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Making a Splash

ESWIL
Jun 20, 2016
2 min read

Retirement is always part of your plan – but not usually when you have just turned 48 and half. But hey ho that was the lemon that I was thrown and had I written this piece several months ago it probably would have been entitled, ‘Lately I have been discovering how to live with my husband on a full time basis’.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re 24 years strong, but we worked out (as we talked through the challenges) that our careers had meant we probably had actually only ever spent about 12 years together in real time.

What amazed me was that he didn’t know I was addicted to Radio 2 and that apparently my day’s activities are accompanied by a constant commentary from yours truly. The resolution was passed – I was limited to the Popmaster quiz only; and unless I said hubby’s name at the start of a sentence he was allowed to ignore my witterings!

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A radical overhaul in the way in which I was working came about and I have to say I really am rather relishing having the time and inclination to try new things. So along with cycling I have embarked on getting fit in different ways. I’ve joined the Aqua Fit classes at the local Melksham Blue Pool.

A couple of initial observations about Blue Pool, the walls are orange and the pool walls and floor are white…. But I do suppose the water is blue-ish. It’s an awfully long time since I did anything new by myself and you do feel like a fish out of water (pardon the pun) when everyone else knows the ‘rules’, like the hierarchy of who gets which dumbbells - yes really!

Aqua Fit is a brilliant form of exercise because is non-weight bearing and as I have figured if you are at the back of class it must be pretty damn difficult for the trainer to be able to see if your legs really are doing long lever kicks or bicycle legs. But I jest this is great resistance training and the lovely ladies of a certain age really do know how to shake their booty in the pool.

The class is an hour long and we work every part of the body including our ‘core’. Lots of sports can be intimidating for many beginning on the road to fitness but Aqua Fit really does embrace all types and levels of fitness and as a really great plus-point a chest challenged by gravity looks fab buoyed up by the swimming pool water!