Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Properly Wash Your Hockey Jerseys or Suffer the Consequences

By Thomas Moore

Hockey is one of the greatest sports in North America. You can play it on concrete during the summer and you can play it on the ice during the winter but the only problem with it is that you need a lot of equipment. Hockey jerseys and hockey equipment can get expensive sometimes so you want to make sure that you take good care of the pieces you already own. It is important to wash your hockey jerseys after every single time you wear them to play hockey so that you don't run into some pretty serious problems with them.

The first thing you're going to notice if you haven't washed your hockey jersey after playing a game or practicing in it is the smell. Hockey equipment and jerseys stink to high heaven because they've got all that gross bodily fluids (blood, sweat and tears) that your body produced during the course of the hockey game. Combine exercise with heat and cover up your skin with tons of padding and your going to have some seriously sweat drenched equipment. The bacteria in your sweat will fester and multiply and that's what causes the equipment to stink.

Odor is caused by bacteria. We carry a ton of bacteria on our bodies all day long and it is deposited onto our hockey jerseys through the sweat and blood we secrete during the course of a rough and tumble hockey game. If you don't take care and wash your hockey jerseys and hockey equipment after every game you play you will find that the same bacteria you have on you every day is going to start growing and cause skin infections. You don't want to lose play time because your out sick with a horrible rash do you?

Hockey jerseys are bound to get a little beaten up over the course of the game so it is important to try and start each game off with the best possible conditions. By washing your jersey regularly you are ensuring that all of that dust and grime that builds up on the fabrics is removed. Without all of that dirt to muck up the jersey the fabrics will be far more resilient to punishment.

If you don't wash your hockey jersey for an extended period of time you're going to run into some kind of problem. Either your jersey is going to fall apart at the seams or your going to develop a seriously bad skin infection and then you're not going to be able to play. What's the point of owning a hockey jersey if you're not going to play in it?

To properly wash your hockey jerseys all you need to do is throw them into the washing machine on a gentle cold water cycle. You can even put them in with all of your t-shirts if you want to. Just make sure that after you wash them you hang them up to dry. Don't stick them in the dryer because that will shrink them. Always wash your jerseys after every play session to avoid any problems. - 16887

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