Who Needs Water After All
August 5, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
The dry land swimming machine: Now while I hazard that Charlie might like the sort of swinging aspect, swimming without the sensory pleasures of water—nope.
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Wow! I had no idea people were trying to invent something like that. Nothing beats the feel of water. I can see where professional swimmers might like it for when they can’t have access to a pool. Very strange looking contraptions.
We’ve gone swimming almost every night and, no matter how tired and sleepy I am, just getting into the water makes me wake up—-it just feels natural to move around in the pool.
Wow, why would anyone other than someone who is training for something want to use those machines? The water feels so good.
My big girl used these on occasion when she was a competitive swimmer for dryland work and stroke tuning. Her feedback was that they were useful for that purpose, but not particularly fun compared to, well, swimming.
It might sound goofy, but I would consider using one of these to help Eleanor with stroke mechanics if she could tolerate it. However, without having tried it, my instinct is that it would not be particularly tolerable.
That sounds like it would be useful for a lot of people with aquagenic pruritus or aquagenic urticaria. I have the symptoms of AP, but the itching doesn’t manifest too much when swimming, since the community pool is outdoors and sunlight gets rid of the itching for me (which makes sense, since a common treatment for AP is UV rays). I just love looking at and interacting with the water of a swimming pool.