Indoor athletic pools
 

Does anyone know of an indoor athletic pool anywhere in the area?? Thanks!

None in The Villages!!! All Rec/Sports pools are outside and heated!

No need for indoor pools here.

Mudder -

You've got to be kidding.:laugh:

Yes, we DO need an indoor exercise pool here in The Villages! Most places do, even my mom's community in Kissimmee...Good Samaritan Village.

I am sure there are people who would pay to join a club where there's an indoor therapy pool. Has anyone visited Celebration Hospital Fitness Center? They have 2 pools, one is large for exercise classes and one is smaller and is heated very warm for the people with arthritis, etc.

beautiful!

What... No Swimdawg????

TV needs an indoor pool....definitely!!!
 

Here I go again....on my indoor pool soapbox. I am used to swimming at least 1/2 mile every day (sans weekends). I have been here for 2 weeks and I have only been able to swim 2 days.

There are those who say that the pools are heated so why would we need an indoor pool? I would love to personally take anyone who feels that way to the pool on a cool morning and see how they feel about swimming when the AIR is so cold. It is almost painful to swim when the air is cold.

I would be glad to pay an additional fee to have the option of an indoor pool. There is no doubt about it.....TV NEEDS AN INDOOR POOL.

TV is a perfect retirement community....with that one exception. Bring on an indoor pool!

You're welcome.... :)

It's an embarrassment
 

The lack of at least one indoor athletic lap pool is an embarrassment and a disgrace to TV.

There are hundreds of people who cannot be in the direct sun because of past or current skin cancer or current pre-cancerous skin lesions.

And before all the non-swimmer "experts" pipe up and say "do it in the early morning or late afternoon", that doesn't always work. There are classes and teams scheduled in the sports pools till 3:00 and it gets dark early and they close the pools at dusk, so in the winter the time frame is extremely short.

I'd like to see some of the "experts" get out of the pool WET when it is 60 degrees outside with a breeze.

I and many others would gladly pay for a membership fee for an indoor lap pool, run by a private enterprise if need be.

I try to be a positive person but I have to admit the lack of an indoor pool baffles me-there should be at least three when Brownwood is finished and we should not have to pay for them!!!

Cold conditions
 

I once overheard a woman speaking of buying a wetsuit. Is this what people really do to overcome the cold weather? Seems a bit extreme, but if it's necessary, I'd like to know. Thanks.

I agree that The Villages should have a few indoor pools. I do not think one would be enough for all the people who would probably be interested in it. However, they must have people who can figure out how many are needed. I am now wondering why there are no indoor pools at all.

It is much more expensive to maintain an indoor pool.

When the annual questionnaires come out, it would be great if we all let the owners know how much we would love to have indoor pools. The Morse family has spared no expense with everything they've done in TV. Maybe if they realize how we want and would appreciate indoor pools, they would listen.

Oh dear.... I do believe we have a leader.

I suggest we put Swimdawg in charge of getting The Village Indoor Pools! All in favor.... say aye!!!! :throwtomatoes:

Not too long ago when the wellness center closed, there was a request for who would support keeping the pool open. At that time there was a lack of interest in financially supporting an existing indoor pool. What would make that interest be any greater now? Just askin.

Would that be a no from Bogie Shooter?

We all knew before we punched our ticket that an indoor pool was not part of The Villages lifestyle.......didn't we?

Oh no OLD MAN, We didn't know that. In fact, some of us did sign up for an indoor pool.

http://www.ccfj.net/CDDVillageheatedpool.html

How do you know??

Sorry... I corrected it. :)

"Lack of interest" depends largely on how well and by what medium an issue was presented.

We all know how publicity done effectively or not, and thru wide-coverage media, determines whether a petition lives or dies.

And who owns the "Wellness Center" that moved from the hospital to La Reina and gave up the indoor pool at the hospital? Isn't it MVP? If so, their decision is theirs and The Villages Recreation can take up the matter for building it (or three) for TV.

And if TV built and provided indoor pools, the added operating costs could be offset by the residents who use it, by requiring a fee.....just as we pay greens fees to play golf on the country club courses.

TV needs an indoor walking track for the same reason

At new country club being built?
 

