INDOOR: Fight the freeze at your local leisure centre

WITH the recent weather, local sport from Ryman League level football to BBL basketball, all the way down to grassroots sports, have been affected by cancellations and postponements.
By The Newsroom
Published 13th Jan 2010, 12:09 BST
Updated 13th Jan 2010, 12:09 BST

This has left both spectators and players frustrated and many local people lacking the sport/exercise fix that they crave. Well, the messages from our local sports and leisure centres is that they are open for business as normal.

All local centres have stayed open during the big freeze and offer all sorts of inside activities and classes to keep people entertained.

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The Littlehampton Swimming and Sports Centre, in Sea Road, is also open as usual and caters for people wanting a leisurely swim or those keen on a energetic work out.

They have a six-lane swimming pool, with fast and slow lanes, as well as a teaching pool with disabled access to cater for everyone's needs.

They boast a state-of-the-art Tone zone Fitness Studio, with a number of different classes on varying days.

The centre's Sports Dome offers many different types of activity, including badminton, five-a-side football and table tennis. They also run a Time Out programme which features after school children's activities.

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The centre is also starting a 10-week badminton course for over-18s, on Friday, February 5. Coaches will be on hand every Friday, between 8pm and 9pm, to go through strokes, rules and phases of the game.

The course is normally 35 for members and 45 otherwise. But as part of the Sussex County Sport Partnership's Active and Healthy Workplace initiative, the course is available for just 20.

They are also offering Extra sessions, which is a club for seven to 13 year olds offering fun exercise sessions on Friday afternoons starting on January 15. The club will run from 4pm to 5pm.

An indoor athletics club ideal for those who enjoy running, jumping and throwing starts on the same day for six to 11 year olds.

The club will run from 5pm to 6pm.

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For more information on activities and opening times, call 01903 725451, or log onto www.inspireleisure.co.uk

Worthing Leisure Centre, which is in Shaftesbury Avenue, and its partner sites Davison Leisure Centre and The Aquarena, have all been open as normal, with a full programme of events, apart from the Astroturf which has been out of use.

Operations manager Chris Bladen said: "We have the fitness suite open, there is badminton, squash and the bar caf is open, serving hot food and drinks.

"There are quite poor turn-outs to the clubs at the moment, so there hasn't been much call for putting on additional activities."

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They also have courts open to hire for basketball, table tennis, short mat bowls, trampolining, as well as the climbing wall. The centre offers a full fitness programme with a number of different classes from salsa aerobics, boxercise, body pump to yoga and pilates classes.

So, for those wanting to kick the January blues and keep busy and active during the current spell of bad weather, get down to your local centre where there seems to be something for everyone.

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