At the pool

We’ve been having some pretty hot weather recently so I finally got around to buying a new swim suit this afternoon. As a carer, I take a family friend, G, to aqua aerobics on Wednesday evening and sitting in the pool area is pretty uncomfortable at this time of the year. Ironically, the weather cooled today and it was almost chilly this evening by comparison to the last few nights. Anyway, I do have the option of doing the class myself but declined today. I really hate trying to follow a class and feel incredibly clumsy and uncoordinated much of the time. I also find it difficult to keep watch on G because I am too distracted.

Instead I spent most of my time in the walking lane and ended up with a pretty decent workout today. I didn’t find the walking was doing much for my heart rate for quite some time. I eventually realised they had marked two lanes for walking so moved into the lane that was in deeper water. That was somewhat more satisfying and I carried on for some time before adding a bit of difficulty. While it was a walking lane, nobody else was there so I started doing a sort of swimming thing although I didn’t use any particular swimming stroke. I ended up doing a sort of modified breast stroke but changed hand positions so that I was hopefully using different muscles to move through the water. I’m not really able to managed freestyle or even backstroke due to shoulder problems so this worked pretty well for me. I alternated laps of my modified swimming with walking and towards the end did almost all swimming. I moved into the area where the aqua class was in session because G had had some problem and was calling for me. He didn’t actually need me but I stayed there anyway because the deeper end of the two lanes reserved was completely empty. I’ll probably do something similar next week but will move into the aqua area a bit earlier.