Walking and life

Weight training and vigorous mobility routines are great, if they are performed. But I think we can have a more approachable foundation, walking and some movement. Get some walking in each day and some movement. The movement I’m talking about is to just spend some minutes each day on moving the body in manners to lose some tension and in some positions you don’t reach every day otherwise. Like bend over a couple of times and try to touch your toes. Swing your arms in circles. Reach your arms up high and lean back. Get down on the floor and do some cat cow bends. While you are at it get down on the floor and get up again. From both your back and stomach. You’ll benefit from it in the future. 

Radio callisthenics that I’ve mentioned before is good inspiration here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpzsLUVHokc

The walking part. More is probably better. The classic goal of 10 000 steps is just a number that was used without anything else backing it than it sounded good. But has been shown to be quite a good number even if great benefit shows up with fewer steps than that. Your phone probably has a decent step counter and getting a step counting device isn’t expensive. See what you are at today. If you are below 6000 see if you can reach that daily and see how you start to feel. Or try to add 1000 steps to your daily average and see what that does to your body. 

Walking is a great method to clear your mind and come up with great ideas. I just need to remember to write my great ideas I get down. Like I can have a great idea for a FP, have it ready in my head, but gone when I get back home. If you have some aches and pains in the body check how much you are walking and see how it feels if you make the effort to walk a bit more. 

This week I got my HT10 back from the rod doctor in Spain. One section repaired and reinforced. Beautiful work done there. If you don’t know that any work has been done you wouldn’t notice it. And now I recognise my casting again. I’ve felt like I’ve missed something for a while now in my casting and I couldn’t tell what it was, but now I feel I’m back on track.

We did get lucky during the delivery. When I picked up the parcel the paper tube was fully opened and the rod tube poking out. Wouldn’t have been very fun to pickup an empty paper tube. 

And I got some sad news this week, a friend of mine passed away this week. I met him through the weightlifting club. Kjell Nilsson or as most people knew him, Lord Humungus from Mad Max. He was quite the character, but that to be expected having lived such a life he had. Always helpful and sharing a lot of great advice in the gym. His specialty was the mental game. How to train to feel stronger in parts of the lift where you could otherwise get in doubt and affect your lifting. And could coach people to momentarily overcome mental hurdles in a competition.

If he did see you when you left the club he would offer you a lift home. The ride home would take about 2 hours, most of the time spent in his car right outside of your house where you would get a number of stories. Some of them more amazing than the other. But the more you learned to know him the more you learned that they were actually true. Like the first time you met him you might not be really sure that this was the guy in the Mel Gibson movie. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell_Nilsson_(actor)

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EQ1t1wJ9W/

He wasn’t very famous in Sweden since he hadn’t been in any movies since the 1980s and today he is on the headlines of many of the big newspapers in Sweden and all over the internet. He would’ve loved to have seen that. 

The old man of the family has also passed on recently. Charlie, a pincher a little bit of everything mixed breed. He got to live to 16 years of age. Spry and running around like a maniac up until the last days. And today we welcome Juno to the family. A ten weeks old terrier brasileiro. 

Cheers, Rickard