Man, this week I did two hour long sessions of deep water running. at first I thought I would look like a dumba$$ out there...but after 20 minutes I knew I was getting an awesome workout!
These two simulated runs have been butt kickers! Sure, you make as most out of it as you want...
It sure did make me appreciate water aerobics (or at least those who are really working it!)
*Shaky--don't you dare say that I've gone to the dark side.
jerrycat
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Water jogging or water running is not the same thing as floating on a noodle while music plays and pretending to be working out. The former is exercise. The latter is paying a scam artist to tell you you're exercising in the desperate hope that suggestion is more powerful than actual physical activity.
I've never criticized water running, except when some idiot decided to get in a lane with several other swimmers to do it and kept getting in their way. Those people get run over. No sympathy.
P.S. For those who remember my pool rants, I finally gave up and quit swimming in September. While on a weeks' vacation points south, I tried my first open water swim. I was sitting there on the deck next to the lake, looking at the island a half mile away, and decided to go for it. I had a jetski escort to keep the speeding boaters from killing me.
When I came back north after being out in that open water, I couldn't bear the thought of fighting for space in a lane. So I quit and cancelled my Y membership, printing "Substandard facilities and unsatisfactory member service" in the "Reason for Leaving" section on the form. But I moved in December and discovered a reasonably uncrowded YMCA pool right down the street from my new house. I joined up again, and besides being a little too warm and having a weird slope to the wall at one end that makes me misjudge the end of the pool, it seems to be a little more tolerable. There are aerobes there, but so far I haven't seen them.
I've only been back twice, because January has been busy and the insult of this miserable weather makes me only want to go home and sleep when I do have time to work out. I'm looking forward to getting back into a routine, however, and coming up with a new signature line.
Water jogging or water running is not the same thing as floating on a noodle while music plays and pretending to be working out. The former is exercise. The latter is paying a scam artist to tell you you're exercising in the desperate hope that suggestion is more powerful than actual physical activity.
I've never criticized water running, except when some idiot decided to get in a lane with several other swimmers to do it and kept getting in their way. Those people get run over. No sympathy.
P.S. For those who remember my pool rants, I finally gave up and quit swimming in September. While on a weeks' vacation points south, I tried my first open water swim. I was sitting there on the deck next to the lake, looking at the island a half mile away, and decided to go for it. I had a jetski escort to keep the speeding boaters from killing me.
When I came back north after being out in that open water, I couldn't bear the thought of fighting for space in a lane. So I quit and cancelled my Y membership, printing "Substandard facilities and unsatisfactory member service" in the "Reason for Leaving" section on the form. But I moved in December and discovered a reasonably uncrowded YMCA pool right down the street from my new house. I joined up again, and besides being a little too warm and having a weird slope to the wall at one end that makes me misjudge the end of the pool, it seems to be a little more tolerable. There are aerobes there, but so far I haven't seen them.
I've only been back twice, because January has been busy and the insult of this miserable weather makes me only want to go home and sleep when I do have time to work out. I'm looking forward to getting back into a routine, however, and coming up with a new signature line.
