This morning I still felt a bit off kilter so  I decided to work from home today.  I was getting an anxious feeling, however, because I wasn’t sure how to get my workout done.  By the end of the day, though, I felt stable enough to give it a try.  So I headed to the pool.  It has been a very long time since I have done a swim.  I pretty much lost all my muscle memory and conditioning so its like starting from square one.  I had to remind myself to sink my buoy, keep my elbows high, rotate my body and reach.  In order to work the basics I did 5 x 100 and 1 x 500.  I found myself going too fast at times and losing my form.  When I caught myself I slowed it down to work on my stroke to re-engage my muscle memory.  I currently use Total Immersion freestyle strokes, however, Jeff of Dangle the Carrot has recommend “The Essential Triathlon Swimming DVD” so I plan to give that a try.  I enjoyed getting back into the water.  I would like to swim more often.

After the swim I did an abs/core workout made up of crunches, supermans, side crunches, cable pulldowns, circle crunches, elbow to knee crunches and scissors.

I am a big fan of the burpee.  I used to do them in P.E. class about 100 years ago and I am still doing them.  I like the way this guy does variations of the burpees on the playground.