https://community.usms.org/swimming/f/general/7817/swimming-better-in-cold-waterI am here in the Philippines, born and raised here, the place that i&#39;m swimming at is open air, meaning the whole pool is exposed to outside weather. it&#39;s summer here now and it&#39;ll be like this until the end of may, i&#39;ve started swimming just last yearen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.usms.org/thread/120621?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:37:41 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:d4c455d9-ae79-4ad6-a429-f10b2f522677Former Memberthanks!<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.usms.org/thread/120597?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:27:23 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:bb25940a-4111-4ee3-a06e-9120db8abd9aknelsonhow is this? Simple heat transfer. The greater the differential between your body temperature and the water temp, the more heat your body will trasnfer to the water. Obviously there&#39;s a point where your body is losing more heat than you are generating by swimming and below that temparature you&#39;ll just get colder. The opposite thing is likely happening to you when you swim in the summer. The water isn&#39;t too far below your body temperature so you can&#39;t effectively dissipate any of the heat you are generating by swimming. You overheat and can&#39;t continue swimming.<div style="clear:both;"></div>