Some mistakes are simple: you make them and the consequences hit you in the face immediatly.(sometimes literally...)
With skydiving it is a bit differnt:
You have packed your parachute, you get a spot on the next plane up. All good, right? Yeah, so far...
After you checked your gear you get on the plane, take your seat( well, it´s more like you sit on the floor of an extremly small air- vehicle and get cramed into a spot between a 60- year old man who just got a coupon for a tandem- parachute- jump for his first day of retirement and a ridicilously hot girl who is diving out of that plance in a way that makes me wonder if she got more balls than I...).
During the 20minutes it takes the plane to get to the 4km altitude you think about the jump, what you got as your goals, what you need to practice(stuff like posture, different movements, etc.), where the wind is blowing from(so you do not get lost or end up on the freeway south of the airport or the military training area north from it), who is jumping in front of you, who is coming after you...
Immediatly before you exit the plane you give yourself another check, at least all the things you can see and/or reach and feel on the outside of the parachute.
Then it is time to exit... You wait your turn, get into the door on your knees (not because you can´t take the agony but because the plane is so damn small...), get into your position, take a look down to the ground to get a sense where the pilot is dropping you off, take a deep breath and push...( One thing I learned about in gynecology).
The free fall... To be honest, I can´t really describe that one...You open yourself up, the whole body belly down while you keep falling faster and faster towards the earth. You body accelerates up to 200km/h which you feel from your partly covered head, out at the tips of your fingers, down to the back of your foot, an awesome power developed of the one medium we hardly ever notice, like fish hardly notice the water they are living in, still so powerfull only a small adjustment of your body position causes an enormous change in dynamics, like suddenly you start accelerating like crazy, start spinning like a mad yo-yo...
You routinely check your altimeter, still enjoying the seemingly endless view.
Check! You reached you altitude, it´s time to pull the chute.
You start to reinforce your stable free- fall- position, with one hand you reach back to your hand- deploy, the other one executes a compensating motion to remain stable, you get a grip on the hand deploy, rip it out, get back in to stable position, start counting...
21...
22...
23...
Nothing.
That´s not right...
Nothing...
I already should have been yanked like crazy by the unfolding parachute decelerating my fall...
Nothing...
CRAP!!
I will not tell you what to do now because that was the topic of the first lessons from skydiving- post ("Have a plan...Then another one")
My point this time: Nothing wrong was done during the free- fall.
Nothing wrong was done in the plane.
Nothing wrong was done during the check before the flight.
The mistake happened a while back, one hour before, one day before or even one week before the jump.
Packing the parachute, while you or someone else(I´d like it to be someone else so I can complain for eternety about it in heaven...) were joking around with a buddy, looking at the scared faces of people about to jump out of a plane for the first time in their life thinking "Maaan, I´m way cooler than that!", twisting a little cord, making a mistake when closing the bag which carries the folded parachute...
Overall skydiving is quite a safe sport, I´m not trying to display myself as a bada** here.
But one thing is for sure: if you make a mistake at a critical point each following step will unleash a whole new group of problems and those problems...You catch my drift.
My martial arts teacher once said "Wing Tsun is basically a straight punch. Only if you make a mistake you will need all those fancy hand positions and movements."
I think this is something inherently true for a lot of things.
If you have a plan (in which you put a fair amount of time), stick with it and have mastered the basics you will basically get through whatever you you are doing.
The earlier you make a mistake (and are not man enough to take care of it, be it out of pride or embarrassment) the harder it will come back to you...
Be it cheating on your new girlfriend, hitting the big weights without a proper athletic base or trying to do a job without a base of knowledge...
Most of the time life is giving us the chance to correct a mistake wether we want to or not.
One tends to ignore small mistakes in the beginning and brushes them under the rug. Because one still can...But the longer you drag them with you, the wider the consequences spread into other parts of your life...
Making a plan, re-thinking it, repeat the step before, work diligently and one will be fine most of the time.
