Staying the Course

 

In February I embarked on creating a journey of consistency and sustainability. This journey entailed a list of mandatory requirements and some additional personal goals. 

In previous years, this journey of mastery and the number factor has always been met. This year there has been some stumbling blocks to navigate over, along with strategic decisions to make. These decisions were mostly about my bodies longevity but at the same time not failing the system. 

Appreciating the system had still been my focal point. I may have let my form numbers drop and a lot of key requirements on the attendance end which all local team members have had to deal with, but the time, dedication and consistency that I am putting into the restructuring of myself, I believe, is a must to being able to even think about any sort of healthy physical and or mental continuance in my life.

I have gone through some physical injuries this year and rehabilitation which entails the basics of watching the alignment of how I walk and adjusting foot strike, all of that in attempts to correct muscle balance and skeletal alignment. There is a lot more to that than mentioned as it entails learning a lot about the anatomy, muscle groups, working against muscle shortening, working smaller muscle groups, etc. All that to say, I have been going back to a lot of aspects that in my younger years, my body automatically adjusted…but did not adjust for longevity, it adjusted to just function in the short term and not to a level of beyond on the ordinary.

I have consciously made the decision to temporarily reduce time put into parts of my requirements to work on some of my underlying physical and mental conditions for future betterment of my body fundamentals. Very much like we have all been to taught to follow through when learning techniques in Kung fu; we learn technique before speed and power. As a child, we learn to crawl, stand and walk before we run.

I feel my life at this point is about correction, unfortunately. I have had injuries this year, likely due to unattended injuries in my past, because of muscle imbalances and skeletal misalignment. This has lead to a change in my priorities as to this years journey. The reality is, if I hadn’t had these new injuries and recognized my issues and most of all taken action to correct them, my physical longevity would most certainly have been shortened and most certainly would have impacted my mental health in the long term.

So as many of you may see my numbers in some of my requirements are not moving, as I’m also aware and not super proud of. I want to ensure you that I’m still engaged in the process and work literally every day to better myself, remaining consistent to ensure the sustainability of my mental and physical being.

Stepping back to literally correct how I walk, attempting to adjust my bodies physiology and closing my company to earn 30% of the income that I previously earned have been very humbling decisions to make but have been made strategically to promote betterment in me and my life.

Oct 18 (day 266) 

Acts of Kindness recorded - 925

Push-ups (& weights to strengthen upper body) - 15800,, 

Sit-ups and or equivalents - 17200,

Rehab and fitness - Squats & step-ups started May 28th - 2105,

Kilometers (over and above daily function) - 1703.9, 6.4

Meditation/ inversion table  (min.) - 892,

Stretching/ rolling. Physio exercise (started Sept 7) (min.) - 2540,

Sparring/ grappling (min.) - 78, 

# of forms re-familiarized - 7.0

Form reps - 266, 

Form time (min.) - 742,

“Mastery” recite (min.) - 99

Blogs - 34