WHY SWIMMERS SHAVE ALL THEIR HAIR ???

In the race, definitely are looking for is victory. So also in the race pool, the swimmers will do everything to win the race. One way for competitive swimmers is to shave all the hair in his body. Besides shaving their arms, legs and torsos, some swimmers also shave their heads and a few have even been known to shave their eyebrows.

One of the main reasons why swimmers shave is to increase their speed. Shaving off body hair makes a swimmer's body smoother, thus creating less drag in the water. Though shaving may only trim a few fractions of a second off a swimmer's finishing time, in a close race, that difference could prove to the margin of victory. There is also a less well-known psychological aspect to this practice. Besides removing hair, shaving strips away dead skin cells. The result is that many swimmers claim that they "feel" faster in the water after shaving.