Most of the time I just swim in my 10m long pool at home. With so much turning back and forth off the walls is there even a point of doing flip turns (or even possible since on one end the water is about 3 feet deep)? What is the quickest, most efficient way of turning around?
Also, say I was to swim 1000m continuously in this pool, with all the turning, would the 1000m even realistically simulate swimming 1000m in a short/long course pool?
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I once read an article that said a 50 yard swim in a 25 yd pool amounted to only about 35 yards of actual swimming counting the initial push off the wall, the glide into the flip turn, and the push/glide off the turn wall. This article compared the 50 yd. swim to a 50 meters in a LCM pool - explaining why the 50 LCM swim was much more than 10% more difficult.
In a 10M pool, depending on the quality of your glide - you might only swim 5M per length. An open turn would probably produce a weaker turn and allow you to swim more.
I once read an article that said a 50 yard swim in a 25 yd pool amounted to only about 35 yards of actual swimming counting the initial push off the wall, the glide into the flip turn, and the push/glide off the turn wall. This article compared the 50 yd. swim to a 50 meters in a LCM pool - explaining why the 50 LCM swim was much more than 10% more difficult.
In a 10M pool, depending on the quality of your glide - you might only swim 5M per length. An open turn would probably produce a weaker turn and allow you to swim more.
