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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We had a very thin swimmer with us for a while but the 82F water temps were too cold for her. She was very low fat and only lightly-muscled with a tiny body frame. Not sure if that was just her genetics or if she was anorexic. She ended up getting a full-body lycra bodysuit, which helped a bit but her hands and particularly her feet still would get painfully cold.
Her circulation was impaired by the cold so she was building up lactic acid during her warmup, which forced her to slow down ... and then a workout with long-rest intervals made things even worse. She was a triathlete and had a good work ethic and had good conditioning, just no cold tolerance. I am guessing she was very good as a long-distance runner.
We had a very thin swimmer with us for a while but the 82F water temps were too cold for her. She was very low fat and only lightly-muscled with a tiny body frame. Not sure if that was just her genetics or if she was anorexic. She ended up getting a full-body lycra bodysuit, which helped a bit but her hands and particularly her feet still would get painfully cold.
Her circulation was impaired by the cold so she was building up lactic acid during her warmup, which forced her to slow down ... and then a workout with long-rest intervals made things even worse. She was a triathlete and had a good work ethic and had good conditioning, just no cold tolerance. I am guessing she was very good as a long-distance runner.
