Summer Pool Survival Guide with Terry Arko

WEBVTT
00:01:05.060 --> 00:01:07.219
Hey, welcome to the Pool Grey Podcast Show.
00:01:07.379 --> 00:01:09.539
Today I'll be joined by Terry Arco of Hosta.
00:01:09.939 --> 00:01:15.939
We're going to talk about some summertime tips, some things to do to stay safe out there as a pool pro.
00:01:16.019 --> 00:01:22.180
And we also cover some things to expect in the summertime when you transition from spring to summer.
00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:24.579
And we'll go over that in detail as well.
00:01:24.819 --> 00:01:28.099
Are you a pool service pro looking to take your business to the next level?
00:01:28.259 --> 00:01:29.780
Join the pool guy coaching program.
00:01:30.019 --> 00:01:35.140
Get expert advice, business tips, exclusive content, and get direct support from me.
00:01:35.219 --> 00:01:37.460
I'm a 35-year veteran in the industry.
00:01:37.620 --> 00:01:41.379
Whether you're starting out or scaling up, I've got the tools to help you succeed.
00:01:41.539 --> 00:01:43.859
Learn more at swimmingpoollearning.com.
00:01:44.099 --> 00:01:46.340
So I'm joined today by Terry Arco of Hasa.
00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:47.460
How are you doing, Terry?
00:01:47.780 --> 00:01:49.460
Doing fantastic, David.
00:01:49.620 --> 00:01:50.019
Really good.
00:01:50.099 --> 00:01:51.299
Good to be on here again.
00:01:51.379 --> 00:01:52.180
It's been a while.
00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:54.740
Yeah, so the season is starting.
00:01:54.819 --> 00:01:57.539
So, all right, it started already for a lot of people.
00:01:58.259 --> 00:02:08.099
And so I think we were going to talk a little bit about some of the common problems in the summer season and the things that the pool pros struggle with out there.
00:02:08.340 --> 00:02:12.500
So let's get started with you know, a few things that are on the top of your mind.
00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:17.859
You people may not know this, but you had a pool service route in the San Fernando Valley for many years.
00:02:17.939 --> 00:02:22.979
And so you're quite familiar with our smoggy hot weather here in Southern California.
00:02:23.379 --> 00:02:24.020
Absolutely.
00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:24.579
Yeah.
00:02:24.819 --> 00:02:25.060
Yeah.
00:02:25.139 --> 00:02:28.099
And I should uh let me just correct you real quick on that.
00:02:28.180 --> 00:02:35.379
It wasn't the San Fernando Valley, it was the San Gabriel Valley, which is which is which we refer to that as the other valley.
00:02:35.539 --> 00:02:39.219
I guess the people from San Fernando referred to it as the other valley.
00:02:39.379 --> 00:02:39.539
Right.
00:02:39.699 --> 00:02:43.620
And then if you're in San Gabriel, you refer to San Fernando as the other valley.
00:02:43.780 --> 00:02:45.300
But I was in the other valley.
00:02:45.539 --> 00:02:53.300
So in the Pasadena, Arcadia, Monrovia, all that that area there.
00:02:53.460 --> 00:02:55.859
And mostly a foothill area.
00:02:55.939 --> 00:02:57.859
So yeah, I did do pools there.
00:02:58.020 --> 00:03:03.699
And yes, I am very familiar with the hot and smoggy days.
00:03:04.259 --> 00:03:09.060
So that was that was something that I I I I was going to talk about to begin with.
00:03:10.259 --> 00:03:13.379
We've had an interesting year weather-wise here.
00:03:14.500 --> 00:03:23.219
I think even California, you had some unusually warm weather early, earlier than expected, I think, a lot of times were there.
00:03:23.939 --> 00:03:28.579
And it's it's kind of gone back and forth, rain and and then heat and so forth.
00:03:28.739 --> 00:03:30.340
So a lot of interesting things.
