qualife Swimming

I’m not going to list 2018 reasons why you should get wet this year (even though I could!) but as we say farewell to 2017 and begin a brand new year, many of us are thinking about fresh starts, healthy eating and new fitness goals. My personal challenge as of 1st January has been to set myself a 100 day goal – swim every day, be totally vegan and no alcohol. At the end of the 100 days I want to swim a 100 x 100m swim set as fast as I can. This fairly short-term goal (even t

I have always enjoyed a variety of sports, from horse riding and running to boxing and high impact intensive workouts. In January 2015, I was diagnosed with three ruptured discs in my lower back, the pain was excruciating. I was faced with the realisation that I had to stop all the weight bearing, high impact stuff and was looking at the option of surgery. Lucky for me that I love swimming! Two years on and whilst I am not 100 per cent pain free, I have managed to avoid surg

“Everyone can learn to swim, it’s just the journey that is different” Over the past year I have had many enquiries from adults looking for swimming lessons. I am always amazed at how many people can’t swim, have never been taught or have tried to learn but had a bad experience or insufficient teaching. If this is you, then you are not alone! According to Swim England (swimming.org) one in five adults in the UK are not able to swim, this equates to almost 9 million people. Wh

At Aqualife our ethos is to teach all our swimmers in a holistic way, without the use of arm bands or body buoyancy devices as they have damaging effect on natural buoyancy and can hinder learning to swim. However, as summer approaches I am often asked by families the best way to keep their little ones safe in and around water. Safety and awareness are key and this Royal Life Saving Society link clearly sets out all the points that need to be considered: http://www.rlss.org.u

Introducing children to the water in their pre-school years could be as beneficial to their brains as it is to their bodies, according to re

Spring is all about fresh starts, healthy eating and new fitness goals – we are spoilt for choice with so many options available to us.  Swi

At Aqualife Swimming we pride ourselves on offering a holistic approach to swimming, finding ways to help people at all stages of their lives develop a genuine love for the water and aquatic life. When we started to identify the need for families coming together to swim, it therefore felt fitting that Family Workshops became a permanent feature of our swim school. There were several reasons for Aqualife developing the concept of Family Workshops. Firstly, many parents were un