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stationary swimming
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Yes, for sure, they are found at more specialist training places, for triathlons etc.
Likely so. There are two of three of them in my Jacksonville FL that I know of. Sport training facility was were I got to use one but there are some rehab places that also have. Someone told me that one was even installed for animal rehab. The one I used was about 12 feet long and 6 foot wide. Judging on the speed the water can reach, there is a powerful motor somewhere to move the water at top speed. I used like speed 4 out of 10 and got tired after about 10 minutes.
In a few days, it's the official Rhine swim in Basel. This is even worse than swimming and not moving - you swim and go backwards. it's virtually impossible (for me, anyway) to swim against the current. A few hardcore swimmers try but really all we do is walk 2-3km upriver, get in, and float back downriver (with our clothes in a drybag/"wickelfisch") before getting out (and receiving a medal for not drowning if it's on the official day).
My 6S isn't waterproof. I took one from one of the start points and one as I was walking to it (before the river got really full of people), but for the rest you'll need to google "Rheinschwimm 2018". This years is on Tuesday. Looking forward to it!
No, not at all. You jump in, float down, get out. And on the official day (which was meant to be today but has been postponed to next Tuesday due to crappy weather) you get a souvenir medal of participation. Definitely not a competition.
Hi there. I am considering an endless pool and was wondering about this? Have you considered changing the pool length to the distance you are going to swim (e.g. 1,000m). Work out what the time is for the pace you are swimming at, start the watch and stop the watch when you reach the time. Would that not give you 1 length measured at 1,000m, so everything should all work? My S4 allows me to set the pool length to anything (although it takes a little while to get there). Can you try and let us know if it works?
not sure it would be hard to track. when running on a treadmill it just counts calories based on the number of running steps, this would be the same but counting strokes. I haven't swim for a while (cold!) but had some limited success by setting it as pool swim and not caring about the length... it does credit some calorie burn.