Swum At The Presidio YMCA
June 07, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
--Michael Phelps
Despite working across the street from the Presidio YMCA, I had never taken the opportunity to swim there. Thanks to Becca’s guest pass, I was able to get in for free today.
The CrossFit site recently posted a workout of the day with swimming in it. I believe it’s the first time they’ve ever done that! At the very least, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen it on the site. The workout was:
Five rounds for time of:
Swim 50 meters
25 Push-ups
The length of the pool was 25 yards, so I decided to go to the end and back each round for the 50 meters. I swam toward the other end of the pool - swimming was a lot harder than I'd remembered!
Eventually, I did get there. I had to pause for a few seconds and take a breath.
I headed back to where I started.
As I got close to finishing my first 50 meters, I started having a hard time breathing, but eventually, I made it back.
After each 50 meters, I got out of the pool, feeling completely exhausted, and did 25 push-ups.
What we didn’t know until a little later was that cameras are not allowed at the pool. Whoops! Here’s a video of my first lap.
Not since I earned my mile swim badge in Boy Scouts have I entered a pool with the intention of swimming laps. This was a fun and exhausting exercise. On paper I thought this would be a pretty reasonable workout, but after the third lap, as I was exiting the pool, I said, “Here comes breakfast!” There was a second when I felt like throwing up. Good times! (I didn’t vomit, by the way.)
I felt quite a bit heavier than I have in the past, possibly because I hardly ever swim at all. I also wonder if I just sink more because I have more muscle than before. Regardless, swimming may become something I do more frequently now. It’s excellent exercise, and it’s fun too!
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