Riverside Mail December 2011

Welcome to the last Newsletter of 2011! We wish everyone a happy, safe and healthy Christmas and New Year!

Riverside Christmas and New Years Opening Hours:

The Pool and Fitness Centre will be open normal hours right up until Christmas Eve (24th December)

Christmas Day - CLOSED

Monday 26th December (Boxing Day) through until Tuesday 3rd January:

Swimming Pool open 9am - 5pm (Lane Swimming 9am-12pm, Public Swimming 12-5pm)

Fitness Centre open 9am-4pm

Wednesday 4th January - Back to normal hours

Aquafit / Aquajogging / Aquanatal / Aqualite classes will break for 2 weeks over Christmas and New Year:

Last Class of 2011: Friday 23rd December 2011

First Class of 2012: Monday 9th January 2012

December Fit Tip - Summer Walking
If you are going to be doing some walking this summer here’s some tips to walking faster:

1. Use good posture. Walk tall and look forward (not at the ground).
2. Keep your chest raised and shoulders relaxed (shoulders down and back).

3. Bend your arms just less than 90 degrees and swing your arms front to back (not side to side as you arms should not cross the centre line) and by swinging your arms faster your feet will follow.4. Tighten your abs and buttocks (if you can ).

5. Try faster smaller steps rather than longer strides.

6. Push off with your toes and concentrate on landing on your heels, rolling through your steps.
7. Breathe naturally with deep rhythmic breaths. You should be walking fast enough so breathing increases but you are not out of breath. Enjoy those long summer nights and warmer days!!

Thanks to John Maclean for this month's fit tip.

3 Months plus 1 free membership offer extended for December
This is always a popular offer so we have decided to extend it throughout December! Get 4 months of membership to Riverside (Includes use of Riverside and Nayland Park pools, fitness centre, spa, aqua classes, free fitness programs and reviews with our qualified, proffessional trainers) for only $255 for an adult or $235 for a senior (50+) or student.

Chillout Holiday Programme - Keep the kids entertained over the Xmas Holidays!

With fun activities such as berry picking, balloon modelling, burger making, hydrosliding, pool parties and much much more, your kids will not want to miss

out on the awesome Chillout holiday programme these holidays! We are taking enrolments now so be sure to book early to avoid dissapointment. For a full schedule of the programme, get to the Riverside Pool Website to see what is happening on each day. To enrol, just print off the forms available online and return to Nicky John at Nayland Pool or by post to Nelson Aquatics Ltd, Po Box 1611, Nelson. Or simply call Nicky on (03) 547 0292 to check availability and enrol.

Swimmagic Holiday Swim Programme

Week 1 Intensives: 19th - 23rd December 2011 at Nayland Park Outdoor Pool. School age levels - Kickers, Paddlers, Breathers, Swimmers, Development and a "Mixed Squad" level.

Week 2 intensives: 9th - 13th January at Riverside Pool. Pre-School and School age levels - Nippers, Flippers,

Movers, Kickers, Paddlers, Breathers, Swimmers, Development.

Week 2 Squad Clinics:

Monday 9th Jan - Back 2 Basics

Tuesday 10th Jan - Backstroke

Wednesday 11th Jan - Breaststroke

Thursday 12th Jan - Starts and Turns

Friday 13th Jan - Freestyle

Week 3 intensives: 16th - 20th January at Riverside Pool. Pre-school and school age levels - Nippers, Flippers, Movers, Kickers, Paddlers, Breathers, Swimmers, Development.

There are still spaces so call us today for more details, class times etc, and to enrol: (03) 546 3221 or email ketaeverett@clmnz.co.nz

Kori's Christmas Party - Wednesday 21st December

Join Kori and the Swimmagic and Chillout crew for some fun in the sun on Wednesday 21st December at Nayland Park Pool from 1.30-3.30pm! For all kids enrolled in Swimmagic swimschool or Chillout Afterschool care/holiday programme. Take part in some fun pool games and win some cool prizes. Grab a sausage sizzle for $1.50. See you there!

Meet the Riverside Untouchables!

The Riverside Untouchables are a mixed touch team, that play every Tuesday evening at Tahuna Playing Fields. They will be playing until the end of January 2012, so if you happen to be in the neighbourhood at the time, go and cheer them on!

Tots/New Lesson Pool is now heated

The new plant/heating system for the tots pool is now installed and will keep the water at around 32 degrees. Perfect for the smaller swimmers and our swimmagic swim lessons. Come and check it out if you haven't already. We thank all of our patrons for their patience and understanding whilst the work was carried out to install the new plant.

Gift Vouchers for Christmas

Give the perfect Christmas gift - a Riverside gift Voucher! Get a voucher for anything you like, for any value. Why not load one up with a 10 visit swim concession, or a fitness centre membership, or even load up $20 - $30 for shop items so that you loved one can choose some goggles. It's up to you! Enquire at reception.

