I’m installing a pool, in part for swim training. Looking at riverflow system, but don’t have any experience with either.
Has anyone used both of these? The fastest I can swim is 1:00/100 yards. But I would mostly be doing swim endurance.
They will change your stroke and not in a good way.
I have seen people say that endless pool does this. Do you think riverflow too? That seems a much broader and more natural current.
How?
From what I understand
Swimming into current pushes your legs down in a way that you do not feel if you swim in a non-current. It messes up your stroke and if you’re not aware of it and constantly swim in it, it’s gonna fuck you up.
So all the feeling of slicing through the water and moving forward through the water is not possible when you swim in an endless pool. The best use case for an endless pool is getting some stroke feedback from a coach not it being your constant training location.
If you’re already a good swimmer, you just want to get in there and do half an hour of maintenance then it’s gonna be fine but I would say that most people on here not that person
It’ll all be the same thing. Here’s a video I made on why you don’t want to train in it on a regular basis….
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I moved away from living near a lap pool in 2020. Got the High Performance Endless pool in 2021 installed. For me it’s been a life saver living too far away from a lap pool. I learned to swim late in life and have done 6x full IMs and 21 HIMs. I can say that after turning 50 in 2020, my running and biking slowed down compared to my 40s except for my swim. I understand it’s harder to keep hips up with the current but I also sometimes wear SIM shorts to keep my hips up. In the summer I do swim outside a lot and maybe 2x a week in my pool. I do highly recommend them. And with the mirrors seeing what my stroke looks like has been invaluable.