Well, by
golly, haven’t I been AWOL!
It’s been
almost one month since Pierini Fitness has had new content. What’s up?
Well, I’ve
been on vacation most of the month.
While not far away from my locale or a computer, this vacation mindset
spilled over to adding new Pierini Fitness content.
I just didn’t have it in me to step up to the plate and deliver new
middle-aged man reflections about living and dying, gracefully-aging and trying
to live a good and honest life.
Despite
being on vacation, my fitness training continued full steam, maybe even a
little more as I chase my Fall 2019 fitness goals, goals that I shared in my
last update. I’ve achieved two goals
thus far that I share below:
Complete
a single set of 25 bar dips
I accomplished
this goal on October 11th by performing a single set of 25
reps. Not that long later, I performed a
single set of 26 reps on October 25th. Here’s a video of the 26-rep effort:
Pull-up
hang hold of 1:50
In a
total surprise, I did a 2:02 pull-up hang hold on October 19th. I don’t have a video of my effort. I’ll keep hanging periodically and maybe one
of these days I’ll capture a video of me hanging for a respectable time.
Meanwhile,
training to achieve the other goals remains a work in process. And, I also do some other stuff to keep my
training interesting. Recently, I
decided to test myself and see how many pushups I could perform in a single
set. I don’t regularly do pushups. The last time I tested, a couple months ago,
I did 35 pushups. On October 20th,
I was able to complete 50 pushups.
Just
about all my training this year is done at one of several parks I visit, since
I no longer have a gym membership. I’m
enjoying my park training and have met several people while there, men and
women training just like me. I even
bumped into a person I used to train with in the Olympic lifts about ten years
ago. He no longer trains in the Olympic lifts, like
me, and, like me, his training nowadays includes both pull-ups and
running. He’s young enough to be my son.
Last week
while carrying my kettlebells to the pull-up bar station, noticing how heavy
they felt and wondering how I was going to perform the planned workout, I saw
this elderly woman who was walking at a reasonably brisk pace next to me. “Good morning” I greeted, “Are you going or
coming?” She replied that she was going
as in going home. A short pause later, she
added that, however, she was also coming, coming from the place where she had
walked to have breakfast, something she does a couple days a week. So, she clarified, she was both going and
coming.
Her
updated answer was a Eureka moment for me.
It made me realize that all I do in my life, like her, involves both
going and coming. I never had thought of
it this way. Seems like I always fancy
myself as going or coming, one or the other, but not both.
She made
me realize, that I’m always doing both.
So, in my
gracefully aging journey, I’m going towards the end of my life but coming from
the youthful life I’ve previously lived.
And, in
my current journey of chasing good fitness, health and wellness, I’m going
towards a heightened level of physical fitness and coming from a lesser level
from allowing myself to get out of peak conditioning.
I could
go on and on and so can you, we’re doing not one or the other, but both, going and
coming.
Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum
1 comment:
Not going to lie; the coming and going thing made me remember that recreational cannabis use is now legal in California.
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