my dog pulled me down onto the ice last night and i hurt my hip and back and knee.

i worked on stretching and massaging the super tight muscles. it hurt like a b word but i dont think this will hold me back for more then a couple days if i keep working on the areas.

did med today

blah no journaling this week, just training.

looking back on last week

took Sunday off as a rest day. OK lets look back on last week. i think i did a good job varying my training. like every time i had to do 3 reps of 20 i used each rep to explore something different. i adapted things that i felt that were not challenging me enough to something harder by adding more to it. on the other…

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the in-laws surprised me yesterday and i forgot to journal yesterday. training complete.

training is done for today aswell

day 3 of this week, completed training today. the went for a swim and a relax

later start to training today. completed my training today. im gonna take the plunge and up my push ups from 3 stets of 15 to 3 sets of 20. trying to motivate myself to go slower on my squats to embrace that suck.

iv started to reward myself with a trip to the rec centre I plan on doing this 2 days a week. Im gonna 10 min hot (steam or sauna or…

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Topic: This week i want to be doing a short and med practice. with some basic strength training

Schedule: Monday-friday plus a bonus day of teaching on Saturday and Wednesday

Plan: no plan needed

Contingency: do more stuff on Saturday if something is missed during the week.

i cant seem to find how to edit posts anymore. this is gonna get messy. training done for the day

done did it

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2 of the kids were home sick today and wanted to occupy the living room/ training area. kicked them to bed because I need to do my training, no excesses. today was easier then yesterday as i understood all the drills and didn’t have to puzzle anything today. completed today’s training and extras.

i cant tell if i just needed practice on this weeks skills or someone turned up the heat in the old training department, but today was tough in a good way.

self exam of last week

ok i didn’t accomplish all of my goals last week i didn’t shoot the video. i did train 5/7 though. i did get some of my extras done like looking at docs and watching videos. i feel ok with falling short with all of my extras. im building a new schedule and im re organizing my life so regular daily training has a place.…

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reg training today. day off needed yesterday.

did my regular training today, last night i watch my 1 hour of video. i am on track to complete the week successfully.

OIk did my regular training. planing on watching the second half of the most recent workshop.

Saturday Im planing on shooting my 12 poste video with halfsword gaurds.

super hard training day for me emotionally. Im going to start with my goals for the week then Im going to list where i need help and then i am going to rant about my struggles.

Training goals for this week.

1)med practice

2)legs on chair push ups 3 sets 15

3) squats 3 sets of 10

4) back leg up lunges 3 sets of 10

5)shoot one video

6) read 1 doc or…

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Taught 2 hours of classes today

Hey I’m not sure if I’m aloud to post in other peoples training blogs or not. Since its directly related to your personal blog today I thought why not. I REALLY enjoyed the read today and embraced the suck. Let me know if if its ok to throw in comments or not.

yesterday was a day to remember. No training so my training will continue with today and Saturday.

iv kept with my regular training goals today no additions. Wednesday i didn’t get to the workshop review i did read the empathetic teaching doc. and will get to the review soon.

‘to do list’ on top of my regular training

1) shoot a video (12…

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much better then yesterday. ate healthy went for a walk got to my weekly training. i watched a few videos on how to properly do knee high push ups. and foot high lunges.

tonight is class 2 for my fundamentals class. before that i would like to go over the Sunday meeting video today, i might make it a 2 parts, 1 hour today and one tomorrow.

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that was a hard training day, same as yesterday + half an hour walk.

my motivation was not there i got a headache i kept being distracted. i refused to stop until i had completed what i set out to do. now to have the second half of my omelette. having this goal set out before me was the only thing keeping me going. i would not have trained…

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day 1 of week 2 This will be my everyday training this week

simple training/ med training +

15 p ups 3 sets

10 squats both sides 3 sets

10 stationary lunges both sides 3 sets

Saturdays Sundays were my days off from this training plan i need some time to rest my muscles. I tough 2 classes on Saturday intro longsword and ongoing longsword.

Sundays i…

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OK so today was a slower start then i wanted i have decided that i want to start training earlier and earlier. started before 11 today that’s better then yesterday. i did both the short and medium practice today with my chair push ups 3 sets of 15. After the lunges coupled with the squats i fear for my legs tomorrow.

I do look forward to…

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To make this updating my training log less daunting Im not gonna worry about punctuation and spelling to much. ok today i did my short practice added a few extra reps for the 6 cuts. I got derailed by my thoughts well working on cutting with cover and grappling to the hands. I managed to get back on track without to much interruption both times.…

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Starting to build my new training schedule.

I have been so scared to start training again. When you make a schedule you have to keep it. Im scared that I will let myself down and I wont become the swordsmen that I want to be. I lost so much momentum because of the pandemic, the goal looks so far away. But its time to start.

I am proud to say that…

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