Increase body temperature, a meditation
Baby its cold outside
Some people jump right in.
Those people are so bonkers.
They say a good mantra lasts a month but my mantras can be from a day to a year in length.
I use a few minutes to get into the pool. It feels nice to start with just my feet in the water.
Take as much time as you need to acclimate. If the lanes are busy you might feel pressured to jump in and begin quickly.
Increase Body Temperature
A Beautiful Thought Guide
Advancing in age can be rough but let’s respect it. I look forward to my slow & methodical warm ups.
What makes a great warmup?
Well, the yoga instructors love to use this phrase “increase core temperature” and also “retain” that same body heat — those terms describe swim nicely.
Recently my pool was closed so I did a different type of workout on a “hard” workout day.
Because of the new muscle groups mixed with high output and exertion, my body was very sore during two-three days afterwards, in new places.
Meditation on being the good kind of body achy: because the sore body was unpracticed in those particular muscle areas, I was much-ready for a water workout after so much fatigue.
That all stemmed from doing things outside my typical flow.
On that day is when I wanted to do literally the best warmup of my whole life. My body was in agony — everything was on fire - but it wasn’t the bad kind of fire.
A day like that is definitely the good fire, like wanting my friend to lightly punch my calves and deep tissue me to point of tears.
That was the good pain — the reminder - the devastation that feels worked but not injured.
It came about by having to use the unpracticed muscle groups.
Using different muscle groups is the future of cross training my dude!
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The hardest laps of my workout are the first two laps — expect it.
By the tenth lap I feel oxygen in my blood in the form of cardiovascular comfort. The lightly winded feeling is still present but somehow easier.
What it takes to generate those later laps is a strange opponent.
I’m closing my eyes as I settle into the luxurious feeling of accommodated movement.
My feeling- water surrounds me.
The cool water supports me.
Water changes my physics.
Water affects my human angles.
In meditation, sounds fall away.
The water which supports me, assists my stretch; enables my health. In the water I find glide.
That is my range of motion.
The necessity of breathing on each third stroke? I must keep myself together mentally. I do this by selecting proper pace.
Everything that occurs lap 1-10 is crafted to accelerate my day.
My work accommodates my future as I regulate controlled breathing and steady easy pace.
Each of my personal physical iterations advances my purpose.
I don’t often enter hot tub before swimming but when I do, it’s a delightful underwater stretch.
The first two laps are important.
I focus on form, position, pace.
My body || blood || workout
My future || plan || results
It all adds to longevity & ease.
