daily log 05/15/2017

Starting a daily log just to build writing consistency and capture a little bit of my lucky epic life. So much fun and effort this weekend. Spent it all training with friends, climbing trees, breaking through some fear barriers, eating lots of watermelon and dried mango, and dolmas!. Getting back on the strength training regime again but with a twist. I had about 3 separate training sessions yesterday, each punctuated with a bit of food, rest, stretching, watching parkour videos or some household chore (at least in one instance). I swear Wonderland is a parkour monastery. At some point a few months ago I decided to allow myself to train based entirely off of what I was interested in rather than working off of any set routine or set of techniques. I also decided to focus on my weight loss and abandon any type of calisthenics stuff. It's nice to isolate variables sometimes and I have managed to get a bit stronger despite the lack of structured strength training. But I want some more strength back.

Shaolin monks and world class circus acrobats swirl around in my head when I'm training lately so my pendulum wants to swing the other way towards more structure again. I can't help but notice that I have swung back and forth like this naturally over the last several years. There is no either or in this situation, just seasons changing methinks. So the twist is that I have a bag of bodyweight strength and endurance exercises that I do randomly throughout however many sessions it takes during the day. At minimum I was trying to do three sets of whatever exercise and all based on the availability heuristic, whatever comes to mind. There are a set amount of exercises I want to do but I refuse to put an order on them or isolate them from the rest of what I'm doing. So I might brachiate a bunch, then do some pistols randomly, then maybe some jumps, then some pull-ups all the while simply feeling out the rest times instead of counting everything out. The strength to hypertrophy to endurance repetition continuum is buried into my head already. So combining that with the rate of perceived exertion (RPE) I'm probably getting some approximation of conventional BW training. Mixing in the rest of what I do and spreading it throughout the day makes it feel so much less regimented. At some point I want the strength training to feel natural and un-contrived in the same way that the rest of parkour training feels, not as some isolated, separated sphere of physicality. I feel the same way about dance, swimming, martial arts, climbing, all of it.

What else? I've been watching the new season of Sense8 and I'm loving it. A little preachy at times, a little bit dragged out but still loving it. Also slept without a blanket on a thin yoga mat over a hardwood floor until I woke up too cold and retired to a warm couch. Sleep training? Idk, I just like the idea of being super resilient, even in sleep.