Ice Sculpture in the Desert

So I’m dancing around the same set of exercises, with some flexibility depending on how I feel.

On yoga days, its just Tai Chi (morning ritual) and 30 minutes self-paced Bikram series yoga.

On workout days (Tues, Thurs, Saturday) the current plan is:

1. Either 60 seconds hanging front lever and 4 minutes of crawling OR 5 minutes TGU followed by FlowFit 2.
2. Tai Chi (Morning Ritual)
3. Martial Arts (running through elements of Silat, Kali, WAR, and Kempo. Gathered from Stevan Plinck, Cliff Stewart, Danny Inosanto, Dr. John La Tourette, and Steve Muhammad)
4. Body Action System or Mook Jung. The Body Action System is following a 40-minute Thai Boxing prompts from Bas Rutten: punches, knees, elbows. The Mook (Wing Chun Dummy) uses Cliff Stewart’s 20-Count and Kali.
5. Yoga. 30-minute Bikram series…but I’m experimenting with using the “maintenance” program from the Hyperbolic stretching. That is only about 8 minutes long, and I’d love to save myself the time.

Five Minute Miracle

Once every 1–3 hours I do at least sixty seconds of Chi Gong exercises (from Carl Totton) and a little MA

My emphasis has to be on cooling down, not heating up. My measure is the quality of sleep at night. The Chi Gong is helping me feel smaller levels of chronic tension, so that I can release it: when I hit a “tension bubble” I get the yawns.