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The benefits of swimming legsuits
It seems so obvious when you think about it, but women’s swimming costumes with combined shorts/legs have been a long time becoming mainstream. No doubt you’ll have seen these swimsuits with legs being worn by triathletes. Many male swimmers also sport tight-fitting swimming shorts but it’s not until recently that legsuit costumes for women have [...] -
Guest Blog : Channel Swimming by Donal Buckley
A guest post by English Channel soloist and open water swimmer extraordinaire, Donal Buckley … You can leave the English Channel, but the English Channel won’t necessarily leave you. It’s an obsession and quest, that like most of these type of adventures is difficult to explain. So English channel swimmers fall back on some of the [...] -
Swimmer Adlington looks forward to London Olympics
The Olympics 2012 is not just any Olympics. It’s the London Olympics. And us mere mortals can only imagine the excitement for professional UK athletes as they look towards taking part in the epic event in their own country. One of the “very excited” athletes is swimmer Rebecca Adlington. Just four years ago, Rebecca was the [...] -
Five top health benefits of swimming
Swimming is hailed as a wonder sport, and it’s not difficult to understand why. But perhaps you still need a little persuasion to head to the local pool for a few lengths. After all, with it being so cold outside you’ll be more tempted to add layers – and lots of them – rather than [...] -
The benefits of swimming for your blood pressure
First, let’s take a look at the scientific background to swimming and reduced blood pressure. Sports experts have widely revealed the cardiovascular benefits of well-developed muscles. As muscles grow and become stronger, the heart must pump more blood to them. To do this the heart muscle grows stronger and so it sends out a larger volume [...] -
Movember
Each year, men around the world grow themselves a moustache in order to raise awareness of mens health and specifically prostate cancer. On 1st Movember, dedicated men start with a cleanly shaven face and then for the rest of the sprout and groom their moustache. Today is the very last day of Movember so moustaches across [...] -
Speedo Fastskin 3
Speedo have been renowned for their fantastic technologies in their competition swimwear ranges, the Fastskin and FSII being some of their most famous. Wednesday 30th November the new Fastskin 3 is set to be released. This incredibly exciting new piece of Speedo swimwear has been created in the ‘Aqualab’ – Speedo’s top secret research and development [...] -
We’re Faversham Swimming Club’s New Sponsors!
Great news here at Simply Swim! We’ve been named as the new official sponsor of our local swimming club. Faversham Swimming Club is a fantastic volunteer run organisation with over 300 members, who range in age from 5 – 85 years old. The indoor pool is open all year round, with an outdoor pool open throughout [...] -
Hug a Swimmer Day 2011
Hug a Swimmer day began as a Facebook event began 1st December 2009 telling the world to hug a swimmer! Designed to share the love of our favourite sport and bring people closer together, we think this is a fantastic event for us all to take part in! So 1st December 2011 get out there [...] -
Easy Christmas Craft with your Swimming Equipment
Here at Simply Swim we’ve been experimenting with our swimming equipment to see what festive ways we can use them! These are great ideas for doing with the kids at home on the countdown to Christmas or making for school fetes. You can make a giant candy cane with your red pool noodle by simply bending [...]