I coach at a YMCA pool (built in 1956 and is a 20 yard pool) where the air temperature ranges around 92-95 degrees and the water temp is usually around 88 degrees. Also, there is poor ventilation because the ventilation system is not working properly. Lately I have come home after coaching with terrible headaches. I worry about our age-group swimmers too because they are working out in such warm temps. The maintenance dept and Y will not lower the temp and have not taken our complaints as a priority. Is this a dangerous situation or do I need to just grin and bear it. Please advise if anyone can help or tell me who we can alert. Thanks!
Jayhawk - I've seen that as well yet have never found a Y to keep the pool at the 83 mark. I can deal with 83.
Here's the irony. I swim at 2 pools. Adjacent to one of them is a hot pool kept at 86-88 for the noodlers. In the noodling class at this pool the majority of the participants float and talk. Naturally if you are going to bathe you want hot water. The other pool is 78-80 and that is not subject to ever change as it is a swimming pool, not a floating pool. The aquatics classes there are vigorous with the participants working hard and the ages appear to be about the same at both pools.
The conclusion I draw is that the desire for high temps has more to do with participant effort, and not for actual therapeutic need.
Jayhawk - I've seen that as well yet have never found a Y to keep the pool at the 83 mark. I can deal with 83.
Here's the irony. I swim at 2 pools. Adjacent to one of them is a hot pool kept at 86-88 for the noodlers. In the noodling class at this pool the majority of the participants float and talk. Naturally if you are going to bathe you want hot water. The other pool is 78-80 and that is not subject to ever change as it is a swimming pool, not a floating pool. The aquatics classes there are vigorous with the participants working hard and the ages appear to be about the same at both pools.
The conclusion I draw is that the desire for high temps has more to do with participant effort, and not for actual therapeutic need.
