I travel 5 days per. I decided to return to swimming and attempt to use the hotel pools. I have a kick board/power fins/mittens I can use and have ordered a teather to attach to the pool ladder. Anyone out there ever heard of a good workout developed for this kind of scenario?
I tried working out in hotel pools and between trying to swim in a 12 yard pool, dodging other people, looking silly in my Speedo and avoiding flotsam and jetsam, it was a miserable experience. Not to mention, the chlorine they use in hotel pools appears to be surplus WWII chlorine and so toxic it is impossible to rid yourself of. Troubling if you have meetings that day.
I have yet to find any town without a Y or even a local Masters chapter. That's not to say there aren't some interesting Ys out there but most at least have lap swim hours and a 25 yard pool, repeat most.
I personally see no benefit of swimming in these hotel pools. So much adaptation is required to have any meaningful workout that once you get home to a real pool, you have to readjust to real swimming again.
I tried working out in hotel pools and between trying to swim in a 12 yard pool, dodging other people, looking silly in my Speedo and avoiding flotsam and jetsam, it was a miserable experience. Not to mention, the chlorine they use in hotel pools appears to be surplus WWII chlorine and so toxic it is impossible to rid yourself of. Troubling if you have meetings that day.
I have yet to find any town without a Y or even a local Masters chapter. That's not to say there aren't some interesting Ys out there but most at least have lap swim hours and a 25 yard pool, repeat most.
I personally see no benefit of swimming in these hotel pools. So much adaptation is required to have any meaningful workout that once you get home to a real pool, you have to readjust to real swimming again.