And the other times? Well, call it bad luck or bad karma but you better have a plan B.
Train hard and enjoy life!
All the best,
Harry
Samstag, 14. August 2010
Donnerstag, 5. August 2010
Lessons from skydiving (1) - Have a plan; then another one.
If a young child is interested in something it usually can learn it by trial- and- error.
You want to walk? Stand up, walk a few steps, fall down, get back up,...
Speaking...No biggie.
Soccer? Hit the ball. Did not shoot a goal? Well... Hit it again. Till you know how to do it.
You just turned 18 and now you are taking your first driving lesson... And that other car is closing in very, very fast? Well... You may be stressed and a little freaked out by all the things happening around you(the car, the driving- instructor screaming next to you, the windshield- wiper which is all of a sudden turned on magically,...) but there is one thing you can do: hit the break!!
Guess what? That´s it. You put weight on that one pedal and usually all is good. You got another chance to try driving
But this is called "Lessons from skydiving"...
If you get out of that plane in 4 kilometers above ground and your parachute doesn´t work, you got no altimeter, you become instable, pull your parachute and get tangled up in all the cords, you are heading straight into a obstacle, you got no cords to stir the parachute, etc, etc...
If you got no plan here... Well, you are dead now.
I´m sure you get another chance for trying... At least if you belief in reincarnation.
Most will say: "Well... Of course you have to have a plan."
Right.
So let´s stick with the skydiving example...
You jump out of the plane, do your thing, reach the proper altitude, pull your parachute and... Nothing happens...
So...you gotta have the next step planned out. Pull the reserve.
You pull your main parachute, you feel a pull but not even close to what you should feel because it´s tangled up between the cords and the cords somehow got stuck to you... What now?
The parachute opens but both cords used to pilot it are ripped... WHat now?
You have to have a plan A, then a plan B.
Lets switch to another example close to my field of experience:
A patient has surgery. If a doctor would perform it only educated in the exact steps necessary to do it when everything is working as it should many people would not get out of the operation room alive.
Many banks where not prepared for the economic crisis and therefor a lot of them had to close, leaving thousands, millions without savings.
Where things mather experience has shown you have to think three steps ahead to be save.
Or to be successful.
Do not just cruise through life waiting for something to happen and then complain life is always hitting you the hardest.
Think about the consequences of your doings, create options for every possible way and then create the next line of options...
Be active when thinking about your future.
At first it can be difficult but with time it will become natural.
One thing, especially when dealing with risk risk situations are checklists.
Basically you think through an emergency situation, sort out the most important steps which secure your own safety and the safety of others, prioritize them, put them in an order, write it down and in case of that emergency you go through step- by- step.
For most real- life situations checklists are enough.
Then there are those events which go far too fast to pull out lists and start crossing of points. Maybe it is all happening too fast, you are in a situation where you can not work with lists(on a bicylce, falling from the sky, ...).
For those you still follow the same plan: think about what can happen, what you can do in this situation, what are the priorities and in which order to sort them and then comes one thing each and every man who served in the military dreaded: drills.
You memorize the checklist and perform it in an non- threatening environment over and over again.
Not the most fun training but for certain thing the most essential.
Train hard and enjoy life!
All the best,
Harry
You want to walk? Stand up, walk a few steps, fall down, get back up,...
Speaking...No biggie.
Soccer? Hit the ball. Did not shoot a goal? Well... Hit it again. Till you know how to do it.
You just turned 18 and now you are taking your first driving lesson... And that other car is closing in very, very fast? Well... You may be stressed and a little freaked out by all the things happening around you(the car, the driving- instructor screaming next to you, the windshield- wiper which is all of a sudden turned on magically,...) but there is one thing you can do: hit the break!!
Guess what? That´s it. You put weight on that one pedal and usually all is good. You got another chance to try driving
But this is called "Lessons from skydiving"...
