While I’d like to lose weight and I hate exercise in general, my main concern right now is to do anything. I feel so lazy sitting around. I sit at work. I sit while I do my homework. I sit at school. My butt is really getting a workout. Sometimes, I lie down.
Since I can’t do the exercises I had been doing before I herniated my disk, and I can’t walk any real distance without my knees hurting, I’ve just been sitting around getting fatter than I already was. I know that if I start doing even moderate exercise, I’ll feel a lot better - more energy, less tightness in my muscles - stuff like that.
The main benefit I see to being injured is that it will force me to swim slower and concentrate more. After reading suggestions here, I think I’ll be able to improve technique more easily because of the forced slowness.
You know, you’re right. I have been trying to find a cite for this, sinc eI read it in a paper article long before the internet was invented (or in common use, anyhow). However, I still think that swimming, the way most people try to go about it, isn’t as foolproof for losing weight as other, more reliable forms of excercise.
Walking, for example…a mile is a mile, more or less. Walking burns the same calories as running (or slightly less) it just takes longer to get there.
