I get the strangest revelations, in the weirdest place. There I was swimming my normal style i.e. breast-stroke.* Usually I swim quite "relaxed"-ly one. But hor, the other lane next to mine got this lady swimmer quite "hiong", swimming none stop. So my male egg-o told me not to lose out. So I swam continuously, without gliding. Just keep on stroking. Managed to out-pace and out-swam the lady swimmer. (yee har! :p ) And the momentum in the water just keeps my body moving, so hardly any effort...
after a while, I lost interest in the "race", and chill at one end of the pool. Decided to pull some more laps off, so as to make my $1 entrance fee into the swimming pool maximise its value for money. ;D Decided to do the proper sequence i.e. stroke-glide-stroke-glide... and guess what? it's actually more tiring to do that.
Why? Because when you glide in the water, you gotta keep your body stream-lined and level. You do that by arching your butts up**; if not, your legs will go lower than your head in the water, creating more "drag" and slowing your momentum down... So when you glide, you gotta actually keep your posture correct, in order to keep going forward with the same speed.
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well, what's my takeaway from this simple lesson in swimming?
1. Sometime we may keep up a routine (keep stroking and stroking), and that may pushes us ahead in life. But that's not the best way to train up. We gotta do the proper rhythm of work ("stroke") and rest ("glide").
2. Even in rest, still takes effort. One must keep posture right in life to glide through life. It's difficult for us to let go and to let the Spirit pull us through, only because we resist and we don't keep our posture right.
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*Commonly known as frog style, because you look like like a frog in motion while swimming.
** not that your butts stick out of the water. It's a funny sight if you do that. Don't think frogs swim like that too...
bro i wanna learn swimming :(
ReplyDeletejust go swimming popol and start paddling first... :p
ReplyDeletett's if i even got time go..mayb aft work one of e days ba..too fat to fit into e swimsuit anyway
ReplyDeleteswimming pool is open from 6am onwards. Last week i went at around 7am, saw all the uncles and aunties swimming.
ReplyDeletePlus point of swimming before 8am:
Won't get a tan
Minus point:
Might catch death of a cold, if you are not "warmed up" enough
lolz no suntsn e chlorine oso caused color change no diff. :p eh funnie ar we chatting thru replies ar?haha ok lo c ONE FINE DAY i shall do tt,1st muz get goggles. heh pls,getting up early to stretch is already a miracle for me keke oh no dishing out all my bad pts out. oh well~ x_x
ReplyDeleteeh, not my fault that our schedules dun match wat... :P yesh, it's weird for family to chat through threads. Looking forward to the day when we can take a family vacation together...
ReplyDeleteanyway, just got back from a swim. So be ENVIOUS of me, muahhahahaha!!