Swimming Laps at Home in the Pool

It is a close call whether the world’s favourite way of keeping fit is walking or swimming, but simply because not everyone has access to enough safe water to swim in. I think that hiking is fine, but we do it each day, it is too normal; swimming, on the other hand, launches you into a completely different world where you require a different set of skills to stay alive.

Hiking is very good for massaging the internal organs and exercising the legs, lungs and heart, but swimming exercises each limb and muscle and massages the internal organs as well. In short, swimming is almost certainly a better exercise than walking, but hey, you can do both, eh?

Most people only have the local swimming pool to go to, and unfortunately they can be a real pain to use now that people are not as considerate of others as they used to be. It is not so bad if you can go when the children are in school or if the pool keeps a couple of of lanes free for dedicated swimmers, but otherwise, swimming at the local pool is a bore.

Naturally we cannot all have our own pool in the yard, we do not even all have a yard and we can not all live near the sea. The next best thing is to become a member of a private spa or swimming club. However, if you have a small patch of ground, you may be able to squeeze in a lap pool. A lap pool is long and thin, somewhere you could get one or two lanes in, which is plenty of room for swimming up and down.

A lap pool such as this would not be very expensive because it does not have to be deep for diving and you will not require a diving board or slide. Merely a ladder or steps at one end. Four feet of water would be enough for swimming as well.

Therefore, the lap pool does not have to be deeper than four feet or wider than six feet, but it should be as long as you have space for. Having a lap pool like this does not mean that you cannot only float or stand in it when the weather is hot. If you do not have room for this but would still like something, you could look into acquiring a swim spa.

It sounds excellent and terribly expensive, doesn’t it? Well, they are fantastic, but they are cheaper than purchasing and maintaining a garden pool. A swim spa is the same as of a treadmill. A motor drives water at you and you swim into it, so that you are kept in one place by the current and your own efforts. You get a free water massage thrown in free too!

It is costly to be able to take advantage of water sports at home, but the consolation is that you will not have to pay to get into the local pool, you will not have noisy kids hindering your way and you will be fitter.



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