[training] grow a spine thp, week two
Nov. 21st, 2006 04:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keryxEh, so it's actually week four... but as mentioned, those weeks were filled with obstacles to training. Grr.
Weird food day: vegan mac & cheese for breakfast, while tasty, isn't quite enough protein or calories; lunch and dinner were better (red beans & rice plus salad, then a veggie wrap), but I also ate this enormous vegan chocolate cookie. I say all this because I think I probably can't eat an enormous cookie on a veggie day - my body was very English school child-y (as in, oh, must we get up?) about moving.
So, 4 sets of 5 individual exercises, with a longer break between (about 5 minutes after the first 2 sets) to stop whingeing.
RPE: 6
RPD: 2
I just got a massage on Sunday, which may have accounted for the difference in feeling with the exhale-compression. I didn't notice any particular form changes.
RPT: 7
My quad and hurdler's squat form both seem a thousand times better; much less awkward on my feet and more balanced.
It's strange how just a little shift in the way you move can spiral out. Based on OMG Squee! my teachers' shift towards a less dogmatic approach, I made a few small adjustments to my dance posture towards a more released CSTishness in the shoulders; adjusting opened up my torso to prettier, more relaxed taxeem (vertical hip figure 8s). Though I mentioned this already.
I also find myself starting to change little bits about the way I move since starting this THP. Though I still can't, say, roll more than a couple of inches up from prone to seated without my arms, I'll initiate getting out of the bathtub with my torso instead of arms or legs.
Weird food day: vegan mac & cheese for breakfast, while tasty, isn't quite enough protein or calories; lunch and dinner were better (red beans & rice plus salad, then a veggie wrap), but I also ate this enormous vegan chocolate cookie. I say all this because I think I probably can't eat an enormous cookie on a veggie day - my body was very English school child-y (as in, oh, must we get up?) about moving.
So, 4 sets of 5 individual exercises, with a longer break between (about 5 minutes after the first 2 sets) to stop whingeing.
RPE: 6
RPD: 2
I just got a massage on Sunday, which may have accounted for the difference in feeling with the exhale-compression. I didn't notice any particular form changes.
RPT: 7
My quad and hurdler's squat form both seem a thousand times better; much less awkward on my feet and more balanced.
It's strange how just a little shift in the way you move can spiral out. Based on OMG Squee! my teachers' shift towards a less dogmatic approach, I made a few small adjustments to my dance posture towards a more released CSTishness in the shoulders; adjusting opened up my torso to prettier, more relaxed taxeem (vertical hip figure 8s). Though I mentioned this already.
I also find myself starting to change little bits about the way I move since starting this THP. Though I still can't, say, roll more than a couple of inches up from prone to seated without my arms, I'll initiate getting out of the bathtub with my torso instead of arms or legs.