12-14-2008, 07:50 PM
For almost 20 years IL we had an old 3.5x3.5x12 ft stainless steel pool (prior to our getting it it was a duck pond, before that a horse trough & before that most likely something more industrial...) that we had plumbed for swim jets, but I found that the swim training bungee cords were better for long training with mixed strokes (the current flow had to be changed every time... & that meant that swimming stopped....) .
This pool was great on chemicals (initially had chlorine, but changed the water to bromine for the last nine years we had it..) easy to heat up & filter... and economical when we stopped using the swim jets (these use a bit of electricity...)
although very small, we often had 3-6 neighbor kids in it... so a pool does not need to be large to be useful
(oh.... for those of you who are questioning swimming in place..... it is much like cycling in place, lap swimming in a pool is swimming in place with a whole lotta turns!)
One of the things I wish we had brought there....
This pool was great on chemicals (initially had chlorine, but changed the water to bromine for the last nine years we had it..) easy to heat up & filter... and economical when we stopped using the swim jets (these use a bit of electricity...)
although very small, we often had 3-6 neighbor kids in it... so a pool does not need to be large to be useful
(oh.... for those of you who are questioning swimming in place..... it is much like cycling in place, lap swimming in a pool is swimming in place with a whole lotta turns!)
One of the things I wish we had brought there....