Today's practice:
Morning recharge:
Arm swings, several minutes
Neigong, Noi sau baat sik, 9 sets
Youth restoring calisthenics
Dands, 31 reps in 2 sets
Baithaks, 30 reps
Thoracic bridges, 20 reps
Dynamic stretching, 3 sets of 10 reps each
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
Strength and conditioning - Simple&Sinister prep:
Goblet squats 1 set of 5 reps, 16kg
5 hip bridges and 10 kettlebell halos
Hardstyle plank
Short-stop drill
Naked TGU - tall sit - with shoe
Diet:
Whole30 day 1
Intermittent fasting ~ 16 hours
Only water for drinking
New lesson is focused on food, again, nothing new or surprising to me. Decided to strictly follow Whole30 program starting today.
As for weekly summary, this one is a treat. Movement wise nothing crazy happened, really. My legs are getting stronger from the baithaks, but lungs keep saying "nuh-uh" so far.. but this will get better over time, also I gotta implement Oxygen Advantage. And once I start my road towards the Simple goal, that's bound to help as well. There is however one thing that happened I honestly did not expect. Like not at all. Few years ago I was diagnosed having 2nd degree AV block - an arrhythmia where sometimes one part of a heartbeat is delayed. Nothing dangerous or restricting at the stage I was at, more like really annoying and uncomfortable. I have tried practicing neigong exercises, kept at it diligently for several months but to no avail. However, last Thursday I had a regular half year checkup with my cardiologist and.. nothing. There were no block on ECG holter and I personally don't feel them anymore as well. I did not pay attention to "not noticing" them since I thought I just got used to it. But nah, it's gone. Which is one hell of a wow effect for me.