Into the water

So I've gotten to the point where I am starting to notice some changes. I may not notice it in the mirror just yet, but just by touching certain areas I can tell they are getting smaller. I always lose weight in my lower back/hips/love handles first. I don't have love handles to begin with, but for some reason that's always the first place I lose. It makes me look kind of weird, because from the back I look totally skinny and in the front  I look like a fattie cause that's where I carry all my weight. My bad zones are my front and inner thighs, arms, and belly. So those will probably be the last places I lose. But even in those areas I am noticing changes. I am also noticing my muscles are getting harder and more defined, mainly in my legs. Clothes are starting to fit a little better. I'm gettin there!

Today I went swimming over at the pool on base. I'm going to try to go once a week because its such a great workout and it will pretty much work my entire body. I'm not new to swimming at all - I was in the water before I was a year old and I was on swim team from 5-12 years old. I blame my big upper body on it. But it's been at least 2 years since I swam laps so it kicked my ass pretty good. I did 10 laps - well, we always used a 25m pool so in my head I consider a 25 to be a lap. But this is a 50m pool. I guess in the real world a lap is 50, so yeah - 10 laps. Breaststroke was always my best stroke, followed by freestyle, back, and the dreaded butterfly. Breaststroke was mostly what I did today along with a little bit of free. For some reason free was really hard on me today and I couldn't finish a 50 without running out of breath. Probably a combination of technique being rusty and me not being used to swimming. In swim team they don't focus a whole lot on perfect technique considering they are trying to corral 50+ kids aged 5-14 early in the mornings of precious summer vacation. It was more like "Shut the F up, get your head in the water and swim dammit!" So technique is something I'll have to work on,  and the endurance will come with time and repetition. I'm also trying to hold my breath underwater - sometimes in swim team they'd have us push off and swim underwater until we ran out of breath. I was never good at it, but I know it's going to help make me a better swimmer. 

Still sore from yoga. Muscles I didn't even know I had are sore. It's great. Think I may start running again on saturday. My shins and legs don't hurt anymore, but I'll do one more day of rest just for good measure.