If you get out of that plane in 4 kilometers above ground and your parachute doesn´t work, you got no altimeter, you become instable, pull your parachute and get tangled up in all the cords, you are heading straight into a obstacle, you got no cords to stir the parachute, etc, etc...
If you got no plan here... Well, you are dead now.
I´m sure you get another chance for trying... At least if you belief in reincarnation.
Most will say: "Well... Of course you have to have a plan."
Right.
So let´s stick with the skydiving example...
You jump out of the plane, do your thing, reach the proper altitude, pull your parachute and... Nothing happens...
So...you gotta have the next step planned out. Pull the reserve.
You pull your main parachute, you feel a pull but not even close to what you should feel because it´s tangled up between the cords and the cords somehow got stuck to you... What now?
The parachute opens but both cords used to pilot it are ripped... WHat now?
You have to have a plan A, then a plan B.
Lets switch to another example close to my field of experience:
A patient has surgery. If a doctor would perform it only educated in the exact steps necessary to do it when everything is working as it should many people would not get out of the operation room alive.
Many banks where not prepared for the economic crisis and therefor a lot of them had to close, leaving thousands, millions without savings.
Where things mather experience has shown you have to think three steps ahead to be save.
Or to be successful.
Do not just cruise through life waiting for something to happen and then complain life is always hitting you the hardest.
Think about the consequences of your doings, create options for every possible way and then create the next line of options...
Be active when thinking about your future.
At first it can be difficult but with time it will become natural.
One thing, especially when dealing with risk risk situations are checklists.
Basically you think through an emergency situation, sort out the most important steps which secure your own safety and the safety of others, prioritize them, put them in an order, write it down and in case of that emergency you go through step- by- step.
For most real- life situations checklists are enough.
Then there are those events which go far too fast to pull out lists and start crossing of points. Maybe it is all happening too fast, you are in a situation where you can not work with lists(on a bicylce, falling from the sky, ...).
For those you still follow the same plan: think about what can happen, what you can do in this situation, what are the priorities and in which order to sort them and then comes one thing each and every man who served in the military dreaded: drills.
You memorize the checklist and perform it in an non- threatening environment over and over again.
Not the most fun training but for certain thing the most essential.
Train hard and enjoy life!
All the best,
Harry
Montag, 2. August 2010
Clubbells
One part of the workshop with Steve Maxwell was the "Hindu Workout".
Hindu Pushups, Hindu Squats, Macebells and Clubbells.
Since I worked with some of Scott Sonnons Yoga stuff lately and Steve Maxwell really got me interested I thought I´d give Clubbells a chance.
Those of you who read my Blog regularly know, I do not like to buy stuff pre- made, I like to build my own training equipment.
So I put some thought into how Clubbells work, what I think is important and what I did wrong in the past.
See for yourself...
Sorry for only giving you half the screen, somehow my cam was lazy today.
Train hard and enjoy life!
All the best,
Harry
Hindu Pushups, Hindu Squats, Macebells and Clubbells.
Since I worked with some of Scott Sonnons Yoga stuff lately and Steve Maxwell really got me interested I thought I´d give Clubbells a chance.
Those of you who read my Blog regularly know, I do not like to buy stuff pre- made, I like to build my own training equipment.
So I put some thought into how Clubbells work, what I think is important and what I did wrong in the past.
See for yourself...
Sorry for only giving you half the screen, somehow my cam was lazy today.
Train hard and enjoy life!
All the best,
Harry
Sonntag, 1. August 2010
Lessons from skydiving
Over the last years I was able to save enough money to treat myself to something I was looking forward to since 2003: a skydiving- course which will enable me to jump out of planes all over the world.
After two days of theory one comment of a teacher clinged to my mind:
"Everybody changes thanks to this course. Most of the time to the better."
So I will watch very carefully, like I always do regarding to my training, how this education and learning this new skill will change me.
It certainly will as every experience of an extreme situation with high sensory input and fast reaction time does.
