Author: Claire McDaniel
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How to Manage Your Swimming Pool When It Rains
While rain can nourish our grass, plants and flowers, it can also harm your outdoor pool water quality if left unmaintained. After all, with heavy rains come potential flooding, muddy water and debris in your pool. Whether you’re being proactive before a rainy spring season or need to recover after an unexpected rain storm, proper…
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Swim Stress Away: 5 Mental Health Benefits of Swimming
Exercise can reduce stress and produce feel-good hormones and chemicals in our brains, like serotonin and endorphins. Swimming is particularly effective for all ages and all physical abilities at reducing stress, depression and anxiety for many reasons.
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Six Common Swimming Pool Myths: Setting the Record Straight
Swimming pools can have a bad rap, but often this is because of myths that many people believe to be true. Here we bust common swimming pool myths.
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Lifeguard Lung: The Hidden Danger for Indoor Swimming Pools
Chlorine use in indoor swimming pools has not improved in the 20 years since the study was published. There have been many more articles since this one confirming that it is chloramines that cause the symptoms.
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Are you making these 5 hot tub care mistakes?
If you just purchased a hot tub for the cold fall and winter seasons, or are new to hot tub care, you’ll be happy to know that hot tub maintenance can be simple. If you avoid these five common hot tub care mistakes, you’ll save time and hassle: 1. Keeping your hot tub uncovered Keeping your hot tub covered…
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University-Level Swimming 101
School is back in session, which means university swimming and diving teams have officially begun training for the winter season. Since the swimming season just around the corner, here’s a quick roundup of the everything you need to know about university swimming: When In university competition, the swimming season runs from late September to April.…
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4 Ways to reduce your pool chlorine exposure
Being a low-impact exercise that works the entire body, swimming is a great exercise for all ages and capabilities. While swimming has many healthy benefits for our bodies physically, it can also expose our bodies to dangerous chemicals that’ll harm our digestive and respiratory health. If swimming is a part of your daily or weekly…
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5 pool safety tips every parent should know
Although simple safety pool precautions are obvious to adults, children who are unfamiliar with a pool setting won’t know how to stay safe in or around a pool. If your little one has expressed an interest in swimming for fun or with a swim team, you can help them become a safe swimmer with these five pool…
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How to protect your skin & minimize DBPs while swimming
Did you know that lathering up with sunscreen before jumping in the pool could harm your respiratory health? While you think you’re protecting your skin with sunscreen in the pool, you may also be contributing to toxic disinfection byproducts, or DBPs, creation in the water. There is a common misconception that pool odor and irritation comes from chlorine…