Why you need to shower before swim?

Why You Need to Shower Before Swim?

Have you ever wondered why it is made a compulsory for swimmers to take a shower before diving in a pool? What is the point of taking a shower first?

Professionals who provide pool management services say that taking a bath before swimming will help you to remove anything from your body which can make pool dirty.

Here are some more reasons why you should take a shower before entering a pool.

Eliminate Contaminates from Body: It is always recommended that to take a simple shower when you go for a swim.

If you don’t do this, substances in your body including sweat, soap, perfume, shampoo, deodorant, urine and even feces mix with pool water. These substances especially urine and feces can be present in your body in such small amounts that you would never even notice. Once they dissolve in water, they will contaminate it. According to pool management companies if every swimmer adds a little amount of these substances, gradually it makes pool dirty.

Reduce Maintenance costs and efforts: The more contaminated the water means the more chlorine has to be added to keep water clean. Moreover, pool’s pumps and filters will have to work hard to

eliminate these contaminates. So, taking a shower before swimming makes easy for owners to maintain pools.

Cleaner is Safer: According to the pool cleaning company the stronger smell of chlorine in the pool water means a large amount of chlorine is added to it. A large amount of chlorine present in water means the pool water is actually dirtier. So, many swimmers can avoid to swim. A pool that is completely clean could have very little odor of chlorine.