To not understand showering before swimming?

[Shewas]

I understand people should be clean before getting in a pool, but I don't understand what a poolside shower, a few seconds at most, is washing off? No one's washing the bits most likely to be dirty!

I'm just back from a swim session. I always do stand under the shower long enough to pook like I've been in, but more because I'm embarrassed not to than because I think there's a point. Most people don't even do that.

Yes. Hair Saturated with fresh water doesn’t get damaged by the chlorine. A rinse with conditioner afterwards seems to be plenty.

I once happened to read Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History Of Nearly Everything’ while on holiday and the chapter on dust mites really freaked me out! Once home, the first thing I did was vacuum our mattress - a mass of yellowish dust - dust mite poo! came out.

I then washed all the pillows (down or feather and down) and tried not to look at the yellowish foam in the washing machine. A good hot tumble dry next, that’d finish off any that had survived the wash.

Is that all you do ?.I do that plus I filter the pool water before entering the pool. After my swim I radiate myself and my children with ultra clean gamma rays. Obviously.

Everyone should read that book!! Its brilliant!