Pandemic Fitness Diary Phase 2 Week 3 Days 5, 6 & 7

Pandemic Fitness Diary
Phase 2 Week 3 Days 5, 6 & 7
Day 5, Week 3 of Phase 2, was a scheduled Rest Day. A restless night. Little sleep. Kept my diet clean. TV and bed. Still nursing that Sciatic Back. Pain around a 7 or 8. Not great. Still better than it was. Other than walking Benji, barely got out of bed.
Got up earlier on Day 6. Had a bunch of stuff scheduled, but it all got cancelled. Gave me time to do a bit more of an in depth workout. My Back was doing much better. The pain was around a 2 or 3. Still, didn’t want to overdo it. Started with a Bodyweight Tabata Style Workout: (See my past post at: https://www.facebook.com/HITTScarborough for a description of this workout and the details of the exercises). Yard Bounds x 2 laps, with Assisted Wide Grip Pull Ups x 50, Walking Lunges x 10 Forward and 10 Backward, with Push Ups x 50. It was a wet drizzly day out so didn’t go all the way down on the Push Ups. Yard Butt Kicks x 2 laps, Assisted Narrow Grip Chins x 50, Walking Side Lunges x 10 Forward and 10 Backward, and Push Ups x 50. Followed that with Thai Knee Work. Start with still and slow and then added Footwork. Was more important than ever to start with knees to properly warm up my Hips and Low Back. Followed this with Superset Basic Urquidez style Kicks: (See previous posts at HITTScarborough for details on this method, think of a more Wing Chun Upright Tight to the Inside Line Style of kicking for those of you who know this, or look up Benny the Jet Urquidez.) with Band Work x 2 Sets– Front Kicks x 9 Each Leg (3 Very Slow and Still, focused on Technique, 3 with Forward Footwork and 3 Back/Side Footwork.) with Two Handed Parallel Slow Twists x 20, Roundhouse Kicks x 9 Each Leg with Two Handed Diagonal Cuts x 20,  Side Kicks x 9 Each Leg with One Hand Wrestling Stance Drop and Pull x 20. Added Crescent/Axe Kicks x 9 Each Leg with One Handed Band Horizontal Push x 20, And Power Roundhouse Kicks x 9 Each Leg with One Handed Band Diagonal Push x 10 and Pull x 10. Seated Hatha Yoga & Meditation. Added Inversion Table Stretch and Meditate. You would think with my Sciatic problems, which are a result of Compressed Disks both in my Lumbar and Cervical Area, I would be using the Inversion Table more often. But I keep forgetting to add it to my Stretches. It was a Partial Fast Day. Did some shopping. Wrote. Walked Benji with Stick Work. Brought a shorter lighter stick. More focus on working my Sword Cuts. Wrote some more. Read. Relaxation Yoga and Meditate. Inversion Table and Meditate.
Day 7 was a scheduled Rest Day. Visited a sick friend. Talked to her from outside at a Safe Distance and dropped off a card. Did have some pizza, but otherwise kept my diet clean. Home. TV to wind down. Stayed up late despite having vowed to go to bed earlier. Dread of pain and the torture of not being able to fall asleep. Need to work on that. Even if I just lay there, I need to stop avoiding going to bed.
That’s it for Days 5, 6 & 7, Phase 2 Week 3. So far so... Better. Definitely better.

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