00:03:30.419 --> 00:03:45.780
And I I think that's one thing now that I I'm beginning to say, you know, everybody sort of anticipates, you know, Memorial Day is sort of like that's the day that it everything starts kicking in and getting going.
00:03:46.259 --> 00:03:53.939
But with the weather the way it is, sometimes I think we're we're not on the same kind of calendar that we used to be a long time ago.
00:03:54.179 --> 00:03:59.699
Because things can weather can get hot, and then it can actually get cool in June, too.
00:03:59.859 --> 00:04:06.259
Even down in Southern California, we get June gloom there sometimes for a week or two, and it gets rather cool.
00:04:06.419 --> 00:04:07.780
So it's it it's interesting.
00:04:07.859 --> 00:04:10.659
And all that affects, you know, affects everything that you do.
00:04:10.899 --> 00:04:23.220
I think the biggest thing for the pool industry for me, in my experience, is it tends to be either feast or famine, if that's one way you want to look at it.
00:04:23.540 --> 00:04:33.699
Or I guess another way to look at it is kind of I'm I'm right now, I'm I'm I'm training to run a 5k in July.
00:04:34.579 --> 00:04:50.579
And when I first started several months ago, they they said that the best way to train is you you walk, you start out walking, okay, and then you, you know, when you get to a point and then you run, and you start to run.
00:04:50.740 --> 00:05:01.459
And then you run until and when you start to feel tired, or you feel like you know, you're kind of your body's kind of not doing well or whatever, you stop and you walk some more.
00:05:02.259 --> 00:05:07.459
And so I think I think for pool professionals, that's that's kind of the way it is.
00:05:07.620 --> 00:05:10.259
We kind of go from walking to running.
00:05:10.579 --> 00:05:13.699
Uh the running's definitely a lot harder than the walking.
00:05:13.939 --> 00:05:18.420
And then then we have to slow down and walk some more, but then we have to run.
00:05:18.579 --> 00:05:21.699
And I think seasonally that's that's kind of how it goes.
00:05:21.939 --> 00:05:26.740
We kind of in the off season, we're we're walking, and that's that's that's not too bad.
00:05:27.060 --> 00:05:30.980
And then all of a sudden, all of a sudden, boom, we have to we have to start running.
00:05:31.219 --> 00:05:32.899
And the running is definitely harder.
00:05:33.060 --> 00:05:41.699
And I think that's the season, and and we start to get into the season into summer, and we definitely have to go at a faster pace, a much faster pace.
00:05:41.939 --> 00:05:45.139
We have to think about a lot more, we have to do a lot more.
00:05:46.019 --> 00:05:49.779
And I I think that's where I see, you know, the challenges.
00:05:49.860 --> 00:05:51.060
That's where the challenges are.
00:05:51.139 --> 00:06:02.259
And the challenges also are just what's going on in the pool and the changes in the pool, you know, and I think the biggest one is just uh the water, the water temperature increasing.
00:06:02.659 --> 00:06:04.259
That that that's a very big one.
00:06:04.579 --> 00:06:20.180
So and that can be either a result of you know, maybe the water was down in the 60s or cooler, and then you know, the season is starting to come, and so a customer might have a heater and they want to heat their pool.
00:06:20.339 --> 00:06:23.459
So that's one thing, and that's gonna be a definite change.
00:06:24.339 --> 00:06:30.180
And you know that that you know, that changes LSI right away.
00:06:30.500 --> 00:06:38.899
If you consider, you know, if you go 15 degrees, if you change your temperature by 15 degrees, you're changing the LSI by 0.1.
00:06:39.379 --> 00:06:52.899
So your LSI is gonna change just based on temperature, which means you know, if your temperature was 60, 65 and you're gonna go up to 80, 85, whatever, well, you know, your LSI has now gone up by 0.1 just from the temperature.
00:06:53.459 --> 00:07:01.939
And then, you know, other chemicals that you're gonna add, things you're gonna add, all all all these different things uh will have an effect on the LSI, of course.