I´m also very curious how people who do not see me face- to- face will experience me after the summer, since a lot has already and will change in the coming months.
So enjoy the ride.
Train hard and enjoy life!
All the best,
Harry
After two days of theory one comment of a teacher clinged to my mind:
"Everybody changes thanks to this course. Most of the time to the better."
So I will watch very carefully, like I always do regarding to my training, how this education and learning this new skill will change me.
It certainly will as every experience of an extreme situation with high sensory input and fast reaction time does.
I´m also very curious how people who do not see me face- to- face will experience me after the summer, since a lot has already and will change in the coming months.
So enjoy the ride.
Train hard and enjoy life!
All the best,
Harry
Dienstag, 27. Juli 2010
Steve Maxwell Workshop Day 2
Getting up that day was not easy... I had to figure out the angle of my shoulders which allowed me to pull myself up into the sitting position and how to contract my quads when getting out of my bed without starting to howl like a injured wolf.
Well, I did it. ;-)
After a good breakfast I hit the road and in no-time arrived at the Naturtrainings- center in Thomasroith.
The vibe was even better than the first day altough you could see that everybody had some sore muscles. The outlook of working with Steve and Dominik outside in the sun and having a clue of the information to come gave us the endorphines to forget all about the soreness.
Like the first day we started with Joint Mobility.
I figure the 50minutes we spent doing them saved a lot of my joints and muscles, because considering the kind of work we did plus the volume I´m satisfied with my health- status.
The next topic was "pulling".
This part was hosted by Dominik since he is one of the strongest guys considering pulling power I know.
We talked about the Pullup, a ton of ways to modify the basic version, how to focus this one exercise towards strength, maximum strength, strength endurance, Steve threw in some excellent coaching- and performance- keys and of course we did several challenges at the well known hand- walking- circuit...I am just happy I did not developed any blisters or hurt any tendons... It is simply amazing how strong one can get using only the own bodyweight.
Well... If you pull something you gotta push something.
And we did push ourselves.
Steve took us from the basic pushup with all the important structural keys up to the one- arm- one- leg- pushup.
It was simply amazing to see Steve bang out around 7 one- arm- pushups for demonstration.
The next topic was the pistol.
I´ll be honest, I do not like pistols.
Maybe because I never got the mobility to do one without holding something in front of my body. Maybe because my groin and thigh muscles cramp up when I have to hold the non- working leg out in front when doing them.
But if Coach says they are good for you... Well, there is no way you can argue with that. He´s got the experience. He´s got the performance. That´s it.
So Steve took us from the basic squat to prep- exercises for the pistol to the exercise itself and showed us ways to establish a basic performance level as well as progression- options.
After all this our bodys were allowed to take a few minutes of rest while Steve gave a theory lesson about Mobility, Overreaching and Obertraining as well as Regeneration.
Awesome stuff!!
The final challenge was a 4- circuit- training.
Yeah, 4 different circuits, between 3-5 rounds each circuit which in the end added up to 50minutes of training.
50minutes of Clubbells, MAcebells, Hindu Pushups, Tire Flips, Spartacus Lifts, Log Flips, Rope Climbing, Gracie- Pistols and much, much more...
Man, my whole body was burning after that one...
But...
Yeah...
You guessed right...
We were not allowed to finish...
Right after the end of the circuit we started jogging around the Naturtraining soccer field, only interrupted by shuttle- runs.
Still not being enough, we had to finish strong with a bear crawl over the soccer field to the finishing line, ending one of the greatest athletic experiences I ever had, with one of the greates coaches I know, Steve Maxwell, hosted by one of the strongest and kindest among the people I call my warrior brothers, Dominik Feischl, accompanied by some of the most tough and kind brothers in arms I had yet to meet.
Train hard, train smart and enjoy life!
