3 rounds #HIIT & some easy #yoga #asana

I thought I should look for some arm targeted workouts and make a point to work specifically on the problem spot – rather that merely on “getting a workout” – two to three times per week. I’ll start with 2x a week and go for four to see if there’s any discernible difference. But first, I started with an overall cardio from my go-to source.

I haven’t done any workouts chiefly with an aesthetic motivation in mind in a long time. I do a lot of lower body work, but that’s mainly because they work the largest muscles and get the heart rate up. This is different. I’ll try targeting arms a bit.

The workout I did today is decent, but I need to write one of my own that’s heavier on the triceps and delts, I think. Not sure.

If all this fails I can:

1. Stop wearing sleeveless tops or, better yet
2. Refuse to let anyone photograph me wearing sleeveless tops.

15 Minute HIIT Interval Workout: Body Weight

• (15/50) 3 rounds. 1st round with video.

1. High Knees
2. Burpee
3. Lunge Kick (right)
4. Lunge Kick (left)
5. Decline Mountain Climber
6. 1 Leg Hip Thrust (right)
7. 1 Leg Hip Thrust (left)
8. Speed Skater
9. Jump Squat
10. Plank Jack
11. Sit to Stand (right), 10lbs 1st round, next rounds no weight
12. Sit to Stand (left)
13. Hip Lift/Leg Lift
14. Temple Tap Abs
15. Frogger jumping straight in rounds 1 & 3, wide in round 2

Toned, Lean Arms Workout — Rhomboids, Shoulders, Bicep, Tricep, and Chest Workout

• Did it with the video in order to practice the movements.

• 8 exercises, 1min rounds, 2x through with a break in between

  1. Slow, cross punch – 8lbs each arm
  2. Bicep curl extension
  3. High, low extensions
  4. Ventral, lateral raise, 8lbs
  5. External shoulder rotations – 5lbs
  6. Rhomboid squeezes – 5lbs
  7. Double cross extension – 5lbs
  8. Plyo push-ups, on floor They demo these against a wall! Even if I have fat arms, I’m strong enough to do plyo on the floor, but I wonder if a simple wide arms push-up set wouldn’t be better here.

Asana

• About 20min easy, timed poses

2 rounds #HIIT, floor work (ass & thighs) & #yoga

I’ll say it again: a somewhat even mix between the fitness & fat burning zones feels like a really moderate, but effective workout for me. Too low and it’s generally tedious and torturous (when it’s almost all yoga & my heart rate never gets up). When the balance is too high, all fitness, I feel like I sort of beat myself up, scorch off the glucose and burn up all the gas… Or something.

That said, I could’ve had a higher burn if I’d done my bit of 2nd series and all the back bending, after the HIIT. I just felt like something different today. After so many years of slogging through rote, I reserve the right to entertain myself.

HIIT

• This is one of my own. (10/50) 2 rounds with 1min rest in between

1. Cross Jacks
2. Frogger
3. Russian Kicks
4. Knee-in / Switch Lunge
5. High Knees Bench Tap
6. Overhead Pull, 30lbs on bench
7. Dips
8. Plank Rows (without push-up) 30lbs
9. Bicep Curls (both arms curls at once, not alternating) 30lbs
10. Decline Spiderman Push-up Do push-up & then knee to elbow, alt sides
11. Squat Jump
12. Hip Thrust (right), 1st round 30lbs, back on floor. 2nd round table top, Bender style
13. Hip Thrust (left)
14. Plyo Jump Forward, 2 hops back
15. Burpee Tuck Jump
16. Russian Twist (15lbs)
17. Reverse Curl on bench
18. Mountain Climbers
19. Temple Tap Abs
20. Knee Tap Plank Jack Forearm Plank; tap knees to floor & then jack out legs

Ass & Thighs

• (10/50) with ankle weights

1. Butt squeezes, straight up
2. Knees together, held, butt squeezes
3. Knees in & then out butt squeezes
4. Knees pulse in
5. L) Straight leg lift & lower
6. L) Bent leg lift flexed foot to ceiling
7. L) Straight leg, cross at a diagonal & tap the floor
8. L) Bent leg, pulse flexed foot to ceiling.
9. R) Straight leg lift & lower
10. R) Bent leg lift flexed foot to ceiling
11. R) Straight leg, cross at a diagonal & tap the floor
12. R) Bent leg, pulse flexed foot to ceiling.
13. L) Lying on right side, up on elbow, lift straight left leg to the side
14. Lift bottom leg for adductor
15. L) bring leg to front of body, straight as possible
16. L) bring knee to the front then kick out to a straight leg
17. Lift bottom leg for adductor
18. L) pulse up to the side
19. R) Lying on left side, up on elbow, lift straight left leg to the side
20. Lift bottom leg for adductor
21. R) bring leg to front of body, straight as possible
22. R) bring knee to the front then kick out to a straight leg
23. Lift bottom leg for adductor
24. R) pulse up to the side

Asana

• 1min timed, easy poses

Early evening #ashtanga #yoga, #primary+

[EDIT UPDATE] I’d repeated an image & missed the burn!