00:07:02.420 --> 00:07:04.259
And that could be an immediate change.
00:07:04.579 --> 00:07:12.339
But the other thing, just in temperature going up is what's happening to what's happening to calcium.
00:07:12.980 --> 00:07:18.099
So calcium, you know, the the cooler the water is, calcium is going to be more soluble.
00:07:18.180 --> 00:07:25.620
It's in solution, and and actually the water is in more a little bit of a more of a corrosive state when it's cooler.
00:07:25.939 --> 00:07:38.980
But once that water begins to heat up, and once you get, you know, you kind of go past that threshold of about 70, 75 degrees, and you're going up more towards 80, say, now your calcium is precipitating as a solid.
00:07:39.379 --> 00:07:54.339
And as it precipitates as a solid, it also grabs something else that there's plenty of in the water, and something else that begins to move around a little faster as the water heats up, and that's the uh carbon dioxide or the CO2.
00:07:54.980 --> 00:08:02.099
And so you've got calcium precipitating, you've got CO2 becoming a lot more active and moving a lot faster.
00:08:02.500 --> 00:08:10.420
And so the potential for calcium carbon at scale becomes greater and greater as the water heats up, which again is what affects the LSI also.
00:08:11.459 --> 00:08:16.420
Then you just look at the whole other the aspect of you know, algae.
00:08:16.579 --> 00:08:18.259
Algae doesn't grow in cool water.
00:08:18.339 --> 00:08:20.579
It has a very hard time growing in cool water.
00:08:20.659 --> 00:08:21.779
It's in a spore form.
00:08:21.860 --> 00:08:29.860
But once that water begins to warm, those spores are going to immediately begin to transfer into the cellular form, they're gonna start to multiply.
00:08:30.180 --> 00:08:37.220
And that's another thing, it's just chemical changes, the changes in the amount of chlorine that are going to be needed immediately.
00:08:37.539 --> 00:08:42.580
So we always found, I mean, springtime is a notorious time for algae as well.
00:08:42.659 --> 00:08:55.060
We we tend to think of algae as being more into the summer, maybe, but uh springtime is definitely another time because you have water warming up, you may still have some spring rain, and that's gonna certainly bring nitrogen in.
00:08:55.300 --> 00:09:01.779
And then you just have an environment where the algae can, you know, double in as little as eight hours.
00:09:01.940 --> 00:09:05.379
You can have, you know, uh the algae multiplying.
00:09:05.620 --> 00:09:12.259
So I think those are again, when I say you're gonna go from walking to running, you have a lot of this going on.
00:09:12.500 --> 00:09:16.019
And I think you understand that you're in the you're in the industry, you see these things.
00:09:16.259 --> 00:09:23.700
Yeah, I think for me, I look at more like we're kind of coasting and autopilot and neutral, you know, like a Tesla on self-driving.
00:09:23.779 --> 00:09:28.340
And then all of a sudden I put my hand in the water and I'm like, hey, this water feels pretty warm.
00:09:28.500 --> 00:09:40.419
And you look at your your watch, and it's like you see it's like May May 1st or around that time, and it's like, oh wow, I gotta start boosting up the chlorine and I gotta start, you know, tr actually paying attention now to the pool.
00:09:40.819 --> 00:09:46.819
So yeah, it is a it it it's it is a strange dynamic, you know.
00:09:46.899 --> 00:09:53.059
Like you said, you're coasting, but then you just gotta hop into gear fast because things change so fast.
00:09:53.299 --> 00:10:06.899
And you know, when you got a route, I guess, where you're doing you know, 70 pools, what 50 pools, I don't know, whatever it is a week, and you're not getting so you're not getting to all those pools on the same day, obviously.
00:10:07.139 --> 00:10:48.279
And so, you know, you can when things start heating up, and then it's a week or so before you get to another one, and then you know, what's what's the pool like, what's the environment like, what's the backyard like, you know, what's the usage and everything like it can, you know, a lot of things can happen as we've we've all experienced.
