First up my cardio fitness is fucking shocking, so that's gotta be the primary short-term goal - I figure if I can't breath then I can't exercise. For this goal I'm swimming 3 days a week before work. It's pretty short and sweet, largely because I'm pretty sure I'll drown trying to do more - a 50m warmup (which I swim breaststroke), followed by 5x50m reps at a higher level (freestyle for these), and lastly another 50m to warm down (breaststroke again).
The next short-term goal is to get some muscle strength back to my core, the abs and lower-back. Chris has got me doing a series of stretches, followed by some core exercises. The stretches are for 30-60 seconds in duration, and the exercises are generally reps of 10 for each one. I'm doing these 3 days a week too, on the off days between swims - Sunday is my day off. I shan't be more detailed about what exercises exactly, mostly because I don't want to shit all over Chris' business and spill his secrets. If he's ok with it, then I'm happy to share.
At home, we're not making huge life changes to our food - at least not yet. We're coming into summer anyway so the fruit and vege options are getting cheaper and more prevalent, so we're just trying to have more of those instead of fattier options. With lunch I'm taking at least 2 pieces of fruit - today, for example, I've got a banana, an apple and 2 manderines - and cutting back on buying fatty shit for lunch.
The plan is still super early on, but I'm definitely feeling there's been progress already. After the swim on day 1 I swear I was going to hurl, but today I felt like there was more left in the tank after I finished my warm down.
That's a good sign right?
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