An Unexpected Party

Fremen

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Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

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BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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Today I should have gone to the gym but the bricklayers arrived by surprise to repair the last water leak on the roof, let's hope for the best 🤞
So I adapted and did just 15 mins on the fly and I am very happy with my adaptability :LOL:




Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:




Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night. Leia Organa
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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Today the real training was mowing the lawn and pulling weeds, an hour of melee ... I should buy a machete ... all with the maximum allergy :eyes:




Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


This is the way. The Mandalorian
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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The minimum 15 min workout is working, both when I have an unexpected event or when I simply don't feel like doing anything else :)




Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:




I find your lack of faith disturbing. Darth Vader
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Strength training in the Gym (1 h)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Shoulder Stretch
(2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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A little more warm up and stretching at the gym is working to keep post workout stiffness in check :)




Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


Reality doesn’t care if you believe it. Boba Fett
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE DINNER

Muay Thai (1 h, 30 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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Yesterday I went shopping at the supermarket in shorts and a T-shirt, I haven't got my sandals out yet but it's almost there :LOL:





Aloha, have a nice day bee
:coffee:


I’ve found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. Talon Karrde
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Strength training in the Gym (1 h)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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Today I did a good workout in the gym, pushing a little and calibrating the effort a little better in certain exercises :)
But above all the news today is that it rained heavily all night and morning and the roof is not leaking :worried:
Roof leak problem solved :yas:





Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


As long as there’s light, we’ve got a chance. Poe Dameron
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE DINNER

Muay Thai (1 h, 30 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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For no apparent reason I'm in a bit of a mood this morning but I'm trying to fix it :)




Aloha, have a nice day bee
:coffee:


To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night. Yoda
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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No gym today because I had commitments but I managed to do my minimum effective dose of training :)




Aloha, have a nice day bee
:coffee:


Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view. Obi-Wan Kenobi
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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My head tells me I missed a gym workout this week... my spirit tells me I did 2 gym workouts and 2 Muay Thai workouts, spirit wins 4 to 1 :LOL:





Aloha, have a nice day bee
:coffee:


Never tell me the odds! Han Solo
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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Actually what I'm training the most in this period is the active rest :LOL:




Aloha, have a nice day bee
:coffee:


I’m just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe. Jango Fett
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Strength training in the Gym (1 h)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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I am happily passing from one contracture to another :eyes:
I'm taking it philosophically and do the minimum amount of training that doesn't affect my recovery :)




Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:




If no mistake you have made, losing you are. A different game you should play. Yoda
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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I'm questioning the entire health department of my life.
Diet
It started from my partner's diet, in 6 months she had increased by 10 kg and I by 2 kg, the difference is due to the fact that I continued to train and she didn't.
It was all due to inactivity, lunches and dinners decided at the last minute more as a matter of convenience than balancing lunches and dinners with a weekly schedule as we usually did.
We quickly dropped the hardline version of the diet and eased it off, however my partner lost the excess pounds and I too returned to my usual weight of 63kg at 1.65m.
We went back to eating the way we like it, which was basically already healthy, the only thing we have maintained is to keep meals mainly of carbohydrates for lunch and proteins for dinner and we plan weekly meals balancing them with each other as we did before.
Supplements
I'm still thinking about the supplements I take, I've stopped protein powders altogether. I was on a general multivitamin and a joint function supplement, I'm debating whether or not to add some probiotics and something detox. I would like to keep a minimum amount that gives me benefits but without exaggerating.
Training
As for training I'm trying to do it better; better is more instead of more is better.
So far it's not working, various pains surround me and pretending nothing happened and going on hoping that everything will magically pass is not a valid option.
It must also be said that it is the period of allergies and perhaps what I am suffering now is the result of various previous causes that add up at random.
However, I'm taking it all by trial and error, trying to improve :)



Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold. The Mandalorian
 

Tileenah

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Warrior from France
Posts: 1,962
Have you had to take antibiotics or had an episode of gastroenteritis? If you have not the probiotics probably won't be much use (because all the space in your "parking lot of bacterias" that is your gut are already taken so the ones you would take would just not stay...). I suggest focusing on prebiotics (that's cheaper and will feed your good bacterias : potatoes and lots of veggies have these properties).
As for detox products I think it's a lot of marketing and commercial stuff, and sometimes if you have another treatment like for diabetis or cholesterol or antidepressants, they reduce the absorption rate and get in the way of the treatment. Maybe you could ask yourself if you're exposed to some things you would like to avoid and find a way to work around those things instead?
Good luck on your trial and error stuff! ;)
 

Fremen

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Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
@Tileenah I have no particular problems, I see supplements as an extra pampering rather than a necessity, a nudge in the right direction :)
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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Another quiet day and I'm recovering well, a little patience and I'll straighten things out for good :)



Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


Great, kid. Don’t get cocky. Han Solo
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

°°°


I'll make it easy for the rest of the week and apart from 15 of mobility and stretching that's all I'm going to do, I need some pampering :D



Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


The greatest teacher, failure is. Yoda
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video)
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video)

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Hips & Glutes Stretch Workout (6 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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I added a little Yoga workout which is always good :)



Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


I’m one with the Force. The Force is with me. Chirrut Îmwe
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rhapsody Workout (6 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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Today I finished the 13th book of the Mercy Thompson Series and since the 14th book is not out yet, I've officially finished reading the whole series in English less than 5 months :yas:
Now I'm faced with the tough choice of the next Urban Fantasy series to own :LOL::peace:





Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


Do. Or do not. There is no try. Yoda
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Hips & Glutes Stretch Workout (6 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

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I should have organized my training in a reasonable way, increasing stretching and mobility to do every day (15-21 min), let's see if I can handle going back to training in the gym without other contractures and discomfort.
I will train Monday and Friday in the gym in the morning and Tuesday and Thursday in the evening with Muay Thai, Wednesday I will keep it as a recovery day in the middle of the week.

Now let's talk about serious things: books to read.
I discarded Kate Daniels Series because I've already read more than half of the books in Italian and I don't want to read everything in English again and I already know that I couldn't resist starting over...
The other series that inspire me are:
The Dresden Files Series which I haven't read anything about, the first trilogy came out this month for the first time in Italian.
Jane Yellowrock Series I only read the first book and I liked it a lot then nothing was published in Italian anymore.
The Hollows Series i read the first 5 books then nothing came in italian, same problem as with the Kate Daniels Series.
I want to continue reading in English because then I have much more choice and immediate access to everything that is published.
I'm only evaluating Urban Fantasy series because they inspire me right now and only being published because I like the idea of knowing that another new book in a series that I like and am passionate about will be released.
So surprisingly I will start Guild Codex Universe Series :LOL:
@Anek intrigued me and I like that it's a series that started in 2018, so fresh off the press.
@Sólveig I took note of the suggestion, thanks :)
@Nihopaloa one of the advantages of a long-running series that you enjoy is that you can read quite a few books at your own pace :LOL:



Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


No one’s ever really gone. Luke Skywalker
 

Fremen

Well-known member
Shaman from Italy
Posts: 3,191
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Universal Warmup (5 min)
Strength training in the Gym (1 h)
Surya Namaskara (5 min)
Rotator Cuff Workout (1 min, 30 sec)
Shoulder Stretch (2 min, 30 sec)
Uttanasana with hands clasped (1 min)

°°°

BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

📌 Hug Challenge

°°°



I went back to training in the gym and it went well :)




Aloha, have a nice day bees
:coffee:


Stop touching things. The Mandalorian
 
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