is there a certain water temperature that is optimal for swimming workouts? would a higher temperature benifit or not? thanks.
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I once chatted with the guy who ran the Olympic Training Center pool in Colorado Springs. They have found that anything above 84.0 is too warm to allow a vigorous swimmer to dissipate enough heat not to overtax the cardiovascular system. So that's a max target temp.
And because the elite swimmers have so little body fat and spend so many hours in the water, anything below 80 leaves them uncomfortably cold after a few hours.
So they keep their temp at 80.1 degrees.
I once chatted with the guy who ran the Olympic Training Center pool in Colorado Springs. They have found that anything above 84.0 is too warm to allow a vigorous swimmer to dissipate enough heat not to overtax the cardiovascular system. So that's a max target temp.
And because the elite swimmers have so little body fat and spend so many hours in the water, anything below 80 leaves them uncomfortably cold after a few hours.
So they keep their temp at 80.1 degrees.
