I have been getting at least one swim a week and most weeks two. I started going early on Monday and Friday mornings. I like waking up in the swimming pool. I still think I need to get one more “regular” day every week. Last week I went out of town Thursday and I missed Friday. If I miss a day, my fitness level is such that I feel it. Back aches. Not sleeping as well, etc.

I always walk on days that I don’t swim. (I always walk the dog but I usually don’t walk quiet as fast or quiet as hard on swim days.) But swimming fills several other purposes for me than just aerobic exercise. I need it for flexibility, joint mobility and to aid my circulation. It also gives me upper body work that I don’t get with walking. Walking is good because I can just go out the door and do it—aerobic exercise on a stick! But swimming and walking in an exercise program together are grand.

Weight training. I haven’t gotten trained yet on the machinery. I need to do that 2x a week, preferably before swimming…. So much exercise—so little time.

I am going to concentrate on adding another regular swimming day. Wednesday mornings it is. That will put me in the pool—before I wake up, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If my friends are going, I’ll go Friday PM instead of AM and I’ll do the weight training then before swimming.

I really want to take a few classes… they have dozens… I want to learn, get accustomed to, a variety of activities so I will never get bored. If I am tired or not feeling well I can do something calming—balance ball and hand weights. If I am jazzed I can spin 45 minutes.

You know. It just occurred to me. In about a year. I am going to look really buff. In my 47 years, I have had a few brushes nears Jock-dom. I want to go back.