Indoor Swimming Pools

An indoor pool is a swimming pool that is located in a place that is sheltered from the elements.

Residential in-door swimming pools offer year round use. This is especially useful if you live in an area that may have only two or three months of outdoor warmth a year.  Home owners usually install in-door pools to swim for fitness and therapy, as swimming works nearly every muscle in your body without putting unnecessary pressure on hips, knees and joints while you burn calories.  For this reason, many commercial places offer indoor pool exercise, such as gyms, sports clubs, schools, hospitals, physical therapy offices, resorts, and spas.  Therapeutic fitness pools can have treadmills and resistance jets offering a more advanced work-out for athletes, school teams, and patients needing rehabilitation.  An obvious advantage of having an indoor pool is that the pool owner is in greater control of the pool’s wear and tear, eliminating the risk of weather, wildlife, outdoor debris and sunlight from entering the swimming pool.