What I love about this part of the world is getting to experience the changes in weather. Of course there is the summer to winter change back home, however the spring, autumn, snowy winters were left to imaginations and confined to geography textbooks :)
Spring is back again here with little yellow and purple flowers on the meadows, sunshine glistening through tinted windows, chirping of birds, joy, laughter, tiny bits of greenery on the trees, colours all around, smiling faces, everything and everyone seems to be doing their own happy 'welcome spring' dance :) I'm loving it! :)
Friday, 26 February 2010
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Swimming: Part 02
It has been a while updating the swim section due to several factors :) However, completed 5 classes now and yeah I can claim I can swim without any swimming aids now! :) Here is swim lesson 2. 3, 4 and 5 will soon follow.
Before you begin this class, make sure to repeat class one sections quickly, especially the kicking and breathing. Apart from the drills in class one; there was only one new drill this class. We graduated to float boards swimming aids from woggles. Here are the steps.
Step 1: Hold the float board at the farther end from you with both your palms. Now extend your hands above your head, hands by the sides of the respective ears. The same position while lying down in water and you are parallel to the bottom of the pool.
Step 2: The float board keeps you on the surface. So now start kicking your legs. Concentrate on the kick, it should originate from your hips, and your knee and ankles are kept loose as you kick.
Step 3: When you have to breathe, lift you head above the water and grasp a breath through your mouth. Breathe out inside the water from your mouth by blowing bubbles.
Step 4: When you do step 3, you will notice that you lose your balance. This is quite natural. This is the reason you should NOT lift your head while swimming the complete stroke. So for now this imbalance is fine.
Step 5: You need to balance in water, engage your core abdomen muscles but sucking in your tummy. This helps a lot in maintaining balance. Don’t forget to kick and breathe.
Step 6: Put all the above steps together and practice, practice practice :)
Before you begin this class, make sure to repeat class one sections quickly, especially the kicking and breathing. Apart from the drills in class one; there was only one new drill this class. We graduated to float boards swimming aids from woggles. Here are the steps.
Step 1: Hold the float board at the farther end from you with both your palms. Now extend your hands above your head, hands by the sides of the respective ears. The same position while lying down in water and you are parallel to the bottom of the pool.
Step 2: The float board keeps you on the surface. So now start kicking your legs. Concentrate on the kick, it should originate from your hips, and your knee and ankles are kept loose as you kick.
Step 3: When you have to breathe, lift you head above the water and grasp a breath through your mouth. Breathe out inside the water from your mouth by blowing bubbles.
Step 4: When you do step 3, you will notice that you lose your balance. This is quite natural. This is the reason you should NOT lift your head while swimming the complete stroke. So for now this imbalance is fine.
Step 5: You need to balance in water, engage your core abdomen muscles but sucking in your tummy. This helps a lot in maintaining balance. Don’t forget to kick and breathe.
Step 6: Put all the above steps together and practice, practice practice :)
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Amazed, Shocked, wtf !!
The title of this post is exactly how I feel about myself at the moment. Why? Because I have a long list of to-do things from the past one week(some of it for more than that) and I haven't done even one of it till now! No I'm not procrastinating, because every time I think I will do it 'now' and when that 'now' time arrives I would have forgotten about it only to be reminded of it again at a later point of time. And at that precise later point of time the time would not be suitable and the saga continues. I thought of all the things I had to do when I left office today evening and in fact almost resolved to do it, and was supposed to do it the moment I got home, but no, me being me I forgot for the nth time again.
Chandra give yourself a break! Atleast for this blog's sake move your *** and do it!
Chandra give yourself a break! Atleast for this blog's sake move your *** and do it!
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