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Week 4
Topic: Do the prescribed homework, plus focus health issues.
Schedule: Tues – Friday: 30 min – 1 hour practice.
Plan:
Monday – Recovery from a weekend of hard labor.
Tuesday – Mobility, Short Practice, and research
Wednesday – Mobility, strength training, and Medium Practice
Thursday – Mobility, Big Practice and Group Training
Friday – Mobility, Strength training, and Medium Practice
Contingency: Short Practice and Read.
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April Week 4
Day 1 – Recovery
Day 2 – Mobility, deadlifts and Short practice
Day 3 – Mobility and Medium practice
Day 4 Mobility, ab exercises, shoulder exercises, big practice. Group class canceled.
Day 5 – Mobility and short practice.
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Week 3
I have not trained. ☹
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Victory Laps. Read some of “The Complete Renaissance Swordsman”
Course Corrections. Just be patience and take one day, one week, and one month at a time.
<strong style=”font-size: inherit;”>Aha Moments. Need to focus more on what going on internally and solidify a routine for strength training.
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Week 2
Plan was to train all week, but I let life weigh me down. I was able to make group practice with Sword to Sword Thursday
Victory Laps. Focused on basics during group training with was all sparring.
Course Corrections. Keep going.
Aha Moments.
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Victory Laps. Mobility and being remembering to be careful is helping
Course Corrections. Mobility twice day
Aha Moments. None
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Day 1 – 5 except Thursday everything went according to plan. Thursday Group Training was canceled.
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Week 5
Topic: Very lite week, due to reinjuring bicep. 😟
Schedule: Wed – Friday – 5 to 10 minutes
Plan:
Monday – Rest
Tuesday – Rest
Wednesday – Unarmed Posta Form
Thursday – Gioco Largo Defense Form
Friday – Gioco Stretto Defense Form
Contingency: Run through foot work with focus on deeper stances.
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Victory Laps. Worked on mobility every day for injury. Train with sword 3 days out of the week.
Course Corrections.
Reflection on improvements on injury contingency plans
Aha Moments.
How much mobility exercises matter.
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Week 4
Topic: Doing my own thing – light week due to strained bicep muscle.
Schedule: Mon – Fri about an hour of practice.
Plan:
Monday – Unarmed Posta Form
Tuesday – Moving through cuts and thrust with plastic trainer.
Wednesday – Foundational Cuts Form with light sword trainer.
Thursday – Gioco Largo Defense Form
Friday – Gioco Stretto Defense Form
Contingency: Run through foot work with focus on deeper stances.
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Victory Laps.
Still trained this week despite a strained bicep muscle.
Course Corrections.
None.
Aha Moments.
That I was able to work around my injury.
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Day 1 – Unarmed Posta for about 10 minutes moving slowly.
Day 2 – Cuts and Thrust for 15 minutes
Day 3 – Foundation Cuts Forms for 10 minutes
Day 4 Gioco Largo Defense form for 15 minutes
Day 5 Gioco Stretto Defense form for 15 minutes
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Thank you! 🙂
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Thank you!🙂
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Victory Laps. Consistent training
Course Corrections. none
Aha Moments. take some time to smell the flowers.