Help!
I'm trying to aquire the motivation to swim daily...well six days a week, one day of rest. I need to lose around 50 pounds by winter, but I still can't get myself in the pool.
I don't know why. I guess a few reasons could be:
(1) Social anxiety
(2) People seeing how fat I am
(3) Failing
Can someone help me gain motivation to get into the pool so I can improve my life?
Thanks!
Best,
Chris
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As for the workouts, I'd suggest checking out Mo's area and then looking at her glossary thread. She explains things pretty well.
If you're just starting to swim, maybe start with some drills? After all, poor technique will slow you down and make it harder to work up in the end. I'll leave it up to the others to suggest stuff to do, because I don't have many ideas, lol.
Oh, and keep in mind that if you're regularly swimming and weight training the scale may not be your best friend. Muscle weighs more than fat, and if you're building muscle in activities and eating healthy, you will lose weight....but it may not seem to be fast. That's not to say you should be gaining weight while doing this...that would be bad. However, to get a true measure of the progress you're making you should look at how much weight you're losing as well as the way you're looking. As your muscles develop you'll start to notice changes in the way your body looks.
These changes also may affect how much weight you actually need to lose to be able to fit into that ski suit.
Oh, yeah, I should say that I didn't mean in my earlier post that you should never swim six days a week. It's just something that, like the others said, you have to work up to. It's kind of like driving a car in the winter. You don't take a car that's been out in the cold/snow for a while and force it to go from 0-60 as fast as it can. You let it warm up for a while and then gradually increase the speed.
As for the workouts, I'd suggest checking out Mo's area and then looking at her glossary thread. She explains things pretty well.
If you're just starting to swim, maybe start with some drills? After all, poor technique will slow you down and make it harder to work up in the end. I'll leave it up to the others to suggest stuff to do, because I don't have many ideas, lol.
Oh, and keep in mind that if you're regularly swimming and weight training the scale may not be your best friend. Muscle weighs more than fat, and if you're building muscle in activities and eating healthy, you will lose weight....but it may not seem to be fast. That's not to say you should be gaining weight while doing this...that would be bad. However, to get a true measure of the progress you're making you should look at how much weight you're losing as well as the way you're looking. As your muscles develop you'll start to notice changes in the way your body looks.
These changes also may affect how much weight you actually need to lose to be able to fit into that ski suit.
Oh, yeah, I should say that I didn't mean in my earlier post that you should never swim six days a week. It's just something that, like the others said, you have to work up to. It's kind of like driving a car in the winter. You don't take a car that's been out in the cold/snow for a while and force it to go from 0-60 as fast as it can. You let it warm up for a while and then gradually increase the speed.
