A New Challenge

By Antonio Loglisci

After "How Got Fit by Learning to Swim", Antonio writes a new chapter, related to the FINA World Masters Championsips. Funny as usual.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781326078454

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Title: HOW I GOT FIT BY LEARNING TO SWIM: A NEW CHALLENGE

Author: Antonio Loglisci

© 2014 Antonio Loglisci all rights reseved

Version 01_November 2014

ISBN: 978-1-326-07845-4

INTRODUCTION

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When I wrote the book "How I Got Fit by Learning to Swim", my goal was to share a useful human experience filled with fun. I wanted my story to make readers smile, reflect and be driven to get their body moving. That’s why, in addition to recounting my most meaningful and rigorously authentic experiences, I wished to convey, in a simple and immediate way, the mental strategies that helped me stick to exercising and reaching my sports goals. As I gained familiarity with aquatics and learned the basics of the four strokes (first part of the book) and after barely defeating my state of initial laziness, I took the important decision to dive into amateur competitive swimming, also known as masters swimming (part two).

Judging from the feedback I have received, the book, distributed by Amazon (www.amazon.com) both in hard copy and as an ebook, is nice, flowing, motivating and useful. Maybe this is the reason why my friends, together with readers who contact me through my website www.swim-fit.com, ask me if I intend to write a sequel. The answer I give is always the same: Dunno. Since the days of the book, many things have happened, also because, for time to time, in addition to swimming, I began running and riding a bicycle, passing off for a pseudo-triathlete. As of today, no project for a sequel truly exists. Well, then, you may ask: What is in these pages?. Here it goes…

HAVE YOU NOT READ THE BOOK, YET?

What you are about to read is the tale of a sports challenge that I have experienced in my recent past. If you want to know how everything began, but, most of all, if you want to discover the strategies that allowed me to reach these fitness levels starting from scratch, then you should read the original book.

HAVE YOU ALREADY READ THE BOOK?

What you are about to read is effectively an additional chapter: chapter 11.

Enjoy.

Antonio Loglisci

1. PREVIOUSLY

For the first twenty-seven years of my life, my existence consisted of school and work, with very little sport practiced in between. This is because, despite my fervent wish to achieve fame and success, as I child I never succeeded in becoming good at anything. Moral of the story: after being thrown out of all the soccer teams in my neighborhood, including the church team and following a stint in the world of basketball, at the age of 16 I hung my sneakers and resigned to just do a little gym training to stay in shape. Then, when I realized that in order to attract girls all I had to do was display a little congeniality and participate in a few involved conversations, I proceeded to eliminate physical activity from my life as it was no longer necessary.

When I turned 27, my life took a different turn due to health reasons: I began to swim, a sport that I had never fully experienced before. I was often sore, but also getting in shape like never before. At the age of 31, I participated in my first masters’ class swimming competition.

At the age of 38, I felt like