 

I practiced upstairs, in my little office again, to take advantage of the privacy and the heat. I almost didn’t make it to the mat! I’d wanted to do some HIIT before, but my feet and legs were so sore from yesterday! I’m fit but I’m adapted to other things besides six hours of repetitive motion. I don’t know how runners manage. Being a self-defined ashtangi was bad enough. Thank god I got out without mangling myself too badly.

104! I consider this a restorative

So I did my usual except I only omitted 3 of the 4 poses of primary I usually skip, for being superfluous and not at all beneficial compared to the bits of 2nd I do. I did janu sirsasana C today, to help the feets.

I also did 3 ticks, for the first time in awhile, despite a shortage of space in the front-to-back, vertical direction. It felt good to stretch out my shoulders in that way. I should do 3 every time, really.

 

#meditation and #tarot

Today’s reading was spot on. I sat after. That’s a good Order of Things. Now to get ready for some art!

Amazingly while it was 57 and completely overcast when we got up this morning, it’s now sunny & will eventually get to the mid 80s in the late afternoon and early evening. That’s one big difference between the coasts! On the east coast, the hottest part of the day is always mid afternoon and that’s it. Not so, in summertime Portland. It’s best for me to get my creative work done, in my perch office upstairs, before it gets too hot. I get the sun at that time of day.

My Significator is on the cover of the book for the Wildwood deck.

Bow layout

12-mile #hike, Eagle Creek

Yesterday was supposed to be my rest day. We decided to go hiking… 10:30am to 5:30pm! Oy. Lots of rocks too.

 

 

My feet are still a little sore today. I really should’ve worn my hiking shoes rather than my really old Pumas. More support. By the return trip I could feel every rock underfoot.

When we pool pictures I’ll post an album on Flickr. I still like Flickr. Batch uploading from the Photos app, no format constraints.

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Today’s workout is going to be low impact (hopefully) with more concentration on yoga.

3 rounds #HIIT and 30min easy, restorative #yoga

Wasn’t as gloriously enjoyable as yesterday, but I got something in. Today’s fell into the “better late than never” category. My legs & glutes were actually a bit sore from yesterday!

BTW: That 190 max heart rate reading is not accurate! I thought I looked down & saw it’d spiked up to 189 at one point. That was just the Polar malfunctioning. I can tell when I’m in the 170s and I wasn’t even that high.

20 MINUTE BOOT CAMP HIIT: BODY WEIGHT WORKOUT

Once again I’m late in the day with a workout. Oh well whatever. When life hands you an open schedule… I’m taking matters back into my own hands this week too. Dead-end situations aren’t especially appealing to anyone with professional skills.

• (30/50) First round with video. Rounds 1 and 2 with 6lb weighted vest & high knees.

1. Squat Jump
2. Single Leg Glute Bridge-Right
3. Single Leg Glute Bridge-Left
4. Lunge Hop-Right
5. Lunge Hop-Left
6. Straight Abs
7. Oblique Leg Adduction-Right
8. Oblique Leg Adduction-Left
9. Mountain Climbers
10. Toe Touch Jump Frog Hopper @ Wall, rounds 2 & 3. Plank, jump feet in, jump to stack hips over shoulders, catching the balance where u can. Come down & back to plank.
11. Tricep Dips
12. Monkey Pushups
13. Crab Toe Touch
14. Decline Slow Mountain Climbers (cross knee to touch opp arm, rounds 2 & 3)
15. Burpees

Asana

• Timed poses, no vinyasa, beginning with a 5min Sirsasana. About 30min total in yoga.

Excellent #workout today! #HIIT & #ashtanga #yoga

Back to my normal energy levels! I didn’t think that I’d been bothered by all the pointless drama, but my subconscious felt otherwise, Friday evening. See here.

