Week two – yesterday, today and tomorrow

Yesterday seems like it dim memory. I am finding that my training is forcing me to be more in the moment.  My body and my brain seem to be adjusting to focusing inward, and finding whatever scraps of strength I have in me to put to the task at hand. I don't have the energy to focus too closely on the past or the future.

This is the essence of flow.

Gymnastics bodies was yesterday morning and I have incorporated "hang time" into my GB sessions. I am preparing my body to be able to hang, pull and swing. Not only are these natural human animal body movements, but when I think back on the mud run I did two springs ago with my husband, I remember how shocked I was when I went to swing across simple monkey bars and couldn't even hold onto the first rung. But, I remember being 12 and having no problem going across the monkey bars several times a day - Helllloooo body,  what's that about?! We also worked on our clubbell swing, which is the video that I posted to yesterday's link.

I felt sore but limber at the end of the day. I didn't sleep as well as I would've liked, but woke up at 5:45 this morning and prepared myself for another day.

Today was Tacfit with Summer Huntington at Fit Body Wellness. It was a modification of Charlie. Charlie is an EMOTM protocol. Every. Minute. On. The. Minute. This is no joke, folks. It is so much more about the mind and the body. This is a Tacfit Protocol that really gets you into flow. I started off with a mentally fearful mindset. Let's just say it didn't serve me very well and I had to change my attitude very quickly. I literally stopped moving for a second and smacked the thoughts out of my head. 

This is where flow really helps. As the work got harder, I had to focus more on my form and counting each rep. My mental attitude and chatter were being crowded out with my focus on the work at hand.

Now here, I have a choice whether to tell you about how I failed at achieving the set protocol. Or I can tell you that I did the whole effing thing without stopping.  I choose the latter. 

I had to dig deep, and dropped down to sets of four in almost every regressed form except for the clubbell swing. But I focused on my squat, I focused on the transfer of weight in the clubbell as it comes up into Order for just a moment. For the hip sit through, it was all about the lats. And feeling the Yaw in my torso. I embodied the spring. In the knee pull-through, it was all abs and glutes. And I didn't stop. Physically, I finished strong, but my mind was exhausted. 

So today's lesson: I have to let some stuff go if I am going to devote more of my life to the present. 

Breakfast feast