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- warm up

- pirouettes x ~10/leg
okay

- GMB pistol progression x a lot
left ahead of right, no surprise. this was really fun.

- front lever x a bit
had it, lost it, confused how that works.

- beginner partner acroyoga progression x a bit
made it into this pose:



yay working out. also i finally started to push the furniture around in the spare bedroom, which is the only room in the house with an actually flat floor AND floor space.

fuck the man.

re: getting up earlier, last night at 10:30 my gf was just like, let's go to bed. we're usually up much later. we didn't even go right to sleep, but turning the lights out that early just shifted everything. i woke up before 7, almost an hour before my alarm. lollygagged in bed for a while, but that is a good sign.

also motivation to train is starting to come back. been excited about trying some things today for the first time in a while. need to do a little something, at least, every day. every day. every day.

learning a pistol squat might be next. i can bang them out in squatting shoes but have never been able to do one barefoot on the flat ground. that's a good skill.

28-08-17

Morning BW: 78.5kg

Rest day today. [lol nvm]

Workout

Breathing ladder (i.e. only breath through nose, break between sets is time it takes to make equal number of nose breaths to the reps done]

Kettlebell swing @ 16kg for 1-20-1 - 39:30

Benchmark set. Will get better control of breathing + also need kinda stronger p-chain, or p-chain endurance, for this. 400 total reps.

oooh i love this. was thinking about getting a KB the other day. there's one shop here that sells 'em for $5 a kilo.

if you go two pages back in his journal he describes, in detail, the turns his life has taken that have led him to detrain.

You moved to Pakistan for good? how come?

fair enough, when i stopped training for explosiveness, i stopped exercising altogether.... at least you are very active.

adventure, promotion, in that order. i'd been wanting to live overseas basically ever since i got out of college. delayed for a long time mainly because of a relationship i was in, and when that ended i was like, okay time to go. stuff fell into place so that i got sent out here to jump up a big level in responsibility and create my own team, which is a really cool opportunity.

i feel you on the lack of motivation after you stop chasing a big goal. definitely had that last year, felt like i was drifting and was kind of beating myself up about it. stopped having fun or looking forward to the gym. so i'm trying to be a little more zen about exercising. i love sweating and breathing hard and straining, and it's okay just to make myself do that somehow or other 3-5 times a week. and have mini-goals, like getting rid of my right wrist pain, or being able to consistently kick up into a handstand for a few seconds.

it's cool that you're back on the wagon now. anything is better than nothing.

Did you lose some motivation to be "a fast and explosive donkey"? Your training has been more geared towards general health/fitness ever since i came back to site.

yeah. couple reasons: first, i moved to pakistan, where facilities for training to be fast and explosive are nonexistent or very difficult to access. also, body was kind of beat up after years of trying, not always intelligently or carefully, to dunk. and tbh i was sick of it. spent a few months this summer starting to learn calisthenic basics and now i'm just kind of letting myself do what feels nice as long as it breaks a sweat and/or challenges me to learn and get better at some skill. it feels nice. i'll settle back into working toward something at some point. not fussed about it for now. well, a little fussed about it but not too much.