Fitness Update + PushUps
The road of recovering from my knee injury is going good. It's turned into a full body recovery process. As a result of tuning into the source of my knee injury - I've realized I had created many compensating movements over the years and that I really require going back to basics with understanding my body and how to care for all my parts...all of it.
Fitness obviously being a key point of being a physical human being - I realized that I could use some support in tuning into myself and my ability to move in a variety of ways. It's been a humbling process. What's helped me to adopt change thus far has been a willingness to stop judging what's coming up within myself as like a resistance type of experience and thinking and or an uncomfortability...almost like a stuckness. I realized that by giving myself just a bit of structure in my approach to doing simple exercises to work specific parts of my body - it's just a matter of breathe and make the movement.
What's interesting about the mind resistance to performing movements is this:
It's like the mind taking offense to the body moving on it's own without being subject to moving only through the mind control as like a reaction energy of some accord.
PushUps - I've increasingly been playing with doing them real slow and extendeding the pushup upward as far as I can for like these added gains for my trapezius muscles and even more work for the triceps. It's an interesting point of development for me because I'm starting to expand regard for the body parts involved and how to tune in the focus on the specific parts.
Initially there was such a resistance - that I just tried to create the easiest accommodation for myself to just simply complete the task of doing 100 push ups in a day whether it was a few here,...10 there....5 here ....30 there....the point was in honoring the commitment I am making to myself and to follow through in exercising my own instructions - call it self directed living.
So today I realized there was still a rush like experience within me in getting into the doing of pushups - where it's like I've been holding onto this belief that pushups are still a chore even though I like them...and I wasn't seeing this word relationship with chore being like a burden almost like experience - where it's like i'm doing it but i'm even in a subtle way just kind of pushing myself through the motions and not being 100% here as my enthusiasm as my very participation and engagement. It's like allowing a part of yourself to kind of zone out, drift off...and really create almost like a resistance in even performing the movement as like this less than optimum body stability.
So this is a point of focus within doing the activity - settled within myself, no rush - no hurry - just me here moving in my body. No compensation in my self-movement.
As I've gotten stronger within my pushUp ability there's been a tendency to want to go faster and faster and really see how many I can max out with - this score keeping point - and in all honesty this is kind of ridiculous - because it's a compromised stat in and of itself because it's like yes - obviously in going fast I will have higher stats for amount of pushups completed in a row and it's more brag worthy to say a higher number because everyone knows how much work 1 pushup is it's moving all of yourself from the ground up - once. My point here is that what's gotten me thus far has been in working through my resistances and making accommdations for myself as easy as possible so I could expand in my ability. So with this in mind I'm really just exploring the slow flow movement of myself and the various parts involved.
I'm in the infancy of expanding my vocabulary of the human body. It's kind of wild in a way that I couldn't tell you the names of all my body parts. I mean that's kind of weird. There my body parts and I can't even tell you what each of them is - let alone how it functions. I mean it's kind of a wow epiphany for me because I've been touting the importance of word regard for our living here in this world and I mean where does your living in the world really start and begin - it's with your body here - the physical - makes a lot of sense to me to invest the time in getting to know all of my parts that makes me whole.
Fun thing a buddy of mine said the other day @talamon
I've been doing like 20-40 sets of pushups and it's like just doing that at a random point in your day is like having a half a cup of coffee!
It's an invigorating point of vitality for sure.
To Be Continued
Let me know what you think - Have you any perspective and or support on this topic of investigation.?
For me this is a real eye opener into the extent in which our best response ability can be compromised within imprinted mind programming from years earlier.
My Body is precious and I've decided to care for it. Creating responsibility for my sculpture - my life.
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Good luck on the recovery. I recently injured my foot and know what it’s like to compensate, only to make matters worse!
take care of that foot! you only got 2!
Well sometimes you just have to stop and go back to the basics to realize what you gad started missing with the time.
Happy to see you improving
thank you.
You said it so well,
Good stuff, the key is not reaching your goal, but sustainability and it becoming a part of your lifestyle. What I do somethings when doing pushups is count to 3 on the way down and count to 3 on the way up...that way I'm maximize each movement. When the pushups get easier, fill up a book back with books, then do the pushup with the book bag on your back.
Thanks for the pro tips!
Ya I've been catching myself wanting to go too hard...and a few times where it's like shit I got to listen to my body more and like you say:
This is such a great line of support. Really brilliant stuff. Thank you - it's so much so appreciated. Pure gold.
Fine tuning the balance - creating a real long term balance that is sustainable - part of the lifestyle.
YES.
still been doing more push ups daily since you start, nothing as dedicated as 100 a day but the cup of coffee effect is real!
Congrats on taking control over your physical health and making meaningful change.
Keep up the great work.
thank you
Good job pushing yourself to become more fit. It's something that needs to be done daily. @ironshield
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Congratulations sir
god bless you
Great going all the way up keep on going :D
How are you rehabilitating your knee? What happened to it?
I ruptured my acl - had surgery to create a new acl. Process of learning how to walk again as it made my whole leg vulnerable...hamstring...quads...calf and the acl itself and attaching itself..reconnecting to the connecting knee/leg parts.
if you scroll through my post history there's some posts about the process - I'm about 7 weeks into the recovery
Ouch!!!