00:10:48.600 --> 00:11:04.759
I think also one of the misnomers of the industry, and a lot of people think this is that like everyone uses their pool, and so when the summer hits, you're gonna have parties, and every single one of your pools is gonna be used, and you know, you have to it's gonna be like a a huge amount of work.
00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:09.160
But in reality, I wouldn't say that's true for all the pools out there residential-wise.
00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:21.720
Now, if you do commercial pool service, you're in a whole nother world and you're in a world of hurt because that's the time where they put a brick by the gate and prop it open, and everyone in the whole neighborhood comes in there and goes swimming, right?
00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:24.920
But I think for residential pools, it's a mix of both.
00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:30.600
I mean, you have some people that have their pools of decoration, and then you have some people that kill it in the summertime.
00:11:30.680 --> 00:11:35.000
So it's not like you're scrambling entirely with residential pools.
00:11:35.560 --> 00:11:37.480
Yeah, that that that can be true.
00:11:37.560 --> 00:11:39.080
It does, it does differ.
00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:54.360
The one thing really, though, that I say is regardless of what the the environment or the use of the pool or whatever, as early as you can, and and obviously now we've we've we've turned the corner past Memorial Day.
00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.200
So things are beginning to ramp up already.
00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:05.240
We've had incredibly unusually warm, weird weather up here in the Seattle area.
00:12:05.560 --> 00:12:12.120
But you know, tomorrow it's supposed to, temperatures are supposed to drop by almost 20 degrees and it's going to start raining again.
00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.840
You know, so you always kind of have those things.
00:12:15.160 --> 00:12:46.120
But some things that I recommend that you start in the spring and before we get even to what's the first day of summer, June 22nd, whatever is now, you know, really start the one thing I recommend a lot is do as many shock treatments now as you can, you know, while the while the pools aren't being used as much, you know, while the parties haven't kicked in as much and so forth.
00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.320
But, you know, that's one thing.
00:12:49.560 --> 00:12:54.840
And the other thing is obviously looking at things like where your phosphates are now.
00:12:55.240 --> 00:13:00.840
Can you deal with phosphates now, kind of getting them lower instead of trying to do do that in the summer?
00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.560
And the other thing is it, you know, are you are you using borates?
00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:10.440
If you're using borates, uh CYA, borates, all those things like that.
00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:15.320
Now is the time, I think, to look at those, check on those.
00:13:15.560 --> 00:13:17.160
Do they need to be topped up?
00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:20.120
What do you need to do to make those adjustments?
00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:32.519
And you know, early actually early spring's ideal, but but before we hit that, you know, that summer corner and turn that, any of those things that you can do and check now.
00:13:32.680 --> 00:13:37.320
If you got to do a little dilution to lower your CYA, now's the time to do it.
00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:46.120
You know, just get everything ready and and prepared as much as possible before we get into the thick of it, as I like to say.
00:13:46.680 --> 00:13:50.279
I think that, you know, that's that's the main thing really.
00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:59.160
And I think that's the main thing of what you were saying about, you know, it's like you're coasting and then boom, you you're in gear.
00:13:59.800 --> 00:14:02.200
So is there a way to make an easier transition?
00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:14.920
And I think the easier transition is when you're still kind of in the coasting, but you're maybe you're ramping up a little slower than just you know hitting the pedal to the metal.
00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.160
And so you're a little more prepared.
00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:26.200
Uh and definitely I think just starting to do some proactive shocking, and of course, you know me, I'm gonna recommend liquid is the best.
00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:37.399
Checking CYA and managing CYA now, checking borates, phosphates, things like that now, do everything now before the really busy season gets in.
00:14:37.560 --> 00:14:54.840
And then my feeling is, and what I might it's been my experience when I did pools, the season tends to go a little better because you're not handling some things or you've prepared, you know, you've done a better job preparing for that.
