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I like my vivoactive HR, but mostly because I hate counting laps when I swim.

I get motivated by gadets. I got a garmin vivoactive HR last week and anything that gives me data to play with keeps me focused. I don't know why. I haven't advanced to gear yet but I have been thinking about it. When you're talking about a pull set you mean the hand paddles that I see some people using? That's to increase…

There are times I'd rather not be present in my body. Particularly when I'm pushing it beyond its comfort zone and making it suffer/adapt to new things. I'm still learning and adjusting to swimming laps as my main type of physical conditioning, and there are a lot of times I have to be present in the moment and focus on my…

Yesterday 3300 yards 84 minutes Today 3300 yards 83 minutes

The earbuds that I got with mine are the same shape as the swimming ear plugs I previously used. Except the headphones plug into the ends of them. I seat them in pointing up, instead of down, and my goggle straps go over the wires to keep them snug and situated. I clip the shuffle itself on to the goggle strap at the back…

66 laps, 85 minutes

Yesterday after work: 75 laps, 3750 yards, 95 minutes

I bought an ipod shuffle off of amazon from a company called Underwater Audio. What they do is take it apart and waterproof it from the inside out. I've been using mine 4-5 times a week in a salt water pool for about a month now. It is amazing. And surreal the first time I used it. When I bought mine there was a price…

Haven't checked in on here for a long time but I have been pretty steady going at it in the pool. I'm up to making 2 miles my new "minimum" basic distance and eyeballing swimming 5km this Friday. Last swim took me an hour and twelve minutes, trying to knock that down to an hour flat for 2 miles. Still don't know much about…

60 minutes, 37 laps

Finished relocating. New gym is nicer, the pool is saltwater and isn't as cold as my old gym. Makes it easier getting in but after I'm at it for a bit I'm missing that cold cold water at my old gym. 20 laps yesterday, 40 minutes 20 laps today, 30 minutes

No ma'am. Monday is shoulder day so I can thrash them at the beginning of the cycle when they're "fresh". It's funny that my shoulders have historically been my weak point but since I started swimming and paying attention to athleanx videos, my shoulders are my best.

I've noticed that since I have stopped eating fast food completely I can taste more. Foods that were bland before are not. Since I don't salt anything now I can taste the natural sodium in the food. Imagine my surprise when I bit into a tomato and it was already salty. All that time I have been salting them for no reason.…

1800m, 60 mins. swimming the morning after shoulder day is a special hell.

Do or do not, there is no try! Seriously, just remember that you didn't gain the weight in a day, you're not going to lose it in a day. Make a mental shift in your perspective. Don't diet and exercise. Focus on your nutrition and training. It may seem a semantics game but it isn't. You need to make a permanent change not a…

I forgot to log this Saturday. I blame low blood sugar. 70 laps (3500m) @ 115 minutes. I've decided on Saturdays to just go and swim until I am out of gas. I don't know if I was out of gas this time but I was definitely close. I'm not saying IHOP's orange juice and sirloin/eggs combo saved my life but it sure didn't hurt.

I keep seeing foam rollers mentioned. At some point I'm going to have to give them a try.

I've just started lifting again and in the process of doing some research I came across this guy who has his own exercise program. Big whoop, there are tons of them. I'm not advocating his exercise program, I haven't purchased it so I have no idea what it is or how effective it is. What he also has on his website is a ton…

1950m (39 laps) 60 minutes. This is pretty significant leap from just the last time I swam (Tuesday) and an explosion compared to where I was a month ago. I actually expected to have some slow down at this point in the week, hoping to just break even and hold steady with what I had done previously, 33 laps. I started…

33 laps. 1650meters, 60 minutes

No courage without fear.

I'm at 2180 calories. I'm 326lbs. Which is 106lbs more than I'd like to be. I don't have any issues with eating within this calorie allotment. The only time I'm hungry enough to eat more than this, are on days when I get 60+ minutes of hard exercise. MFP adjusts for those calories as it wants me to eat them back. I don't…

My microsoft band 2 doesn't add steps while I'm driving. I haven't logged this over a long period of time to confirm that it never does it, rather, I've checked it a couple of times before and after a drive and it seemed to not be confused by what was going on.

32 laps (1600m) in 60 mins 60 mins is the time I arbitrarily picked when I started swimming. My goal was to get to a mile in that time and then push past it. I rapidly got better and close, just a couple of weeks and I was already within spitting distance of a mile but I just couldn't reach it. I was alternating strokes…

27 laps, (1350m) 60 mins

27 laps, (1350m) 60 mins

My hair and nails grow faster when I take care of my nutrition and am not deficient.

Admit to yourself that if you're conflicted, fitness isn't your priority. It takes commitment and consistency for results. Half measures won't work. If you would rather spend time with your friends, then spend time with your friends.

I've had recurring problems with this issue since my 20s. I've been hooked up to all kinds of equipment and checked out to try and see what was going on. No luck. It started when the new Colonel for my unit introduced us all to a running game called Hashing. We did this as a battalion one morning, but battalion PT starts…

Go to a specialty running store. If they don't put you on treadmill and watch you run in order to put you in the right shoe, you're not in a specialty running store. After you have the shoes, ask them about socks. Go look at socks. They are really expensive, get over it and buy some anyway. The time you don't lose due to…