Visit our websites: www.riversideswimmingpool.co.nz * www.naylandpool.co.nz

Riverside Mail November 2011

Welcome to the November Newsletter!

Nayland Park Pools Now Open for Summer!

Nayland Pools opened on Saturday the 5th November to a lovely fine Nelson Day. Nayland Park Pools will be open for a longer 20 week season this summer plus extended opening hours of 9am-7pm during the week, and 9am-8pm on the weekends. This means even more fun in the sun for everyone! Come and enjoy a swim in the 8 lane 50m pool, a splash in the toddlers pool, some fun in the 20m pool or a jump off one of the 3 diving boards. There is also a wide range of drinks, ice creams, snacks, goggles and caps for sale at reception. The pools are heated so come and enjoy the wonderful Nelson weather at Nayland pools this summer. For more details including opening hours of the dive well and tots pool, please click here.

Riverside Swim Challenge 2011

Well it's all over for another year and once again we saw a great number of swimmers taking part in the challenge and doing a great job in achieving their goals! We had a total of 101 swimmers take part, and we swam a combined total of 110,287 lengths (3308km!). Peter Thomas took out the Fresh Choice 100km Challenge, completing the 100km distance in only 8 days! An amazing effort. We ended up with 9 swimmers competing the 100km target, 11 completed the 60km, 21 completed 30km or over, and 36 completed 12km or more. For all of the results, click here!

November Membership Special - Buy 3 months, get ONE FREE!

For November only, we will be giving away an extra month membership for FREE with every 3 month membership! Get into summer with this great deal for only $255, or just $235 for a student or senior!

November Fit Tip - Why diets don’t work

Diets may help you lose weight on the scales but they don’t help you lose body fat, which is what you are aiming for. When you go on a strict diet that starves the body of carbohydrates, the carbohydrate stores in your muscles (glycogen) are used up. As every gram of glycogen is stored along with three grams of water, the initial drop in weight is mainly due to water. Once glycogen stores are used up, the body breaks down its own muscle tissue for energy, which is exactly what you don’t want!! Losing muscle tissue reduces your metabolism, which means your body needs less energy to do the same work it used to. Your body is also adapting to the amount of energy you provide it with. If you starve your body it tries to convert energy, slowing down your metabolism. Going on a diet, which is very hard to stick to, you will generally put the weight back on, (and some) because of your body now needs less energy to survive than it used to. So if you go on and off diets your body ends up with less muscle and more fat!! A diet that is hard to stick to, or you don’t enjoy what you eat, or if you're hungry all the time and it doesn't fit in with your family and social life it is unlikely to work. “So how do I lose weight then?”…. Actually you want to lose body fat rather than weight so don’t focus on the scales. So go by how your clothes feel or use a tape measure instead. You want to be smaller not a number on the scales. It’s more important that your body is fit and toned rather than a particular weight. So change those eating habits and include some regular physical activity. Make gradual changes that suit your lifestyle and are achievable long term. Obviously you need some limits with food but cutting out all your favorite foods and feeling guilty about eating is not the way to go. Remember your new eating plan should be 'gettable' and for life. It should mean eating better not less.

Thanks John Maclean for this months tip!

Learn to swim in the outdoors this summer!

The Swimmagic swimschool will be running a week of lessons at Nayland Park Pool from the 19th-23rd December for school age levels, in the run up to Christmas. Keep the kids busy for the first week of the holidays and help them learn a skill for life. There will be more lessons running in January at both Nayland Park and Riverside pools. Please call us on (03) 546 3221 to enquire or enrol!

Chillout Rocks!

The success of the new chillout van for school pick ups is showing ithe amount of great kids we have enrolled in After School Care at Nayland. However there are still a few more spaces available! Remember, Chillout can now pick kids up from all Nelson and Stoke Schools and provide care until 6pm! Nicki has also been busy organising lots of fun activities for the next holiday programme, coming up over the summer holidays. Details will be available online later this week, so don't forget to check out www.naylandpool.co.nz to see what's in store! To contact Nicki (Chillout Co-ordinator) please call (03) 547 0292 or email nac@clmnz.co.nz.

NZ Wins Rugby World Cup - Now what do we do with all those flags?!

Well it was surely an exciting few weeks whilst New Zealand hosted the Rugby world cup! And what a relief to finally get the cup back where it belongs - well played All Blacks! So now that it has all blown over...we thought it would be great to see who can come up with the most inventive way to re-use all of those All Blacks / Country flags, whether it's a scarf, pillowcase, made into clothing or anything else; we want to see it! The best one brought into Riverside before the end of November wins a 1 month membership! Get creative!

Have a fantastic November!

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