50 pairs of Zogg's goggles up for grabs

Sponsored by Nuffnang

So this year my big goal is to get fit. So I joined the gym and one of the main attractions was the lovely big pool. Yes, I have a pool at home but trying to get into the water when you have 4 little children in your care.......well it just doesn't happen. I am always looking after them and if daddy is home then the little people go in one at a time with him. I do love to swim but am not a good swimmer. Truth be told I can't even dive into a pool. But who did I marry? Oh only the captain of the school swimming team. Yep, you read it here. We are quite the match up. But the beauty of swimming is that you don't have to be good at it, I love doing lap after lap and when I was pregnant with keira swam several times a week until I went overdue with her. I wish I could say the same for the rest of my pregnancies.

So when the very nice people at Zoggs sent me some new goggles and some fins to try out I got pretty excited. I'm going to look quite the part at the gym............until I actually get into the water! And these aren't your average goggles, 4 Flexpoint Predator Flex goggles are super flexible and super comfortable goggles. They flex in 4 points - on the nose, at each side and around your face to give you a comfortable and flexible fit. I have to say these are comfy. So many times you'll put goggles on only to feel like they are sucking your eyes out - you know what I mean, right? Then you walk around for the next hour with big red marks around your eyes. Not with these babies. Comfortable and bendy.

They also have mirrored lenses for swimming in all conditions, they don't fog up (oh thank you! nothing worse than stopping to de-fog your goggles) and they have curved lenses giving you 180 degree vision and a really easy to adjust strap! Again, nothing worse than getting in the pool, thinking your goggles are comfy only to stop - take them off - adjust them- put them back on and get swimming again. The comfy silicone strap can be adjusted while you still have them on. Basically, these goggles give you the latest in technology whether you're swimming for fun, fitness or competition.

And as if these top of the line goggles weren't enough we were also sent fins - official name 'Four Stroke Positive Drive Fins'. These went straight to retro daddy. And in fact most of the features about these fins went right over my head - supination, positive drive, Ellipsoidal shape....... so I asked retro daddy how they were and he loved them. Shorter than a flipper it's like wearing a sock with a fin attached. In fact they don't look anything like what I normally see in the pool.

Your foot is fully enclosed so that you get a better kick and a very comfortable swim. Apparently it means that the energy you put into your kick isn't wasted by water getting into the fin - it all goes to give you a better 'drive'. Apparently. And if you're serious about your swimming then these fins are designed to improve your swim with all 4 kicking styles (don't laugh - I had to double check with retro daddy what the 4 kicking styles were). It means whatever stroke you're doing (freestyle, breast stroke, butterfly or backstroke), the design works with you with that stroke. And retro daddy tells me that wearing fins means that you can swim for longer because your arms aren't doing all the hard work. That has to be a bonus,  mind you notice how I had no clue that fins did this! He's been quite the helper with this review.

So keep an eye for these latest products from Zoggs. They might sound all high tech but even if you're a bad swimmer like yours truly, it's nice to have comfy and practical swimming gear. And best of all........Zoggs is an Australian company. But wait, there's more! There are 50 pairs to give away over at nuffnang......just go here to enter.