Ok, so my journey began around mid September, since my last IT contract concluded and I saw this as a good time to use this renewed freedom to set myself a new challenge and to regain that six pack, whilst looking for my next contract opportunity.
Since, mid September I have restarted playing squash and taken up swimming. As one of the keys for me is to increase my level of fitness, however, you also need to ensure that you partake in cardiovascular activity, as this is one of the quickest ways to reduce that level of fat that’s hiding the six pack !
So, I started off by going swimming to my local pool. I remember my first attempt was really poor, as I could only swim two lengths of the pool doing breast stroke, without the need to stop and catch my breath. This was a real shock to me and showed how slow this journey was going to be ! I always have a view that anything is possible and see being able to swim more lengths as being achievable – however, I had a much higher expectation in terms of how many lengths I would be able to swim. I have to say that I was extremely shell shocked when I realised that I was only able to swim two lengths without having to stop for a breather !!
Squash was something that I used to play a number of years ago and is an extremely energetic and challenging sport. My first challenge was to locate players within my local area and after a number of searches on google, I came across gumtree, which had a couple of entries for individuals looking for squash players within my area – what a result !!! I immediately contacted them and looked forward to my first games of squash for quite some time. My first game was exhilerating and extremely tiring at the same time, however, I was immediately hooked !!
So, I now swim once a week and play squash twice a week. Oh and have also increased my social life through the playing of squash. Who said that exercise can’t be fun !
