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Well, for the longest time I resolved every new year, never to make a new years resolution. That was very successful for quite some time, so I have a nearly perfect record. This year, I decided I was getting way to inactive, so I decided to buy a membership to a gym.

When I was in high school, I was on the swim and diving team. I'd typically warm up by swimming 500 meters, then do various types of strokes / kicks for about 2000 meters, then warm down with another 500 meters. I signed up at a particular gym because there was a facility near my work and home, and they both had pools. I figured I could swim at lunch from work, and after work near home.

Last night I swam for about an hour (probably closer to 45 minutes) and after 100 meters, my arms felt like they were (jelly, and) about to fall off. It took me the rest of that hours time to finish swimming something close to a 500 meters... It was after the 100 meters when my arms lost all strength that I realized how far I'd really gone. All the pictures of me looking like a whale had somehow gotten past my "fat" radar, but my first 100 meters in the pool caused a huge blip. That night when I got home and had to do two breathing treatments for my asthma because it was such a shock to my system. I got home around 8 pm and it wasn't till about 10 that my heart rate got back to normal.

This afternoon I went at it again. This time I was able to swim much longer without folding up. Minutes after I got out of the pool my heart rate went back to normal, and my asthma didn't act up. So hopefully it gets easier as time goes on.