No, I haven't forgotten to post my workout results.

To anyone who's wondering if I'm being lazy and not updating the blog, it's worse than that, I'm being lazy and not training at all.


I'm afraid my achilles tendon injury is still a problem, although slowly getting better, so running and jumping is out. Since Cindy my right arm has only been usable for light work and now my right shoulder is kind of stuck with cramping traps.

The big reason for most of this is increased workload for a major project with a tight deadline that's seeing me chained to my keyboard and getting way to tense. I've been missing my anti-RSI breaks and paying the price. The problem with my arm is a flare-up of the RSI problems I've had for the last few years, so I'm back to doing what I always do to fix it (and what I should have been doing all along, sigh):

• Tai Chi and Qigong in the my 10 minute anti-rsi breaks at work.
• Not ignoring my reminders to take 5 minute micro-breaks.
  
• Staff twirling practise in the evenings to stretch and strengthen my shoulders and wrists.
  "Staff twirling" rather than staff kata because although the little routine is based on real strikes, guards and parries, it's more like baton twirling really. Just a fun little routine I made up to have a more interesting way of stretching and moving.
  I'll video it one day and post it up here, so all the real martial artists can laugh at me.
  

While I'm on an extended break I'm working on my air squat form and as a result of that and the rest, my knees are not aching as much any more. Now that that's happening I remember that practising air squats was one of the things I did to get my knees back in shape the last time I messed up my achilles tendon too. My air-squats are getting reasonably good. I'll have to see if that holds up when I go for speed. I'm still not going to keep up with the minute speedsters like Annie, Nicole and LauraR, but I've got to get faster than I am.

Mostly I've got to put more effort into preventative maintenance!