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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Originally posted by Ion Beza
It proves that in the thread "Not everyone in shape in California", my first post of the thread -stating that for whoever wants to access fitness facilities, it's easier to do so in California than it is in the East-, is right in the case of San Diego and New York.
Well, yes, I suppose it would be difficult to access facilities in New York if you're not even in New York when you try.
It doesn't change the fact that, as I stated in my original post, there are more pools and other facilities in New York than when you were here or that there are several Masters teams in New York that have 9 or 10 practices a week (not the four practices you said were the norm). I can get to any one of four such programs, all in Manhattan, within a 15 minute subway ride.
And it doesn't change the fact that, unless you're trying to make some very atypical commute from out of state (New Milford is a pretty long way from New York), you shouldn't need to drive or park a car in Manhattan.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
It proves that in the thread "Not everyone in shape in California", my first post of the thread -stating that for whoever wants to access fitness facilities, it's easier to do so in California than it is in the East-, is right in the case of San Diego and New York.
Well, yes, I suppose it would be difficult to access facilities in New York if you're not even in New York when you try.
It doesn't change the fact that, as I stated in my original post, there are more pools and other facilities in New York than when you were here or that there are several Masters teams in New York that have 9 or 10 practices a week (not the four practices you said were the norm). I can get to any one of four such programs, all in Manhattan, within a 15 minute subway ride.
And it doesn't change the fact that, unless you're trying to make some very atypical commute from out of state (New Milford is a pretty long way from New York), you shouldn't need to drive or park a car in Manhattan.
