1/8/21
~6am ?°
I’m outside doing choked up holds and choked up levers with the sledgehammer.
First thing wrist work & breath work – I’m enjoying the cool morning air as the sky brightens and the birds start to stir.
A few days ago I realized that repeatedly bending forward and standing straight gets you breathing deep.
I’ve read this practice before in an old book.
It’s things like this that prove health is so simply achieved.
Wim Hof is repopularising what old time strongman wrote before him, what many cultures knew before that.
Northern Europeans sauna and cold themselves.
Yogis have their way. Tibetan Buddhists have theirs.
Combine the bends with bodyweight squats.
I’m getting deep breathes, and a light pump in the cold.
It’s free man. I’m doing it, so can you.
As I do a brief pyramid I envision first back bends, then handsprings, and flips.
The cool air, it feels phenomenal.
This pyramid could really be milked in the future.
•1 bend
•1 squat
•2 bends
•2 squats
•etc
1-10-1 is sure to wake you up. Do it outside. Do it! It’s your life!
This type of routine morning exercises keeps all young who would do them.
It’s ancient knowledge – lost in the modern hurried slurping of cereal, and car commute to somewhere you’d rather not be.
The other day I was asked “do/did you watch the news”.
I looked back at him honestly answering “I don’t even have cable tv”.
This was so far out of his wheelhouse that he went dumb for a moment.
Shock! Then silence, eventually a stammer, a stutter or two. He eventually got out “I just can’t believe ___”.
I reassured him of how it will be ok.
At this very moment as I type I’d place money on him scaring the heck out of himself by watching the “news”, a negative habit he’s committed to.
Sometimes the healthiest thing is to do is to stop taking in more information.
Why would I turn on a flashing screen of negativity, the content of which I can’t control, when instead I can exercise, and then create positive material with a different electronic device?
It like so many health and fitness related things these go to me without asking.
I take it as a given, otherwise I’d be doing what most do…a negative to themselves.
Rid thyself of self harm.
Then do some simple health builders.
The birds are chirping.
I still breathe.
-J