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Product Description
Turn your pool into a low-impact fitness pool with HomeSwimmer, the award-winning, new portable stationary winning system.
Swimming is one of the most complete forms of exercise, yet over 8 million residential pools in the US stand among the largest most underutilized investments in a house. Designed to adapt to most pool envinronments and engineered to offer a natural and effective swimming experience, HomeSwimmer is the perfect fitness tool for swimmers of all ages and proficiency levels. At less than 5 pounds, HomeSwimmer is portable, ideal for pools at hotels, apartment buildings, schools, and more.
Installation is a breeze. Simply join the poles, attach the belt and straps, place the system inside the pool, and secure it to any anchoring point like a tree, a pole or even the ground with the stake inside the box. You'll be ready to work out in less than three minutes.
Remember... it isn't a swimming pool if you can't swim.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Surprisingly durable
By R. Miller
I swam competitively from the age of six through collage, so I've never understood the utility of a pool that doesn't allow for lap swimming. Let's face it, taking care of a pool is a pain. If a pool is too small to do anything other than bounce up and down like a teabag, it's not worth the effort.But now I'm renting a home with a small (about 15 yrd) pool. My kids love it, but I had no use for it until I purchased the Home Swimmer.I've tried swimming with bungees before and hated it. I didn't like how the bungee would get hung up in my legs nor did I like how I got dragged backward during the glide phase of my stroke. Seeing the design of this product gave me hope; the pole holds the tether above your feet. Also, the tether ISN'T made of surgical tubing--so no snapping backwards during the glide. Instead, the Home Swimmer uses a spring. I've found that the spring does a great job at keeping the tether from jerking against my waist.My first impression of the Home Swimmer was that it looked flimsy. I worried that it would snap with heavy use. With an eye toward returning the product, I set it up in my pool and swam as hard as I could against it, both freestyle and butterfly. I weigh 205 lbs and can swim 100 yrds freestyle in 51 seconds and 100 yrds butterfly in under a minute--I won't be going to the Olympics any day soon, but I'm much faster than any casual swimmer. I tried my best, but the Home Swimmer didn't show any sign of strain. I've been using it daily for the last month and thus far it hasn't cracked, bent, or shown any other sign that I'm exceeding it's design.I also worried that I'd be too tall. I'm 6'3". From the pictures, it looks like the swimmer is close the wall. This is an illusion; my feet are at least three feet from the wall--my precious toes are safe.The Home Swimmer does take some getting used to. While the pole and spring don't "snap back" the way the surgical tubing models do, the tether does hold you in place (duh). Stationary swimming is different in three ways that take getting used to. First, it's a bit more difficult to breath comfortably. When swimming normally, a small trough forms around your head allowing a swimmer to breath to the side without turning the head very far. Breathing while stationary swimming is similar to open water swimming in that one must turn the body a bit farther to breath to avoid ingesting water. This just takes getting used to. Second, since you aren't gliding with the water, each stroke is met with greater resistance. I think this is a good thing, but if you have joint issues this may be troublesome. And last, there's no way to judge your speed. You can't count laps. This isn't a big deal unless you are training for a specific speed/distance.While I'd rather have a Olympic pool, I like the endlessness of stationary swimming. I can let my mind wander as I do when I go running. I've always found that flip turns interrupted my train of thought while swimming long distance. Now, I can find a groove and stay in it as long as my conditioning will allow.I dinged this review one star for two reasons; first, I'd prefer the belt be secured by snap fasteners rather than velcro. The belt is well designed otherwise; it's wide enough that it doesn't pinch and fits snuggly with being too tight or loose. I worry, however, that the velcro will become less effective over time. Second, I don't use the supplied stake to secure the Home Swimmer because I have a handy pole I can tie it to. If I didn't, I don't think the supplied stake would be up to the task. I'd probably go to Home Depot and buy a stake that was more substantial.In summary, this is a clever product that is much stronger than you'd think by just looking at it. The "pole and spring" design solves many issues I have with cheaper "bungee style" designs. The Home Swimmer is a good product that, despite a couple niggling flaws, is better than anything else I've found. I recommend this to anyone who wants to turn their wading pool into a swimming pool.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
HomeSwimmer has turned my pool Olympic Size!
By Lauren Smith
I can finally swim in our small above ground pool at home. I have had the HomeSwimmer for over a year now and found that it was very easy to install and use. The pole is brilliant because unlike other bungee cord products in the market which I have used, this system provides an upward pull making my swimming experience that much better. I dont't feel a drag from behind me that I felt with other swimming tethers. The spring also allows for variable resistance so the harder I swim the greater my workout. I am hoping to be able to enter a Master Swimmers group to compete later this year.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.Excellent product (only one small quirk)
By Christopher Stuart
I am an ex-beach lifeguard and wanted to get back into swimming during the summer in my above ground pool. I looked into a FastLane but gee whiz. . .they are like $5000 or something.For $89 at the time I bought it, it really does simulate the swimming experience well. You don't feel dragged in the water at all but not "coddled" either, like you are being lifted.The only small quirk is because you are not "swimming laps", you have to retool your workout to having a good triathlon watch that chimes on intervals so you know how long you have gone, since you don't know how far you have gone. Either that or have one of those swim clocks on the side of the pool that you can see. This is such a small quirk that it is not worth giving 4 stars.It even packs up nicely if you travel a lot and stay at hotels with those pathetically small pools.All in all, this is a great tool for the recreational or even semi-serious swimmer (recreational triathlons) and beats spending $5000 for a Fastlane or $25,000 for an Endless Pool.
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