Absolutely it's alright - but only if I can eat my weight in chocolate... Oh. We've still not got any gf chocolate in the house - darn me and my firm resolve when I'm shopping.
Still, I'm prepared to overlook it this once. Take the night off.
Hi Ruth, It's the lady from the Shotokan Mountain weblog.
I hear your request for permission to miss karate 4 classes in a row with much understanding.
Since I haven't had the time to read your weblog, and catch up with what has been happening, I have to ask you a couple of questions. I promise to return when I have more time and read up your archives.
Question 1: What rank level are you in karate? Are you a beginner, or an established black belt? I'm just curious. Either way, missing class will make it difficult to keep up your knowledge, and conditioning. It's like learning how to speak another language. You go to one class and you learn how to say "hello", then you miss the class where you practice saying "hello", and learning how to say goodbye. So you show up, and everyone else knows how to greet people, and are already learning how to ask directions.. but you are standing there saying "Um... I forgot how to say "hello".. is it this?"
Question 2: How long have you been training, or doing an exercise regime/ program? It takes time to develop the mind set of exercising everyday. Over 60 percent of the population do not exercise vigorously everyday, and would not understand why those "crazy" health nuts go jogging, or swimming, do karate, or kill themselves playing tennis all the time. It takes time to feel the wonderful benefits that moving your body stenuously each day will do for you. Your heart rate will lower, your sleeping, thinking, and moving will improve. No longer will you feel stiff and sore in the mornings when you wake up, but you will feel "alive". Your chances of getting heart problems, diabetes, cancer, back aches, or osteoporosis will lower immensely. However, exercising everyday is a habit. ( Like brushing your teeth.) Habits take time to develop. I applaud you for choosing karate as one of the ways that you look towards bringing exercise into your life, and I would encourage you to take every advantage you have of training your mind, and body into loving exercise.
Question 3: What is it during the day that makes you feel totally cream crackered? Is it the mental stress of what you had to go through up until that point? Exercise will help you feel better. The endorphines released as you work out will calm your body, release the stress, and you will feel brighter, relaxed, and ready to rest afterwards. Your body will be physically "tired" after a hard work out, but your mind will feel at peace.
The hardest part to any exercise program.. ( or karate training) is getting your mind to make your body travel to the dojo. Once you are there, you will find that you will enjoy yourself, learn something new, and walk away refreshed.
One of the things that would help motivate you to get to the dojo is to ask yourself what is your main reason for taking karate? Each one of us has a different reason for training. What is yours? If this reason is important to you, then by all means, do what you feel is necessary to achieve your goals.
Thanks for your comments - you are absolutely right in all you say. I'm struggling slightly to re-develop the habit of regular training following a 5 year break from karate to have children. Prior to that break I had trained for 6 years and am a shodan. You are absolutely right when you say that the hardest part is actually getting youself to the dojo. Once you're there, it's fab and I'm always so glad I made the effort. Somehow, the tiredness leaves you once you've warmed up.
You've motivated me to make a big effort to get there next Thursday. Meanwhile, I look forward to reading the next installment on your blog. I'm interested in the research you're doing, especially on women in karate.
" Prior to that break I had trained for 6 years and am a shodan."
Ah! This would make it even MORE difficult to jump back onto the training program. You know what it takes because you've been there, and done that. Now that you have children, and are a Mom you will probably have to develop a different path then when you were single, and had more free time.
I'm SO happy that my words have had a positive effect on you! Why wait a week? Why not do something today, or tomorrow? Go to the park with your kids, and while they run around, do some quiet, slow kata to remind your body of the contraction and expansion of movements, the flow of balancing, and counter-balances, and the joy of karate? I personally LOVE the cool feeling of the grass on my feet, and the warmth of the sun on my face while I do karate. Heck.. chase a football around with them.. ha ha ha.. and forget about who wins, but just laugh, and have fun! Your heart will thank you for the extra exercise, and for the enjoyment, AND you will build some wonderful memories for you, and your children.
I'm just starting my research on the history of women in martial arts.. there is so much information available out there in the internet! Many times, the women were hidden in the ranks of the soldiers by dressing as men and were only found out by accident through injury, or when they gave birth. Ever seen the Disney movie called "Mulan"? It is based on a famous Chinese poem about a woman who disguises herself, and joins in the army in her father's place. Is the poem based on truth? There is no official historical recording of her.
Married, mother of two dear children, over-sensitive, over-weight, over here, more scared than bold, irritable, fun-loving, shabbily dressed and mountain-loving.
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Have a break, have a KitKat. Or does that defeat the object...?
