Music while Swimming Laps?

if it is a pool at home, try to get some waterproof
speakers, and submerse them. Let the Laws of Physics
work for you. the sound waves travel through the water
better than air.

Micheal -- havent tried it, but it should work

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I was just curious if anyone has come across a workable
solution for listening to music while swimming. I remember
seeing pretty muuch only negative reviews of the Speedo
radio. But now there are a number of really small mp3
players out there, along with waterproof cases. Would
appreciate any feedback?

thanks in advance,

Jon

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I was just curious if anyone has come across a workable
solution for listening to music while swimming.

I used to want music, but once I started with the Total
Immersion idea of concentrating on my balance I lost
interest in music. To me, music would be an unnecessary
distraction.

Either way I think the idea is to keep it from becoming
boring. So balance, etc. concerns is an alternative.

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even if it was at home, the laws of physics may help, but
the laws of commrcial sales dictate otherwise...submersible
speakers are inordinately expensive.

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if it is a pool at home, try to get some waterproof
speakers, and submerse them. Let the Laws of Physics work
for you. the sound waves travel through the water better
than air.

Micheal -- havent tried it, but it should work

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I was just curious if anyone has come across a workable
solution for listening to music while swimming. I
remember seeing pretty muuch only negative reviews of
the Speedo radio. But now there are a number of really
small mp3 players out there, along with waterproof
cases. Would appreciate any feedback?

thanks in advance,

Jon

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even if it was at home, the laws of physics may help, but
the laws of commrcial sales dictate
otherwise...submersible speakers are inordinately
expensive.

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if it is a pool at home, try to get some waterproof
speakers, and submerse them. Let the Laws of Physics
work for you. the sound waves travel through the water
better than air.

Micheal -- havent tried it, but it should work

we tried this in college, sound was horrible, could be
barely heard over the water sloshing in your own ears. i
find that singing to yourself works best

Jon,

Try this:

swimman.netindex.htmOpen ↗

I've never tried it but I am considering making a purchase.

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Micheal -- havent tried it, but it should work

we tried this in college, sound was horrible, could be
barely heard over the water sloshing in your own ears. i
find that singing to yourself works best

Thanks to both of you for the info and the feedback--
technically at least,that looks like just the ticket.

Website says they're coming out with a second, vastly
improved edition (always a good sign if they tacitly admit
the first version was [censored])--so I expect I'll give it a
try as well.

Don't forget you can always sing while youre swimming.
Someone here once claimed he most like to sing Radar Love by
Golden Earing. That's got the right beat.

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we tried this in college, sound was horrible, could be
barely heard over the water sloshing in your own ears. i
find that singing to yourself works best

Thanks to both of you for the info and the feedback--
technically at least,that looks like just the ticket.

Website says they're coming out with a second, vastly
improved edition (always a good sign if they tacitly admit
the first version was [censored])--so I expect I'll give it a
try as well.

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I was just curious if anyone has come across a workable
solution for listening to music while swimming. I remember
seeing pretty muuch only negative reviews of the Speedo
radio. But now there are a number of really small mp3
players out there, along with waterproof cases. Would
appreciate any feedback?

thanks in advance,

My only feedback is...

In my experience music interferes with my workout. Being a
musician, I tend to grab whatever tempo is available. If
there's no music, I create my own. If there is music, I
follow the tempo in the music.

When I was a young runner, the Sony Walkman was introduced.
I decided to try running with one and found myself unable to
focus on tempo, breathing, etc. I also questioned how much I
was listening to my body while exercising
(e.g. room for higher tempo, need for lower tempo,
pain, etc.)

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I was just curious if anyone has come across a workable
solution for listening to music while swimming. I
remember seeing pretty muuch only negative reviews of
the Speedo radio. But now there are a number of really
small mp3 players out there, along with waterproof
cases. Would appreciate any feedback?

thanks in advance,

My only feedback is...

In my experience music interferes with my workout. Being a
musician, I tend to grab whatever tempo is available. If
there's no music, I create my own. If there is music, I
follow the tempo in the music.

When I was a young runner, the Sony Walkman was
introduced. I decided to try running with one and found
myself unable to focus on tempo, breathing, etc. I also
questioned how much I was listening to my body while
exercising
(e.g. room for higher tempo, need for lower tempo, pain,
etc.)

a.

That's more or less my outlook too. Being somewhat of a
techno geek, I've purchased various portable listening
devices in the past for their technological coolness - only
to have to admit to myself that I just didn't like using
them if I was doing something active. My wife, on the other
hand, won't exercise without them, and at our local health
club, you'd be lucky to find 1 out of 5 people not using
them. To each his/her own, I guess.

- Al

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Jon,

Try this:

swimman.netindex.htmOpen ↗

I've never tried it but I am considering making a
purchase.

Thanks again, and fyi, here's the only review I was
able to find:

SWIMMAN PLAYER

Underwater audio is something of a Holy Grail for lap
swimmers who can get desperate to stave off boredom.

Speedo once sold a Surfrunner 2000 underwater radio but no
longer makes it available on its U.S. Web site. A next-
generation device was reportedly due for release this year
but has been delayed until at least 2005, according to
statements attributed to Speedo on swim-enthusiast sites
(the firm didn't reply to e-mails).

So much for underwater radio. What about MP3?

That's where SwimMan Inc. comes in. The California firm has
just released what it says is the first waterproof digital-
music device, the SwimMan Extreme Sports MP3 Player
(www.swimman.net). It's a successor to the SwimMan
Waterproof Personal Cassette Player.

Unlike that bulky, angular cassette player, the MP3 player
is a tiny teardrop-shaped device with a USB plug on one end.

Loading it up with music is simple: Plug it into a
computer's USB port, wait until it is detected as an
external drive, then drag and drop MP3 tunes into the
drive window.

This worked fine with MP3s I ripped directly from
commercial music
CDs. I ran into trouble, though, when trying to load songs
originally purchased on the iTunes Music Store.

Because these are in copy-protected AAC form, I first
created music CDs on a couple of different computers and
then ripped the discs to get MP3s. But most of these files
wouldn't play on the SwimMan for reasons I couldn't discern.

Digital tunes in other file formats won't play on the
SwimMan, either.

With a mere 128 megabytes of storage capacity, too, the
SwimMan has room for only about one to two dozen songs — the
exact number depends on the tunes' lengths and quality
settings, which determine their sizes.

So exactly how desperate are you, swimmers? Those who
respond "extremely" or "insanely" should be happy with their
players once they recover from sticker shock over what is
essentially a low-capacity USB drive.

My SwimMan loaner worked fine underwater — at least during
the half hour I spent doing laps with it at the Y — with near-
pristine aquatic audio thanks to special headphones with
rubber ear-canal plugs.

Swimmers don't want complicated controls, so the SwimMan has
only two buttons — a large one to raise the volume and move
forward through the song library, and a small one to lower
the volume and move backwards through the library.

It doesn't need a power button because it begins
playing when the player end of the headphones is fitted
onto the USB plug.

The SwimMan package includes a Neoprene sleeve with a loop
that attaches to a Neoprene/Velcro armband (also included)
or your swim goggles. The phones sport goggle hooks just
below the earplugs, too.

Simply jamming the phones in my ears and dropping the player
down my trunks worked fine, though.

You also get a USB extension cord to more easily connect the
player to your computer for charging and music transfers.