How many people actually go Swimming at there local leisure club ?

Question

Hi i just wanted to know how many of you go swimming at your leisure club. Im asking this question because i use to love going swimming but now i find if you just go without joining some sort of club, it is impossible to swim proply doing lengths as people get in the way and it just gets on my nerves as you cant really do you work out as such. Do you think i would have to join a club to do lengths in peace , i dont know any other way of solving this problem. I now they have slimmers clubs and water aerobics but i just want to swim on my own.

Answer 1

Why would you want to go swimming in water that contains other people's:

dead skin,
dirt,
germs,
deodorants,
foreign objects such as scabs, plasters, etc,
particles of human waste (pi*s and sh*t),
dropplets of blood,
shower gels, soaps, shampoo's, conditioners, etc,

You might as well just jump into the bath with 300 strangers.

Answer 2

Swimming is so stressful. I get so sick of health experts recommending swimming.

You can't do lengths as there's so many people just standing around chatting. If there are lanes they're taken up by idiots trying to do butterfly and making life a misery for everyone else.

I joined an extremely posh local private pool, but the only times it was any better was 11:00 at night.

A friend pays around £150 a month to use the flagship Reebok gym at Canary Wharf in London. She can't swim there either. Just like the local pool it's full of chatting women doggy paddling. It drives her nuts and she's now given up trying to swin at all.

I really don't know the answer, I wish I did. I love swimming and it really used to keep me in trim, but now it's just impossible to swim in a swiimming pool.

If you find the answer, keep it to yourself for as long as possible x

Answer 3

What the heck is a leisure club?

I belong to a nearby club that also has a great pool. The only time you can get decent laps without interruption is at 5 am.

Answer 4

You could put something in the "customer complaints box' that you want there to be allocated lanes for people to swim in at certain times. Get people you know to do this as well.

They should have something like this, ask the staff. My local leisure centre has two lanes, one for fast swimmers and one for slow swimmers and they are there almost all the time now.

Answer 5

Find out if your local pool has a ladies only session.I find that the pool's alot quieter and u get peace to swim...although sometimes you have to avoid the blue rinse brigade who seem to float around the pool in cliques holding their weekly gossip session lol.

Answer 6

Our local pool has a "lap time" early in the morning.. but yours may differ.. so Vote u join the club.
and yeah! going to the community pool is where the guys are.. we go all the time.. even though most of us have a pool at home..

Answer 7

I don't know what swimming pool you go to... at my local-authority pool it's lengths only, no kids, no games. There are 4 lanes, slowest to fastest so you can swim with people your speed. And it's only £1.55 to get in. Maybe there is one like this near you?
If you want it to yourself, ask the pool staff what the quietest hours are (early in the morning mine is normally empty). If it's kids causing the problem you could ask if there are adult-only hours..........

Answer 8

I used to do water aerobics in my 1st pregnancy, but it was to bloody hard! Now, i take my sons swimming every monday evening, they love it!!

Answer 9

11 people

Answer 10

most pools i've been to section a bit for length swimmers