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Pool exercise classes are common, here's how to do them without getting wet.
The buoyancy would also allow you to jog in place while floating which would eliminate the stress on your knees that you'd get from a treadmill.
The wet suit would be thermally conductive to keep you cool as well.
Could
also just to a half tank where it's only pants you slip into to just do the jogging thing. Not only do you get no stress on your joints, but the added resistance gives you more benefit.
Wonder if you could scale this down to just drysuit pants with a flotation collar at the waist that you attach to the edge of the pool to stay in place. Hmm.
Get a pool workout without getting wet. If you're ever tried running in water it is kind of fun.
I'm scaling this down even further. A treadmill replacement where you just put your legs in it, the tank being about 4 feet high by 2 feet wide, all the water enclosed like the rowing machine.
You step into it, grab the bar and start running.
Dry suits, nothing new.
https://blog.padi.c...%20easy%20it%20is.”
[doctorremulac3, Feb 12 2024]
Kinda like this, perhaps?
https://www.google....mgrc=-jh1SvkYqpXd_M
[21 Quest, Feb 12 2024]
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Did I mention that the water is cool? Let me check. |
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I'm scaling this down even further. A treadmill replacement where you just put your legs in it, the tank being about 4 feet high by 2 feet wide, all the water enclosed like the rowing machine. |
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You step into it, grab the bar and start running. |
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There's breathable cloth between the skin and the rubber, which is cold. |
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It's not an issue. Read your posted link. |
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And although it's not an issue, could easily have cool air blown into the suit as well. |
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But it's not an issue so... |
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Maybe you could find some cold water from someplace and run the air through it in thermal transfer tubes. |
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Not sure where you'd get the cold water from though. |
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It's going to get nasty in the suit. |
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I've done plenty of exercise in rainy parts of the world, the Peak District predominantly, and no matter how good the supposed breathability is of various high tech fabrics is supposed to be, they can't keep up with even a modest amount of sweat. Cold makes it worse, since all the sweat will condense vs evaporate. Wet makes it worse, since the local humidity will approach 100%. Having cool liquid water on the other side of a non-breathable barrier will replicate the conditions for trench foot, only it will be trench-whole lower half. |
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Also, the water would pressurize the dry-suit, pushing the air out, maybe even squashing the legs up toward the surface. So getting in would be difficult... people traditionally get into dry suits in the... dry. And it would probably chafe, although I remember an episode of Top Gear where a guy in a dry suit crossed a muddy estuary or something, he was clearly working hard, so it is doable. |
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Also, what's wrong with getting a bit wet in swimming pool water? I consider that a leisure activity requiring no more than a brief rinse in the shower. An hour of running in half a dry suit would require a more robust wash I fear. |
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Also, there are "anti-gravity" rehabilitation devices for runners and their inevitable injuries. The one I've seen was an inflatable collar around the waist attached to a tent around the treadmill. The tent is inflated providing upward force on the collar supporting some of the weight. The air pressure is also high enough inside to be noticeably thicker adding a little aerodynamic resistance. Anyhow, they're expensive and inconvenient enough, without 100 gallons of water. |
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1. Exercise makes you sweaty |
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2. Sweat is a problem in this contraption |
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3. The contraption is only any use for exercise purposes |
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Conclusion: all problems are solved by simply not exercising. No sweat, no contraption, no problem. |
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//the water would pressurize the dry-suit, pushing the air out// |
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You'd turn them inside out to get in. |
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This is just a dry suit for the lower legs. Dry suits are very common and their comfort is discussed in the link. |
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So this idea is widely know to exist because there are already waders and water treadmills just not together? |
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That's like saying "Birds that fly are already widely known to exist, so are chairs, so the airplane was basically invented two thousand years ago with the invention of the first chair." |
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