Move – slowly out of bed
Shake – the headache I woke up with
Drop – it like it’s hot
This morning was a tough one indeed. Don’t you just hate when you wake up with a headache? I do and I did. Luckily there were no weights involved in this morning’s workout. I actually skipped the assigned P90X for the day so I could do my new DVD. I heard about it through a 90 day splits challenge group to which I belong. It’s called Fit & Bendy and it’s by Kristina Nekyia, who is trained in all kinds of flexy stuff.
The DVD goes for approximately an hour and is broken up into 6 sections, I think. It’s been several hours ago. First there’s an all-over warmup, followed by a splits warmup, stretching for splits, shoulder/back warmup, backbend work, and a cool down. I was familiar with all of the stretches in the video, however, each of them had its own little tweak that made it new. Mostly the new stuff involved PNF.
Realistically speaking, the all-over warmup isn’t enough of a warmup for me personally. I think I need to put in a half hour of cardio or something to that effect before I really feel warm enough to get a good stretch going. I would imagine that most folks would need a little more, but on the first time out, you live and learn. I’m not going to go through every single thing in the video, but there are hamstring, quad, and groin stretches in the splits part, working for both front and center splits as well as upper and lower back stretches in the backbend section.
At the end of the video, I was tired. Granted, it was also 6:30 in the morning and I was fighting a headache, but it’s more than just stretching and less than a full-on workout. The best part of it all didn’t happen until about 2.5 hours later when my body felt GREAT! I really and truly felt as though I was taller and just had better overall movement.
Let’s take an inventory by memory of the current list of items in the stretching arsenal:
· Fit and Bendy DVD
· Cleo the Hurricane DVD (Which I don’t use because I don’t find it to be safe for my body)
· Valentino Brothers DVD (front split, side split, general stretching)
· P90X (1,2,and 3) DVD (there’s some sort of stretching in each of those)
· Foam roller
· Lacrosse ball
· Maxi-Flex stretching band (ha, go look that up)
· Daily glucosamine/chondroitin (yummy fish oil burps)
With all of these things, one might imagine that I will certainly get that MF split soon. At least I better.
Porky Pig just popped out of a cartoon window and I second what he said. That’s all folks!