Hello Fellow Authors:
You
have made it- the end of your second year. For the next year you will be co-authors of this Blog- the place to inspire and
motivate one another over the summer months.
Lets get started by listing our priorities and goals for the summer.
Personally I would like to focus on hand balancing, writing, and running.
Hand balancing
I would like to develop and implement a 30 minute hand balancing work out that builds strength, endurance, and coordination while targeting flexibility in the muscles engaged in the hand stand.
Writing
I want to have the curriculum for each of my subjects in each of the three years of the program ready to go when school starts. I would also like to have the first draft of a book about Acrobatics started.
Running
I would like to work myself back up to being able to run for 30 minutes. This will be the last step in my ankle rehabilitation.
If each of you could comment on this post with your priorities and goals by Friday June 8, 2012 I will put together a proposed schedule for comment and discussion.
Here we go...
Joe
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ReplyDeleteMy priority this summer is to keep up my acro and physical conditioning so that when school starts up again I will be in the same shape or better. I have made up a schedule this summer hoping that if I have a regimented work out I will be more able to keep it up for the whole summer. I don’t plan on doing any of these activities for more then an hour and I would like to start every day off with the rolling pattern.
ReplyDeleteMonday- Run
Tuesday- Daily Practice and Pilates
Wednesday- Yoga and Acro
Thursday- Run
Friday- Daily Practice and Pilates
Saturday- Yoga and Arco
Sunday- Juggling and journaling
When I am not in Blue Lake I am going to have to find things to substitute for acro like swimming or just see what acro I can do with wherever I am.
Goals:
-By the end of the summer will be to be able to do a free standing hand stand for about a min.
- I want to go running on the beach once a week while I’m still in blue lake.
- Once a week find time to take some pictures
- This summer I would like to free write a little bit every day or at least a little every week just to get in the habit of writing and cultivating a desire to have to write everyday.
- When working on lights this summer I want to focus on Alexander Technique and more awareness of my breath in situations where I feel stressed.
- Also work each week on playing the ukulele
Here is what my 'default' training regimen looks like this summer.
ReplyDelete* About an hour total walking Hattie (Caroline's dog) around Blue Lake every day. Our pattern seems to be to walk/run once in the early morning, and once in the evening.
* A bike ride into Arcata and back every couple days.
* 4 or so times a week, Pilates and Yoga for half an hour.
* Tai Chi with Nicholette.
Goals for this summer:
* Get to a weekend or weeklong dance workshop.
* Make it to Bonnie Hossack's dance class most weeks.
* Sustain a 30 second freestanding handstand.
* Feel in shape and in my body (the last few weeks of school and onward have been a kind of fitness and training bottleneck).
I might reactivate my Healthsport membership for the summer, to take yoga classes and go swimming in town.
Darci Fulcher in from the beautiful Jersey Shore! I have a feeling I'm on the wrong blog....but I'm gonna blog anyway about my summer training, thus far!
ReplyDeleteTo be honest the first week I was home, I took it really slow and really rested my shoulder. I started with walking in the water and just moving my arms around in water. I also focused on Alexander Technique and releasing my neck and widening across front and across my back and butt while walking down the streets of NYC.
The past three weeks I have been swimming every day for 20 minutes, some times twice a day. First I just started breast stroke and treading water for 10 minutes. Now I am able to do freestyle and I am able to do the Peak Condition shoulder exercises in water. I still can not do the full three sets of Peak Conditions exercises outside of water, but working towards that. To this date I have no pain in my shoulder, just re-building strength and flexibility. I still feel like I have baby meat for shoulders, so I'm taking it slow.
Outside of the water exercises, the past two weeks I have been running/ walking/ skipping three times a week for 20 minutes. Just this past week I was able to run in a field and felt the need to transition into polar bear, crawling, crab and climbing. I can only do over-head weight bearing locomotion really slowly. It has forced me to think of alignment and direction and flowing through the movements like swimming.
Push-ups are really difficult and I was only able to do 30 in a week, last week. I am finding it might be more important for me to focus on the flexibility in my backbends, than building up to the amount of push-ups we did during the year. My goals have changed and my mind set has changed about training. I interested in increasing flexibility, maintaining endurance and finding the flow or easiness through movements.
But more important news, I fly back to Blue Lake Tomorrow!!! Can't wait to see The Fish in Your Head! Break a Leg!
I realize this response comes very late.... I didn't see this thread in June, my bad.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, my objectives for the summer was to keep fit and keep on building strength. I wanted to do this mostly with Joe-inspired daily practices and Meridith beast-training. I also wanted to do a lot of work with Alexander. I brought the Barbara Conable book "Hoe to learn the Alexander Technique" and planned on doing a lot of constructive rest.
I also realized that goingback to Moldova for a month may not be conducive to a lot of these plans, so I was waiting to see what I could do as far as space for training goes.
My parents moved into a new apartment that has more space, I was happy to find. Like every year, Moldova is unfriendly to runners, and I realized cardio work this summer will be sparse. I've done jump roping a couple of times, and I aim to keep that up. so most of my work out constitutes of pilates-type work and muscle maintaining/building: handstand work-outs and balances (when I can convince my brother to help me, which is rare), push ups, lifts, core workouts, headstands, stretches. I also do Tai Chi, up to the middle of the second section that I can remember well. and of course, reading the AT book and lying down work almost every day. I try to structure my days like this: One day Tai Chi and a light handstand work-out then journal and hopefully 15 minutes of constructive rest, next day heavy work out with push-ups and jump roping and 15 minutes constructive rest, next day either pause or AT work only. then repeat.
I am really trying to fight the summer laziness with this and move myself to do that and am usually very happy once I do.
I have to say Tai Chi on my own through the Alexander lens has been very useful. I find that I can engage my core much more easily and can move, my hips especially, from a place of ease rather than tension. I feel them relax before a shift of weight, for instance, and I find that invigorating.
I have become increasingly inspired by my research company and their physicality so my desire to stay fit came partly from that. I wanted to at least maintain my flexibility and strength in the summer months, so that I could move ahead immediately in September. move into perfecting my back walk over from standing, perfecting front walk overs, back tuck-ups, and working on front flips.
excited to come back! can't wait to see you all and get back into moving together!
rux