I came form California and I'm overweight. In fact I didn't take up swimming until again until I spent 3 years in Arizona. Now, there was a country club pool I could have swam there but I didn't. In fact in my area in Arizona there are public pools or health club pools as just are ready as there was in California. I think that many people back east are probably are into other sports more like figure Skating, in fact a top figure skater name Sasha Cohen went back there to get better coaching and a better facility. Also, just because Long Island isn't into swimming as much as the Pacific region doesn't mean they don't workout. Also, I enjoy indoor pools, something that both California and Arizona lack. The weather is not always rosy in either states. There are sometimes bad rain storms in California in the January or February period and Monsoon conditions in Arizona in the summer. The New Yorkers are a little wiser to built the indoor pools, in Tempe we had rain problems and the 800 was delayed until the next day and the 200 IM relays got cancel. Now back east and in the mid-west where pools are mainly indoors they could have continue on with the meet.
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Indeed, not everyone is in great shape in California, Cynthia, but the possibilities for accessing fitness programs are greater in California than in the Eastern US, for whoever wants to choose to exercise.
In Masters in the East, there are three or four practices per week.
I remember like this Maryland, mid-West Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Tennessee.
In California, in Silicon Valley where I was and in San Diego where I am now, there are nineteen practices per week.
Outside of the Masters programs, fitness facilities are open longer hours in California than in the East, and they are better run:
my nightmare fitness facilities are from recalling mid-West Illinois (swimming one way in one lane, and swimming back in the adjacent lane), New York without parkings except paying parkings in private garages but sure with too many toll roads, New Jersey ("Sir, I stop your swimming because I am crossing the lane.") and Tennessee (someone who didn't know how to swim, jumps in the lane where I was swimming non-stop and collides with me, while the lifeguards and the management didn't understand anything about it, lifeguards who unoficially were closing the facility earlier than advertised and public crossing swimming lanes).
Indeed, not everyone is in great shape in California, Cynthia, but the possibilities for accessing fitness programs are greater in California than in the Eastern US, for whoever wants to choose to exercise.
In Masters in the East, there are three or four practices per week.
I remember like this Maryland, mid-West Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Tennessee.
In California, in Silicon Valley where I was and in San Diego where I am now, there are nineteen practices per week.
Outside of the Masters programs, fitness facilities are open longer hours in California than in the East, and they are better run:
my nightmare fitness facilities are from recalling mid-West Illinois (swimming one way in one lane, and swimming back in the adjacent lane), New York without parkings except paying parkings in private garages but sure with too many toll roads, New Jersey ("Sir, I stop your swimming because I am crossing the lane.") and Tennessee (someone who didn't know how to swim, jumps in the lane where I was swimming non-stop and collides with me, while the lifeguards and the management didn't understand anything about it, lifeguards who unoficially were closing the facility earlier than advertised and public crossing swimming lanes).
