Bleh

Bleh - the weather, my workout, the traffic. All of it. What a cruddy day. The weather is absolutely miserable and I am already dreading my commute home from work.

Last night I stayed up way past my bedtime doing a "guests are coming to stay" clean-up. So the apartment is definitely cleaner, if not clean. Then I had to get up earlier than normal because I knew I had a long workout this morning - it included by strength training and swimming. Strength training today consisted of core muscle work, which I always hate because I may have the weakest core muscles on this planet. That took about 20 minutes because I flew through it - it really should have taken around 30+. Then I jumped in the pool. It was supposed to be a 60 min swim including the warm-up and cool down, but about 40 minutes into I started to feel super queasy. I think that I was just hungry and the swim drills that I was doing were making me a bit dizzy (they involved a bunch of twisting in the water). I had to quit because I really did not want to have to tell the old man at the desk that I had puked in the pool. I figured 40 minutes was good, even if it wasn't the whole workout. I guess I need to figure out something better to eat before swimming because I always get hungry when I swim. I usually eat nothing at all before I work out, but as my volume and duration increases, I am going to have to eat something. This morning I ate half of a clif bar. I don't know if that made me queasy or if I should have eaten the other half too in order to stave off the hunger. This whole process really is going to involve a lot of trial and error.

Here's the workout:

Core Muscle Strengthening - actually maybe instead of describing the workouts I'll post a link with the pictures. Anyway - this portion of my workout involved trying to figure out how to do the exercises with really weak muscles and modify them so that I could do them.

Swimming

5 min - freestyle warm-up
15 min - balance drills with fins
15 min - extension drills with fins
10 min - stroke drills without fins

Then I was supposed to do 5 more minutes of stroke drills, 5 min freestyle swim, 5 min cool-down of non-freestyle

To be perfectly, these drills seemed like a waste of time. First of all, because the pool is so short, I don't have time to get much done with fins on before I am turning around. Second, I a fairly good technical swimmer. Heck, I used to teach swim lessons. I'm not saying I'm great, but a lot of these drills were a bit too basic. I pictured them being better for someone who has trouble breathing to the side or lifts their head out of the water or etc. The stroke drills are helpful drills that I used to do when I swam, but I guess they just stunk today because by then I wasn't feeling so good. We'll see - I hope future swim workouts on the training program are better.