Still builds muscle strength but much easier on my joints
Oh my, how things have changed. There was a day that if I wasn’t lying on the floor unable to catch my breath, it wasn’t a good workout. Of course, that was several decades ago. These days, 40 minutes in the pool is just about right. But whatever works I guess. I have always been the sort who would rather be active than sit inside the central air conditioning watching TV. That led to me getting into working out and I went all in with that situation. It was back in the 90’s when there was a lot less known about exercise science. So we just got out of the air conditioning to push ourselves to exhaustion with stuff that would be considered sort of cross training now. Then, it was into some gym that had no commercial HVAC and only fans. This was a muscle heads delight. And every giant bodybuilder was there day in and day out. But that wasn’t my scene as we were into more of a high rep routine. It was intense and I was definitely in great shape for a lot of years. But that stuff came with a price as it punished my joints. And now, I take my exercise with a dose of air conditioning. The health and wellness center I got to these days has zone controlled HVAC. I love being upstairs with the resistance equipment. That’s more my speed these days. Still builds muscle strength but much easier on my joints. And getting out of the air conditioning comes with lap after wonderful lap in the pool instead of all that punishment we were into 30 years ago.