Work Out Achievement(s): So here it is. The Big Reveal to what I started doing about ten days ago. I've started swimming again!
Although I'm living in the middle of the desert this tiny little town has a pretty nice sized pool to do laps in. Not only that but the water is brough from a Warm spring close by so the pool is naturally warm AND because it's cleaned regularly it is Un-Clorinated.
Pretty sweet deal.
Back a few months when I first started this journey and I was thinking about swimming I bought this awesome swimsuit that made me want to swim even more. I've even had some good memories at the gym
with it.
When I looked up the little town I was going to live in I found out their pride and joy was their local pool and so I brought the swim suit without really knowing whether or not this pool would be big enough for me to actually swim.
It turned out to be perfect.
This pic was taken from an online website but this is exactly the pool I go to every night.
Not as big as a regular lap pool but enough to do some decent laps.
Now, what's so special about swimming again? Two things:
1) I decided to do a "streak" (<-- program SparkPeople does where you try to keep up with a work out routine or whatever as many days in a row as possible) of going swimming every night without skipping. and
2) I decided that every night I would add 1 lap to my total.
This means that the first night I did 20 laps. Each night afterwards I would add a lap. So the next night was 21 laps, then 22.. etc, etc.
Last night was my big treshold; last night was my 30th Lap!
Challenging myself like this and edging myself on at every point (literally: every stop at the edge of the pool I kept telling myself "one more, just one more") has been VERY rewarding.
Since I'm adding one lap at a time it's making me pace myself and WANT to keep going. I want to reach my 35th lap. My 50th. Hell I want to get to 100 laps!
This method of going about working out is not only making me want to work out, but work out daily and work out harder.
It's a great, great feeling.
Goal(s): Because swimming isn't enough and I also need to continue gaining stamina in hiking up and down my field sites (my sites are getting further and further away from the road which means more and more walking for me) I need to start hiking more.
One of my temp co-workers last night joked that I should go out to the marshes with my big wader boots
something like this
early in the morning and run laps around the sinky mud and thick saltgrass. I laughed and said "yeah right" but it did get me thinking that I DO need to start doing something to get me in better shape for this terrain. Walking with those boots around here is no picnic.
But yes, other than that I need to keep my swimming streak. LOL, it kind of brings new meaning to the phrase
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming" lol
have a great week everyone!
love
-w0rld
1 comment:
That's wonderful! Congratulations! Swimming is a great work out and it's FUN! Not to mention that you even have a heated and clean pool, couldn't get much better than that :)
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