What do you mean?
What, I can’t just be sick for two weeks and not exercise AT ALL and go straight back to swimming as I was? Well that’s just. not. fair.
Ok, so I get that you know, I have been sick and all. But still. It was tough swimming yesterday. Tough I tells ya. My coach kept telling me to take it easy and not push too hard. And where times were involved I was working to much lower times than I was before the exam/sickness induced hiatus. But, I got there. I made it through the full session, swimming a total of 2.3km (or 46 laps). But I tell ya, I’m feeling it burn today.
It is hard getting back into exercise after being sick, and it is necessary to take it slow and ease back into it, which is even harder. I want to be able to do what I was doing three weeks ago. But it feels like I’m starting from scratch. And with that comes a real risk of stopping altogether.
But, I have a few techniques I can use to keep myself motivated and get to swimming.
1. I still have 3 passes left on my 10 pass card. This is important because I have to use them or they’re wasted. There’s a time limit on them too, so I can’t muck about. When I get down to 2 I’ll buy another one to keep me motivated.
2. I have made a standing appointment for coffee with a new friend who lives near the pool. This way once a week I have to go swimming so I can keep the coffee date.
3. Tomorrow I’m going to call the mother of some friends of the girls (her girls are 16 months apart, her eldest 4 months older than M&M and her youngest 2 months older than Kiki) and arrange for a school holiday play date after one lesson a week.
Hopefully by then I will have regained the momentum I’ve lost, and be back training to where I was.
Then maybe I can start working on this whole walking thing.
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Good luck and don’t give up!
Applause from here! I’m trying to get back into training too and it is HARD!!!
I personally think 46 laps is amazing. Even in my younger fitter days I would swim across the pool not down the length of it and once across and back was about my limit. I was never an athletic type and obviously unfit. Even worse now.
Saw you over at Aussie Bloggers, and Snoskred’s blog (she was flat out working on both our blogs this week).
I have not walked for about 9 months now. Walking as in exercise walking. We moved interstate late last year and I have put on a whopping 10kg from all the eating out (lived in a hotel for a bit) and NO exercise. NowI feel so uncomfortable. I feel lousy. Soooo, I have made a committment to go on a gentle walk tomorrow arvo. I don’t even know if I own a pair of shorts that will fit me still!
Good luck and keep on going with your exercise!
Cheers
Artoholic Cindy