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this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
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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.
My private pool would be 70% filled with piss.
I don't blame you
Is that Nutella?
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Hell yeah
I find it funny that there is an acceptable level or urea in a pool and it's like 10% lol
This is sort of how everything works, unfortunately! Guaranteeing 0% of something is really hard. Your flour probably has a small percentage of bugs in it, for instance. Urea is a relatively small molecule that I imagine you can find tiny amounts of pretty much anywhere. I would be unsurprised if there was at least one molecule of urea in literally anything you eat!
That said, dear god I hope I’ve never been in a pool that’s 10% urine :(. Those kiddie pools at the water park are probably like 90% urine, though. Sometimes I wonder if by volume adults pee in the pool more than kids, though. I have a suspicion a good chunk of adults think it’s fine or will do it secretly anyway.
It's not even unfortunate. We're a lot more robust than we think we are. We have two sets of organs designed to filter shit we consume out of us, and in quantities less than a certain amount, whatever it is isn't noticeable. Also, chemicals used in public pools are designed to neutralize things like that. If the water isn't noticeably tinged, you won't even know the difference.
Unfortunate in the sense that it just feels kind of gross is all I mean :). Of course this stuff is unlikely to cause any physical harm to somebody.
That's fair. I wasn't trying to poke at you, it's just one of the things that fascinates me. The dose always makes the poison, for everything from arsenic to water itself.
Yep! Hell, there’s probably a non-zero amount of arsenic in any pool…
You definitely sweat when you swim. People need to rehydrate while swimming, even indoors
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.
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.
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.