ResistedNormalcy

So..  Contrary to popular belief, Scuba is hard.  It’s way cool, but requires much more physical and monetary exertion than I had ever planned.

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Kara has kept up with her no smoking pact thus far, and I’ve been working out.  Yay for both of us.  I started working out on Sunday, and actually busted my ass to get in shape.  We concentrated on chest, back, and cardio.

Felt real good leaving, I’ve been eating healthier and all that jazz.  I’m now a card-carrying member of the fitness bandwagon or whatnot.  Oh joy.

Come Monday..  ..to sum it up in a word.

“Blehhhhhh.”

Post-workout pains suck.  I mean — yay! — I know that I actually worked out hard enough to make my body hurt the next day, that’s good I guess.  But, bleh, simple things like moving your arms, opening doors, steering — all become waaaay more difficult.

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Monday just happened to be the first night that we actually suited up in Scuba.  Prior to Monday, we had just been doing snorkeling work — learning things like clearing your mask, rescue stuff, etc.

It didn’t occur to me that the tank and gear would weigh like 30 lbs.  Don’t get me wrong — normally, this wouldn’t have been an issue.  I’m not a complete lazy bastard.

But the day after working out the two most important muscle groups used for such complex tasks as standing, leaning over, or..  uh..  standing.. ..is not the day to strap a 30 lb backpack-o-crap on your back, and..     ..stand there.

Yeah, it’s not bad in the water.  And I’m sure it would’ve been fine, had we not had to listen to a 15 minute lecture on what we would actually be doing in the water — out of the water.  Whatever.

Blehhhhhhhhhhh.

Once we finally DID get in the water, no one conveyed to me how difficult it would be to just keep myself up right and not float into people.  I ended up just flailing about in the water trying to maintain a normal (non-drowning) position in the water.

Lesson Learned: I obviously have a ways to go in my Scuba studies.  Maybe I should enroll in Basic Dog Paddling instead. 

Blehhhhhhhhhhhhh. 

Filed under: Blather on October 11th, 2005