Been awhile since I’ve said anything in a fitness genre. Today seems like a good day.
Last year I was riding my bicycle to and from work (with a little assist from public transit — usually on the way in), swimming 3 times a week at the community center, and lifting weights the other two. That all came to a stop in December when I found out my sprained hands were actually broken bones — left hand and right wrist.
The casts came off a month ago. Monday the doctor gave me the clearance to start working out again.
So Tuesday and Wednesday I dove back into swimming (actually I didn’t dive — no diving allowed at the community center).
Last summer I had taken a break from swimming at the community center, and had trouble swimming 200 yards without a break in the fall. Tuesday I swam 200 yards 4 times without getting seriously winded. I did 3 freestyle and 1 breaststroke.
Wednesday I upped it to 5 200s. Started with freestyle, did a breaststroke, another freestyle, then 4 laps of butterfly down, backstroke back, and ended with a freestyle.
Today I intend to up that to 1200 yards, or 6 200s.
I haven’t been checking my times on any of the laps, to see how much my speed has slowed down. Some, I think, but not as much as I feared it might.
I’ll decide over the weekend whether to try the weights next week, or just do a second week of daily swimming. Doctor did say to take it easy on the weights and build up slowly, to make sure the hands are back to strength.
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