Really!

you gotta luv this...

Sweat alittle

Our health is fundamental to everything we do. That is something we are reminded of when we get sick, really sick, and the basics become a challenge.

Same concept could be applied to our kung fu.

Staying fit, in shape, is fundamental to our marital arts. Bruce Lee was a very outspoken advocate of exercise to enhance his martial arts.
Exercise to increase muscle strength, increase cardio vascular ability and maintaining flexibility. This is the building blocks or the foundation to a skilled martial artist.
Bruce Lee preached it and lived it.

I agree, and we sometimes ignore that aspect. Actually, I don't think we mean to ignore "staying in shape" but the challenge becomes making the time. We are busy learning skills and practicing them but forget to pay attention to the foundation that makes us better at it.

I have  reminded myself that I need to make the time. I would like to be in as good of shape as I was in my twenties. And why not? its not impossible it just means I have to work harder and smarter at it in my older years.

San shou and Martial arts fitness class are two classes that offer just what I need. A little creativity with my forms and applications can muster up a sweat as well. Not to mention, just get out, and run.
It doesn't take an expensive gym membership, it just means, look for opportunities to sweat!

Travel and a Heating Pad

Stiff and sore , unable to move quickly.. I have been like this for about a month and I am getting tired of it.
You would think this is due to some injury but it is not.
I have been bogged down at work with managing a large workload and a team of people. Between the lack of training and the accumulation of stress it feels like my body has aged 25 years in one month.

My sister is a Massage therapist and a Yoga guru. She has told me numerous times that people store stress in their body and it transmits into physical pain, typically in muscles and joints. I usually tell her that 's a bunch of smoke and mirrors but maybe she's right and there is something to that.

Anyways,  I'm back from being on the road for a while and very glad to have left Yellowknife.
Yellowknife is one of those locations that seem to exhaust me for some reason.

It starts off feeling like this ....

                                              (tourist picture)

but , by the time I leave , it feels more like this....

                                          (not tourist picture)
                                       
Anyways...time to stop blaming Yellowknife for my Woes:). Time to get back to training, getting my mobility back and looking forward to helping out with the Dragon Dance if the I Ho Chuan can use me!:).