How embarrassed do you feel for getting out before the workout is over if you don't feel well? This evening, I was at practice for my new team and I was swimming so poorly that I got bumped down a lane. Then, I began to feel even worse, so finally I just got out at one hour and went home. Now that I feel a bit better, I'm totally mortified for not finishing. Extenuating circumstance: I'm new to this team and am very slow compared to them--normally I swim in lane 2. So I'm always a little embarassed jsut for being slow.
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Something shoalswimmer said made me think of this...
Sometimes I get headaches when my blood pressure is too LOW. It's hard to differentiate these headaches from other types of headaches, but a sure cure for it is doing some vigorous activity (like a swimming workout!) to get things pumping better. My tendency is to pull into my shell when I get a headache. Vegetate. Sleep. But the low-blood-pressure headaches will not get better for me that way.
The problem with doing a workout to try curing such a headache is that it may not be a low-blood-pressure headache, and then I just make it worse. I know it pretty quickly into the workout, and that's a time I'll get out early.
Something shoalswimmer said made me think of this...
Sometimes I get headaches when my blood pressure is too LOW. It's hard to differentiate these headaches from other types of headaches, but a sure cure for it is doing some vigorous activity (like a swimming workout!) to get things pumping better. My tendency is to pull into my shell when I get a headache. Vegetate. Sleep. But the low-blood-pressure headaches will not get better for me that way.
The problem with doing a workout to try curing such a headache is that it may not be a low-blood-pressure headache, and then I just make it worse. I know it pretty quickly into the workout, and that's a time I'll get out early.
