Swimming

Ok, swimming is about a 10 times harder than I thought it was. I did 25 minutes at the community center pool and I can't move my arms. Some 70 year old woman kept lapping me. She was swimming when I started and sure enough swimming when I left. I think they planted her as a swimming robot to make the other people try harder. Typing hurts.... ugg
On a positive note: I beat a 50% shot at paying for breakfast in a fierce battle of credit card roulette at Moms (the restaurant in Uxbridge, Ma - not my Mom's house:) ). I put in 2 cards for Jenny and I against Matt and Adam's cards. Adam lost. :(

Swimming isn't enough

It's all about the diet that goes along with your exercise. As my good friend Adam always says. The secret to weight loss is "Eat less and exercise".

Research published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine shows that in the absence of a controlled diet, swimming has little or no effect on weight loss [1].

Professor Grant Gwinup compared three exercise programs for three months. Each program began with up to 10 minutes of daily exercise. The length of each workout was increased by five minutes every week.

• Test subjects following the walking program lost 17 pounds of weight during the three-month study.

• Those following the cycling program lost 19 pounds of weight.

• However, subjects following the swimming program actually gained 5 pounds.