Welcome to the November Newsletter!
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.
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!
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 pu
t 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.
t 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!
