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I certainly have the video for that. I’ve gotten many laughs from the people I’ve shown it to.
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Doesn’t sound like you are overreacting to me. I agree with the others that she could have said things a lot more nicely, she could have talked to you about it after class instead of in front of everyone, and comparing you to the other girls was really unnecessary.
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I hurt my hamstring (proximal–meaning way up in my glute) exactly five months ago yesterday. It has improved but it is not gone. I hurt mine working on splits at a yoga class. I have seen my doctor twice, have done weeks of physical therapy with lots of strengthening, which I had already been doing a lot of for more than a year due to a knee problem. At therapy they did some ultrasound and some manual massage and a little stretching. I saw my doc for the second time about two weeks ago and he said to try resistance stretching for three to four weeks. He demonstrated a technique similar to the Bob Cooley book being discussed in a different thread (The Genius of Flexibility). The difference is he told me to have my husband help stretch and said it wasn’t something I could do alone. I can’t really wrap my brain around the stretching in the Cooley book because I can’t understand how to do it alone. For instance he tells you to resist maximally with your hamstring while simultaneously stretching the hamstring by pulling with your arms. My hamstring is far stronger than my arms in that awkward position so I just don’t get it. I reserved the Dara Torres DVD at my library but haven’t picked it up yet and I’m hoping that helps explain it better since she used Bob Cooley’s techniques. Doc told me to do the stretches 2-3 times a day but that’s not possible because three days a week I don’t even see my husband so at the most I’ve done it four days a week and usually only once a day. I do think it might be helping but it’s hard to say. Like you ladies, I am very discouraged that this injury is 5 months old!
Sorry so long.
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In iTunes I found one called Fitness planner that might work for you. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitness-planner/id600477433?mt=8
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I used 50 at the studio but I bought a 45 for home, and I prefer my 45, and I’m not particularly small at 5’7″ and don’t have particularly small hands either.
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I’m still in so far, tomorrow will be day 13 since it wouldn’t let me progress until I completed the one I failed at, which I did two days later.
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Like a few others have said, I am having a lot of difficulty understanding or perhaps performing the exercises properly. For instance, #3 in the first energy series (dip) confuses me. It says to continually contract the muscles in the front of your chest by resisting as you lower yourself to pushup position. Is there any other way to do a pushup besides contracting those muscles?
I also get a little lost in all the mind-body stuff. It’s generally not my thing but I’m open to the concept–there’s just so much about it in this book. I just reserved Dara Torres video at my library and am hoping that will clear things up for me.
Interestingly, about a week after I got Cooley’s book out of the library I saw my orthopedist for a 5-month-old hamstring injury that I’ve already treated with physical therapy with little improvement, and the one thing he told me to work on for now was resistance stretching. He directed me to do it a slightly different than Cooley’s technique but very similar. However, he said it needs to be done with another person, not by yourself.
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I realize I failed to complete my thought in my last post–if you click that you didn’t complete it, it doesn’t let you go on to the next day at all.
And Type A = anal rententive, OCD, perfectionist type person.
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I also discovered that it doesn’t let you go on if you click the button that you didn’t complete it, in addition to giving you a message that says something like, “if you don’t like starting over, stop quitting!” If it’s going to give me mean messages when I don’t succeed, I think it should give me nice messages on all the days I did succeed! 🙂
I’ve thought about going down to easy but someone said it lowered all the numbers even for the days they had done like taking away their progress. Because I’m type A I haven’t wanted to do that. I did manage to do my 3 min 20 sec today, but it was brutal.
I’ve been watching various TED talks on You Tube while I do it to try to distract myself.
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I made it to Day 10 but day 11 I had to put my knees down, but I got further than I thought. I made 3 minutes at day 10 but couldn’t hold 3 min 20 sec on day 11. The next day was a rest day so today I’m supposed to try the 3 min 20 secs again. I’ll at least give it a try. It seems like it increases too quickly (at least for me) as it moves on.
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Oh my, I just did a quick search…looks like anywhere from $750 to $2500! Don’t think that’s in my budget. Where can I borrow one is the question.
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Okay, where do we get one of these?!
My husband will just love it if I pick up one more weird hobby!
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I was just wondering what you thought of them because the shorts looked really cute to me. Glad you like them. I may try some of their stuff.
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Smaed1–I can’t believe that’s what you woke up to–hilarious. Weird way to start the day.
I just did day 10 so I’m 1/3 of the way but dang! Today the time went up 20 seconds and tomorrow it goes up another 20!! I did three minutes today, the most I’ve ever done, and I can’t believe it thinks I can go up more tomorrow, we’ll see. I’ve been alternating between doing them on my elbows versus on my hands with my arms straight figuring it works the muscles a little differently. I have my doubts about all this but have made it so far so I’m just gonna see how far I can go.
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Welcome! You’ll love these lessons. I haven’t been to my studio in months (and it’s only 15 min away) because I just haven’t felt the need because there is so much I can work on at home with these lessons.
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I couldn’t help myself so I looked up the pushup challenge too since I did 23 pushups yesterday during my workout. Day 30 would be 119! That’s hilarious. Is there a middle-aged female setting on this app that I’m missing?! 😉
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I’ve quietly joined too. Finished day 7 today at 160 seconds–hate it, hate it, hate it. I try to find something to watch on my ipad (pole routine, comedian, anything!) to distract me. It only helps a little.
I’ve done wall squats for more than a year now as part of physical therapy and can hold it 5 minutes so for giggles I looked up what that challenge would be on day 30–10 minutes! Eeeek! I may try one of the other challenges after finishing plank…if I manage to finish plank. I have a very hard time believing I’ll be able to hold a plank for more than six minutes when this is over. I’m on the medium level and can’t imagine what hard and extreme levels look like.
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Have you called them? I would try getting a human being on the phone. It’s harder to blow someone off that way.
Sorry this has happened–stinks that you’re having to pester them.
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This thread is so interesting because of our different points of view. Seems not too many people are fans of spatchcock and I love it. I can’t do it and doubt I ever will but I think it’s beautiful when Felix Cane does it.
I was also surprised by flatline scorpio–when I first started reading the thread I was wearing a T-shirt with a silhouette of flatline scorpio on it!
I can appreciate the athleticism of pretty much everything but I agree that yogini looks goofy.
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Veena lessons are awesome. I started in a studio and then bought these lessons (and a home pole–not in that order) and now I rarely go to the studio. I plan to go back to the studio but I just haven’t felt the need lately because there is so much I can do at home. I think there is a sample lesson or two you can watch to see if you like them.
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@hell on heels
Where did you get your 1′ x 1′ mirror tiles? I checked out your photos and that wall looks great! Love your pet photos too!
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@shoogstandley Thanks for sharing the Let’s Get Naked TED talk–loved it!
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My pet/street name would be Niki South Dixie, which I kinda like.
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@johnsdeere It never even occurred to me to dry hands for my silks–don’t know why. Good idea!
@byrdgrrl I did spend a good bit of time chasing the tails the last time I was out and the more they blow around the more leaves and things they keep picking up. It gets a little silly. 🙂
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I work on my silks outside and only outside because I don’t have anywhere to hang them inside, which greatly limits the time of year I can play on them. I also wasn’t prepared for how much humidity/sweat would alter what I can do on them. I get stuck in them as it is but if I’m sticky/sweaty it’s a recipe for disaster. I have a very private yard and would love to have a pole outside but can’t justify the expense…yet.