00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:58.680
I think the season can be much longer when you start off bad.
00:15:00.040 --> 00:15:00.680
Yes.
00:15:00.920 --> 00:15:03.080
Yeah, I agree with that.
00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:07.399
You know, the other one that I would say would be also total dissolved solids.
00:15:07.560 --> 00:15:17.080
I mean, these are all the things, you know, when I did pools, we had we had a system, and you know, the system was always in early spring.
00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:20.279
We were we were testing CYA, we were testing TDS.
00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:27.000
Of course, we didn't have borates, or we didn't work with borates back then, didn't know anything about phosphates back then either.
00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:33.480
But uh springtime was definitely a time where you know you managed your CYA, you checked the CYA.
00:15:33.560 --> 00:15:34.440
Do we need to add more?
00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:37.000
Do we need to drain and maybe reduce some?
00:15:37.800 --> 00:15:39.320
What do we need to do there?
00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:40.920
We handle it in the spring.
00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.040
And definitely spring was one of those times where we did the total dissolved solids test.
00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:52.040
And that was mainly just to see, you know, where's where's the level at?
00:15:52.279 --> 00:16:16.360
And do we need to make some adjustments there at that point to get us through the summer so we don't, you know, have an overabundance of TDS when we're trying to or having to add more chlorine, possibly more water balance chemicals, other things, algicides, clarifiers, enzymes, all those things, you know, that we use to troubleshoot in the season.
00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:22.440
I also think the uh the pool pro has to be aware that you're gonna spend a lot more money on chemicals in the summer.
00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.440
You know, the usage goes up pretty tremendously in some cases.
00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:29.160
Yes, yeah, it absolutely does.
00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:46.440
And that's another thing in, I guess, you know, business 101 or whatever is when you're doing your budgets for the year, you need to budget accordingly for the summer and figure the year you could be using two to three times the amount of chlorine or chemical.
00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:48.920
And that goes with anything else.
00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:58.440
Are you gonna need additional water balance or how much, you know, if you're gonna do phosphate removals or you're gonna need algecide, things like that.
00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:05.480
Yeah, those are all things you need to think about ahead of time and put into your budget for sure.
00:17:05.879 --> 00:17:19.720
It seems like every summer the chemicals get, you know, I always thought they were gonna just stabilize, but one thing after another, right now, the inflation because of the little problem we're having over in Iran is causing, you know, pretty massive inflation.
00:17:19.879 --> 00:17:22.920
So uh are chemical costs gonna still rise this season?
00:17:23.399 --> 00:17:23.880
Yep.
00:17:24.120 --> 00:17:24.759
Yep.
00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:25.640
Yeah.
00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:41.560
You know, I think the biggest thing uh where you see the increase and and the increase is gonna come is just now because of the ridiculous fuel charges, because of what's going on in the world.
00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:52.440
And you know, in some cases, transport relies on diesel more so than just regular gasoline.
00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:57.960
And I don't know if you've looked at the cost of diesel lately, but that has really gone high.
00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:01.880
Yeah, yeah.
00:18:02.040 --> 00:18:10.920
And so when you're doing transport and your transport relies on that, obviously that increases your cost um to deliver goods.
00:18:11.080 --> 00:18:17.799
And unfortunately, to keep going, you that that cost has got to get passed on.
00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:20.920
So, yes, we are seeing that.
00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:23.240
And it's all kinds of other costs involved.
00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:28.200
I mean, here in California, the minimum wage goes up like every year, and there's labor costs that go up.
00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:35.880
So I always tell people that always thinking is, well, you know, the tablets are going to drop back down to$80 a bucket, 50-pound bucket.
00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:46.279
The reality is that fuel costs, labor costs, even stuff that we don't even know, like cost of plastic coming from overseas, all goes up every year.
00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:48.839
Yeah, absolutely agreed.
00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.640
And you know, this I was thinking about something else too.
