Water Workout Success!

To prevent my ankle from regressing back to a swollen and painful state, I tried some lighter workouts during the past few days. On Thursday, I strapped on my water-running belt and grabbed my foam dumbbells to "run" in my gym's pool.

After "running" (in the pool) for just two minutes with the foam dumbbells in-hand, my arms were burning and my heart rate was up. In fact, the dumbbells made the workout so tough that I had to alternate between water-running with and without the dumbbells.

Just a half-hour of this workout left me feeling tired, accomplished and pain-free at the ankles.

Today, I switched things up a little by water-running for 15 minutes, then swimming freestyle as hard as I could for 15 minutes afterwards.

By the way, on Friday, I performed most of the glute, ab, and hip abductor strengthening exercises I have described in previous entries. An exciting addition to this workout was a mile power-walk, warm-up on the treadmill.

Still dying to run, but happy to consistently be working up a sweat!