Alright ladies and gents, today was a rest day for me. But that didn't mean that I laid around all day doing nothing and eating junk food. Even if you have a rest day you should still be up and moving. For me, I went grocery shopping and played with my daughter (which is always an exercise in its self) I also have been doing laundry all day. You may not think of these things as being an exercise but it is. When your grocery shopping you walk up and down the isles, you lift your arms up and down to pull things off the shelf and place them into the cart, and sometimes even bend down and back up to put things on and off the bottom of the cart. Then its like lifting weights when you actually place all the groceries in your car. Those bags aren't always light!
Kids are always an exercise....
So tomorrow my work out will consist of lap swimming and BodyRockTV http://www.bodyrock.tv/ This will definitely be a work out. My stomach muscles are sore from the last time I swam. You may not know but swimming is a great way to get fit because it doesn't put any real stress on your joints. For example I have really bad knee's. They have arthritis and I twisted them both over the summer and ended up doing physical therapy to get them strong again. My physical therapist told me that swimming is a great way to strengthen them (as well as getting fit) because they don't have the weight of my body to stress them out.
So if you have bad joints....that's NO EXCUSE not to get into shape and work out. Swimming will help strengthen your joints and help you get fit. There are a lot of option when swimming. You can do lap swimming (like me), you can do free swim, you can use a board to swim, water aerobics, or you can just play with your kids in the pool. You would be surprised at sore your body is the next day from all the muscles you used to swim.
Don't give up on yourself, you can do this. Week one is almost done which means you are that much closer to your goal! Don't forget to leave comments and thoughts!
"STRENGTH IS THE PRODUCT OF STRUGGLE"-Unknown
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