My Journey With Health And Fitness – Trying Something New

My apologies to anyone who was looking for a post on Saturday. I am just so enjoying myself here in Playa del Carmen and completely forgot. It is not just the beautiful weather but also getting reconnected with our friends. I do admit it has been really hot the past few days. Sunday it got up to 43 degrees Celsius and all we could manage was to stay in the pool. Oh ok, and drink a bunch of beer and wine.

Sunday when I was sharing some wine with a neighbour she suggested we do a morning workout in the pool. I thought, hmmm, not sure what that looks like but I am willing to give it a try. So, yesterday we met at the pool at 8am and we each started with a swim. Now I am not hugely fond of swimming so I got bored fairly quickly. Then I decided I could try some other exercises to get my heart rate up. I did some stairclimbing, elliptical type moves and even some running (though I admit that was on my tiptoes). At the end there was some awesome stretching before finishing up. When I was done I felt like I had done a good workout and because it was in the pool I was not soaking wet with sweat.

This morning I decided to try it again but with a difference. I stood on the lowest step in the pool and proceeded to spend the next hour running in place. It was a little boring but you know I preferred doing that to walking and arriving back at the condo looking like I had walked in a thunderstorm. I didn’t quite make my zone minutes but that is ok, I’ll just work a little harder next time.

I think going forward I am going to mix it up a bit. I plan on one day doing a good walk and then the next day doing a pool workout. I know the most important thing is for me to just keep moving and so far I have been successful at doing that.