Day 41

I'm already nearing day 50! Day 59 will be a very good day. I'll only have 120 days after that. 4 months. The old deployment length. those deployments flew by like nothing. Hopefully the rest of my time here will do the same! So today I was back on the free weights doing chest and biceps. I definitely worked them good, because I couldn't even do 5 push ups afterwards. After that, I would normally do my 30 minute intervals on the treadmill today, but I felt like doing something different. Today, I swam for exercise, and wow...it was more of a workout than I had anticipated. First off, I can't remember the last time I went swimming. Actually, I do. It was at the beach in Barcelona, but that wasnt really so much swimming as it was just playing around in the water. Today, I swam. My trainer had me warm up by just doing a slow swim back and forth. Like 4 laps. I could really feel it in my chest today. It really was a full body workout. After that, I did intervals. Intervals meaning I would swim freestyle as fast as I could to the other side of the pool, and them swim slower back, and rest for a couple minutes. Today I did 4 intervals, and then cooled down with 2 laps non-stop. The goal is to get to 10 intervals in my 30 minutes. I was worked after 4, so this should be interesting. I like swimming though. I like it so much, that I am going to take a break from my intervals on the treadmill for the nex few weeks, and focus on swimming. I can feel my heart rate increasing, so I know its working. I was also told that it will help my waistline go down. I like that idea a lot. Most importantly though, it will give my joints a break. I will still be on the treadmill on my 60 minute cardio days, but the swimming allows my joints some reprieve from the 6 days a week of pounding away on a treadmill. Tomorrow is 60 minutes of cardio...I swim again Friday. Excited!