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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
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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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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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?
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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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
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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