Showering Before Getting in Pool

I know I'm sweating in water above 84F (sometimes the pool get's that hot) because when I get out my face is flush and I'm still sweating as if I ran or something. But when the water is nice and cool, when I get out no matter how hard I swam it was as if I didn't do anything. H2O is the world's best thermal conductor, that's why radiators use water:agree:

dryTP=roids, washing is better. Never use pool as a wash

If for nothing else to water down my hair before I put on my cap....makes a BIG difference. But really, "dont see how it does any good"?...how about all that persperation on your body, even from just doing regular things...dont need to work out with weights to have something to wash off. Deoderant? (dont use any?).....

Creepiest post ever on the forum. Hey Aquageek So what's so "creepy" about an idea for making pools more hygienic so they aren't the moral equivalent of swimming in the Pacific ocean off Santa Monica Beach only a week after Los Angeles had a raw sewage spill? Furthermore, I've never understood how people can continue to live in the middle ages and just use dry "TP" -and think it's hygienic!!! :confused: Dolphin 2

Ahem, please step back behind the line.

I do a good job of bathing at home before a swim. I do wet my hair before my swim cap to help prevent absorbing :bliss:chlorine.

I used to waterski in a river used as a raw sewage end point in the 80's. That was the least of my worries with gators and poisonous snakes swimming around.

showering? of course not. Although if I know that the water in the pool is on the cool side, I may throw some very cold water on my back, just to lower the magnitude of the shock of entering in the pool. Showers? They are in theory mandatory in this part of Canada, but this is irrelevant I find. In the pool, I spit, I sweet (a lot) and I snuff out. IOW I put much more dirt in the water by training than by not showering. Multiply this by a full squad of adults and teenagers, that sums up to a lot of spit sweet and potentially flu infected snivel. And even then. We are far from the water quality of a lake with the bacterias, microscopic faeces material and other organic compounds. Fortunately, some products get added to the water in order to counterbalance this. Spraying some water on myself without soap for 1 minute before entering in the pool? Frankly I don't think it makes a significant difference. A pool is by nature a top clean environment (well, at least based on my standards).

I used to waterski in a river used as a raw sewage end point in the 80's. That was the least of my worries with gators and poisonous snakes swimming around. LOL On a more tragic note, an other poster has made reference to potentially harmful organisms found in open water. I do not know how much of her story I can share publicly (never asked for the permission), but let us just say that one of the best athletes in the world, all times, all sports, Shelley Tailor Smith (7 times world champion, 1991 leader of the world cup ranking before all males) has had a huge struggle against one of these, after having swam in a River. Was it in Santa Fe Argentina? I don't remember (although what I do remember from this river is that no matter how clear the goggles, you just can't see your own hands while swimming in there, marathon is 64k long). She struggled for her life and won that fight as if it was the 8th World Title.

I know I'm sweating in water above 84F (sometimes the pool get's that hot) because when I get out my face is flush and I'm still sweating as if I ran or something. But when the water is nice and cool, when I get out no matter how hard I swam it was as if I didn't do anything. H2O is the world's best thermal conductor, that's why radiators use water:agree: Try weighing yourself before and after... people are always shocked to find out how much they sweat during a swim workout, even in cooler water temps