Been a while since i have posted anything here, there is a good reason for that... last 2 weeks have been difficult ones... had so many ups and downs... to begin with, the shifting to new place and hoping to intensify my exercise efforts too a big step back as i started having back pain 2 days after getting here... Since i had a serious serious back problem back in 2011 which lead to a major surgery, i had always been very careful with back pain... i think by now i know when to push on and when to hold back and take rest when i get a back pain of any sort... so this one felt like i need to slow down and take things slow... so first thing i did was to stop the plans of running, then for a few days stopped swimming as well... started eating my usual food without any rules, increased meat and egg intake... not sure why this always helps with my back pain... so after 4 or 5 days i was feeling much better... all this eating created some guilt which kept me away from getting back to the blog... anyway after 3 days started swimming and 3 days ago started running on a treadmill in office gym... things got better after the first 5 days... and i continued my swimming, but the food habit change was like opening of a flood gate its very hard to get back on track once you leave all the rules... so that took a lot of time... good news is my running hasnt gone bad... i started running day before yesterday and that day and yesterday i ran for 35 mins each and 3.3kms on each day .... the amazing thing to share is my swimming form... something amazing happened to me 5 days ago, i found a rhythm in swimming.... and since then my swimming has drastically improved.... its basically to do with the way i breathed, once it got sorted on its own, i could do wonders with swimming... day before yesterday after my 35 min run i swam 144 rounds in that 25meter pool.... can you believe it 144 rounds that is 3.6 kms!!!!!!!!! Even Ironman triathlon has a swimming section of 3.5 kms only... i did 100 meters more !!!!! :) :) :) 44 of those rounds were continues rounds with no breaks.... 2 days before this event i figured out a more relaxed and easy way to breath... it just came to me while i was in a 2hr swimming session... and then it all became so easy... today i did 2 swimming sessions one in the morning and one in the evening... no running today... in the morning i did 120 rounds 50 of which were non stop rounds without a break.... then in the evening went back to the pool again and did 80 rounds... so in total did 200 rounds today thats 5 kms !!!!! That is beyond any imagination i could have ever had when it comes to my swimming abilities.... my per round time has decreased dramatically as I'm doing more continues rounds... yesterday i did on an average 56.7 rounds per hour... today 120 rounds in the morning took me 2hrs and 80 rounds in the evening took me 1.5hrs... this is amazing improvement my previous highest rounds of 102 took me 2hrs and 45mins... compared to this the current timings are amazing... just goes to show you how much the human body can adapt and do amazing things... mine isnt even fit or in shape... Shopping around for a bicycle these day may be in a week will buy one... so that would really put my calorie burning in a different gear... Started an additional challenge for my self... the challenge is to do 100kms of running and 50kms of swimming in 30days .... started this 3 days ago and I'm using something called as a Dailymile website to track my distances... will post them on a weekly basis... food is still an issue... havent got that under control yet... will try hard from tomorrow... alright i think i updated everything... daily updates from tomorrow... things are looking good... I'm very sure that i will breakthrough the 90kg barrier soon... as of now it hasnt changed the machine still shows 90kg when i checked my weight this morning... anyway i'm not bothered about it as long as my running and swimming go well... Finally thanks to the god for keeping me safe and sound and allowing me to do this quest for self respect...
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