Summer is fast approaching / pretty much here already. So as I do every year, I start to think about how I can get a body like Chris Evans in about 3 weeks. I have a gym membership, of which I am not getting my money's worth. But dammit I'm determined to start milking its value and start working out.
My problem with the gym isn't that I dislike working out. Sometimes I really enjoy it. My problem is that I get bored so quickly. After 10 minutes of doing one thing, I want to do something else. But every damn thing in the gym is the same. You move a little differently on each machine, but you're still just lifting some shit. Running nowhere. Cycling stationary.
Enter, swimming.
Now, I've been here before. I end up here around the same time every year. I get into a gym routine, I get bored. I think, 'what would help me tone, keep me fit and hold my interest because if I don't focus, I will drown and die? Swimming!' And this always ends the same way. I stop after about 3 sessions / failed attempts.
I can swim, but I am a rubbish swimmer. I'm fast, but my technique is poor. I'm relatively fit, but I'm exhausted after one lap. I'm also paranoid and extremely self conscious about swimming, because I wonder what folk in the other lanes and the lifeguard are thinking as they catch an eyeful of me flapping limbs for my life in the water and sitting in the shallow end for 10 minutes to catch my breath. Then I wonder what they are thinking of me as I slyly climb out of the pool after 2 laps and then hobble off to the changing rooms.
I'm getting bored of swimming already, but I need to stick at it. It's the only form of excercise I do and have done where I can feel its benefit. Even in the wake of my horrendous technique and my lack of laps, I feel like I have done SOMETHING. My body is reacting. My body is like 'FUCK YEAH, YOU DID A LAP AND I FEEL TIRED, BUT KINDA GOOD'. So I'll stick with it. And in 3 weeks time, I'll post a bathroom selfie of myself looking like a black topless Captain America. Either that or another blog post about how I've given up and I will never swim again for as long as I live.
My problem with the gym isn't that I dislike working out. Sometimes I really enjoy it. My problem is that I get bored so quickly. After 10 minutes of doing one thing, I want to do something else. But every damn thing in the gym is the same. You move a little differently on each machine, but you're still just lifting some shit. Running nowhere. Cycling stationary.
Enter, swimming.
Now, I've been here before. I end up here around the same time every year. I get into a gym routine, I get bored. I think, 'what would help me tone, keep me fit and hold my interest because if I don't focus, I will drown and die? Swimming!' And this always ends the same way. I stop after about 3 sessions / failed attempts.
I can swim, but I am a rubbish swimmer. I'm fast, but my technique is poor. I'm relatively fit, but I'm exhausted after one lap. I'm also paranoid and extremely self conscious about swimming, because I wonder what folk in the other lanes and the lifeguard are thinking as they catch an eyeful of me flapping limbs for my life in the water and sitting in the shallow end for 10 minutes to catch my breath. Then I wonder what they are thinking of me as I slyly climb out of the pool after 2 laps and then hobble off to the changing rooms.
I'm getting bored of swimming already, but I need to stick at it. It's the only form of excercise I do and have done where I can feel its benefit. Even in the wake of my horrendous technique and my lack of laps, I feel like I have done SOMETHING. My body is reacting. My body is like 'FUCK YEAH, YOU DID A LAP AND I FEEL TIRED, BUT KINDA GOOD'. So I'll stick with it. And in 3 weeks time, I'll post a bathroom selfie of myself looking like a black topless Captain America. Either that or another blog post about how I've given up and I will never swim again for as long as I live.
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