Swimming is so good for you that researchers share it may even reduce your risk of death.
Swimming is so good for you that researchers share it may even reduce your risk of death.
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July 4th, 2019 at 8:14AM
I made the very rational decision to start swimming laps this spring, for all the reasons in the article. UD, I hate every minute of it. Every minute. It’s boring and isolating. But it also has resurrected a huge amount of social anxiety from my childhood that I thought was long gone, mostly related to being seen in my swimsuit. It’s like I’m 13 again.
Good for you if you’ve started! But I don’t think I’m going to last very long.
July 4th, 2019 at 6:38PM
Interesting, Anon. It’s different for me, partly because I turn it into an exercise in self-indulgence. One hour strenuous aquajogging with arm weights followed by ten minutes in a very hot whirlpool followed by ten minutes in a sauna! I chose the gym because it had all three – pool, whirlpool, sauna.
I enjoy the water running and so far don’t find it dull – not sure why – and at the end of this sybaritic business of course I feel spectacular. There’s a Whole Foods twenty steps from the gym, and I end the whole thing with a lunch I make out of their great salad buffet. If I’m really feeling ambitious, I walk home (mile and a half) from Whole Foods.
As to how long it will last – dunno. But for me there’s something about parting with monthly gym membership money that’s quite motivating.