It may be summer, the time of vacation and waning motivations, but that doesn't mean I'm slacking off! I'm still making it up to the gym Mondays and Fridays, for six hours a week of standing, walking, weights, and pain.
Here's my latest walking video from Friday.
We've really slowed the rhythm down, in an attempt to get me to do the bulk of the work of pulling my leg through while the other leg is in stance. As you can see below (thanks to those handy Michigan slippers that help my feet slide more easily) I'm playing at least a small role in those baby steps, be it a reflexive, involuntary movement or actually something that I'm contributing to.
Let the record show I collapsed with exhaustion after each of these videos. I'm tensing up my whole body trying to activate those pesky hip flexors, and as a result my arms, torso, even head feel like they're going to fall off.
After a few hundred feet of walking/stumbling, we moved on to something new: crawling. I've been working a lot on building my triceps up (it's beach season, after all!), and could really see the difference in how much better I could support my upper body. It used to take a person on each elbow to keep them from buckling; now I can manage them pretty well on my own with only a bit of help.
Above, we used the harness over head to help support my torso and hips. In the video below, we said, "Screw you, harness," and ditched it. It was definitely more difficult, but I was able to emerge without an epic face plant. Counting that as a win!
