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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This time I think Jeff is right. He should know about this since he is a recreational director of the city of Portland where he is in charge of several pools, he can correct me on this. I think in my city it depends upon different areas. The eastside of town has more adult lap swimmers and some aerobic water people at the rec pool where I do my workouts at. Swimmers range from many that are slower than me with a few that can clubber me in freestyle. There are a few older seniors that use a certain lane and swim a few laps and socialized. so, these peopl like Jeff states like different tempertures. Another pool in my area that I swam at once was cold because there is a slide and the day I went there they combine lap with rec. In other parts of the city particularly in the poorer sections there is a lot more kids. When these kids take swim lessions they probably like the water warm but during rec swimming they like it cold for the slide.
This time I think Jeff is right. He should know about this since he is a recreational director of the city of Portland where he is in charge of several pools, he can correct me on this. I think in my city it depends upon different areas. The eastside of town has more adult lap swimmers and some aerobic water people at the rec pool where I do my workouts at. Swimmers range from many that are slower than me with a few that can clubber me in freestyle. There are a few older seniors that use a certain lane and swim a few laps and socialized. so, these peopl like Jeff states like different tempertures. Another pool in my area that I swam at once was cold because there is a slide and the day I went there they combine lap with rec. In other parts of the city particularly in the poorer sections there is a lot more kids. When these kids take swim lessions they probably like the water warm but during rec swimming they like it cold for the slide.
