What exercise have you done today?

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Yay enjoy yourself man

Last few days of martial arts class have been a lot of alternating between jumping kicks and wrist-locks, along with some assisted stretches - in addition to the usual warm up stuff we do.

Do you spar with other students often?

Nice! Where do you cycle? In your neighborhood or a park?

There is a skate ramp park in my town. It seems active on a daily basis.

Where do you prefer to skate?

Hockey! That will get the heart pumping, for sure. Do you play often?

I like to watch the games when there is an opportunity.

Now I’m imagining Bruce Lee!

My pups nudged me into walking the nature trails today. The weather is gorgeous! I’m glad they convinced me to venture outside longer today. They are my best motivators.

Once a week, except for bye weeks. I might start dropping in on Thursdays for pick-up hockey in another town as well. It's about twice as far to drive, but the practice should help.

It definitely gets the heart pumping. The shifts are short (90 - 120 seconds is typical), but you're playing hard the entire time. I'm trying to work on my conditioning as much as possible because I typically spend the entire shift running faster than a jogging pace (but not quite full-on sprinting).

It's a lot more intense than I remember soccer being.

In our class (beginners) we do light-contact sparring like once or twice a month, give or take. I've live-spared maybe 8 times now. We also do unpadded partner drills with touch-contact. That's something we do weekly.

I've got an advancement test this weekend, so this week they're doing a lot of review for all the students who also have advancement tests on the same day. This will be my second advancement test.



LOL If I can achieve even 1% of the ability he had, I think I'll be doing pretty good. We train fairly hard, and I have definitely gotten stronger than when I started. Some of the movements I've learned, I've already incorporated into my daily life, like using stances to catch myself if I lose my balance or trip.

20 miles on my exercise bike and my weights
And I went to the local shop on my skateboard if that counts

I can't think what else

Yesterday was my 2nd kung fu advancement test - I passed

Showed up an hour early so I could warm up and work out a bit - mostly leg stretches and kicks, and some of the exercises I was to be tested on.

Today my "exercise" is doing the brakes on a big chevy truck.

Had a game, my teammate got his collar bone broken.

On the plus side I laid-out the guy who did it.

I'm also signed up for a league that plays on Fridays, so I should have two games per week all summer long.

I walked fairly briskly for half a mile, though there are no hills. I aim to walk that distance every day but sometimes I'm too busy to bother, or the weather is too horrible. I get a bit worried about my health if I miss more than one day in a row. It wasn't much of a strain today except that for the last tenth of a mile or so my legs were aching a bit.

Apart from that I've just walked about a little bit in the apartment and at a music night tonight.

I enjoy reading about what each of you are doing activity-wise. Thanks so much for sharing because it helps me and, I’m sure, it helps others to feel more human and connected.

I stepped away from online forums for a few days to help me focus on daily activities. During that time I joined a gym to give me more options for releasing my anxiety. I needed to find a gym open 24/7 for that reason. Many gyms are only open until 8pm or an hour or so after that, but I tend to feel the need to purge tension in the evening most of all. Sometimes I’m unable to sleep otherwise. Does that ever happen to you?

Anyway, the gym is affordable and locked at night so I have a safer area to walk when I need that. If something did happen at the gym there are cameras too.

I bring ear buds with me, just in case noise is an issue. So far, the other members there have been respectful and focused on their own fitness.

I certainly get restless if I can't exercise at all, and exercise does seem to help me sleep. But it's not especially confined to one part of the day, except that if I haven't had enough sleep I don't feel like moving at all for quite a while after I wake up.