Heat Pump Services

Pool Works helps you to add a safe and convenient option to provide heat to your swimming pool so you can enjoy a swim at the perfect temperature whenever you want. If you're concerned about pool heating costing you more, there are energy efficient options that can help keep ongoing costs low.

Does the chilly winter weather give you second thoughts about heading outside?

Consider this, a heated pool is one of the warmest and most therapeutic places to be during winter. The pool is a warm haven waiting for you, filled with remarkable health and fitness benefits.

Warm hydrotherapy (therapy in warm water) can encourage muscle repair, reduce joint stiffness, improve blood flow, improve sleep, strengthen immunity, and benefit mental and emotional health.

Exercising in heated pools can also provide psychological & emotional health benefits.

Heated water is beneficial for athletes for both injury prevention and fast recovery.

Exercising in heated water is particularly beneficial for those with certain medical conditions such as arthritis, osteoarthritis, muscle spasms, chronic pain, lower back pain, and depression.

What is Heated Water Therapy?

The water provides a natural resistance to movement, which makes it an excellent medium for physical activity. Additionally, water temperature influences health outcomes, both physical and mental.

Heated aquatic therapy, sometimes known as hydrotherapy or pool therapy, involves performing exercises in a heated pool. The heat of the water helps to relax muscles and increase blood flow, which can aid in recovery and pain relief.

The buoyancy of the water also reduces the impact on the joints, allowing individuals who have trouble with weight-bearing exercises to participate in a wider variety of activities.

Warm hydrotherapy can be in any form of water that is heated (outdoor normally between 28-29 deg C and indoor 32-37 deg C). At Water Resist, we provide therapy and fitness classes in heated pool water.

Heated hydrotherapy benefits: Physical Health

Improves Blood Flow

When it comes to blood flow, heat therapy is the superior choice. No matter its source, heat prompts the blood vessels to dilate or expand, allowing more blood to pump through the body and also heats the skin. Cold temperatures cause these same vessels to constrict or narrow, which reduces blood flow.

Adequate blood flow is important for many reasons, and poor circulation can lead to a number of ailments like tingling in the hands and feet, a weakened immune system, and low energy.

Blood delivers oxygen and vital nutrients to various tissues throughout the body while displacing waste. When our circulation is humming along, it's like highway maintenance for our bodies, keeping everything in tip-top shape. Many of the physical benefits from warm water are a result of increased blood flow.

Reduces Join Stiffness

Warmth increases the pliability of the muscles and the surrounding connective tissue, which increases a joint’s range of motion and decreases joint stiffness. This is why warm hydrotherapy can be beneficial to those that have arthritis or stiff joints.

Heated therapy in water also stimulates joint fluid (synovial fluid), which is what lubricates the joints to ease movement.

Encourages Muscle Repair

Warm water therapy and exercise can be especially beneficial to someone that has been working out hard or putting extra strain on the muscles through resistance training.

This is because resistance exercise causes tiny tears in the muscle tissue. Depending on an individual’s training intensity and fitness level, this leads to a certain level of delayed onset muscle soreness, or “DOMS.” While it may sound bad, it’s actually a good thing that is necessary for muscle maintenance and growth. It’s the job of amino acids to come in and repair the muscle to be stronger than it was before.

These helpful amino acids are transported via blood. We know that warm water immersion relaxes the muscles by causing blood vessels to dilate and encourage blood flow. This then leads to an influx of blood, oxygen, and vital nutrients like amino acids, which ultimately leads to the healing and repair of damaged muscle tissue.

Facilitates Cardiovascular Health

Due to this enhanced circulation, heated aquatic therapy can also benefit cardiovascular health by reducing blood pressure and reducing the likelihood of cardiac arrest.