adric | April & May: daily stretching and exercise ?!

April

mornings, often between caffeine doses:

standing, limbering stretches, including one rep of PT stretches
feet set or leg set

feet (with arms so "bras"): battement tendu (round), jete (2*round), rhon du jambe (a/d)
legs (with arms so "bras): developpe: 2 sets each held for 4 breaths

pliee: 3 sets of 5

May

mornings, often between caffeine doses:

standing, limbering stretches, including one rep of PT stretches
feet, legs, and plie (most days)
or just feet OR legs and pliee

And nightly, rises to stretch feet (ala TPPB). By mid-May this is 3 sets of 5 in 1rst 2nd 3rd (both) 4th (both) and 5th (both) .. mine anyway

And all while trying to:

breathe from diaphragm through nose
improve positions and form (arms!)
bend my [...] knees
*grumble* keep my turnout, as much as I have anyway

This has also led to a more stable pattern of daily weigh-ins and weekly measurement, so hopefully that data will be useful. That bit is definitely inspired by TLS. Speaking of the floor daemon, weight has done okay in this time period, osciallating gently around the new goal by a kilo or so throughout the week. The other data from the floor daemon (or the tape) isn't consistent enough to take too seriously. Por ejemplo: I doubt I lost 20 lbs of muscle between readings this month .. since I didn't lose that much at all ?! Meh #scale.

Besides the details of the stretches, this means that I have been stretching and exercising daily for almost two months straight, and still going! This is a Big Deal and a major #goal I've been struggling with intentionally for a few years now (plus whole life).

ETA:It is vastly more important to keep going than to do tough exercise everyday. I can add more "reps and weight" ala TLS when I need to.. but I have to strengthen this habit.

Also in May I survived and learned some things from a six day straight online course $work paid for on some very advanced stuff, including some maths that I wanted to flee from and hide (like any reasonable creature), but did not and some tough programming that I kept trying on even though I couldn't complete most of them. Powered by extra daily caffiene and getting behind on chores, Hausarbeit, and other studies ... seem to have scraped by (never mind the buckets of laundry over there).

Refs

TLS: Thinner Leaner Stronger https://www.thinnerleanerstronger.com/
TPPB: The Perfect Pointe Book https://www.theballetblog.com/shop/the-perfect-pointe-book/

April & May: daily stretching and exercise ?!

April

May

Refs

no subject