Hello, what would be the difference of swimming in a pool with 4 ft and 7" depth vs. the regular 6Ft 10". I have some experience with swimmimg and when I have try a shorter depth I felt like the swimmimg was a bit more easy, but I am not sure if this is fact. What would be the technical difference and the difference related to muscles etc.
I haven´t been doing any swimming for some time now and I want to go back to a pool. There is one near the house with that 4ft 72 depth, and another one with 6ft 1022, a bit far away, I need to decide
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I have some experience with swimmimg and when I have try a shorter depth I felt like the swimmimg was a bit more easy
I've noticed the same thing. I think it's an illusion - optical or otherwise. In a shallow pool, when your eyes are closer to the bottom of the pool, you can see the bottom more clearly and the amount of the pool bottom that's in your field of vision is smaller and thus appears to be moving at a faster rate.
When Long Beach's Belmont Plaza pool is set up for the annual and very well-run master's short-course-meters meet, the starting blocks are in the deep end, with the diving boards, and the turn is in relatively shallow 6 feet of water or so. The deep end is dark, thanks to the early 1960s design, while the turn has pretty good lighting. I've always felt the swim into the shallow turn was faster than the swim into the deep end. The first time I swam an IM in that pool, for example, as I killed myself trying to get to the finish in the deep end, I felt that I was just floating and the bottom was hardly moving.
I have some experience with swimmimg and when I have try a shorter depth I felt like the swimmimg was a bit more easy
I've noticed the same thing. I think it's an illusion - optical or otherwise. In a shallow pool, when your eyes are closer to the bottom of the pool, you can see the bottom more clearly and the amount of the pool bottom that's in your field of vision is smaller and thus appears to be moving at a faster rate.
When Long Beach's Belmont Plaza pool is set up for the annual and very well-run master's short-course-meters meet, the starting blocks are in the deep end, with the diving boards, and the turn is in relatively shallow 6 feet of water or so. The deep end is dark, thanks to the early 1960s design, while the turn has pretty good lighting. I've always felt the swim into the shallow turn was faster than the swim into the deep end. The first time I swam an IM in that pool, for example, as I killed myself trying to get to the finish in the deep end, I felt that I was just floating and the bottom was hardly moving.
