swimmers & mattresses/chairs with good back support
Former Member
Regular swimmers are supposed to have good posture. Does that make it less important for swimmers to use mattresses and chairs with good back support to avoid back pain/injuries? (as an exaggeration, if you do backstroke 4 hours a day, you are on a high-quality "mattress" 4 hours a day:bed: and methinks it's unlikely you would develop back problem due to bad mattress :D)
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We have been using a memory foam mattress topper that we bought at Costco. Although our mattress is a good one and is still in fine shape, we purchased it 8 years ago, before the pillow top option was available. So, adding the topper seemed like a good idea. It IS comfortable, but does anybody know whether this combo works as well as the full memory foam mattress, such as the Tempurpedic? We have our mattress and topper on top of a platform, rather than box spring.
According to the mattress store people (let me preface this by saying I do not trust mattress salesmen/woman at all), the tempurpedic foam is patented and the knock off brand and toppers are not made out of the same material. They say that after 6 months to a year the fake tempur foam begins to crush and therefore becomes less effective (I guess it loses its memory- hah). They recommend either buying the real tempurpedic or otherwise a regular mattress because the fake ones do not hold up. I'm not sure however how this translates into the comparison of comfort level and the ergonomics of it all.
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Former Member
We have been using a memory foam mattress topper that we bought at Costco. Although our mattress is a good one and is still in fine shape, we purchased it 8 years ago, before the pillow top option was available. So, adding the topper seemed like a good idea. It IS comfortable, but does anybody know whether this combo works as well as the full memory foam mattress, such as the Tempurpedic? We have our mattress and topper on top of a platform, rather than box spring.
According to the mattress store people (let me preface this by saying I do not trust mattress salesmen/woman at all), the tempurpedic foam is patented and the knock off brand and toppers are not made out of the same material. They say that after 6 months to a year the fake tempur foam begins to crush and therefore becomes less effective (I guess it loses its memory- hah). They recommend either buying the real tempurpedic or otherwise a regular mattress because the fake ones do not hold up. I'm not sure however how this translates into the comparison of comfort level and the ergonomics of it all.
