I work for a health club and we keep our lap pool temperature between 78-80 degrees. Recently, my boss requested some sort of article or authoritative piece justifying the temperature. I know I have seen articles in the past on 78-80 degrees being the best temperatures for lap swimming, but it was several years ago.
Does anyone know of an article they have read commenting on this? Any help or direction would be fantastic. Thanks!
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Not sure why there's such resistance to the idea of maintaining two pools... one - kept cold - for those who use a pool as an excercise machine, or for competition, and another - kept warm - for the majority of people who'd like to come swimming, but are put off by ice water.
How many facilities have the luxury of 2 pools, side by side where you could do this ? I have not come across any yet, I am only 40 tho !
Or are you expecting seperate leisure centres in an area to co-ordinate where one pool is kept warm and another is cooler? This would be very unlikely to work in practice for all kinds of reasons.
Oh and thanks for calling me a "knucklehead", much appreciated !!
Only 8 posts and the use of personal insults already !!!
Not sure why there's such resistance to the idea of maintaining two pools... one - kept cold - for those who use a pool as an excercise machine, or for competition, and another - kept warm - for the majority of people who'd like to come swimming, but are put off by ice water.
How many facilities have the luxury of 2 pools, side by side where you could do this ? I have not come across any yet, I am only 40 tho !
Or are you expecting seperate leisure centres in an area to co-ordinate where one pool is kept warm and another is cooler? This would be very unlikely to work in practice for all kinds of reasons.
Oh and thanks for calling me a "knucklehead", much appreciated !!
Only 8 posts and the use of personal insults already !!!
