DAY 3 - WORKOUT - Swimming??

WORKOUT:

Swim 20 lengths of the pool any stroke. GOAL: Try to do at least 5 lengths without stopping.

When I was a kid, I was on the Overbrook Swim Team. I won several ribbons in the freestyle and breaststroke competitions. I never was great, but I could swim with almost anyone in my age division except for Basil Hicks who swam for the larger swimming organization at the time (I don't recall the name). Basil was fast. On the other hand my wife (Sandy Serio Jacobs) was a very good swimmer and swam on the McKinney High School swim team and was looking at swimming in college. It is because of her that I even try to swim laps. Her family LIVES at the swimming pool. Her dad is the swim and dive coach at McKinney High and has been for over 20 years. Both my wife and I work for him during the summer teaching swim lessons to children ages 3-12. She does infant/parent lessons as well. We are about 1 week away from starting another summer of lessons - YEA!

The workout was a little difficult for me because I am in nowhere near the shape I need to be in. When I workout at L.A. Fitness (http://www.lafitness.com/), I try to come into the pool and swim 10 lengths. This workout was double the norm. I swam the first two lengths freestyle without stopping and continued the next 4 with breaststroke without stopping. That is 6 lengths without stopping (not bad - for me). Then I swam 2 lengths backstroke and 2 breast. For the last 10 lengths I swam 2 breaststroke without stopping, 1 freestyle sprint (as fast as I could go), 2 breaststroke, 1 freestyle sprint, 1 backstroke, 2 breaststroke, and the last length - freestyle sprint.