Absolutely it's alright - but only if I can eat my weight in chocolate... Oh. We've still not got any gf chocolate in the house - darn me and my firm resolve when I'm shopping.
Still, I'm prepared to overlook it this once. Take the night off.
Am certain it's fine - you obviously need the break :-)
Hi Ruth, It's the lady from the Shotokan Mountain weblog.
I hear your request for permission to miss karate 4 classes in a row with much understanding.
Since I haven't had the time to read your weblog, and catch up with what has been happening, I have to ask you a couple of questions. I promise to return when I have more time and read up your archives.
Question 1: What rank level are you in karate? Are you a beginner, or an established black belt? I'm just curious. Either way, missing class will make it difficult to keep up your knowledge, and conditioning. It's like learning how to speak another language. You go to one class and you learn how to say "hello", then you miss the class where you practice saying "hello", and learning how to say goodbye. So you show up, and everyone else knows how to greet people, and are already learning how to ask directions.. but you are standing there saying "Um... I forgot how to say "hello".. is it this?"
Question 2: How long have you been training, or doing an exercise regime/ program? It takes time to develop the mind set of exercising everyday. Over 60 percent of the population do not exercise vigorously everyday, and would not understand why those "crazy" health nuts go jogging, or swimming, do karate, or kill themselves playing tennis all the time. It takes time to feel the wonderful benefits that moving your body stenuously each day will do for you. Your heart rate will lower, your sleeping, thinking, and moving will improve. No longer will you feel stiff and sore in the mornings when you wake up, but you will feel "alive". Your chances of getting heart problems, diabetes, cancer, back aches, or osteoporosis will lower immensely. However, exercising everyday is a habit. ( Like brushing your teeth.) Habits take time to develop. I applaud you for choosing karate as one of the ways that you look towards bringing exercise into your life, and I would encourage you to take every advantage you have of training your mind, and body into loving exercise.
Question 3: What is it during the day that makes you feel totally cream crackered? Is it the mental stress of what you had to go through up until that point? Exercise will help you feel better. The endorphines released as you work out will calm your body, release the stress, and you will feel brighter, relaxed, and ready to rest afterwards. Your body will be physically "tired" after a hard work out, but your mind will feel at peace.
The hardest part to any exercise program.. ( or karate training) is getting your mind to make your body travel to the dojo. Once you are there, you will find that you will enjoy yourself, learn something new, and walk away refreshed.
One of the things that would help motivate you to get to the dojo is to ask yourself what is your main reason for taking karate? Each one of us has a different reason for training. What is yours? If this reason is important to you, then by all means, do what you feel is necessary to achieve your goals.
I'll be cheering for you all the way!
Your karate friend,
Mireille
Hi there Mireille
Thanks for your comments - you are absolutely right in all you say. I'm struggling slightly to re-develop the habit of regular training following a 5 year break from karate to have children. Prior to that break I had trained for 6 years and am a shodan. You are absolutely right when you say that the hardest part is actually getting youself to the dojo. Once you're there, it's fab and I'm always so glad I made the effort. Somehow, the tiredness leaves you once you've warmed up.
You've motivated me to make a big effort to get there next Thursday. Meanwhile, I look forward to reading the next installment on your blog. I'm interested in the research you're doing, especially on women in karate.
Hugs to you, Ruth!
" Prior to that break I had trained for 6 years and am a shodan."
Ah! This would make it even MORE difficult to jump back onto the training program. You know what it takes because you've been there, and done that. Now that you have children, and are a Mom you will probably have to develop a different path then when you were single, and had more free time.
I'm SO happy that my words have had a positive effect on you! Why wait a week? Why not do something today, or tomorrow? Go to the park with your kids, and while they run around, do some quiet, slow kata to remind your body of the contraction and expansion of movements, the flow of balancing, and counter-balances, and the joy of karate? I personally LOVE the cool feeling of the grass on my feet, and the warmth of the sun on my face while I do karate. Heck.. chase a football around with them.. ha ha ha.. and forget about who wins, but just laugh, and have fun! Your heart will thank you for the extra exercise, and for the enjoyment, AND you will build some wonderful memories for you, and your children.
I'm just starting my research on the history of women in martial arts.. there is so much information available out there in the internet! Many times, the women were hidden in the ranks of the soldiers by dressing as men and were only found out by accident through injury, or when they gave birth. Ever seen the Disney movie called "Mulan"? It is based on a famous Chinese poem about a woman who disguises herself, and joins in the army in her father's place. Is the poem based on truth? There is no official historical recording of her.
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