Swimming - a fantastic way to keep fit!

Swim, Keep Fit and Lose Weight

Experts say swimming is one of the best forms of exercise. Regular swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardio-vascular fitness. In addition, because you are using most of the major muscle groups, it gives your body a great overall workout. It's also a fantastic way to get and keep trim – Did you know that swimming burns about three calories per mile for EACH POUND of bodyweight. That's 400 calories lost, if you weigh 9½ Stone, for EVERY mile! If you weigh twice as much you burn off twice as much!

"New You's" Katie Houlbrook took the plunge to find out how to make the most out of swimming. Just click here to open her video in a separate window.

Too Old to Swim? Can't Swim? NOBODY is too old, or to young, to exercise in water, even if you have to keep your feet on the bottom! It's the safest form of exercise, giving a support to the body while you do your exercise movements.

Making it interesting, can be one of the problems. Ploughing up and down lanes against the clock can be a bit, well, boring, so why not visit our shop to see the various swimming aids, from floats to foam noodles, not forgetting our unique Swimalong System, now on offer for just £54.99 inc UK carriage.

And if you have the pool to yourself, why not enjoy the ultimate bliss of relaxation, by floating and drifting, the nearest feeling to flying!