Category: Health
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Why Should Runners Swim? | The Benefits Of Swimming To Improve Running
Running and Swimming, both improve your cardiovascular fitness! So if you’re a runner but want to experience the benefit of non-weight bearing training, then swimming could be the sport for you!
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‘Magic’, ‘medicinal’ water keeping tourists and towns afloat | The Pool
Taking to the waters of a mineral pool is a human tradition stretching back thousands of years ago. Today, it’s often grey nomads seeking out the reputed healing powers of mineral pools and their bubbling waters.
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The way that athletes use pools for rehabilitation | The Pool
Every weekend our football stars run onto the turf across the country and battle. They collide at break-neck speed, tackles are made, marks are taken, there are winners, there are losers. Most of all there are many, many sore bodies and many, many sore egos.
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Swim advisory on beach in Sanibel due to bacteria in the water
The Florida Department of Health has issued a no swim advisory for the beach at Tarpon Bay Road on Sanibel.
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Pool safety: first response safety steps that could save a life
Do you know what to do if someone is in trouble around water? http://education.abc.net.au/newsandar…
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Happiness is hydrotherapy: the pool where community love runs deep | The Pool
Innisfail’s Mary and Duncan Patterson visit their local pool twice a week. The water aerobics workouts help keep their bodies fit, but the benefits to their mental well-being run much deeper. Duncan has dementia and wife Mary is his full-time carer. For Mary, the pool is a place of respite. For Duncan, it’s a source…
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Using Surfing To Improve Mental Health in South Africa
Waves for Change is improving the mental health of young adults in South Africa by teaching them how to surf. The Fabled West Coast of South Africa produces some of the world’s most pristine surf. Here, a local social enterprise, Waves for Change, is working in the heart of Cape Town’s most deeply troubled Communities…
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Athlete of the Week: Kalis Rasmussen
This week’s Athlete of the Week is proving age is nothing but a number. Rick Campanelli with how 94-year-old Kalis Rasmussen is breaking swimming records in pools around the world.