Morning Routine

[Darthwing Teorist]

Wake up, think of the dumbshits who think doing something in the morning before their bodies are physiologically revved up for the day is somehow magically better than doing it when they could devote full resources to it, smile....drift back to sleep.

Well, it is a nice way to wake up: meditation then joint rotations. Also, revising some stuff in the morning programs the body/mind to reference it later, should it be needed. That's why I do rolls and various kinetic chains with the legs, especially in winter time as well some covering-and-counter stuff.

[Michael]

What can you do? Do you know anything about design engineering or architecture?

Not in the traditional sense, but fort building with sheets and sofa cushions is a specialty. I used to work Information Technology, but don't want to do that again because of the stress and time on the computer.

To keep it on topic, when I do my routine, it's just getting up between 5:30 and 6, doing 5 minutes of simple warm-ups like arm rotations, an hour of taiji long form, an hour of non-martial qigong, and about 15 minutes of simple exercises for the upper body like pull-ups.

[Walk the Torque]

Wake up exactly 3.50am, grab bag and catch 4.10 train to work.................arrive 5.00am turn on sauna.

Morning swim/running in water/practice palm strikes in water; get out of pool 5.40am, dry off and get dressed. Stick wet towel and swim shorts in sauna to dry. Go for morning practice.

One Yang style tai ji form.
Walk circle
Bagua forms till 6.40am
Sit 10-20 mins
Shower , dress, work.
eat breakfast at desk.

[wiesiek]

4.30 -oppening of the one eye-
wow
men, is dark and cold out there and
blow jab unavalible at present ....
so
return to yoga dream practise...

...ask me in spring time then

....


seriously,-
mandatory:
-8brocades in bed
-some yoga + one leg ZZ



if wheather is ok.:
accumulating and circulating outside

biking to work
8brocades in standing + 21 breaths yang style
and
we are close to the noon!

[GrahamB]

"blow jab"? Sounds painful.... !

[mixjourneyman]

"blow jab"? Sounds painful.... !

Dats what is call when you get punch in da mouf.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

i think a blow jab is what happens when you punch a hillbilly's sister in the jaw.

[wiesiek]

[wiesiek]

not
as bad
as it sounds
if
biting is done carefully

[mrtoes]

Wake up exactly 3.50am, grab bag and catch 4.10 train to work.................arrive 5.00am turn on sauna.

Morning swim/running in water/practice palm strikes in water; get out of pool 5.40am, dry off and get dressed. Stick wet towel and swim shorts in sauna to dry. Go for morning practice.

One Yang style tai ji form.
Walk circle
Bagua forms till 6.40am
Sit 10-20 mins
Shower , dress, work.
eat breakfast at desk.

Sounds sweet! Are you working at a hotel now? I have a mental image of you doing zhang zhuang on the train to work...

I started practising in the mornings a few weeks ago as I found I wasn't getting the time/too easy to make excuses in the evenings. I thought I would be waking up and doing endless lines of fire to wake up, but actually turned out to be much slower, standing, chi gung, santi and circle walking with a bit of forms at the end. It's a nice time to practise.

[Daniel]

Am currently in a cycle of healing my system. Did too much Xingyi-related things lately, and now start the mornings with doing a very yin qigong slowly allowing that to balance too much yang and high stress.

I practice a lot more during the rest of the day, but mornings are currently reprogramming for yin and healing. Very nice.



D.

Sarcasm. Oh yeah, like that´ll work.

[Walk the Torque]

Wake up exactly 3.50am, grab bag and catch 4.10 train to work.................arrive 5.00am turn on sauna.

Morning swim/running in water/practice palm strikes in water; get out of pool 5.40am, dry off and get dressed. Stick wet towel and swim shorts in sauna to dry. Go for morning practice.

One Yang style tai ji form.
Walk circle
Bagua forms till 6.40am
Sit 10-20 mins
Shower , dress, work.
eat breakfast at desk.

Sounds sweet! Are you working at a hotel now? I have a mental image of you doing zhang zhuang on the train to work...

No; building manager of forty story residential block. Very sweet gig The facilities at that time in the morning is like having my own training camp.