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[training] anti-dance thp, week four
I've started making these posts public so I can just send my... um, trainer [I feel goofy saying I have a trainer, because it implies a different kind of "fitness" than I'm after.]... links to them. So they'll be cut to not annoy every single one of you.
Learned to string the bits of kinetic chain together. Yay! I was getting a little bored - and you know, I need to recognize that boredom is a sign and not a failure to pay attention. Stupid school! It teaches you all the wrong things about yourself.
Went back over the two-handed parry cast (which I think is the right term for the "hammer thing") and figured out the hip movement problem I'd been having. Also, I was getting my wrists all twisted up in each other.
Sleep: napped for an hour with my cats in the late afternoon, in bed around 11:30 and up at 6.
Food: I'm trying to make time to properly cook (instead of warming up tasty organic meals from the store, which just isn't as much fun). It's a goal for the week - the cooking also comes with a built-in slow-the-eff-down system.
I woke up Monday AM with the weird corsetted feeling - even breathing deeply seems to stretch and work tired muscles all around my mid-torso. Meep. Did two very slow and gentle (lots of extra arm support through weight transitions) reps of the chain and took a hot bath.
Tuesday I was feeling offish in the morning, and thought I'd just been overtraining and that perhaps 6 hours and some change of sleep repeatedly isn't enough. So I did one set of the chain again, and then went to the office where I proceeded to feel worse and worse all day. Struggled through dance class. Came home. Did the old calf thing and tried the new calf thing. Achieved floppy calves. Slept.
Woke up Wednesday, hardly got out of my pjs, though I did work all day - was sick in that overwhelming something is wrong with me, but I don't know what way. Ran part of dance practice from sitting on the floor. Was cranky. But! I slept well. Which is probably what I needed. Didn't dance, ergo didn't need anti-dance.
Slept from 10 to 6. Rested more during the day. When I came home from PURE practice, I was like 900% better. And! After some lower leg releasing (argh, I *forgot* the new calf thing), I did 3 reps - again slow and gentle - of the chain. The whole chain, with the standing up and everything. And two shoulder stands. Not in the chain, just when I was doing spinal rocks along with the leg stuff, I thought hmm, I wonder if my shoulder stand got any better while I wasn't looking, which of course it had, so I had to do another.
Took a nap in the morning, and fully intend to still be asleep by 11. And I cooked dinner every night this week, including improvised soup.
Friday we didn't have training, so I did intu-flow in the morning and then took the evening off.
Saturday we danced at the Gay Pride fest, which meant 3 hours of standing around and talking to people, plus 3 15-minute dance sets. I did 5 reps of the chain [including getting up to standing] before dancing, because we went straight from dancing to my birthday party (although I did throw in several spinal rocks & some releasing work on my calves while changing & a foot rub later).
Sunday I woke up like "oh noes, my calves are so hurty" when in fact I'm pretty sure they were only as tense and pained as they usually are after a performance, and I'm now more aware & less tolerant of it. I also had the weird tension in my left foot that I used to get, which went away as my calf started to loosen up a little.
Drank lots and lots of water & did intu-flow, then walked maybe a mile (maybe less - we were just wandering Williamsburg), drove a couple of hours, came home & did the chain a couple of times and the parry cast 5x on each side. Discovered I could actually reach my ankles in the shoulder bridge! When did that happen?
When I do the parry cast at night, I consistently wake up the next morning with a tired (not sore, just heavily used) feeling in my mid-back. Am I building strength or doing something wrong?
Ooh, and I helped a friend reduce a small chronic back pain by pointing out that she turns out her left foot.
Learned to string the bits of kinetic chain together. Yay! I was getting a little bored - and you know, I need to recognize that boredom is a sign and not a failure to pay attention. Stupid school! It teaches you all the wrong things about yourself.
Went back over the two-handed parry cast (which I think is the right term for the "hammer thing") and figured out the hip movement problem I'd been having. Also, I was getting my wrists all twisted up in each other.
Sleep: napped for an hour with my cats in the late afternoon, in bed around 11:30 and up at 6.
Food: I'm trying to make time to properly cook (instead of warming up tasty organic meals from the store, which just isn't as much fun). It's a goal for the week - the cooking also comes with a built-in slow-the-eff-down system.
I woke up Monday AM with the weird corsetted feeling - even breathing deeply seems to stretch and work tired muscles all around my mid-torso. Meep. Did two very slow and gentle (lots of extra arm support through weight transitions) reps of the chain and took a hot bath.
Tuesday I was feeling offish in the morning, and thought I'd just been overtraining and that perhaps 6 hours and some change of sleep repeatedly isn't enough. So I did one set of the chain again, and then went to the office where I proceeded to feel worse and worse all day. Struggled through dance class. Came home. Did the old calf thing and tried the new calf thing. Achieved floppy calves. Slept.
Woke up Wednesday, hardly got out of my pjs, though I did work all day - was sick in that overwhelming something is wrong with me, but I don't know what way. Ran part of dance practice from sitting on the floor. Was cranky. But! I slept well. Which is probably what I needed. Didn't dance, ergo didn't need anti-dance.
Slept from 10 to 6. Rested more during the day. When I came home from PURE practice, I was like 900% better. And! After some lower leg releasing (argh, I *forgot* the new calf thing), I did 3 reps - again slow and gentle - of the chain. The whole chain, with the standing up and everything. And two shoulder stands. Not in the chain, just when I was doing spinal rocks along with the leg stuff, I thought hmm, I wonder if my shoulder stand got any better while I wasn't looking, which of course it had, so I had to do another.
Took a nap in the morning, and fully intend to still be asleep by 11. And I cooked dinner every night this week, including improvised soup.
Friday we didn't have training, so I did intu-flow in the morning and then took the evening off.
Saturday we danced at the Gay Pride fest, which meant 3 hours of standing around and talking to people, plus 3 15-minute dance sets. I did 5 reps of the chain [including getting up to standing] before dancing, because we went straight from dancing to my birthday party (although I did throw in several spinal rocks & some releasing work on my calves while changing & a foot rub later).
Sunday I woke up like "oh noes, my calves are so hurty" when in fact I'm pretty sure they were only as tense and pained as they usually are after a performance, and I'm now more aware & less tolerant of it. I also had the weird tension in my left foot that I used to get, which went away as my calf started to loosen up a little.
Drank lots and lots of water & did intu-flow, then walked maybe a mile (maybe less - we were just wandering Williamsburg), drove a couple of hours, came home & did the chain a couple of times and the parry cast 5x on each side. Discovered I could actually reach my ankles in the shoulder bridge! When did that happen?
When I do the parry cast at night, I consistently wake up the next morning with a tired (not sore, just heavily used) feeling in my mid-back. Am I building strength or doing something wrong?
Ooh, and I helped a friend reduce a small chronic back pain by pointing out that she turns out her left foot.