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25 Feb 2025, 3:37 pm

Yay enjoy yourself man

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28 Feb 2025, 4:36 am

Last few days of martial arts class have been a lot of alternating between jumping kicks and wrist-locks, along with some assisted stretches - in addition to the usual warm up stuff we do.

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01 Mar 2025, 11:20 pm

uncommondenominator wrote:

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You are training for quick reflexes and endurance. That is tough work and it must require lots of energy. It must be sharpening your mental acuity as well.

Very much so. We train for reflexes, accuracy, speed, power, breathing and endurance, and body conditioning. Today we were doing strikes against striking dummies / heavy targets, to get us used to punching or hitting a more solid object like a human torso, rather than just punching air. It conditions our wrists and knuckles. That was sort of the theme of the day - strikes with speed and power.

Do you spar with other students often?

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01 Mar 2025, 11:22 pm

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Went bicycling several times today. Great to be outside cycling after being laid up for 5 weeks with an injury.

Nice! Where do you cycle? In your neighborhood or a park?

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01 Mar 2025, 11:24 pm

babybird wrote:

Nearly 2 hours skateboarding... carving it up

There is a skate ramp park in my town. It seems active on a daily basis.

Where do you prefer to skate?

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01 Mar 2025, 11:26 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

I have hockey later. :heart:

Hockey! That will get the heart pumping, for sure. Do you play often?

I like to watch the games when there is an opportunity.

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01 Mar 2025, 11:28 pm

uncommondenominator wrote:

Last few days of martial arts class have been a lot of alternating between jumping kicks and wrist-locks, along with some assisted stretches - in addition to the usual warm up stuff we do.

Now I’m imagining Bruce Lee!

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Yesterday, 6:15 pm

My pups nudged me into walking the nature trails today. The weather is gorgeous! I’m glad they convinced me to venture outside longer today. They are my best motivators.

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Yesterday, 9:15 pm

Stargazer99 wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

I have hockey later. :heart:

Hockey! That will get the heart pumping, for sure. Do you play often?

I like to watch the games when there is an opportunity.

Once a week, except for bye weeks. I might start dropping in on Thursdays for pick-up hockey in another town as well. It's about twice as far to drive, but the practice should help.

It definitely gets the heart pumping. The shifts are short (90 - 120 seconds is typical), but you're playing hard the entire time. I'm trying to work on my conditioning as much as possible because I typically spend the entire shift running faster than a jogging pace (but not quite full-on sprinting).

It's a lot more intense than I remember soccer being.

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