Xue Sheng's - Old beat up guy returns to training log

Discussion in 'Training Logs' started by Xue Sheng, Jul 23, 2014.

  1. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    I now have to figure out how to get up earlier in the morning to workout. My family appears to have decided to keep me busy every evening so I have little time to do anything. I have gotten my Taiji to the morning, after everyone goes to school and work but now I will likely have to start getting up at 5:00 to get the other training in.
     
  2. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    Happy Christmas and Merry New Year

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  3. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    New Routine

    Thursday/Saturday/Monday

    BowFlex
    1. Chest Press
    2. Pull Up – Pull Down
    3. Chin up – Pull Down
    Total Gym
    1. Straight Rows
    2. Cross Cable Rows
    3. Trunk Twists
    Other Exercises
    1. Squats
    2. Side to side squat
    3. Hands and knees bent leg lift
    4. Lay on side leg lift
    5. Lay on side bottom leg lift
    6. Standing flies
    7. Dumbbell Dead lift
    8. Dumbbell standing forward flies
    9. Rotor cuff (Light weight)
    10. Flies
    11. Shoulder rolls
    12. Crunches/Crunches leg lift/Sit-ups
    13. Pushups > Wide/Normal/Narrow

    Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday
    Treadmill (Fast walk)
    20 minutes

    Taijiquan
    Monday - Sunday Morning
    Yang Long Form

    Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday
    Any or all or any combination of

    Yang Style
    Fast form
    Fajin form
    Short dao form
    Long Dao form
    Jian form
     
  4. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

  5. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    Might give my old Wing Chun Sifu a call and maybe start working on a little Wing Chun again in 2016....... just thinking out loud here....time will tell
     
  6. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    Yup. I'm bored

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    Ta ta for now
     
  7. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    Well, this is probably my last post here for sometime to come, not that it is any big deal, I am just getting the feeling that my time can be better spent than reading through and posting on Web forums. It is not a jab at any of the many forums I have posted on, just that I think it is time to cut way back nd or stop.

    So for what is possibly my last post here I want to talk about training and age and what I have recently learned...which could also be translated as I am a slow learner.

    The workout I most recently posted

    New Routine

    Thursday/Saturday/Monday

    BowFlex
    1. Chest Press
    2. Pull Up – Pull Down
    3. Chin up – Pull Down
    Total Gym
    1. Straight Rows
    2. Cross Cable Rows
    3. Trunk Twists
    Other Exercises
    1. Squats
    2. Side to side squat
    3. Hands and knees bent leg lift
    4. Lay on side leg lift
    5. Lay on side bottom leg lift
    6. Standing flies
    7. Dumbbell Dead lift
    8. Dumbbell standing forward flies
    9. Rotor cuff (Light weight)
    10. Flies
    11. Shoulder rolls
    12. Crunches/Crunches leg lift/Sit-ups
    13. Pushups > Wide/Normal/Narrow

    Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday
    Treadmill (Fast walk)
    20 minutes

    Taijiquan
    Monday - Sunday Morning
    Yang Long Form

    Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday
    Any or all or any combination of

    Yang Style
    Fast form
    Fajin form
    Short dao form
    Long Dao form
    Jian form
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    Is good, IMHO, but it was not working much for me, actually I was rather exhausted and more than a bit lethargic. What I had a problem with was that this routine was, by far, much less work than I was doing 20 years ago. Then it hit me "20 years ago". The old, over 1/2 a century body, with all associated old injuries, is not getting enough recovery time between workouts. So I looked at it and cut it all way back to;



    Monday/Wednesday/Friday Morning, before work

    BowFlex
    1. Chest Press
    2. Pull Up – Pull Down
    3. Chin up – Pull Down
    Total Gym
    1. Straight Rows
    2. Cross Cable Rows

    Taijiquan
    Monday - Sunday morning, afternoon, evening, whenever I have time (turns out it is mostly evening)
    Yang Long Form

    When I can fit these in and so far I am getting these about 3 times a week each

    Yang Style:
    Fast form
    Fajin form
    Short dao form
    Long Dao form
    Jian form

    2 short Yoga routines
    One is a standard Yoga routine that covers a lot of ground
    The other is for strength and done on the days I do the bowflex and total gym,

    I will not post all that is in routine one because it is long and not at all Vinyasa

    This is the Strength routine and it is based on Vinyasa
    1. Downward Facing Dog
    2. Plank
    3. Chaturanga Dandasana
    4. Upward Dog
    5. Downward Dog
    6. Dolphin Pose
    7. Dolphin Push-ups
    8. Downward Dog
    9. Downward Dog Split
    10. Utkatasana - Chair pose
    11. Mountain
    12. Standing Split
    13. Mountain
    14. Tree Pose

    This actually is working for me much better. I am also not beating myself up as much when I miss a day, or a routine. Sometimes I substitute what I can fit in. I have always wanted to have Yoga as part of my training, but could never figure out how to fit it in with everything else.

    Well that is about. I wish all a happy 2016.

    Zàijiàn
    Huítóu jiàn
    Namaste

    TTFN
     
  8. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    The End

    Starting new log
     

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