So this my mid week progress for training,
Day 1 - Monday - Gym - Didn't go.... Oops
Day 2 - Tuesday - Swimming - 2 hours worth of laps in the pool
Day 3 - Wednesday - Gym - might go buy a dinning room table instead....Ok and the gym....Maybe
Why is it so tough to drag your overweight butt to the gym?.... I need a gym buddy!
Well at least i went Swimming and here's my story...
Ian and I hit the pool right after work, with a friend of ours Heather. I got prepared the night before and had Ian pick me up in Coquitlam so i didn't have to go home first. We got to the pool and ended up gabbing about the latest news in our life, Heather pipes up...Maybe we should swim???
We ended up changing and strutting our butts in one-piece, high cut bathing suits and the oh so fashionable "mirrored" swim goggles. We met Ian at the edge of the pool and jumped in, Heather oh so eagerly, me very gingerly.
Ian say's "OK, show me your technique" I'm like YAH I'm an awesome swimmer. I barely got to the end of the lap and was totally out of breath, then i turned around to see the horror on his face.....So i have shitty technique, what does that matter...right? Wrong, supposedly to be a good swimmer you shouldn't move you're upper body, should keep your legs as close together and breath out your nose so you don't drink the pool. Crap another sport I'm terrible at!! Then he starts talking to the lifeguard about "LESSONS" I'm of course totally embarrassed to be terrible enough that the lifeguard comments! And plus I'm not taking lessons with a bunch of 10 year olds...Yah that will be fun. After another 30 laps of anger swimming i pulled myself to somewhat resemble a humpback whale and finished strong, we got into the hot tub and our muscles start to tighten.
I found out later that pools offer "stroke lessons" to help improve your swimming abilities and make you stronger faster...I guess I'm going, wish me luck.
Stay tuned for more pains and gains...
10 years ago
4 comments:
Starting something new is always challenging. They say it takes 21 days for a person to form a habit! 20 days left?
Okay, you are NOT overweight. Stop it.
I'm sorry that Ian made you feel terrible about your efforts. I'm sure you weren't THAT bad?! At least you got yourself into the pool!! Please don't let him get you down.
Hey, he was being totally supportive and encouraging. In no way was he getting me down, just pointing out what i wanted to ignore. :(
Hey I was struggling away in the pool too you know... you caught on so quickly to any pointer you were given, it was great. I wish I could learn that easily. In the end I actually had fun and cant wait to keep going, practice makes perfect right? Thanks for bringing up the unsightly trauma of my suit by the way! :) See you tonight.
I agree with Jabba, it takes at least a month to learn something new or get back to an activity you haven't done in a long time.
I so admire you for doing this! Keep it up girl. Loving the posts!
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