All the best,
Harry
Montag, 26. Juli 2010
Steve Maxwell Workshop Day 1
I have to admit… I was quite nervous…
Since I started thinking “I need to lose weight” and searching the internet for helpful advice up to the moment I first heard of Kettlebells, Conditioning for Martial Artists, the moment I got concerned about my health in the long rund and looked up something called Joint Mobility till today where I´m confronted with the challenge to not only balance my own workout regime, fit it into my education in the medical field, my ongoing development as an martial artist and human being but also taking responsibility for the development of others in a save way...Since the first steps until my latest steps, one name always turned up when looking for experts:
Steve Maxwell.
When you are a young guy looking for someone to give you some hints how to design your workouts you are usually looking for the guy with the best performance. (You know, the guy with the biggest pecs in the studio, the dude who´s running faster than everybody else, etc.)
When one is getting a bit older, you realize the guy with the most experience may be the better choice.
(Usually a guy who has done quite some work during his days, who has managed to survive most of it and is still able to get out of bed most of the days without having to hold on to something or calling for his significant other to help with a little push-or-pull)
I consider myself lucky and truly honoured for the opportunity to work with, shed blood under the eyes of and learn from a man like Steve Maxwell.
Not only a man with some 35+ years of experience in teaching(!!) fitness and physical education but also a man with the physical fitness who at the age of 58 (I think) can bang out about 7 one arm pushups just for demonstrating the exercise.
He is the combination of performance and experience.
The first impression was good, everybody was gathering in the "Naturtrainings"- center in Thomasroith, Upper Austria, run by Dominik Feischl( http://www.naturtraining.at/ ) and when Dominik pulled in with his Jeep, Steve got out of the car.
Mhm...A short, kinda old looking guy... Well... No suprises there. ;-)
There was a energy flowing from Steve which made me like him from the beginning... It felt like "Oh you poor young kids, you got no idea what you got yourself into but it´s gonna be ok...At least when we are done.".
The first thing of the day was a short introduction by everybody (name, profession, fitness- background, expectations,...). After that we went straight out into the pouring rain for some Joint Mobility.
Fortunatly we took our time with this warm- up. We got some theory, lots of practice for every joint, chances to tap into a wealth of experience and a great warm-up who really got the energy flowing.
Thanks Coach!
I´m gonna keep practicing those!!
The second major event was the hike up one of the most dreadful hills I know.
Do not get me wrong... It is not very steep, the trees either supply a pleasent shade or, in our case, shelter from the rain, the air is great, the birds sing...
The reason it is dreadful to me? Well, every time I am there Dominik or in this case Steve make us chase the hill up and down, up and down, most of the time only interrupted by pushups, towel pullups (Dominiks speciality) or Bear crawls (Steve really likes those!).
And when I say "chase", I´m talking about sprints... I gotta tell you, 3 rounds of hill sprints on uneven, wet terrain, loose rocks, slippery grass followed by about 100 meters of bear crawl and jogging downhill... You have to dig pretty deep to come up with a better workout.
Like Steve said: "It can be as simple as 20minutes, running and crawling."
Since the hill sprints took us up pretty high on the hill, I knew we where coming close to the cabin up on the top. I was looking forward to it, since the promised us a little rest, a theory- part and some food and hot liquids.
(It was raining hard the whole day and I was looking forward to dry my clothes a bit.)
After some steps Steve assembled us to review the Hill-Sprint- workout and gave us instructions for the next one: partner carries uphill.
If your feet are crying after the sprint... Well you gotta love the carries then. Not only do they show you how much MORE lactic acid can be pumped into your legs, but also how much more your body can produce and send to others parts like the biceps or the forearms.
Still... You can not see me in the video above because me and my partner Gregor ( http://www.strongbodyandmind.de/ ) where to far ahead...Coach actually had to call us back to keep the group together... I consider that a compliment to our performance.
After a lot of different carries we arrived at the cabin, legs wobbling, forearms burning and lungs feeling unable to get enough oxygen out of the awesome, fresh air of those hills.