They are if I am not mistaken building a new championship course. They could include an indoor pool with a jogging track around it. Have a pool membership level of joining the club separate from the golf priority one and it would be self sustaining and not as much additional expense as a separate facility. If a cost/benifit anaylisis was done and submitted to the developer (including the enhancement to sales) it would do more for making it happen. Of all the talented peole on this site someone must have the skills to create such a presentation.

Just a thought
Trudy

We could go on and on and someone would have a need that wasn't a majority thing.

I would like tables or places for easels at the art centers that would hold my BIG canvases but I know that it isn't a huge demand.

I feel bad for the swimmers, especially our dear friend Swimdawg.

It gets pricy-er when we expand our want list, unless a pool would be something like a workout room where one must pay a fee.

I personally would love for every villager to have every dream come true and every athletic want and every desire for theatre venues and every single thing that any resident would like to have, here for them.

But I am sayin' this. We do awfully danged well for approximately $140 a month.

And as our Helene often will say... "You can't have everything you want".

indoor pool/ nice health club
 

The Villages is great and at the top of my short list for the near future … however after talking with some new residents, I find that the health club options are not great … by this I mean that the present facilities are over crowded, No indoor pools, no decent locker rooms, no wet areas(to include hot tub, sauna, steam) …. any talk of a modern health club … as good as a YMCA or LA Fitness, LifeTime Fitness …. ???? I would hate to retire at the largest, healthiest, retirement community in the country without a decent health club??

But I am sayin' this. We do awfully danged well for approximately $140 a month.

The only indoor pool was located at the Wellness Center. However the Developer sold that building and moved the Wellness Center to the Spanish springs Town Center and then sold the Wellness Center to MVP.

There were over 200 people with various disabilities, etc that had used that indoor pool and they were not notified of Developers plans to seel the building. for a period of time it did create quite an emotional response. By the way which could have been avoided with better PR

Given the demographics here TV needs some indoor pools but as it stands now residents will end up paying the bill. As I see it the residents will be divided on their need/use and/or the financial obligation, especially in view of the costly maintenance

There are trade-offs. You may have to consider another retirement community.

What do you consider old??

For Crying Out Loud
 

Bogie, Make up your mind. Are you a young feller or an old man! :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

Is that any relation to " You can't have your CAKE and eat it too"?

No need to yell!

lighten up, Whalen. she wasn't yelling.

It would take tons of people to support just one indoor pool. Gee, if I have to give up three days of swimming per year I can live with that. And someone wants an indoor walking track now, come on , put a coat on in winter and walk early or late in summer. I agree with Gracie, we get alot for our $140.

I don't think anyone is suggesting an indoor pool should be FREE to residents. Many people would gladly pay to use an indoor pool. Especially those with arthritis, or who are physically challenged in some way.

I wonder if "many" people would be enough to support an indoor pool...........whatever many might be.

You're probably right, Bogie. Sigh. If it was a money-making proposition, one of the larger Fitness Chains would probably already be in TV.

I'm sure at some point "many" people said also that "nobody" would buy 40,0000 homes built in the pasture and bush in the middle of nowhere in barren Central Florida, too.

What a great post! :bigbow:

Retiring with most amenities is doable at $140 a month especially when the price range for homes is $60,000 to a million and a half. Quite a span for the amenities to be the very same for all. It was a better plan because is it not on the ocean with that high priced land. I would guess that most people are attracted to this place because of the golf, with 32 executives courses and ten championship courses.

We will continue to be a successful community and business enterprise if we are realistic.

We are residents who CAN retire because we saved and planned and were realistic. Most of us planned and sacrificed to get here at all.

We cannot, CANNOT, have every single little thing we want even though it seems to be a BIG thing to us. If it were a BIG thing to most, we would already have it. This is the best thought out business run in a realistic way that I personally have seen in a long time and that is the reason for it's success.

Gotta look at the big picture and accept the reality of this wonderful place.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if a huge, independent fitness place does build as we continue to grow. And of course that CAN happen because we are in Central Florida where the cost of land is much lower than on the coasts. Most big businesses do NOT have expansion in their plans because of the poor economy in the REST of the country.

I wish the government was run like The Villages.