It’s Friday campers and we are bringing you a workout to try at home. We hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend! Thanks once again Courtney and Steve!
Friday Home Workout
Thursday Home Workout
Thursday’s workout is brought to you by Steve and Courtney. I love the simplicity of this workout. Simple workouts always surprise me with how challenging they can be. Let us know how it goes! ??
Wednesday Home Workout
Courtney is back with a workout you can try at home. Set your timer for 24 minutes and let us know how it goes! Thanks again for all your support strength tribe. We are currently in the process of bashing out our reopening plan and can’t wait to see your faces! ???
Tuesday Home Workout
-10 Air Squats
-10 Lunges
-10 Jumping Lunges
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Blog 18 Finding the Time to Meditate
Blog 18 – Finding the Time to Meditate
So you may have noticed that we added three more points to the weekly challenge.
- Drink water. (Fun facts – Every time I hear the word “water” I hear Neil Young shouting the word, like Morgan Freeman saying “penguin.”)
- Read. (I recently purchased 2 books – Strength Training Anatomy and Going Right.)
- Meditate. (The reason we’ve all gathered here today. Now generally speaking, people fall in to one of two categories when it comes to meditation. The I-could-do-this-shit-all-day camp or the I-DON’T-HAVE-TIME-FOR-THAT-SHIT CAMP. – Yes, the ALL CAPS vs. no caps is intentional. Get it? Because the meditators are already meditating, so they are calm, and non-meditators ARE YELLING… AAARRGGGHHH!!! – The funny thing here, though? Everyone starts in the latter. Even yours truly. That switch came about 3-4 years ago, and really it wasn’t a decision to meditate or not. It’s just kind of been a progressive understanding about meditating; starting with a conversation with friends; then to a few YouTube videos to other online resources; then through a Palouse Mindfulness course – free online for those interested – and finally on to a better understanding of what meditation is and is not. Really what I learned is that I’ve meditated all of my life in some form or another. I just never thought about it as meditating. Add to that my new found understanding and I-could-do-this-shit-all-day.
My favorite daily meditation routine is almost first thing in the morning – Fritz has a little bladder – and as I go to bed. My morning meditation is something I’ve actually done my entire life. I wake up … and do nothing. That’s right, literally nothing. It used to frustrate my parents like you wouldn’t believe. I’d wake up and just sit in my bed cross-legged until the last possible second to get out the door to school. My family still gives me a hard time about it. Now, it looks like sitting on my patio and watching the birds and squirrels come up for breakfast – for the record, I am also a huge fan of journaling first thing in the morning. At night, it’s a general rotation of a few varying types – counted breath, landscaping/imagery, or body scans are usually the go to. I’m not so great at the middle of the day stuff, but sometimes do a meditation as pain management for my arthritis and I do really enjoy a good guided meditation with headphones in. None of this is everyday, but it’s most and I can there’s a huge difference in the flow of my day and my ability to fall asleep if my day starts with less intention than I need.
In reality, the list of types of meditations is relatively short – google “headspace types of meditation” – but the ways to accomplish them are many and they all accomplish, or are intended to accomplish, a greater connection to self by setting a little time out of your day for Number 1. )
Any questions about the new challenges?
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