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Balance Cycle, Week 6, YOGA

P90X.04 Yoga X
The original, gut busting, joint popping, tickle-me-elmo sweat drenched stretch that begat couples yoga saturdays. renewed vow that we must do this more often, but not too often. perhaps during recovery week? once a month or so, alternating between OOO Horton Yoga and Budokon in between.

frags

watch me

no you don’t have to listen. i can’t make you listen. i can’t make you do anything. but you can watch. you can watch me fall apart, you can watch me scratch at the scabs and gnaw through the callouses. you don’t have to listen, but you can watch how i disassemble, how i grieve, how i mourn, how i choose to no longer breathe. you see watch me struggle through every move, every step, the agony of getting out of bed, out the door, into the world. you can watch how i strive for oblivion, for anarchy, for entropy, for collapse.

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Balance Cycle, Week 6, LEGS

OOO.211 On One Leg – Legs
Russian Squats 16/16
½ Moon Lunges 13/13
Mason Pumps 21/21
Royal Dancer Kicks 11/11
Seat Drops 11/11
One Legged Chair 45/45 sec
Teeter Totter 11/11
Quarter Hop 26/26
Single Leg Wall Squats 10sec / 2x
Standing Split Reach 9/9
Penalty PushUps/ChinUps 10×3/3×3

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Balance Cycle, Week 6, CHEST/BACK

OOO.301 Chest & Back on Balls
Pull-up X (Wide Pull) 8
Stability Ball Plyo Push Up 13
Core Crunch (Iso) Chin Up 11
2-Ball Push-Up & Side Balance 10
Levers (Close Grip Pull) 6
4-Ball Push Ups 13
Chin-Pull (Switch on the Bar) 7
The Possible (1 Front Ball) 12
L-Pull Ups (Close Grip Chin) 2R +4
3-Ball Plyo Pushup 10
Switch Grip Pull Up (RF) 9
(Feet on) Stability Ball Push Ups 15
In & Outs (Out to In) 8
Swimmer’s Push Ups (2 Ball) 12
Flip Switch Pull Ups (LF) 9
Double Wide Push Ups 10
Double Wide Pull Ups 3
Military Push Ups Stability Ball 12
2Towel Pull Ups (Real Chin Ups) 2.75
One Ball Plyo (On/Off) Pushups 7

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Balance Cycle, Week 5, REST

Insanity Asylum.03 Relief Workout
and hopefully later a little ab work, mostly likely ISO ABS and late into the evening some Rodney Yee Yoga because shit do i/we need it. ADD ON: Did Rodney Yee’s Yoga for the Core.
he told me without reason, a statement of fact, like “there’s garbage man in front of our house” or “the sky is blue,” he said to me, so effortlessly and without question, without hesitation, it just rolled off the tongue, like a whisper, like a promise, “i hate you…”

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Balance Cycle, Week 5, SHOULDERS/ARMS

OOO.207 On One Leg Shoulders & Arms
R/L Military Press BAND 15/15
R/L Scissor Curls 25 15/15
R/L Warrior Kickbacks 25 15/15
R/L Swimmer Chair BAND 15/15
R/L 21’s 20+
R/L Bridge Extensions 20/25 15/15
R/L Spike Pike FL+ 15/15
R/L Chair Extensions 25 15/15
R/L Military Tree 25 15/15
R/L 21’s 20/22.5 15/15
R/L Warrior Kickbacks 25 15/15
No opening warm up/stretch or cool down/stretch. odd because it’s fairly fast paced. very rush job but still intense. the point here is to lower the weight, focus on form, increase rep count. still comes in at an hour, so pretty much your standard horton hellscape.

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Balance Cycle, Week 5, YOGA

Budokon – Strength & Balance
easier than the first time, some things impossible: rolling from plow into warrior 3 or half moon. there’s a point for a good five maybe ten minutes or so, where you feel it, the out of breathness, that pleasure of the edge, that, right now, this moment, you are pushing your lungs, your heart, you’re taking yourself somewhere unfamiliar, you’re finding out who you are, who you can be.

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Balance Cycle, Week 5, LEGS

OOO.211 On One Leg – Legs
Russian Squats 15/15
½ Moon Lunges 10/10
Mason Pumps 20/20
Royal Dancer Kicks 10/10
Seat Drops 10/10
One Legged Chair 45/45 sec
Teeter Totter 10/10
Quarter Hop ___
Single Leg Wall Squats HARD
Standing Split Reach 7/7
Penalty PushUps/ChinUps 20/6
MZ didnt feel like it did much for her. “Then again, I wasnt doing it right; I really dont like that balance stuff…”