00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:58.360
You know, talking about all these things happen that we just have no control over in the world.
00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:00.360
And that's it's always gonna be that way.
00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:05.799
We're gonna have these emergency situations, and they seem to be coming more and more.
00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:32.360
But the other thing I think about too, and the other reason that I believe it's good to just be as proactive as you could be, like even now, is because one of the things, as you know, David, that's always gonna come up, and it in in California, certain areas of California, Arizona, once we get into the hotter, drier seasons, the other thing that always tends to come up is drought too.
00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:38.680
Then all of a sudden we get into a drought because we get into this warm, extended time without any rain.
00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:50.039
And so, you know, the the government agencies or whatever, the maybe the local agencies will say, Oh, now we have to put drought restrictions in.
00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:53.559
And that restricts what you can do at the pool, too.
00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:56.759
And that and that can be some restrictions to draining.
00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:58.920
So again, that's another reason.
00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:19.799
If you need to do your drain and dilutes, if you need to, you know, deal with your TDS and your CYAs and all of those things, if you can knock that out early in the season before all that stuff, you know, kind of comes about to where you can't do it, or maybe it's harder to do it, but you've already done it ahead of the game.
00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:25.079
And so you don't need to worry about it during those, you can get through that time possibly better.
00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:31.799
And I think that's logical because a lot of times you start the season and the CY is at 150 or you know, 180.
00:20:32.120 --> 00:20:41.640
And you know, doing training half the pool before the season starts is much easier than in the middle of summer when you're doing 10 million things and dealing with the heat and other pools and problems.
00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.160
So logically, you know, I think that's smart to do that.
00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:50.680
And I think customers are more approachable, like right before summer, like, hey, we're trying to get your pool ready for the season.
00:20:50.839 --> 00:21:00.519
Let's drain, you know, half the water and have some fresh water for the pool season, rather than like, you know, you're in July or August telling the customer you have to drain half the pool.
00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:01.640
They're like, why?
00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:03.400
I mean, the summer season's almost over.
00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:05.720
So it's yeah, got to be proactive there.
00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:16.519
And but I think that's also from the overuse of trichlor tablets, which you know, still to this day, I get people that are like, you know, why is my cyaneric acid going from 50 to 100?
00:21:16.600 --> 00:21:17.960
You know, I what am I doing?
00:21:18.120 --> 00:21:25.240
And I'm like, well, you know, the tablets have half half the weight of cyaneric acid, and they're like totally they're shocked by that.
00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:36.360
It's like, does anyone, you know, the pools are of course not telling them that, but no, no, you know, and so there's another whole side to this too, on this uh preparedness thing, too.
00:21:36.600 --> 00:21:41.079
When we, you know, we get into this, you know, when the heat starts to slam and everything.
00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:49.640
And and that is also, and again, as you point, we talked about it earlier in the beginning here about the the hot being familiar with the hot, smoggy days.
00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:53.240
And that's and that and that's taking care of yourself, you know.
00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:59.720
You know, just uh taking care of yourself from the standpoint of keeping cool.
00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:06.759
That that's even a matter of making sure, you know, maybe getting your air conditioned serviced in your truck to make sure that's running properly.
00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:10.039
So at least you can keep yourself cool between visits to the pool.
00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:24.839
You can cool yourself down, having, you know, fluids, liquids, and and and I will say, you know, a big misnomer a lot of times is guys, gals, whatever, and they they have a big pitcher of water, just water, and they're just drinking lots of water.
00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:39.000
But actually, that if you all you're doing is just drinking what straight water, that can that can all actually kind of dehydrate you faster because uh straight water is is gonna dilute out all your electrolytes in your body faster.
00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:49.880
And so, you know, I say you want to, I'm not a big fan of Gatorade necessarily because Gatorade has a lot of processed sugars and dyes and stuff in it.
