Swim Current / Exercise Pools

Somewhere between “I really should exercise more” and “I really don’t want to drive to a leisure centre at 6am” sits a very British compromise: swim current pools. You step in, flick a dial, and a wall of moving water arrives to argue with your front crawl. You go nowhere. You still get somewhere. A … Read more

There’s a particular kind of British optimism involved in standing at the bottom of a modest garden, tape measure in hand, trying to convince yourself that an exercise pool for small garden use will somehow fit between the shed and next door’s leylandii. I’ve done the maths for a lot of gardens that were never … Read more

There’s a particular kind of madness to swimming lengths in a pool that’s only three metres long. You push off, you take four strokes, you touch the wall, you turn around, you do it again — over and over, like a goldfish that’s read too much self-help. A swim current pool solves that problem by … Read more