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Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 30 reps of each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 10
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
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Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 30 reps of each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 11
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
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Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 30 reps of each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 12
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen

Diet:
Whole30 day 13
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking

Today I skipped mobility routine, I felt that my body needs to rest a bit. No wonder, as I never really did as much mobility drills as now. I also moved my morning recharge, making it more of "afternoon recharge" today. But tomorrow everything will be as it should be.
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 30 reps of each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 14
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Facial massage
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 15
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking

Third week of The Forge gone, fourth lesson available. Now we have a "full fledged" Neigong regimen at our disposal and I am surprised at how much I missed it. I didn't even realize it was so influential to me. General improvements over the past week are smaller than the weeks before, but not negligible. The "awareness" boost I get from my morning routines lasts longer throughout the day, at least up until lunch. Before I started this, I used to have kinda large mood swings or, better said, power outages, where I felt a bit depressed (like "what's the point.." state) and couldn't concentrate on the tasks at hand as much as I would want to. Now I can easily go throughout the day, only getting to bad mood in rare cases. Also, I noticed in the mirror that my belly is mostly gone, so.. yay! :D
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Facial massage
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 16
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Facial massage
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 17
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Facial massage
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 18
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Facial massage
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 day 19
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Saturday 30th of January and today, 31st of January:

Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Chinese inner exercises
Entering the silence
Butterfly Dances Before Flower, 10+ reps
Both Hands Lift Sky, 10+ reps
Energy flow/Standing Zen
Facial massage
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking

I was a bit busy and completely forgot to log my yesterday's training. So there are now two in one. Also I decided to change style of my Whole30 logging. I am not actually going for their 30 day program, but just following the guidelines. My goal is to follow it ideally for 30 years, not 30 days. With some slight changes that I will feel are ok.
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands - "Hindu push ups" - 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking

Another week gone, not really much to say. Our "Morning recharge" block is complete and we progress to "Youth restoring calisthenics" block, which introduces exercises from India. The push ups look simple, but feel way more difficult then they probably should, a sign that my endurance is really not good at all. Other than that, after the month I decided to get back to neigong set I've learned from @Pavel Macek few years ago. It's called Noi sau baat sik - Eight forms of inner cultivation. One more idea I'm toying with is to leave out neck exercises from the joint mobility routine. They are in a way present in spinal wave and spine rotations, although without the locked shoulders, which likely do give them a bit more oomph. Gotta study this further before I decide.
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking

Today I found it somewhat difficult to remain in The Silence during my neigong practice. Perhaps because there is a bit more pressure from work. Hopefully tomorrow will be okay again, I will try to focus more to relax and offline time in the evening, which I'm planning to incorporate to daily routine anyway.
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 20 reps in 2 sets
Baithaks, 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking

This week's lesson introduces a hindu squat - baithak. Kinda bouncy and flowing type of squat, definitely different when compared to usual loaded squats. They seem to hit the knees and ankles really well for now. I however suspect that this will change with how my mobility/condition improves.

Now for another short summary, previous week was "all about" dands, the hindu push ups. I gotta say that my shoulders do feel quite a lot stronger than at the beginning of the week, where I was not able to do all ten in one go, now I can quite easily. I would manage also today's 20 I guess, but it would likely get close to "do or die" effort for the last few reps and that's not the way. Overall I am very excited from this experience and can't wait to get the complete "hindu" set to see how it feels.
 
Today's practice:

Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 20 reps in 2 sets
Baithaks, 10 reps
Flexible Steel Joint Mobility Minimum, 31 reps each:
Neck - extension, flexion, rotations and sideways tilts
Tea cups - each hand separate and hands together, both directions
Spinal wave - all directions
High kneel spine rotations
Basic tactical frog
Split switches

Diet:
Whole30 guidelines
Intermittent fasting - 16 - 18 hours, eating only lunch and dinner
Only water for drinking
 
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