Apologies if this makes me sound like a troll.
In all my experience of indoor swimming pools, despite all the swimming I do to warm up, the pool seems cold.
At the pool I visit every week, there is an electronic LED board with the temperature and the pool I swim in (for average swimmers who can't tread water - deep end about 5ft to 6ft, shallow end suitable for a youngster of 4+ years) is 27 or 29 degrees celcius. This swimming pool is local to where I went to school and I remember having to use the baby pool (when I was young enough!) which was 31 degrees celcius and this was warm enough to not shiver.
I try to tackle this by always keeping my shoulders below the water and always keeping on the move at pace to keep warm but I can't help but find the water is cold. This is a real shame as it takes away my enjoyment and satisfaction that I am benefitting my health because it prevents me from covering some real distance and pushing myself (within reason).
To make things worse, I have looked at other pools on google local to where I live and for the ones with websites and which state the temperature, it is 27 degrees celcius which seems to be the norm so it looks like I won't be able to find the right pool (all pools mentioned in this pool are indoor). :(
What can I do?
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And I thought I was a ninny when it came to cold water. You take the cake! 27 - 29 degrees, by most peoples' standards, is hardly cold. A lot of people would find that waaaay to hot to train in. The indoor pool I go to is also kept somewhere between 27 and 29 and, for me, that is just right. But everyone's perception of what is cold is different. Surely after a brisk warm up you don't feel cold any more? The only thing I can think of to suggest is to wear a wetsuit. Is it perhaps because you have only started swimming recently? Water temperature is something the body acclimatizes to. And, if it is the case, after a while, you won't feel cold at that temperature any more.
And I thought I was a ninny when it came to cold water. You take the cake! 27 - 29 degrees, by most peoples' standards, is hardly cold. A lot of people would find that waaaay to hot to train in. The indoor pool I go to is also kept somewhere between 27 and 29 and, for me, that is just right. But everyone's perception of what is cold is different. Surely after a brisk warm up you don't feel cold any more? The only thing I can think of to suggest is to wear a wetsuit. Is it perhaps because you have only started swimming recently? Water temperature is something the body acclimatizes to. And, if it is the case, after a while, you won't feel cold at that temperature any more.
