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@IamSINGLE happy now?!

Sunday: 55 pushups, led a beginner yoga class (and so plenty of demo/practice with the students) + 1.5h Japanese martial arts (Ninjutsu) Monday: 10 pushups, + a swim session in the outdoor pool in the next village over. Very lazy day, but we were tired. Tuesday: 55 + Judo in the evening (and my god, was I spent after that session... fighting is freaking tough!) Wednesday: 67 + a private yoga session in the studio (about 1.5h, heavy sun salutations -- like 7 A's and 5 B's + a bit of a standing flow too). Thursday: Not a good day emotionally or professionally, but went for a long walk down the valley (10km-something), + 130 pushups (5 para, 2x5 fingertips, 10 elevated, 10+15 wide, 20+30+30 regs)... and then a gym sessions with lifts, 20-min run, some pull-up practice and finished with a medication (#863896) Friday: slacking on the pushup game, only did 10 in the morning. But then went to the peak of a nearby mountain (about 600m elevation, from sea level), + ninjutsu in the evening. Pretty spent that day.

Altogether acceptable workout week, I'll say. Today is probably a rest day, and then tomorrow there'll be sea swimming (#873759) and a then I'm teaching a slow-flow vinyasa class.
was wonderful to be on the track up the mountain early enough in the morning for the moment when the sun peeks over the horizon/mountains (winter is definitely over!)
Peace, frens
22 sats \ 13 replies \ @Aardvark 7h
sigh I start the grind again tomorrow
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that's the awful part about throwing away my notes with pushup/workout tracking for the week; now it's a blank slate and the next week I gotta do it all again!
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I have a spreadsheet that I've been tracking everything on for 5 years. Keep those notes
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nah, the SN record is enough for me.
I'm not that much of a hoarder -- or rather, I already hoard enough shit: books, clothes, diaries etc.
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22 sats \ 9 replies \ @Aardvark 6h
It's just a document on Google sheets. And let me tell you, there's nothing more motivating that going back 5 years and seeing you maxed out on bench press at 155lbs for 3 reps way back then.
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that's interesting. Perhaps would incentivize me some, I guess
22 sats \ 6 replies \ @IamSINGLE 7h
Wow! You do almost everything. How do you manage? No, how did you come to learn so much? Tell me the secret or I'm still unhappy. ;)
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pfff... nah, the martial arts stuff (Ninjutsu and Judo) are new for this year, basically. I've obviously been yoga-ing since forever (#864752), and hiking the mountains is what brings me peace so it's hard to resist.
How? Well, I don't have a life? (Or rather, that shit is my life these days).
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29 sats \ 4 replies \ @IamSINGLE 6h
basically. I've obviously been yoga-ing since forever (#864752), and hiking the mountains
This is me too.
TBH, you should be pleased because you'll be the one with a greater health in the later part of life. What motivates me daily is that I don't wanna lose enthusiasm of youth in my life ever.
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100% the same.
Heard on podcast recently that stuck with me: If you're not paying for health now, you're paying with illness later
(the context was probably good food but I embraced it for physical movement too)
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14 sats \ 2 replies \ @IamSINGLE 6h
That's precisely what I wanted to say.
(the context was probably good food but I embraced it for physical movement too)
Both are equally important for happy and healthy life in later stages.
I read somewhere about four quatrains of better living, Good food Physical exercise Mental exercise Emotional exercise.
I pay an equal attention to all four of them.
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Emotional exercise is interesting. What do you take that to mean?
Ninjutsu? Sweet!
That's one I always wanted to take, but never lived anywhere it was offered. I had at least one ninjutsu book that I liked a lot.
I remember when my joints used to support fingertip pushups. Now, they hurt to think about.
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used to fingertip-pushup a lot a few years ago. This week at Judo, we focused on grip ("ukemi?!") a lot and these tiny fingertip muscles bloody hurt.
I figured I must get stronger there

and Ninjutsu is pretty dope; we have a recently minded black belt in the village so that's a nice perk!
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Your little village sounds like something out of a Japanese video game.
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hahah, sure -- of course. Except cold and dark and snowy and filled with wacky Nordics
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Didn’t realize you’re a yoga teacher!
Pretty epic walk
Worst bitcoin shadowy super coder I’ve ever heard of to love nature so much!
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