Lunies on the 2024 Roster!Welcome back to Steve H!
Water Fitness Harder Than I Thought...Iceberg Dead Ahead!Back in April, I had hit a snag in my forward progress of knee replacement recovery and the PT gal suggested that I go to the therapy pool and walk laps to build up strength. This required getting over the whole swimsuit thing, finding a gym that had a pool, etc. Fortunately for me, there is a great gym nearby that Renew Active would pay for, and I went. Most of the time, these sessions are very Zen. Often, I have the pool to myself.
Now at the point of learning to use some of what I call the gym's intimidating weight machines like leg presses, step ups, and a few other items that look complicated. It is not quite like me going into Home Depot and wandering the aisles as my eyes glaze over with all the choices, but it is uncomfortable in its newness.
After the meter push at the end of the Holiday Challenge, I was taking a few days off from weight machines and decided to go to the therapy pool to do a mini workout of walking. It was snowing, and this made thoughts of the pool a bit tougher to get into the brain waves...but I went. I'd done a few laps, and noticed an instructor type putting kickboards all around the pool edges...yikes. Next thing I knew, there were a bunch of people in the pool and I was in the middle of a water fitness class! I'd never done this, have terrible sense of rhythm, but end of year seemed like a good time to try another new thing.
I confess that I didn't think water fitness classes would be as hard as other things. Ha. I was VERY wrong. It is hard to do jumping jacks in the water while turning in circles. I will be doing this again, because it is a great recovery activity...especially if you need to take it easy on your joints. And because it's good to do new things, uncomfortable things.
MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
11.25 MM Chip
2.4 MM Rene
2.3 MM Derric
2.25 MM Ken
1.95 MM Brent
1.7 MM Angelo
1.45 MM Tom R
Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!
Jason 307 m
Trevor 935 m
GMan 1,021 m
Frank 1,061 m
Steve H 2,007 m
Jeff M 3,012 m
Dale 4,050 m
John 4,907 m
Carol 5,204 m
Judy 5,232 m
Robert H 6,000 m
Teresa 6,132 m
Rod 6,520 m
Greg H 6,625 m
Michael C 7,500 m
Gene 7,732 m
Angelo 10,000 m
Derric 10,000 m
Ed 10,000 m
Ken 10,000 m
Ron W 10,005 m
Howard 10,030 m
Patrick S 10,032 m
David A 11,051 m
Bruce 11,556 m
Rene 12,636 m
Brett 13,557 m
Brent 13,561 m
NW1 14,287 m
Wild Bill 16,766 m
Tom R 18,070 m
Ron 18,881 m... a palindrome!
21,097 m or more = mooners !!!
Chip 84,454 m...a half century plus!
for the NYE Party! Cheers All!
