Fitness Challenge 1: Seven Day Swim

Okay, to get an Open Water Scuba certification you need to show that you can swim 200 yards and tread water for 10 minutes.

As I stated in a previous post, this task is not too difficult of a challenge -- only done once and separated with a break in between, that is.

We're going to identify this combo of swimming 200 yards and treading water for 10 minutes immediately back to back as a single rep and call it the Scuba certification swim or Cert swim for short.

Challenge #1 will be to simply do one Cert swim per day for one week. This will help us get into the routine of daily exercise.

As a side note: I suppose you could order the rep however you want, example: swim then tread, or tread then swim. As a matter of procedure, however, I am going to tread then swim. I think the treading of water for 10 minutes will be a good way to help my body warm up for the coming swim.


Status:
I am a few days into this challenge now -- I started on Wednesday, because I think Mondays or Sundays are terrible times to start challenges what with all the other beginning and end of week commotion -- and all is going well. It has been a little cold outside (listen to me complaining about 60 degrees) and far windier than I'd like !!Oh, and I had to do it in the rain yesterday!! but I think I'm well on my way to accomplishing this first goal. Yea!