geting my body back

i wrote about "my gym-lemma" on february 17th. this is my update to that. (wow, it only took me so many months to figure this out. not a good way of doing things.)

i think i'm better off sticking to 24hr fitness for now until i have a job to pay for both memberships. the main advantage to 24hr fitness is that i can use the pool and their group classes. the main advantage to Fitness 19 is the distance to my house. with a shorter distance, i can go more often and save time driving around. plus it is a local gym so i can probably meet some local people to work out with or just chill.

i restarted my gym routine 2 days ago. i kicked it off with 2 hours of volleyball followed by 80 grueling laps of swimming in about an hour and a half. i was a little rusty swimming but yesterday when i did another 80 laps, i did it in about an hour, which is a very big improvement. i'd like to be able to swim about 120-160 laps every time i go -- that's about 3000m-4000m every time. i used to swim about 6000m everyday for about 2 years when i was training at this one swimming club back in the day.

to summarize...

day 1

2 hours of volleyball
80 laps of swimming

day 2

80 laps of swimming
weights lifting, focus on arms

hopefully, i can keep my gym routine to about 3 days a week at 24hr fitness doing swimming and lifting weights. the other 2-3 days, i can either walk around my neighborhood with my dog or run around my village (2 miles) or even run around 2 villages (for a total of 6 miles). aside from the gym routine, i'm also trying to get rid of white rice and other empty carbs. i bought brown rice the other day so i'm going to try to switch to brown rice from now on. if i have to eat empty carbs, it has to be before 6pm so my body will have time to burn through it.