Hello,
I am in the process of designing a new pool for my backyard. I have room and budget for a lap lane of 50 to 60 ft. After designing the details of the pool with the lead engineer, he suggested a swim jet as an alternative for me that would allow a cheaper (smaller) pool construction cost.
Does anyone have experience with these type of products from a true swimmers point of view? I have a hard time believing the jets can really reproduce the same workout/resistances as a full lap lane, but I'm open to suggestions. I do swim all strokes at a decent swim rate. I do not want to be "held back" by a weak water stream, or wishing I had done the full lap lane instead.
Thanks!
Jeff
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Not that I could afford either but I would take a lap pool (25m minimum) anytime. I swim because I enjoy swimming. I race once a year to see if extruded disc has affected much (or little). When I swim, I vary distances and speeds and a swim jet would mean that I cannot vary my swimming pace whenever I felt like it in the middle of a swim.
Some of the things I do in a 25m pool are
1- push off easy and swim rather easily to the 12.5m mark and try to suddenly accelerate to the wall (as if I were a -water, of course- polo player who needs to get to the dropped ball because my team is counting on me for that (and nothing else).
2- Swim very hard and fast a 25m (90%+ power) then swim the 25m at 50% or anywhere near that would let me "catch my breath" by the 50m
3- Do a medium (50%) 25m and sprint home from the turn (not windmilling and slipping my arms through the water, but really powering it and accelerating to the finish.
4- push off doing the fastest SDK (not very fast) or SFK ( a whole lot better) that I can just past the 12.5m mark and then seeing in a how few -powerful- strokes I can finish fast to the 25 wall. So far my best has been 2.5 cycles.
5- I like being able to slow down, speed up, backhaul, u-turn, change lanes or make any change(s), should any Amanda Beard or Nathalie Coughlin-look-alikes or (you don't need to know) XXX suddenly appear in the pool.
Not that I could afford either but I would take a lap pool (25m minimum) anytime. I swim because I enjoy swimming. I race once a year to see if extruded disc has affected much (or little). When I swim, I vary distances and speeds and a swim jet would mean that I cannot vary my swimming pace whenever I felt like it in the middle of a swim.
Some of the things I do in a 25m pool are
1- push off easy and swim rather easily to the 12.5m mark and try to suddenly accelerate to the wall (as if I were a -water, of course- polo player who needs to get to the dropped ball because my team is counting on me for that (and nothing else).
2- Swim very hard and fast a 25m (90%+ power) then swim the 25m at 50% or anywhere near that would let me "catch my breath" by the 50m
3- Do a medium (50%) 25m and sprint home from the turn (not windmilling and slipping my arms through the water, but really powering it and accelerating to the finish.
4- push off doing the fastest SDK (not very fast) or SFK ( a whole lot better) that I can just past the 12.5m mark and then seeing in a how few -powerful- strokes I can finish fast to the 25 wall. So far my best has been 2.5 cycles.
5- I like being able to slow down, speed up, backhaul, u-turn, change lanes or make any change(s), should any Amanda Beard or Nathalie Coughlin-look-alikes or (you don't need to know) XXX suddenly appear in the pool.
