{"id":2323,"date":"2013-10-18T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2013-10-18T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:24:36","slug":"my-arms-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/my-arms-wont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"My Arms Won&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was my triumphant return to swim practice.\u00a0 I am ashamed to admit that I&#8217;ve not been in the water (aside from the cruise) since my triathlon, and I haven&#8217;t been to a coached practice since July.<\/p>\n<p>The running joke was whether or not I still knew how to swim.\u00a0 Knowing how to swim was the least of my problems.<\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;re in for it when you arrive at practice and the coaches are pulling the lane lines out of the pool and giggling maniacally.<\/p>\n<p>The workout?\u00a0 Swim a lap around the pool, get out, do squats for a minute.\u00a0 Swim a lap, pushups.\u00a0 Lap, sit-ups.\u00a0 Lap, flutter kicks.\u00a0 Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>My lower body is doing okay, since I&#8217;ve been focusing on my running.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve not been shy about the fact that my upper body work has fallen off and I need to get back to it.\u00a0 But I didn&#8217;t realize just how bad it was.\u00a0 Or just how tired I would be.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, I went to do a sit-up and nothing happened.\u00a0 No pain, no burn, just no movement.\u00a0 Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t the only one who spent some time simply laying on the pool deck in pushup position either.<\/p>\n<p>We whined about it, but honestly it was a great workout and shows me just how far I have to go.\u00a0 But man, getting out of bed was tough today.\u00a0 And my arms don&#8217;t want to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was my triumphant return to swim practice.\u00a0 I am ashamed to admit that I&#8217;ve not been in the water (aside from the cruise) since my triathlon, and I haven&#8217;t been to a coached practice since July. 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