New Year Resolutions

[Deleted]

I generally don't prescribe to the notion of making New Year resolutions however,think I may indulge in a couple this next year.Much more in the realm of the reasonable and practical.

Make more frequent short trips to NY to visit my family,my mother in particular.

Go back to swimming at least 3 times a week at pool at University


What about everyone else? or if you don't prescribe to the idea any particular reason why?
And,when have made in the past, how successful were you?

[lagatta]

I usually avoid them like the plague. Not a New Year's Resolution, but I've been looking into some kind of physical activity I can do in a nearby community centre: something like tai chi, Qi gong, baladi etc. I hate getting out of shape when I can't ride my bicycle, and I don't really like winter sports very much (I hate being cold, even my face). I do go for walks but it isn't enough.

Also not a resolution, but something I do every year these days is going through papers and closets and recycling stuff. Only problem this time of year is taking the stuff. I have old computer stuff to be discarded, and just about nobody I know has a car, except people who have extremely busy work schedules. (I live very close to a métro station).

[spindrift]

I haven't decided on any Resolutions yet. It's no good me resolving to attend the gym because I know that wild horses won't drag me there.

Casimira - aren't you afraid of absorbing chemicals (such as chlorine) from the swimming pool water? It's ok to risk it once in a while but to swim in chlorinated water 3 times per week is a bit chancy I think. That's why I don't use public swimming baths. How do you feel about it?
There are probably other poisonous chemicals in there too.

[lagatta]

Is is a risk? When I was younger (and swimsuit-worthy) I went swimming almost every day to no ill effects (but then, I was younger). I'm leery of chemicals too but don't know of anyone who has been harmed by chlorination unless there was far too much. The worse problems were infections, but that isn't caused by added chemicals but by the water quality being substandard despite such chemicals.

spindrift, what do you do to keep fit in nasty weather? I ask that because I know your holidays often involve activities requiring a high fitness level.

[fumobici]

The only thing I noticed frequently swimming indoors was chlorinated water turns pale blond hair a weird greenish color.

[spindrift]

Chlorine is an obnoxious heavy metal and an excess of it is dangerous. I'll have to look it up but it's absorbed into the body through the skin and no doubt it's then deposited in the brain or other vital organ cells.

Lagatta, to my shame I don't do anything much to keep fit unless it's climbing up and down the many stairs in my house I probably walk several miles a day because I rarely use my car since there is a severe lack of parking spaces in the city. Three months before a trek I increase my walking and try to climb up steep hills. Winchester is a hilly place.

[Deleted]

I could so easily be dissuaded into NOT going swimming 3 times a week.
Perhaps ,I will resolve to make lots more money some kind of brilliant way and have a salt water pool put in amidst my garden.A nice long lap pool would be just fine by me.You could come train here Spindrift

[traveler63]

New Years resolutions are talked about and I have made many, but alas, I really don't think many people keep them.

[Deleted]

Perhaps should be called New Year's Aspirations.I like better knowing I am aspiring versus resolving anyway. Easier to cop out

[Deleted]

I don't think I have ever written down a resolution. I just file a few ideas away in my mind, where they quickly disappear. If we were obliged to frame them and post them on the front door, they might have more impact.

[imec]

Dec 26, 2009 21:57:15 GMT spindrift said:

Chlorine is an obnoxious heavy metal and an excess of it is dangerous.

An excess of anything is dangerous - a physician in Israel told me that ingesting as little as a teaspoon of water from the Dead Sea could kill a person (the hospital he runs treats emergency cases brought from the Dead Sea) - yet Dead Sea therapy is prescribed regularly by physicians in Europe and the Middle East.

Chlorine has been used in pools for decades - surely any significant side effects would have manifested themselves in the millions of competitive swimmers who spend hours in the pool everyday. My own daughter is in the pool at least 6 times a week for at least 2 hours at a time - and swimmers at higher competitive levels spend far more.

[Deleted]

I don't usually make resolutions. But I do make lists! And I always have a three month calender going. I like having goals, as you can tell.

[bixaorellana]

I believe most swimmers shower as soon as they leave the pool if at all possible. Health considerations aside, many people want to get the chlorine out of their swimsuits & hair as quickly as possible. Perhaps the shower right afterward negates much if not all of chlorine's bad effects?

My aspiration for the new year is to get back into my positive routines -- more exercise, definitely, for one.

[spindrift]

Ok. So I should say that excess chlorine isn't dangerous?

[bixaorellana]

No! It could be. That's only my theory that showering might keep it from accumulating to the point that it's dangerous. I have nothing scientific to back it up.

[Deleted]

I just went and did a garden consult which took me past Audubon Park this a.m. and I had to laugh to myself while passing. There were four times the number of runners,joggers,cyclists etc.than there normally is. Chances are very good that a month or two from now this will easily be halved.

[tillystar]

Casimira - aren't you afraid of absorbing chemicals (such as chlorine) from the swimming pool water? It's ok to risk it once in a while but to swim in chlorinated water 3 times per week is a bit chancy I think. That's why I don't use public swimming baths. How do you feel about it?
There are probably other poisonous chemicals in there too

I know what you mean about the chemicals, I love swimming but I have an allergy to chlorinated pools and if I go two days in a row or more than a couple of times a week I get really blocked sinuses, itchy eyes and a headache, I feel like I do with my hayfever in the height of summer.

In general though, I think it’s rare and think like others have said too much of anything is not good for you. I guess it’s a risk you decide to take or not – like joggers risk dodgy knees or cyclists risk dangerous roads. Mr Star goes swimming every day and has done so since I have known him and he hasn’t turned green yet but when he stops swimming I know it does his blood pressure no good as he finds it really helps him wind down.

Anyhow, I have a resolution for the first time ever – I am going to learn to drive this year. I’d also like to be a little fitter but that’s not gonna happen so I am not setting myself up for a fall

[Deleted]

Tilly,is there any way you could document this later in life rite of passage (learning how to drive)? This could be very "rich'.

[hwinpp]

I don't think the amount of chlorine in properly supervised pools, baths, drinking water can be considered 'excessive'.
I too spent 10 years swimming laps (100m free, 56.4 Imec ) after that another 10 years playing competitive waterpolo. I don't think there's anything wrong with me (except I'm getting fatter because I don't get enough exercise...).