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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I love a pool that is around 85F to swim in, my muscles get warmed up quicker and my knees hurt less (Breaststroker)
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I hate when I jump in a pool and I scream french obscenities under water...
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Fight on and beat the Domers...
I would recommend doing something like jumping jacks or toe touches or vigorous arm swings or running in place to warm up your body before you immerse yourself in water. :)
Or ride your bike to the pool...
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I would recommend doing something like jumping jacks or toe touches or vigorous arm swings or running in place to warm up your body before you immerse yourself in water. :)
I second this motion!
Something I've been wondering about-- The pool I usually swim at is 79 or 80F, which I would say is just about ideal. But in the summer I sometimes swim at a pool that is a lot warmer. I don't know the temp, but it's definitely a lot warmer, and anyway, I've noticed that my shoulders don't hurt when I swim there. Is colder water worse for swimmer's shoulder-type problems?
The average pool temperature is 27-29 degrees. If it is warmer it gets too warm after you swim for about 10 minutes. I always hate that first momnet when you jump into the pool but after 10 minutes of warming up it feels just right.
When I lived in La Paz for 5 years until 2008 I had difficulties finding a pool. Bolivia is a poor country and doesn't just have public pools. I contacted a triathlon club and they got me the membership of the military school pool which was a brand new pool on the military school base. The pool, the changing rooms and the showers were great and everything was new and in a brilliant shape but after a while they couldn't afford to heat the pool to more than about 22 degrees Celsius. Apparently heating those extra 5-6 degrees cost a couple of thousand dollars more a month.
No matter how long and how hard I swam I was always freezing. I'm not sure if the body gets used to it but after 6 months I stopped going there and bought a spin bike instead which was a pity because otherwise the pool was so good.
