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Swimming's really good for losing weight, no sweating and less knee pain involved. Wish I had a private pool too, you can definitely tell the public ones are 30% filled with piss.
I would imagine a private pool would be annoyingly small to exercise in, only ever seen one that seemed big enough and that one was way too expensive for any normal person to ever afford. Every other one has been more like for chilling in.
Unless I’m misunderstanding you, or there are only extremely tiny pools in your region, any private pool should be big enough to exercise in. You don’t have to be pulling Phelps-level breaststroke times in an Olympic pool; even just treading water is a great exercise. That’s kind of what it seemed like OOP was doing, anyway. Sure you won’t get ripped, but that’s pretty impossible already unless you’re at competitive levels.
Olympic pools are 50x25m, public pools here tend to be 25x12.50 or 16.6 (5 vs. 6-lane). And as I can actually swim, no, having to turn every three strokes is not an option. In a backyard-sized pool you don't even get to swimming until after you turn: Start jump, dive, bonk your head on the other side before even surfacing.
Sure you can pace up and down an elevator cabin and call it exercise but don't be surprised if runners are underwhelmed.
That said, having a pool with lanes is not at all necessary for exercise. Water park like situations tend to be superior if you're not trying for lap times, I'd say.
Ive not really seen private ones bigger than like 10m , usually closer to 5-7 i would think. Maybe Im spoiled by my 50m community one but I would find it annoying in 10m, I even take the 30 minutes extra trip to go to 50 instead of 25 and I am a beginner swimmer, ill go once or twice a month, do about a 1.5-2k in 60 mins.
Yeah you're actually swimming, going distance. That'd be miserable in a small private pool, for sure. What others are saying is that that isn't the only type of exercise you can do in water to burn a ton of calories, and those other types can be easily done in a private pool.
Fair enough, did not consider that since I only ever go in the pool to swim.