So, I started exercising again last week, after being sedentary for about a year and a half. I have this history of getting gym memberships, getting all excited about exercise, counting calories really closely, and then dropping it after a couple months. It’s the same story most people who try to lose weight have: I have trouble permanently incorporating exercise into my habits, routine and life. My membership to Rain Fitness in Seattle has been sitting unused for over 6 months now.
So the other week, when I was in Florida for a work conference and making use of the giant pool to float around and relax at night, I thought: “Hey I should try swimming laps, that would be fun!” And 30 seconds later, I realized that that’s the first time in a long time I thought about exercise and the word fun came to mind, rather than boring, awful, or any other of a handful of other negatively connoted concepts. So I decided to jump on it and try lap swimming for exercise.
So, starting last week I decided to exercise more again. The results so far:
Sunday, August 2: swam 15 laps (750 yards or about 0.40 miles), mostly breaststroke, some freestyle and backstroke
Saturday, August 8: Biked 5 miles on the Burke-Gilman bike path and played catch for half an hour.
Sunday, August 9: Swam 16 laps (800 yards or about 0.45 miles), mostly breastroke, some freestyle and backstroke. I also alternated some breaststroke laps with a paddle board, so I worked my legs more on those laps.
