After watching my new state of the art fitness center being built for over a year....closest pool otherwise is 50 minutes a way.....big day arrives....14 days pool is open 12 of them I am in it....get there Sat morning....84 degrees!! Said the theraphy pool at 88 is tool warm for water aerobics...but 80 too cold (what the lap pool was...which is still too warm for me) so they compromised with 83 or 84 degrees....I say "some compromise" more like cave in....exact words from pool person..."I swim laps all the time, and 83 feels good to me".......:(
This is a topic that continues to baffle me. If noodling is supposedly strenuous exercise, as strenuous as real swimming, why does the water temp have to be 8-10 degrees hotter than for lap swimming? That makes no sense to me. Sure, it's no fun to jump into 78 degrees at 5:30 am but in about 3-5 minutes it's fine. I suspect if I just sat on a floaty and did nothing I'd find it cold. This whole matter really chafes me. I know plenty of older active adults who don't whimper a bit about 78 but it's the ones that use water exercise as a social outing who seem to have the biggest voice.
This is a topic that continues to baffle me. If noodling is supposedly strenuous exercise, as strenuous as real swimming, why does the water temp have to be 8-10 degrees hotter than for lap swimming? That makes no sense to me. Sure, it's no fun to jump into 78 degrees at 5:30 am but in about 3-5 minutes it's fine. I suspect if I just sat on a floaty and did nothing I'd find it cold. This whole matter really chafes me. I know plenty of older active adults who don't whimper a bit about 78 but it's the ones that use water exercise as a social outing who seem to have the biggest voice.