We all took a seat inside, got some fluids in and ate lunch.
To get some digestion time, Steve took the chance to give a short lecture about goal setting and evaluation, as well as some pointers for some guys and their goals.
Again... It is just awesome when you are working with someone with such an vast knowledge of training, things all of a sudden seem so simple. ( Well, I guess they always are but we tend to make them a bit more complicated each time we look at them...You know what I mean...)
After a fast hike downhill with one stop to do a few pullups and another one to get rid of our shoes and socks to get the feeling in the soles of our feet back, we arrived at the Naturtrainings- center.
Imagine a group of obviously fit guys with one gal, all walking barefoot, soaking wet and dirty walking by the road... I wonder why no one has ever called the police during those training- camps!
After everybody had put their shoes back on and a little rets we got back outside and Steve introduced something I gonna refer to as the "Hindu Workout".
Basically it consists of Hindu Pushups and Squats, exercises with the macebell and clubbells.
I have to admit, when one is doing Hindu Pushups the right way they are turning into a hard exercise. Needless to say I liked them a lot!! ;-)
I will not speak about the timed sets we did with the Hindu Squats...It is an awesome idea but right now the thought alone produces lactic acid in my legs...
After those final exercises, some theoretical background in the ancient wrestlers and martial artists training we called it a day.
We finished the day like every workshop with Dominik at the Naturtrainings- center, with a hot shower and a gathering at a nearby restaurant with a collective dinner, lots of talking and the making of new friends.
On my way home in my car I noticed several things:
My right quad was beginning to tense up, my patellar tendon didn´t like it very much, my lungs felt kind of new since I had pumped a ton of fresh air through them all day and after a few minutes I somehow became mentally calm.
I always notice this when I got a lot to think about and that day I enjoyed the luxury of knowing where all the things to think about were coming from... A day long with people of a certain kind, lead by a man with so much experience I became afraid I would be calm forever...
I slept good that night...
Since I started thinking “I need to lose weight” and searching the internet for helpful advice up to the moment I first heard of Kettlebells, Conditioning for Martial Artists, the moment I got concerned about my health in the long rund and looked up something called Joint Mobility till today where I´m confronted with the challenge to not only balance my own workout regime, fit it into my education in the medical field, my ongoing development as an martial artist and human being but also taking responsibility for the development of others in a save way...Since the first steps until my latest steps, one name always turned up when looking for experts:
Steve Maxwell.
When you are a young guy looking for someone to give you some hints how to design your workouts you are usually looking for the guy with the best performance. (You know, the guy with the biggest pecs in the studio, the dude who´s running faster than everybody else, etc.)
When one is getting a bit older, you realize the guy with the most experience may be the better choice.
(Usually a guy who has done quite some work during his days, who has managed to survive most of it and is still able to get out of bed most of the days without having to hold on to something or calling for his significant other to help with a little push-or-pull)
I consider myself lucky and truly honoured for the opportunity to work with, shed blood under the eyes of and learn from a man like Steve Maxwell.
Not only a man with some 35+ years of experience in teaching(!!) fitness and physical education but also a man with the physical fitness who at the age of 58 (I think) can bang out about 7 one arm pushups just for demonstrating the exercise.
He is the combination of performance and experience.
The first impression was good, everybody was gathering in the "Naturtrainings"- center in Thomasroith, Upper Austria, run by Dominik Feischl( http://www.naturtraining.at/ ) and when Dominik pulled in with his Jeep, Steve got out of the car.
Mhm...A short, kinda old looking guy... Well... No suprises there. ;-)
There was a energy flowing from Steve which made me like him from the beginning... It felt like "Oh you poor young kids, you got no idea what you got yourself into but it´s gonna be ok...At least when we are done.".
The first thing of the day was a short introduction by everybody (name, profession, fitness- background, expectations,...). After that we went straight out into the pouring rain for some Joint Mobility.
