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Burning calories in your backyard pool
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Swimming burns around 3 calories a mile, per pound of bodyweight. This means that someone who weighs around 150 lbs. will need to swim around 30 minutes (or 1 mile) in order to burn around 900 calories. While this may seem like a long time, developing your endurance to be able to swim for that Read More
Burn Calories in your above ground pool
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When it comes down to the calories burned while swimming, swimming can be extremely beneficial when added to one’s workout plan. To get the most out of each stroke and maximize calories burned while swimming; try adding some weight lifting or other strength development exercises to your workout routine. Sometimes adding a few different types Read More
The History of Chlorine
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One of these natural compounds, sodium chloride, has been known since ancient times. Societies, through the use of rock salts and brine, used sodium chloride as early as 6,000 BCE. Chemists, starting in the later stages of the Renaissance, explored these chloride compounds; Jan Baptist van Helmont identified chlorine as a gas in 1630. Carl Read More
Award winning spa!
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Bullfrog Spas was recently honored with a 2012 International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) for product design excellence. The award was given specifically for the design of the SportX Model 151R round hot tub. Bullfrog Spas, in collaboration with Rocketship Design, an industrial design firm located in Salt Lake City, Utah designed a round hot tub Read More
Pool Rules
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Take some precautions, and insist on a number of safety rules, the American Academy of Pediatrics says. The academy offers these suggestions: •Make sure a fence completely surrounds a permanent pool, and that the gate is always locked when the pool isn’t being used. •Never let anyone swim alone, unattended, even for a few seconds. Read More
AGP Company swim spas
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The primary WOW factor of these swim spas is the fact that they create currents in which you can swim against for a total body workout. Many people are actually putting in swim spas in their yards instead of building new pools. Use your exercise swimming pool as a current lap pool to swim-in-place, walk, Read More
To swim or, not to swim? There is no question!
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Here are some of the top reasons why you should get swimming, because it’s never too late to learn how to swim. 1. Swimming is a great low-impact sport – When immersed in water up to your neck, you only have to bear 10% of your body weight. Therefore, swimming minimizes stress on your bones Read More
Swimming relieves stress!
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New international research commissioned by the world’s leading swimwear brand, Speedo, has revealed that swimmers agree that swimming helps to release stress and tension, makes them more confident about the way they look and leaves them feeling mentally refreshed. The fieldwork conducted by leading research specialists examined the psychological benefits of regular swimming. The results Read More
Why Bullfrog Spas?
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While many of the other leading hot tub manufactures have chosen to move their operations to Mexico or China, Bullfrog Spas will continue to produce the most innovative and the highest quality hot tubs on the planet, right here in the United States, and more specifically, in Bluffdale, Utah. Why does Bullfrog Spas manufacture spas Read More
How Should I Apply Chlorine?
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Always read the directions that come with your swimming pool chlorine. Most chlorine comes in the form of tablets or granular chlorine (pictured right). Chlorine tablets typically come in tubs containing four pounds, eight pounds, 25 pounds and 50 pounds, while granular chlorine comes in tubs of two,five, eight pounds and 25 pounds. Regal Dy Chlor Read More