First up on the blocks: swimming

Lionel Padial of Oneflow Swimming is geared up for the Women’s Activator Series. He will be coaching participants through pool swims on Thursday evenings in September at the ASB Aquatic Centre.

Mornings and lunchtimes, you’ll usually find Lionel at Riverside Pool working with swimmers of all ages and abilities, from beginner to elite.

“I am passionate about making swimming relaxing and enjoyable for everyone who is keen and firmly believe that swimming with efficiency and ease is open to all who can apply a little regular time and patience,” he says.

Before becoming a swim coach, Lionel competed as a swimmer and then later as an age-group triathlete whilst studying sports science and many of its related subjects.

At the Activator sessions Lionel will be giving participants advice to help make their freestyle strokes more effective. Depending upon the ability of the swimmer, that may take the form of teaching them to:

• breathe more easily for more comfort
• be more balanced and relaxed in the water – this improves performance and pleasure
• swim laps in less strokes for greater efficiency
• swim longer or faster for less/same effort

“All drills are swum very slowly and set at a level where the individual is within their comfort zone and, as confidence and skill increase, the challenge increases.”

Lionel believes that with a little patience and consistency anyone can become a relaxed, efficient swimmer. He promises it will be unlike any other lessons you’ve had before.

Swimming Changes! - please take note.

Due to the popularity of the series we are going to alter the swimming slightly. We are still meeting next Thursday the 4th of September at 7pm, where you will receive your introductory packs and get to meet myself and Lionel (from Oneflow Swimming). We will run two sessions, so on arrival I will split you into two groups, one group will swim first with Lionel while the other group chats with me and you have the opportunity to meet each other! Then we will switch over. For the following two weeks I have then managed to secure us another time slot in addition to the Thursday evenings - which will be from 7-8pm on a Wednesday evening, still under the expert guidance of Lionel. This session will be at Riverside Pool.

If you are keen to swim on the Wednesday night (for the 10th and 17th) instead of the Thursday can you let me know by adding a comment below this post - just click on the comment button and write your name and the day your prefer.

The final Thursday of September will not be at the ASB Aquatic Centre - we have had to move this to Riverside Pool at the earlier time of 6.30pm to allow enough space to conduct our fun indoor tri session. I will let you know more about this next week, but just to give you advance warning.

As always, any questions, please email or ring me.
See you all soon!

Do you need a mountain bike for the OCTOBER sessions?

Some of you have told us that you want to participate in the October mountain biking session, but don't own a bike. We want to see about real numbers of people needing to borrow/rent a bike ... would you fill out our survey?

On the right hand side, scroll down and you'll see the new survey listed. Tell us how many of you need a loaner bike and we'll see what we can do. For those of you who can lend a bike, consider that option.

Our first Event!!

The first event on the calendar to aim towards is the Indoor Tri on the 25th of September. We are having to alter our venue, so the final Thursday in September will now be at Riverside Pool at 6.30pm, (rather than 7pm at ASB Aquatic Centre as advertised). This is to allow enough space to swim, cycle and row! More details to follow soon ....

The Countdown begins

Only 13 days left before the first session of the series. I hope you are as excited as I am! We have had a fantastic response and now have around 30 women signed up. Brillant! Don't forget to introduce yourself on the previous blog post - just click on comments and add your two bobs worth.

Blog away

Please introduce yourself by clicking - comments - below this post, and type a bit about what you're looking forward to, what might be scaring you a little bit ..... just general info to get us all used to this blogging business. This blogspot is here for you - so type away!

CLM Health & Fitness, Riverside

Congratulations to all the women that have signed up for the women’s activator series. What a great opportunity to achieve your fitness goals, have some fun and meet some new friends. We are looking forward to seeing you all in the pool.

Riverside is a Swimming pool & Gym facility in the Nelson City. We also operate Nayland Park Swimming pool in Stoke.

We can help you achieve your goals in cycling, running, swimming and anything else related to Health & Fitness. Call us on 035463221 or click on our website right now for more information www.clmnz.co.nz