings up simply not to fall from a horizontal bar.
Magnesia for sport is also in the liquid state, but in that case it is necessary to wait some time that solution completely dried. Such option and advantage has, for example, liquid solution, hammers a time of hands, so, means will perform the functions longer, than when using powder magnesia. Besides, liquid magnesia is not sprayed around the athlete and does not create a dust cloud. By the way, many gyms for maintenance of frequency forbid use of powder magnesia therefore solution is only a right choice.
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