May 4 to May 24

 

Let's get this up front - life has been hectic of late and my fitness life is suffering as a result. However frantic it has been, I've been dedicated to getting my morning sessions done - and they've all been done. It is the evenings that continue to be frantic and mind blowingly stupidly occupied with life. 

Right. Also, cool training partner pic above. She's been a rather decent DJJ (that's Dog Jiu Jitsu) partner at times, although I now have fingernail cuts from this dog on my face and shin. Who shows up to train with long fingernails? Eesh.

Morning sessions have looked like this:

8-10 minutes baby pose, downwards dog to plank, push ups, WGS, thread the needle stretches. 

8-10 minutes runners stretch, hip opening exercises of various sorts, push ups. It is usually now that I tend to have to defend my self or defend the garage from dog attacks. I've also opened up the space enough to get a large exercise ball in there and getting back to hip raises and deep squats that are ball assisted. One or two BJJ solo drills as well with the ball. 

8-10 minutes Hip Cars, standing stretches and DJJ.

April 13 to May 3

 

As I mentioned before ... this cough just won't let me be. In my defence, this cold and my wife falling and breaking an ankle and a bone in her shoulder isn't helping free up time to blog these days. Yeah, that sucked and I do not recommend. 0 out of 5 stars. At least the paramedics were cool.

So ... yeah, that's where I've been and that's what I've been dealing with in the last few weeks. The dog is doing dog things. I've started to bring the dog in to my garage gym and workout around it. This morning's puppy yoga session did have a little puppy BJJ in it, which is cool. The dog is never going to be a good BJJ athlete until the biting stops, but I digress. 

Morning sessions were frantic at times, but I got them done. I regularly had to make them evening sessions and I had to miss one or two due to running out of day. I did get two large blow up exercise balls up and rolling in the gym this week as well. 

But ab work, puppy poses and inclusion of BJJ solo drills are part of the morning session this week. I'm so grateful we purged the garage and reorganized it as well. Not perfect, but good enough to get a space big enough for me. 

Morning session today: 

8-10 minutes Baby pose, downward dog to cobra pose. push ups. 

4-5 minutes boxing bag BJJ passing drill, BJJ arms locked out step by, push ups. Big ball ab roll outs.

8-10 minutes hip Cars and one legged airplane stretch. BW squats and Squat holds. Warrior One and two poses. Table pose.

April 7 to 12

 

Le sigh, the hacking cough just won't  ... leave me alone. I nearly swore there, so that's how awful I'm feeling these days. I'm hoping that this next week the stupid calms down and I can get some rest.

In good news I got to do my morning sessions in a nice empty-ish garage. I've been able to rearrange some stuff and put a lot of bulk stuff on the curb and now I have the space in the garage. Feels nice.

Morning sessions looked like:

8-10 minutes mobility for hips, shoulders and back: WGS, hamstrong stretches, 90/90 stretch, cat/cow stretch, downward dog to cobra pose. Push ups.

8-10 minutes of hip and back mobility. Putting on socks stretch, hip bridges, leg crossovers, clamshell and side lying leg heists, push ups.

3-8 minutes biceps and hip mobility - hip CARS and curls, BW squats.

Mar 30 to April 6

 

Ok, something has gotten me out of whack - I'm coughing and just not able to sleep well these days. Even the Apple Watch is wondering what has happened to me.

Morning sessions happened all days during this period and I got a chance to purge out the garage again, so I'm back to having a decent space to train.

Morning sessions looked like this:

8-10 minutes shoulders, chest and neck - cat / cow and baby stretch. Push ups, WGS, and downward dog to cobra stretch. 90/90 stretch.

8-10 minutes back and hips - 90/90 stretches, windshield wiper stretch, swimming kicks and putting on socks stretch. push ups. 

4-5 minutes banded bicep curls, bw squats and hip CARS. 

Mar 23 to 29

 

Ok, ok I get it this isn’t a complete week or something. Chill my dude, chill.

This was a first week back from a break week - so everyone was off pace, including me. It’s a weird time in my neck of the woods … anyway, next little while is four days of work, four days off, then four days of work. Nice.

Or it would be nice, but there is so much up in the air at the moment. Le sigh. 

I did get morning session / stretching session done every day, just not every morning. 

8-10 minutes - mobility for legs, shoulders .. .cat/cow poses, push ups downward dogs to Cobra poses, thread the needle, WGS, push ups…. Stuff.

8-10 minutes on hip mobility - putting on socks stretch, swimmers kicks, one leg hip hip opening stretch, baby pose, hydrant and reverse hydrant poses …

4-10 minutes of hip CARS, push ups and body weight squats.

March 9 to 22

 

I let a week get away from me there … not really, but we will just go with that one. I’ve been keeping a decent schedule here, doing the morning session almost every day in the morning, only occasionally need to get it done later in the day. I just keep wanting to get my evenings back,  I will get them back, just not yet. Exhaustion and a young puppy are keeping me in the house, with a garage full of objects in the way. 

I do have a plan, just nothing I would want on the internet just yet, thanks.

Morning sessions are as follows:

8-10 minutes just plan mobility - baby pose, thread the needle, push ups, cat/cow, WGS and others as recalled.

8-10 minutes of hips - putting socks on stretch, swimmers kicks, thigh pull ins, clamshell and single leg lifts, hip thrusts. Push ups, too. 

8-10 minutes hip cars and squats, push ups.

Depending on the day, that last 10 minutes were cut off as I had to be a husband or keep a dog from regicide or other crimes against humanity. Also poop duty. 

Mar 2 to 8

 

I feel like Jack tonight, with my Army being insulted. Someone I care about insulted my stretching to my face. And I took it. To be fair, they care only for my future and want me to be mobile at 85, and so evidently I need to get back to a doctor and have them tell me what to do with a Physio about my knee. 

Well, I know it is about my hip. Shocker. Anyway, I'll have to get into that over the holiday coming up, I guess. that and book an appointment for the RV to get looked at as well. Anyway, I got stretching done mostly in the day, but all of the days. Just some were later in the day, that's all.

I did a good deal of walking this week as well - the dog needed me and my house needed me with the dog. We saw the snow melting day after day after day. Nice to see the white stuff go, even if it reveals all of the dog, bunny and whatever else poop left behind. 

The iMac in the garage also got quite an upgrade with an Airport Express with ethernet cord hook up. Went from slowly sort of streaming movies to actually streaming movies. It's rather fast. Now I need the space in my garage gym back so I can get back to the training I like doing in there, man ... 

Morning sessions as follows:

8-10 minutes 90/90 stretches, WGS, thread the needle, cat/cow stretch, cobra to downward dog stretch and push ups.

8-10 minutes of abs - swimmers kicks, putting on socks stretch and hip bridges. Ab hollow holds, push ups.

Some days that was it, other days was able to add banded bicep curls, banded overhead presses. Hip CARS and general good stuff for everything.