C'mon! Exercise with me!

I'm one happy girl because I finally got to swim today, first time in the whole week. Over the past few weeks, I've been trying to swim three times a week. However this week on Monday when I wanted to swim after I got home from school, the Pool person who comes to my house twice a week to clean the pool added something inside, so I couldn't swim. I ended up running on the treadmill, watching "Hot Chick" at the same time.

Which leads me to ask myself, which is better? Running or swimming? Personally, I LOVE running. Yet, as I start to swim more now, I am beginning to prefer swimming to running instead. So I exercise to keep fit and also to, preferably, lose some "flabs", if you get what I mean. ;)

I then decided to google "running exercise versus swimming". I wasn't able to find something that actually told me which helps more. BUT, I found 2 websites that were actually quite interesting.

1) "My patience is thin, when will I be?" Please keep in mind that "losing flabs" is one of my top priorities.

2) 20 Advantages of Exercise. For those out there who just can't seem to get yourself to keep fit, read this!

I think the thing that impacted me the most was a specific sentence in the first website listed above. This is the sentence:

Research and practice tell us that if we exercise only for weight loss, we are very unlikely to continue long-term.

Oh dear. I need to change my mindset on exercising.

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