Thursday, August 11, 2011
Swimming in it
I took the opportunity to swap 1500 skips for a session in the pool. I've been a keen swimmer for decades but have found it a limited pursuit here in HK and particularly since PCP began. It was great to get down to the Wan Chai Swimming Pool and bang out a few laps. I thought it would be easier given I'm living a Spartan lifestyle and weigh about 10% less. What I found was the lap times were the same, the muscles shouted at me at the same times, but the aerobic aspect of it was so much easier. I hadn't really thought I was getting a lot fitter by skipping, just going for fat burn, but the program has definitely picked up my stamina and aerobic capacity. If anyone else has cut a regular exercise out like running, cycling, swimming, etc. to do the program I'd love to hear if you notice any changes going back to it for a session.
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I had been swapping out jumprope for swimming for a while and definitely noticed it was easier. Could go for a while before getting tired. Felt pretty good about that
ReplyDeleteI did a couple days of swimming but also did the jumprope as well. I switched out skipping for running hard on the running machine for 30 min a few days but found then I got a lot hungrier in the evening as I burned a lot more calories, so tended to cheap more on the diet.
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