Food mysteries, handstands

[flexagon]

Eating out (and at work) as much as I do is disorienting. What do I even eat, once breakfast is over? I know what to keep stocked for breakfast, coffee and late-night snacks, but I'd be lost for a while if I had to start buying groceries for all my meals again. I think of my dad and his wife buying food for an entire Alaskan winter, and I'm pretty impressed.

Also, here's me practicing a cartwheel handstand press off a plyo box, if anyone is interested. That was a few days ago; I got it off a lower box today.

Comments

[triesticity.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have thought of "disorienting" as a word for how it feels to eat out a lot, but yep, that is a really good way to put it. B and I eat breakfast at home most days, but we eat out a lot. Mostly I'm fine with it/it's a trade-off for having time to run 3x/week and climb 3x/week and also read and sleep and relax as much as I want to, but sometimes it makes me grumpy. (Though I will be back to cooking more next month, once CSA season starts and once I'm no longer running 3x/week!)

[flexagon]

Nice! Yeah, I don't find cooking to be worth it most of the time, which is why I don't do it. It can be settling and grounding though.

Why's the running going to stop? Is it because your class / running group is going to stop meeting?

[triesticity.livejournal.com]

Yep, running class ends June 13th or thereabouts. I do want to keep running but maybe once or twice a week rather than three times - I'll have to experiment a bit to find what frequency/distance feels right. (It also depends, I guess, on how I feel running in summer heat/humidity, oof!)

[nevers.livejournal.com]

yay side press! it looks like you could reach out even more with the right/leading leg, and you will definitely want to lean your shoulders away from the left/bottom leg especially as you start with that foot lower and lower. you want to shift as much weight as possible away from the bottom foot.

[flexagon]

You're so right about the leg. I keep reaching UP with that leading leg, instead of straddle piking it and trying to reach it more sideways.

Nobody's ever told me to lean my shoulders sideways before. Fascinating, thank you! I'll definitely try both these things next time.