In Great Britain most pools have three lanes: fast lane(for free style), medium lane and slow lane.
Here in Germany pools aren't divided at all. People just swim anyway and anywhere they want to which makes it impossible to do proper work outs.
I had to join a private gym with a pool in order to do my work outs because public pools are a drag in Germany.
How are most public pools in the US? Do they all have a fast, medium and slow lane or does it depend?
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Oh Lui - as a German, I can truly say the German pools are just horrible for lap swimming.
I visit my parents every year and travel around quite a bit - but the pool near my parents house is the worst :
- 3 days out of the week they have "Warmbadetag" or warm bathing days, meaning 90 degrees ...
- no lane lines - ever
- a rope goes across to divide the deep end from the shallow end
- everybody is swimming all over the place going BREASTSTROKE, meaning very frequent kicks
I have actually talked to them - the pool is crowded and almost everybody is swimming laps - most of them for at least 30 minutes - they could fit 3 times as many people using lane lines.
It's so "un-German" - usually anything to make things more organized gets studied by eight different groups and then implemented with 18 different rules....
Oh Lui - as a German, I can truly say the German pools are just horrible for lap swimming.
I visit my parents every year and travel around quite a bit - but the pool near my parents house is the worst :
- 3 days out of the week they have "Warmbadetag" or warm bathing days, meaning 90 degrees ...
- no lane lines - ever
- a rope goes across to divide the deep end from the shallow end
- everybody is swimming all over the place going BREASTSTROKE, meaning very frequent kicks
I have actually talked to them - the pool is crowded and almost everybody is swimming laps - most of them for at least 30 minutes - they could fit 3 times as many people using lane lines.
It's so "un-German" - usually anything to make things more organized gets studied by eight different groups and then implemented with 18 different rules....
