Just keep swimming literally

ReadySteadyGo · August 27, 2008

Thats my new exercise.

Three time a week I'm swimming in the gyms pool. I'm not a graceful swimmer. And it is an olympic sized pool and I haven't figured out how to take a quick, effortless breathe and with a quick resubmergence in the woman. So I do laps looking like a drowning dog...but I don't care. It's fun, it makes me proud, and I can feel it when I am doing it. When my heart is beating too fast to swim then I grab those Water weights and fight to keep them under as I walk up and down the pool. I keep myself interested by playing this game with myself. See the lanes are marked and in the center of the lane there is a 8 in black stripe (I guess so that when your swimming you have a line to follow. I walk up and down the pool holding down the weights, which is harder than it sounds, and I also work my legs by fitting the waves of the other swimmers to keep my feet in the black line.

I have really enjoyed it.

annecolorgreen · August 27, 2008

That's awesome!

Do you feel like your weight loss has increased since you've started in the pool? I've always felt like I didn't get a "workout" unless I got sweaty!

Keep it up...

~~anne

Ezma · August 27, 2008

... to take a quick, effortless breathe and with a quick resubmergence in the woman.

I'm sorry but...LOL...were you thinking of something else when you were writing? I about died laughing at that typo.

Swimming sounds like so much fun. I really wish we had a pool here cause I'd be swimming every day.

Good for you Ready! On both exercises.

tapshoes · August 27, 2008

Hey RSG - I too have taken up swimming about 3 months ago. I can't say I love it, but it is less repugnant than other forms of exercise! My committment to myself is to exercise 4 times a week, and swimming is something I do with less drama and delaying tactics on at least 2 of those days.

My duration varies - some days I can do significantly more laps than others, but I make myself swim until I can't anymore.

Maybe the VV's need an exercise thread....