Kill The Unfit.
May. 11th, 2004 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lirionNo. Hangon.
Given how unfit last night's swimming session proved me to be, perhaps there won't be any killing for a little while at least.
I only managed about 600 metres. That said, 600 metres is 24 laps of the pool, so I don't feel quite as bad. Given that I've recently been doing no exercise at all, its not an alotogether bad effort. THough I did do about a third of the laps just kicking with a kickboard. Curse my lack of upper body stregth; my arms hurt. Plan is to work up to 1km. After that - given I think my general fitness will probably increase faster than my upper body strength - it will be 1km of full swimming. Think I'll try and increase it by 50 metres a week. Alternating freestyle, backstroke and breathstroke still. Backstroke kick exercises the legs much better than front I found last night.
And then there was the sauna, and after that the spa. Ahhh, relax those tired, sore muscles. Consequently, I hurt much less than I feared I would today. Barely at all in fact, unless I lift my arms above my head. Though I did go to bed with a heatpack, because they were achey last night.
However, no pain (rather than no gain) means that I'm not now unmotivated to continue...
Now I just have to focus on some healthier eating...
Given how unfit last night's swimming session proved me to be, perhaps there won't be any killing for a little while at least.
I only managed about 600 metres. That said, 600 metres is 24 laps of the pool, so I don't feel quite as bad. Given that I've recently been doing no exercise at all, its not an alotogether bad effort. THough I did do about a third of the laps just kicking with a kickboard. Curse my lack of upper body stregth; my arms hurt. Plan is to work up to 1km. After that - given I think my general fitness will probably increase faster than my upper body strength - it will be 1km of full swimming. Think I'll try and increase it by 50 metres a week. Alternating freestyle, backstroke and breathstroke still. Backstroke kick exercises the legs much better than front I found last night.
And then there was the sauna, and after that the spa. Ahhh, relax those tired, sore muscles. Consequently, I hurt much less than I feared I would today. Barely at all in fact, unless I lift my arms above my head. Though I did go to bed with a heatpack, because they were achey last night.
However, no pain (rather than no gain) means that I'm not now unmotivated to continue...
Now I just have to focus on some healthier eating...
