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Recently, I spent a couple of weeks at the tropical villa with a decent size outdoor pool.
I noticed that everyday I had enough energy to get into the pool at least 3 times per day. On some days, there were 5 or 6 sessions. Sometimes, it was just a 5 minute session, and often it was as long as 40-50 mins.
My food cravings went away right away - I totally switched to meat/eggs, greens, rice and potato only. (Well, plus a Diet Cola as a dessert).
Still, I had little energy to go outside, to communicate with the staff, my sleep was a bit better but still very poor etc.
My situation was quite paradoxical - sometimes I could spend an hour in the pool doing extremely active exercises, but between those I could still barely move my legs, especially in the mornings. After swimming, I spent most of the time resting on a beach chair at the villa.
I believe the key moment was the fact that there were literally zero efforts to get into the pool - because of the tropical weather I was wearing only shorts (and occasionally a t-shirt), so I just jumped into the pool it whenever I felt I had energy for it. No preparation, no gathering, no time to think whether I wanted it or not. I was living alone, so no distractions, no worries etc.
Then I got a stomach bug so I could not swim anymore, my energy level went down immediately and when I got better I had to return to my home country...
Now, everyday I remember this experience and despite the complete lack of energy I feel that I want to jump into a warm pool right away if only I had one right in front of me. When I imagine that in my head I literally feel how swimming gives me energy.
There is a pool in a spa complex just 5 minutes of walk from my home, but I understand (and feel in the same way as above) that I will spend way too much energy to gather for it, to go outside and get there, to communicate with the staff and other visitors and and to return back home from there. And the result will be net negative in terms of energy. Plus, I tried public pools many times before and each time I had a major crash right after the first visit.
So, my next big treatment trial is to find a way to live (or at least to spend several months) in a place with the swimming pool right next to my bedroom so I could swim and rest whenever I want.
I wonder if anyone here had a similar positive experience from home pool swimming.
I noticed that everyday I had enough energy to get into the pool at least 3 times per day. On some days, there were 5 or 6 sessions. Sometimes, it was just a 5 minute session, and often it was as long as 40-50 mins.
My food cravings went away right away - I totally switched to meat/eggs, greens, rice and potato only. (Well, plus a Diet Cola as a dessert).
Still, I had little energy to go outside, to communicate with the staff, my sleep was a bit better but still very poor etc.
My situation was quite paradoxical - sometimes I could spend an hour in the pool doing extremely active exercises, but between those I could still barely move my legs, especially in the mornings. After swimming, I spent most of the time resting on a beach chair at the villa.
I believe the key moment was the fact that there were literally zero efforts to get into the pool - because of the tropical weather I was wearing only shorts (and occasionally a t-shirt), so I just jumped into the pool it whenever I felt I had energy for it. No preparation, no gathering, no time to think whether I wanted it or not. I was living alone, so no distractions, no worries etc.
Then I got a stomach bug so I could not swim anymore, my energy level went down immediately and when I got better I had to return to my home country...
Now, everyday I remember this experience and despite the complete lack of energy I feel that I want to jump into a warm pool right away if only I had one right in front of me. When I imagine that in my head I literally feel how swimming gives me energy.
There is a pool in a spa complex just 5 minutes of walk from my home, but I understand (and feel in the same way as above) that I will spend way too much energy to gather for it, to go outside and get there, to communicate with the staff and other visitors and and to return back home from there. And the result will be net negative in terms of energy. Plus, I tried public pools many times before and each time I had a major crash right after the first visit.
So, my next big treatment trial is to find a way to live (or at least to spend several months) in a place with the swimming pool right next to my bedroom so I could swim and rest whenever I want.
I wonder if anyone here had a similar positive experience from home pool swimming.
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