Nov 10 to 23

 

It's a yelling Blue Jay ... 

I'm sorry, dear readers. It is life again kicking my butt up and down this proverbial sidewalk these days. Can't catch a break if I fell on it or something like that. Life continues and I have to continue as well. 

Some adventure during this time was cool - a day in the park quietly enjoying the blue jays squawk and yell at me, at other birds or at the clouds for all i know. They enjoyed themselves, I enjoyed the quiet they otherwise shattered. Self care at it's finest.

Morning sessions continue uninterrupted, and some evening sessions in the pool only. For whatever reason I am not hopping on the air-bike in my garage in the evenings. If I do train in the evenings, it is in the pool.

Now, also during this time there was a racoon visitor to the indoor pool, so there's that. 

Morning sessions now look like:

10 minutes yoga and mobility. This morning used a kettlebell handle to strip the hip adductors. No, that was not fun. At all. Various poses, bodyweight training. mobility and a nice start on my big huge yoga mat.

10 minutes abs - leg lifts, hip ups, bicycle legs in the air. Etc, etc.

10 minutes training - bicep curls, overhead presses, TRX Squats to overhead pulls, push ups and kettlebell swings. I do also take a few minutes to just play with the TRX and see if I can recall anything I used to know.  

Getting out of the basement has it's appeals - no place to get the TRX anywhere else in the house, so I'm in the garage, I'mma using it. Now I just need ot start doing my cardio in the evenings and we are all set up for success. 

Nov 3 to 9

 

Something like this, but I'm way colder in my garage gym

I keep closing just the two rings these days - standing and exercising. 

I keep getting the morning routine done in the garage gym these days - working on some mobility and some muscles. 

I think I am getting muscles just from how often I train the abs and the arms/shoulders. Just every day a little bit and every day I get a little bit better.

I really do need to get on my desire for "endless cardio". I miss the swims and my hips miss those swims as well. 

My shoulders do NOT miss the daily swimming - I got a massage done this week and I had a witness to my shoulders being "not bad" and my hip being "really messed up" - no I will not be providing any references at this time, so there...

But the morning routine is this:

10 minutes of mobility - hips, shoulders and ankles. yoga poses and gentle stretching of joints that seem to help. Downward dog to leg extensions, reverse arm cat and cow poses etc, etc, etc

10 minutes ab work - hip thrusters form the flow, ab crunches, leg lifts, standing leg tucks. All of that, all of it. 

10 minutes of banded curls, overhead presses then into two-handed kettlebell swings. 

I'll see if I can get to store one of the Apple watch protectors I've got somewhere and get back to kettlebell snatches and other single-arm moves for next week. Also ... swims are back on the menu.

Oct 20 to Nov 2

 

What was back on the screen this week

Whoa, sorry regular readers of this blog - forgot a week. In my defence, the week before and after the 24th was a bit of a nutter. Just dumb.

Anyway, I did close the rings twice during this time, which is a far cry from what it was a year ago. I would like to get back to that daily evening workout, but that exhaustion and fatigue at the end of the day is somewhat insurmountable to this time. 

Morning routine continue in the garage gym. Or I should say back in the garage gym. The basement is now dry, just I'm rethinking what the basement is for and training there was a bit of a drag. I'm doing stuff in my garage and the workouts are actually a bit more fun with the iMac playing movies. 

I did alter the morning routine:

10 minutes of mobility - baby pose, cat and cow pose, reverse arms, and all kinds of leg and upper body mobility stretches.

1o minutes of ab and core work - leg lifts, crunches, v-sits and the like. BJJ leg pummelling and general stretches for the abs and lower back.

10 minutes of bicep curls, presses and kettlebell swings. 

I'd like to get snatches into this last bit, but I need to put an Apple Watch cover back in the garage to make sure it's protected. I have one; I just need to pull it into the garage. 

Any case... life is good. Grateful the basement is dry.