What Are The Best Swimming Goggles For You? | How To Choose A Goggle Lens Color

Swimming goggles are often overlooked when it comes to triathlon tech but your choice of lens color on race day can make a big difference. Mark and Fraser run you through the options and the benefits of each!

Goggles can make a huge difference to your swim performance and being able to get around a swim course smoothly. Polarized, mirrored, smoke, clear, colored... which lens color should you choose?

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[frankeeeej]

In the cold depressing winter months I train with orange/yellowish goggles because it's like swimming with a nice sunny instagram filter and that makes me happy :D

[gregvassilakos]

I would caution anyone to avoid the cheap goggles with foam padding for the watertight seal. They are uncomfortable, the watertight seal is unreliable, and they don't last very long before the foam becomes unglued from the lenses. My current goggles are Speedo Vanquishers with Blue lenses. They are several years old. The clip that holds the straps behind my head is partly broken but still works. I've been debating taking the clip out and just tying the straps together so that I can get a few more years out of them. Actually, my previous pair of Vanquishers with clear lenses is still at the bottom of my swim bag. I don't even know how many years old they are. I wish my swimsuits would last that long. After a couple of months of daily use, the fabric fades from black to gray, and the crotch becomes completely sagged, which leaves little to the imagination regarding certain parts of the anatomy. My daily swims are in a highly chlorinated indoor pool.

[device-bkgs]

However, you dint talk about size ans shape

[davidbowl]

SO what's the best goggles to use for training? I just want to know one pair. this is for indoor swimming. budget is 20 - 30 and 40 at a push pounds?

[TruthFactsLM]

I spent the money to have my prescription in my goggles, worth it, plus tint

[kylebrown]

Besides color some goggles are open water specific which enhances your all around view unlike pool goggles which try to focus your view directly in front of you. To each their own but I like having the wider field of vision when I swim in open water.

[deegee]

I train and race in my mirrored or my amber swedes.

[alysewilliams]

I recently was given some prescription goggles but the lenses are clear which I don’t like the look of and when I come up to breath my right eye goes from the dim water to the bright light outside and it messes with my vision (those spots you get when your eyes are trying to adjust to different lightings) any way I could put a tint on them? I don’t want to be rude and not use them since they were a gift and could potentially be very helpful for me but as of right now I’m hesitant to use them.

[bingobango]

finally, a reason to justify the bucket-o-goggles i have laying around over the years. Now to convince the family on the multiple helmets.... and and shoes.... and bikes...

[Tonygarret]

With purple googles on indoor pools, does the blue changes?

[simpatiko]

What is the two rubber pin liked on the goggles

[ellej]

520 is what I was interested in

How are Prescription Goggles? Do they actually work? How do people know which to order?

[wooflie]

*When you have the googles with the nose cover and some earplugs:*

[debaetsstevie]

I love orange for open water (you see a lot more in the water!)

[BenMargulies]

Can u wear contact lenses under goggles while competing?

[elizabethtracy]

Which polarized goggles do you recommend?

[carltaylor]

Who the heck is the new presenter? I like the accent, but how about an intro video. Maybe I missed something?

[TIGERARSGT]

Why not to talk about types of goggles?

[SimplySammyK]

I just want casual wear that is good for my money. *Sigh

[Prawnchowmein]

I’m a professional swim teacher and all my student MUST have ear plugs, swim hat, 3 different goggles, upper body swim suit, flippers, nose clip, anti fog spray, special pre swim shower gel, special chlorine remover shower gel pool side safety sandals, under water watch, under water camera, quick dry towels, high buoyancy noodle and float and arm bands & snorkel. All this must be bought from me other wise students will be thrown off my course and and fined. I tell all the parents they must only use my approved equipment to learn fast. I currently charge £1499.00. Full Kit and induction and £25 per lesson, Sorry all classes are fully booked at the moment.