Full Body Workout: Sweat and HIIT

• (10/50) Two rounds with a 1-min rest in between

1.  Jump Rope
2. High Knees Jump Rope
3. Skier Jump Rope
4. Jumping Jacks Jump Rope 
5. Singe Leg Jump Rope (alternating)
6. Speed Skater Hop Touching the floor w/ fingertips at the bottom of each hop, reaching up toward the ceiling on the hop.
7. Warrior Lift (right) From race-start crouch to the full pose.
8. Warrior Lift (left)
9. Table Kick (right) 
10. Table Kick (left)
11. Mountain Climber
12. Side Plank Leg Lift (right) Elevate top foot & lift bottom leg
13. Side Plank Leg Lift (left)
14. Urdhva Dhanurasana
15. Reverse Curl 3lb weight bet feet

Asana

• Suryas & fundamentals, all handstand-y
• Second to Laghu Vajrasana, EPRK, Kapo B
• Urdhva D to stand, 3 drop backs, 1 tick.
• Finishing

Right! The only thing to do is get cracking early tomorrow, post haste

First the proofing of content, then the formatting & programming of 7 new buttons. I cut it down from 8 because one was redundant. Gotta zap that off to Anja, but there may be 2 versions as well… Only one of those would be geared toward this potentially awesome opportunity.

I can get sucked down the rabbit hole when doing this type of design so I have to be careful. What I’d thought would be 3 hours ends up being a couple days, most of the day. I’m getting somewhere though!

I’ve also been gathering reference of what they’re doing. Fabulous, painterly prints! I know that I need to schedule some time to pluck some leaves and flowers and draw. I don’t have the set-up to work big. I can only draw as large as will fit in an 8×10 scanner. So I’ll do individual elements, cut clipping paths and then layer in Photoshop.

I have to set a limit on graphic design dithering and surface design planning however, because I’ve gotta get the initial washes down on the last two goddesses. Then they get put away for at least a day. I have to post #s 13 and 14 all over the place too, no more than one per day but it goes to at least five platforms.

What else? More InDesign. I need to know more of what it can do. A lot of what I’d used ten years ago came back immediately, when I started using it again last year. I have learned SO MUCH in the last couple years. I mean my skillset engagement got a freaking electroshock.

Also my knowledge of [what will be revealed when I write that chapter]. Wow! I’ll make SURE I never participate to the extent of passing any of that shit along.

GOD/S I hate that walk #DoschRd #PDX

It so much reminds me of walking along the sidewalk less, often ditch-lined streets in Anjuna, Goa India. You’re so often treated to that “taking your life in your own hands” feeling. You’ve gotta pay attention! That’s for sure. It’s a very tangible way to practice staying “present”.

Thankfully Charlie alway picks me up later 🙏

Portland often felt like India to me in the first year. I can’t explain how, right now, but it did. I guess it could be summed up as a viscerally transformative feeling.

Google maps says the walk is 22min, but it always takes me closer to 30 that feel like 45. Today I had to pass some roadwork, where the two skinny, windy lanes were reduced to one, with people standing & holding the big orange flags at either end. As I approached from the left I thought, How do I get through this mess? The work was on my side & there didn’t seem to be an easy way through so I trotted to the right side of the street & hustled by.

The burly flag holder at the other end looked at me sympathetically & said, I used to live out on Drummond(?) Road & had to do a walk like this ALL the time. 

I responded with I hate this walk. 

But I survived. On the bus now.

#HIIT and #ashtanga #yoga (NOT “in the tradition”)

I can’t seem to get to exercising until early evening lately! After coffee I go upstairs to “pop in me eyeballs” and immediately get sucked into the laptop. I blame it on the resume formatting. It happened twice today, where I made the mistake of looking at it right before I was supposed to be getting to something else. I guess it doesn’t matter. I got everything done!

HIIT

• 20-min set. I wrote this one lying out in the sun earlier.
• (10/50) Alt skipping with knee-in & switch lunges for cardio.
• 155

1. Squat, feet narrow – 30lbs
2. Squat, feet wider – 30lbs
3. Plié squat – 30lbs
4. Hip thrust – 1st side
5. Hip thrust – 2nd side
6. Reverse plank step outs, alt sides
7. Side plank leg lift – 5lbs
8. Other side
9. Alt pistol squats
10. Alt front & side lift – 20lbs?

Asana

• Suryas to fundamentals, only 2 handstands @ the end
• 2nd to Laghu Vajrasana, EPRK (Time = 1:03)
• Kneeling back bending intervals: 6:40min

1. Kapo hang 1
2. rest
3. Kapo hang 2
4. rest
5. Kapo hang 3
6. rest
7. Kapo B
8. rest
9. Kapo B
10. rest

• Urdhva D to stand
• Drop backs – 3
• Ticks – 1
• Finishing
• Total yoga time 65:30