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The arrival of blooming spring means the time has come to get your in-ground swimming pool ready for the warm sunny days. Nothing beats the fun of spending a hot summer evening soaked in fresh and cool pool water. It’s the best refreshment for anyone! But before you start, you should consider a series of measures and equipment to maintain the security in and around your pool, preventing accidents.

Nereids Aquatic Coaching is committed to the health and safety of both our clients and teachers. As a result, we have taken all necessary measures to ensure everyone's safety during Covid-19.

My youngest daughter refused to leave my side in the pool. She did not want to blow bubbles or put her head under the water. I was once a qualified swimming teacher and I tried everything in the book to get her happily swimming like her older sister. Straws, games, songs, you name it, but unlike my students, Indi was not going to give anything a go with me.

There is an instinctive need in people to play games. Discoveries of wall paintings have shown that games were played from ancient years, even in times when mankind was fighting for its survival.

For regular swimmers, swimming is not just an activity for filling spare time. On the contrary, it's a way of life. The feelings of joy and revitalisation that come together with swimming are becoming addictive elements of swimmers' daily lives. What is most important is the health factor.

We, humans, quite often have the tendency to put barriers on ourselves and sometimes even think in a non-positive way. Barriers on what we can do, what we can achieve and fulfil. But are those barriers actually true?   Or are they just a limitation we set, which is very often due to misinformation and misconception?

Swimming is a physical activity, but its influence in the field of mental health and wellbeing is enormous. It would not be an exaggeration to argue that in many cases, the benefits of swimming for mental health are greater than the physical ones.

Life is full of transitional periods. We all know this fact of life. Parents, especially, move from one transitional period to another, as far as their children are concerned. Indeed, as kids grow up, there are constant changes in all aspects of their lives. There is no doubt that one of the most crucial periods of changes for kids comes when they begin their school years.

Did you know that half of the drowning deaths of children aged 0-4 years old occur in backyard swimming pools? This striking data is a cause of major alarm to all parents of kids who own a home swimming pool.