Fortunatly we took our time with this warm- up. We got some theory, lots of practice for every joint, chances to tap into a wealth of experience and a great warm-up who really got the energy flowing.
Thanks Coach!
I´m gonna keep practicing those!!
The second major event was the hike up one of the most dreadful hills I know.
Do not get me wrong... It is not very steep, the trees either supply a pleasent shade or, in our case, shelter from the rain, the air is great, the birds sing...
The reason it is dreadful to me? Well, every time I am there Dominik or in this case Steve make us chase the hill up and down, up and down, most of the time only interrupted by pushups, towel pullups (Dominiks speciality) or Bear crawls (Steve really likes those!).
And when I say "chase", I´m talking about sprints... I gotta tell you, 3 rounds of hill sprints on uneven, wet terrain, loose rocks, slippery grass followed by about 100 meters of bear crawl and jogging downhill... You have to dig pretty deep to come up with a better workout.
Like Steve said: "It can be as simple as 20minutes, running and crawling."
Since the hill sprints took us up pretty high on the hill, I knew we where coming close to the cabin up on the top. I was looking forward to it, since the promised us a little rest, a theory- part and some food and hot liquids.
(It was raining hard the whole day and I was looking forward to dry my clothes a bit.)
After some steps Steve assembled us to review the Hill-Sprint- workout and gave us instructions for the next one: partner carries uphill.
If your feet are crying after the sprint... Well you gotta love the carries then. Not only do they show you how much MORE lactic acid can be pumped into your legs, but also how much more your body can produce and send to others parts like the biceps or the forearms.
Still... You can not see me in the video above because me and my partner Gregor ( http://www.strongbodyandmind.de/ ) where to far ahead...Coach actually had to call us back to keep the group together... I consider that a compliment to our performance.
After a lot of different carries we arrived at the cabin, legs wobbling, forearms burning and lungs feeling unable to get enough oxygen out of the awesome, fresh air of those hills.
We all took a seat inside, got some fluids in and ate lunch.
To get some digestion time, Steve took the chance to give a short lecture about goal setting and evaluation, as well as some pointers for some guys and their goals.
Again... It is just awesome when you are working with someone with such an vast knowledge of training, things all of a sudden seem so simple. ( Well, I guess they always are but we tend to make them a bit more complicated each time we look at them...You know what I mean...)
After a fast hike downhill with one stop to do a few pullups and another one to get rid of our shoes and socks to get the feeling in the soles of our feet back, we arrived at the Naturtrainings- center.
Imagine a group of obviously fit guys with one gal, all walking barefoot, soaking wet and dirty walking by the road... I wonder why no one has ever called the police during those training- camps!
After everybody had put their shoes back on and a little rets we got back outside and Steve introduced something I gonna refer to as the "Hindu Workout".
Basically it consists of Hindu Pushups and Squats, exercises with the macebell and clubbells.
I have to admit, when one is doing Hindu Pushups the right way they are turning into a hard exercise. Needless to say I liked them a lot!! ;-)
I will not speak about the timed sets we did with the Hindu Squats...It is an awesome idea but right now the thought alone produces lactic acid in my legs...
After those final exercises, some theoretical background in the ancient wrestlers and martial artists training we called it a day.
We finished the day like every workshop with Dominik at the Naturtrainings- center, with a hot shower and a gathering at a nearby restaurant with a collective dinner, lots of talking and the making of new friends.
On my way home in my car I noticed several things:
My right quad was beginning to tense up, my patellar tendon didn´t like it very much, my lungs felt kind of new since I had pumped a ton of fresh air through them all day and after a few minutes I somehow became mentally calm.
I always notice this when I got a lot to think about and that day I enjoyed the luxury of knowing where all the things to think about were coming from... A day long with people of a certain kind, lead by a man with so much experience I became afraid I would be calm forever...
I slept good that night...
Samstag, 10. Juli 2010
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