I’ve got a lot of things bombing around my head at the moment, all vying for equal attention. As I’ve mentioned in the previous post, I may (or may not) be coming up for grading soon in the martial art I’m learning. I’ve been doing some extra training to try and gain some [...]

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… not quite got the “fast as lightning” bit down yet, though!
I’ve now been going to kung fu for coming up to four months. If anything, I’m coming home after class even more psyched and enthusiastic that I was when I started. I am making clear progress (though every week I find new [...]

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I think I’m beginning to understand know why there aren’t more women in martial arts. I’ve been going for just under two months now and have got past the initial burst of enthusiasm and have hit the long slog. It’s demanding – requiring more from me physically and mentally than anything else I’ve [...]

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It’s no good. I can’t do push-ups. I struggle to even do those girlie push-ups where you get to keep your knees on the ground.
This wouldn’t normally be an issue, I’d just avoid doing them – problem solved. However, my martial arts class last week included push-ups as part of the warm-up, [...]

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Why aren’t there more women in the martial arts?
I’ve mentioned learning Kung Fu to a few of my female friends recently, and their response has been overwhelmingly positive: “good for you”, “excellent”, and “wow, I’ve always wanted to do that” (surprisingly, this was the most frequent response). The lack of women in the sport [...]

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I’ve always assumed that the zonked spaced-out feeling I get with Nurofen Plus is one of the migraine effects that I get other than the pain.
Only, I feel like that now and there’s nothing wrong with my head – I’ve taken it to take the edge off muscle soreness from Wednesday night (even [...]

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Being at a loose end without the escape of a book is a dangerous thing.
I decided to sign up for a martial arts course – first lesson was this evening. Akra Jr in particular was very excited and wanted to come too. He thinks I want to be a Panda, for [...]

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I’ve been having slight twinges in my right knee and ankle during exercise (and stupidly ignored them and carried on). I think it was due to bad form on some step lunges a couple of weeks ago, compounded by doing the same blend of cardio and strength training exercise daily while the kids are [...]

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Following on from Wednesday’s post about the Everyday Systems site, I wanted to mention the fantastic habit tracking system Reinhard’s developed: HabitCal.
It doesn’t matter what new behaviour you’re trying to introduce into your life (cutting out smoking, change of diet, reducing computer time), the simplest way of tracking how you are doing is to ask [...]

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Following yesterday’s review, I’ve since found a great comparison review of the Wii Fit and My Fitness Coach games over at Wayrift.
It’s a very well written and comprehensive review. The author has obviously had similar issues to me with both games, but goes into more detail on how My Fitness Coach works. It’s [...]

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