Focus T25, Day 2: Splish, Splash

Remember all that buzz of energy I’d wake with, sooner than I wanted? After that first T25 session, I’d burned through it.

I slept hard. Getting out of bed was not easy.

As the day before, i aimed for 1300-1400 calories, and succeeded. Still no sugar cravings.

One of the frequently-mentioned side effects of Shakeology, especially in the first few days, is the hit to your gastrointestinal tract. On Tuesday, after one full day of eating “clean,” my body apparently decided to dispose of the corpses in the Battle of Pastry Ridge.

All at once.  I’m sure that contributed mightily to my weight loss for the day.

After work, we went to the gym, where there’s a decent-sized lap pool. I put a copy of the T25 workout on my phone, put the phone in a waterproof sleeve, and swam to the shallow waters at the far end of the pool, propped up the phone, and pushed Play on Alpha Speed 1.0.

In the water, my weight and bulk has the opposite effect: I’m very buoyant.  I thought the water would make Shaun T’s love of flipping off gravity easier to follow. And it does. I’m much lighter on my feet in the water because of the buoyancy, but the huge gut and other jiggly bits tend to move independently when I’m doing water calisthenics, so it’s not all upside.

The first thing I noticed was that I could stay on the balls of my feet. My calves and hamstrings burned, but by golly I could keep up with the cool kids, mostly. I could more or less match their speed. I could leap and twist (with difficulty) and stretch with the water providing an assist.  I was still hyperventilating at times, but it was easier to adjust my breathing, and I only needed to hit pause a couple of times.

At the end of the 25 minute workout, I still hadn’t been able to do everything, but I’d been able to do most of it, in real time. My phone hadn’t shorted out, in spite of a lot of splashing. I spent a bit of time just swimming, but between laps I’d practice some of the moves I’d struggled with.

When gravity reclaimed me in full as I left the pool, I knew without doubt I’d been put through a damned good workout. T25 suddenly became a lot less scary, and a challenge I thought I could rise to without risking serious injury.

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