Swimming

[sweet_left_foot]

It's a confident man who wears trunks with a 1500 metres label on top of his todger.

Even more so when you get yer mam to sew it on whilst wearing them

 

[Blf]

I love swimming but find it hard to motivate myself to go in the winter. It's also getting quite expensive to go a few times a week. Think it's over a fiver for an hour at the Parkway centre now.
One of the worst things our local politicians did was allowing the demolition of Gilkes St Old pool. The Victorian architecture was beautiful . I used to love swimming in there.

 

[AytonMews]

Just read a mad statistic about adult swimmers in uk and 31% apparently cannot swim.

31% of adult swimmers cannot swim??


WTF are they doing then? Just mooching about in the shallow end?

 

[DonTheKing]

31% of adult swimmers cannot swim??


WTF are they doing then? Just mooching about in the shallow end?

I don't have a clue, I thought it would be so much lower.

 

[tonybiriyani]

I love swimming but find it hard to motivate myself to go in the winter. It's also getting quite expensive to go a few times a week. Think it's over a fiver for an hour at the Parkway centre now.
One of the worst things our local politicians did was allowing the demolition of Gilkes St Old pool. The Victorian architecture was beautiful . I used to love swimming in there.

If you go often you can pay a monthly charge(around £30) to use all the centre's facilities as often as you like

 

[sweet_left_foot]

31% of adult swimmers cannot swim??


WTF are they doing then? Just mooching about in the shallow end?

Running, pushing, ducking, shouting, petting, acrobatics, bombing, smoking

 

[Nobby_Barnes]

I love swimming but find it hard to motivate myself to go in the winter. It's also getting quite expensive to go a few times a week. Think it's over a fiver for an hour at the Parkway centre now.
One of the worst things our local politicians did was allowing the demolition of Gilkes St Old pool. The Victorian architecture was beautiful . I used to love swimming in there.

Stokesley do a discount dip Tues 1.15 -2.15 Term time it's only £1.65.

Now you have no excuse, you will just have to find some trunks that fit you

 

[speckyget]

Not only did the olden days furnish the community with more eye stinging chlorine ponds than you could shake a stick at, the government employed devious means including sexual pressure to get the citizenry in the water.

 

[S7DiscoDown]

That's a stunning stat if true. Although wouldn't surprise me with closures of swimming pools etc.

I assume primary schools don't teach it now? We used to be taken to a local pool once a week. That was the late 70s / early 80s

My parents used to take me and my sister everyweek. So maybe I was lucky. It was seen as a day out. Also the fish and chips after

Swimming certainly let's let's you know how unfit you are. I went before Xmas. The first time in years. Absolutely knackered afterwards. Also ached for a day. Just proves it's a great form of exercise.