Doubled The Workout

[suzanne sanders]

Most of you know that I have MCS, I have good days and bad.  Because of my MCS, I was having nerve issues in my right leg last night  and this morning I was frustrated with how tired my legs were. 

I decided that I needed to go on our longer route up the mountain.  I have a tendency to make myself do more exercise when I am having MCS issues.  It pushes the circulation in my body  and I sweat, therefore I am pushing out the toxins.  

I was not happy with my stances today.  My legs were just not going to give.  I thought it was best to let them have their moments and concentrate on my upper body movements.  Trying to remember the order when you are mentally exhausted is a bit frustrating,  Because of who I am, I make sure I just laugh at it and I know that it is only temporary.  

After I made it through my forms I was complaining about the tiredness in my legs, thanks to Joseph he reminded my that I had doubled my forms workout.  I went from doing 9 forms a day to doing 18 forms a day.  

Wow!  This was exciting and no wonder my legs were so fatigued.  

After my workout, I sat and listened to the mountain sounds and breathed in the fresh air while I was drinking tea.    

Workout today: 

Each form 2 times equals 18 forms 

10 straight leg kicks, right and left

10 front kicks, right and left

10 side kicks, right and left 

10 inside crescent kicks, right and left

10 outside crescent kicks, right and left

10 spinning inside crescent kicks, right and left

10 narrow push-ups

10 wide push-ups

10 spinning heel kicks

back exercises

ab exercises

stretch

We have a no spray sign and because of that we are the ones who have to do the up keep along the road in front of our property.  So, after my workout, I did roadside maintenance.  This gave me two hours of squatting up and down, and I used a pair of scissors.  

After that I needed to warm up, drinking a cup of tea was good for that.   The rest of my day I pulled weeds (more squatting) and carried 2 five gallon buckets of compost more times than I can count. 

Looking forward to adjusting to my new workout.  I feel I will be adjusted to it in about one more week then I will increase my forms up to 3 or 4 each.  

I am sticking to my goals.    There is no way I am going to slow down.  Looking forward to catching the tail end of Matt.  If I keep working hard enough I can do this.  

Roadside maintenance, took it in about 2 feet.  As much as I keep using my scissors, I am going to have one strong grip. 

Training hard like this (of course even when you are not training hard) it is important to make sure you eat organic green food  with a balance of clean protein.    If you do not you WILL wear your body down 

Some organic red food, like organic strawberries, is also very healthy for you.  Make sure that you never eat NON-organic strawberries.  Always eat only organic strawberries.  Non-organic strawberries have a ton of toxic chemicals in them.  

Healthy fuel, to keep the body lubed up and ready to go.

[suzanne sanders]

Today was a day of running late.  I did a terrible job getting out of bed when the alarm went off.  This was the wrong day to do that because I had an appointment to bring our chickens and turkeys in to get processed.  I also needed a rub down with my all purpose salve, which did a fantastic job working out the stiffness and sore muscles.  Besides running late for my workout schedule, Sophia stepped on glass and needed help and at the same time the horses went up the mountain without us.   All of this happened before 7:30 am.  Joseph and I split ourselves up.  His eyes are better so he helped Sophia, I went up the mountain to make sure the horses went up the right way.  Whew!  I started on my forms right away.  Not only did I Finish my forms, I also did my kicking workout. Yes!   After tea and my workout I headed down to chase and catch chickens.  Everything worked out. 

Sophia and I worked on the new hoop-house, had tea together, saw a tornado, ended our day playing chase the chicken.  I am tired, a good tired, sore and a good sore and I am ready to eat our fresh organic chicken, organic rice pasta with basil, garlic and onions and a salad..  Almost a full local meal. .  

While I waited for our chickens to be processed, I had time to catch up on some reading and found some great healthy new recipes to try.  I got my list together for what will be in the weekly wellness letter/wellness box.  I am very excited about all the fun things that I get to share.  

I just need to some how get inside the house to relax a little earlier, but I have a feeling that is not going to happen till this growing season is done. So, in the meantime it is vitally important I take extra care of myself with extra nutrition.