Week One, Day Four: January 15th

Workout
Prescribed Workout:
Swimming: Continuously for 15 minutes

Actual Workout:
Swimming: Continuously for 13 laps in a 50 meter pool

Eating
Lunch (12:00)
Turkey sandwich on whole wheat with avocado, onions, lettuce, tomatoes and mustard

Dinner (7:00)
Grilled chicken breast
Cooked vegetables (mainly mushrooms and tomatoes)
Pasta salad
One Kudos bar

Thoughts
Sorry for the delayed post--I had a lot of work to do last night, and didn't have much time, even for what I'm sure will be my shortest post yet. It was a pretty lite day. I decided to add more laps to my swimming, since I timed myself going one length of the pool (50 meters) in about 1:10 minute, so the 10 laps I swam Tuesday were a bit too little for my 15 minutes of allotted time. Overall, the workout felt very good. I found that swimming free style for an extended period of time--which wore me out quickly on Tuesday--came a bit easier to me. On breast stroke, I kept my strokes relatively short and tight so that I could get more out of it (more pulls as opposed to less, but longer individual pulls). I probably could have swam about 20 laps, but I was constrained by time, since I had class shortly after.

I spoke to a friend of mine on the swim team here, and he gave me some tips to get the most out of swimming. 1) Kick more, 2) On free style, turn onto your side when you bring your heard up for air, since that works the muscles on the side of the torso, 3) Short strokes as opposed to long strokes during breast, which I was already doing but will make a conscious effort to keep doing. I compared my soreness to his, and it was generally the same (a lot in the deltoid region), with the exception of my side muscles, since I hadn't been turning completely during the breathing part of my free style.

Eating wasn't too eventful. I missed breakfast...again...even though it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I woke up. This needs to stop. Anyway, the rest of my eating day was lite to go along with my light workout. I found that one of the harder things to do is not give in to temptation. My roommate wanted to make a frozen pizza last night, and despite my desire to make one as well, I immediately said no. Same with some Milkduds.

Back in a moment with an update from today, which was far more exciting.