00:22:50.120 --> 00:23:05.960
But you can make your own Gatorade that's much better than that just by, you know, when you take your jug of water, you know, add some lemon juice, put a teaspoon of salt in there, and you've got your own natural Gatorade, and you drink that, and that's going to replenish your electrolytes and so forth.
00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:16.039
Or you could also, like Costco's got these, you know, these uh IV packs, these little these little packets you can pour in a bottle of water, they get your electrolytes back.
00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:17.240
Those are much better.
00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:26.839
So, you know, just kind of keeping tabs on that, on your hydration, obviously on your skin, and you know, protecting your skin against the sun.
00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:37.400
You know, Hasa, you know, we were at the trade shows, we were giving away, you know, big coolers that you can keep ice and drinks and things like that in.
00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:42.200
So if you're fortunate enough to win one of those, well, you know, put it to good use.
00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:48.600
And also, you know, Hasa, we give away the neck wraps that you can, you know, you can put in your cooler and keep them cool.
00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:54.440
And then when you go out, you put that around your neck and you know, keep your keep your body temperature lower.
00:23:54.600 --> 00:24:08.200
But I think that's important too, because you know, you you you don't want to you get a lot of a lot of guys that think, oh, you know, I'm tough, oh, I can handle it, oh, I don't need to do this, you know, I've been doing this 20 years or whatever.
00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:16.759
But you know, you dehydrate and go out and go down on a concrete deck and split your head open, you know, and then you wake up in a hospital.
00:24:16.839 --> 00:24:18.200
That's that's not a good thing.
00:24:18.360 --> 00:24:18.600
Yeah.
00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:23.559
So also, you know, protecting yourself out there when the season ramps up.
00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:27.000
Yeah, and there's a product on Amazon that people can get.
00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:27.880
I'll refer it to them.
00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:31.880
It's called trace mineral trace mineral drops.
00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:39.240
And you put these in your water, and this will these it's a natural way to kind of refresh your electrolytes besides Gatorade or all that sugar.
00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:42.039
I don't drink Gatorade because it's like 90% sugar.
00:24:42.120 --> 00:24:43.000
It's crazy, you know.
00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.920
Well, and it's not even sugar sugar, it's it's it's fake sugar.
00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:50.120
It's like you know, high frucose corn syrup or something.
00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.039
Yeah, it's really bad for you.
00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:53.480
Okay.
00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:59.240
Yeah, no, I mean, I'm just saying like what you said, the the mineral drops and things like that.
00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:07.799
And you know, the the other part of that is that you know, when you lose electrolytes and when you're dehydrated and all that, you're extremely fatigued.
00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:10.519
So your energy level just goes way down.
00:25:10.600 --> 00:25:25.000
And it's as simple as what you're saying, David, with you know, these mineral, if you can get these mineral drops, these mineral packs, or or just putting a little salt and lemon juice in there or something, and that's gonna make you get through the day much more energetically.
00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:29.880
You're gonna be more focused, you're gonna have better energy than being all fatigued and wiped out.
00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:35.079
Yeah, and the danger of being dehydrated or heat stroke even is that you don't know it until it's too late.
00:25:35.319 --> 00:25:36.519
Yeah, absolutely.
00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:44.519
And I've had heat stroke, and unfortunately for me, it occurred on a golf course and not while I was working.
00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:51.640
And it was just because, you know, very hot day, and I was not drinking enough, uh getting enough electrolytes.
00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:52.360
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:53.799
And it was not pleasant.
00:25:54.039 --> 00:26:03.799
So if you're looking for more podcasts, you can find those by going to my website, SwimmyPorlearning.com, and clicking on the podcast icon at the banner.
00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:07.160
That'll take you to a drop down menu with over 1900 podcasts.
00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:11.880
And if you're interested in the coaching program that I offer, you can learn more at PoolGuyCoaching.com.
00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:13.400
Thanks for listening to this podcast.
00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:14.680
Have you rest of the week?
00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:15.799
God bless.