A few days off
Apr. 16th, 2007 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI drove to work Thursday and Friday, first time in over a year apart from two separate days when my bike was incapacitated.
It was interesting. I found that my legs were really happy for the time off; by Friday afternoon they felt really, really strong. When I ride every day, they don't really get a chance to recover.
OTOH, even though my legs were feeling better, the whole 4 days off I could feel myself getting fat and slow. Practically hour by hour.
I'll have to drive more this year if I'm to do half the stuff I'd like to get done around the house. But I'm going to try like hell not to do so 2 days in a row.
Even though most days my legs don't feel strong, they actually aren't weak, just exhausted. I'm slowly learning to apply them to kicks in TKD. My form is still horrendous (I feel like a flopping fish most of the time), but my round kick, even though I think it's maybe 20% as effective as it could be, is already halfway to knocking over the wavemaster. If I can get my hips opened up to where I can really roll over into the kick, it'll be pretty good. Even my crescent kicks are getting better, though I still don't have nearly the snap in my hips and back that I need to make that work right. I overdid something with my left leg a few months back and it continues to not be as flexible as the right, and even the right isn't good at all. I'm probably not much above average for my age (43) for flexibility in my legs. I've been trying to remember to get up and stretch once an hour or so at work, and when the conference room down the hall is unoccupied, to get in there a couple of times a day and work my forms through. I don't know how flexible it's possible for an old goat like me to get, but I hope the answer is "a lot more than I am now."
It was interesting. I found that my legs were really happy for the time off; by Friday afternoon they felt really, really strong. When I ride every day, they don't really get a chance to recover.
OTOH, even though my legs were feeling better, the whole 4 days off I could feel myself getting fat and slow. Practically hour by hour.
I'll have to drive more this year if I'm to do half the stuff I'd like to get done around the house. But I'm going to try like hell not to do so 2 days in a row.
Even though most days my legs don't feel strong, they actually aren't weak, just exhausted. I'm slowly learning to apply them to kicks in TKD. My form is still horrendous (I feel like a flopping fish most of the time), but my round kick, even though I think it's maybe 20% as effective as it could be, is already halfway to knocking over the wavemaster. If I can get my hips opened up to where I can really roll over into the kick, it'll be pretty good. Even my crescent kicks are getting better, though I still don't have nearly the snap in my hips and back that I need to make that work right. I overdid something with my left leg a few months back and it continues to not be as flexible as the right, and even the right isn't good at all. I'm probably not much above average for my age (43) for flexibility in my legs. I've been trying to remember to get up and stretch once an hour or so at work, and when the conference room down the hall is unoccupied, to get in there a couple of times a day and work my forms through. I don't know how flexible it's possible for an old goat like me to get, but I hope the answer is "a lot more than I am now."
