Knee Strength 11: More Knee Exercises
New video that produced big results. Thinking about signing up for his course.
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Jiujitsu Challenge? Knee Challenge
Byjack
Ok, so I no longer have an ongoing jiujitsu challenge, and I don’t really know if I have a knee challenge or not.
However, I really want to start that now. I feel really good about my progression.
It all started with 10 round Tuesday.
I went 3 rounds (2 days ago on the 21st). I absolutely died. I didn’t recover from feeling dizzy and like I was going to throw up for an hour after that.
I ate food when I got home, and slept like a baby after.
Ever since, I went to jiujitsu everyday.
On wednesday I was feeling super undermotivated, but I found an old training buddy and it was actually a good time.
Today I had even more fun.
My stamina seems to be increasing fast. I’m sore everyday and I still feel fine.
My knee feels good. It doesn’t hurt every day.
It feels strong. I feel like I can push myself more now.
My knee therapy and techniques around walking backwards, shifting my knee to be more balanced, stretching the hips and pointing the knee in the direction of the knee. AND IT’S BEEN WORKING.
I learned a lot from live rolls:
- Don’t let someone get a completely dominant position, interrupt their attacks, move to the side
- Don’t let your arms separate too much, too easy to armbar
- Don’t let both arms get trapped above your head, too easy to armbar
I’m learning some basic attacks, armbars, leg locks, chokes.
Very cool stuff.
Profit in Peace 12: Peace Disrupted
Byjack
My peace today was disrupted by work early. It is nice to have time to talk about strategic leadership things. I usually don’t have that much time during the week.
However, it’s not the type of morning that I aim to repeat.
I intend on reclaiming as much peace as I can in this 20 minute span.
I feel that respect is a really important need for me in work, and I feel that this need was not met at my previous job, it remains to be seen whether or not it is met enough in this job. I have my doubts to be sure.
Today, I woke up feeling much better, even though I went to bed a bit late. It’s because, on top of journaling, I also did cupping on my body to unblock anything that was blocked. Turned red on my chest, I guess a lot of blockages there specifically.
I feel with the level of stress this morning with no peace and no running I’m feeling surprisingly good.
I wonder how to push back on blatant hostility and disrespect in a way that I want to. I suppose some rage journaling should help and maybe my coaching mindset.
Today I want to focus on making a video on how to handle lack of respect in the workplace.
I don’t know how that is going to go but that’s what I want to do.
Perhaps I need to meditate on it some more.
Maybe finally watching another 20 minutes of the coaching call will be nice as well.
Core Wounds 9
Byjack
I kind of dropped the ball on these because I don’t know if I feel like challenging my core wounds, but I think I need to keep going for the 21 days at least. It is interesting because you are supposed to focus on one core wound. I don’t know which one I would focus on, but maybe if I just keep going there is one that I will want to focus on.
I was talking to a friend about how it is hard to work on yourself sometimes. What I told her is that it is sometimes scary to think about who you might change into, but I think there is another reason. Sometimes it is hard to work on yourself because in order to work on yourself you first need to look at yourself in the mirror and face who you are, and that isn’t easy to do.
I think a big core wound or belief is that there is something wrong with me, that no one will actually like me if they know who I really am, that I’m weak and creepy and unattractive.
She Said I Made Her Day
Walking up to her out of the blue
On the streets of new york city
On the college campus
They both told me
I made their day
The next girl
Will think you are the one
She told me
And when I asked the girl
Lost in her own world
In a song she just found
Whether or not she thought I was attractive
She said yes
I felt she wanted to say more
But was too shy
Mewing and Tongue Position
Byjack
I’ve always had trouble finding a relaxed position for my tongue at the roof of the mouth. I always felt that I was forcing it and in the past when I tried to “mew” I got terrible headaches.
However, I noticed I spend a lot of time breathing from my mouth and I wanted to fix things so I used a bit of connection theory to come up with an idea on how to hold my tongue and I came up with this simple technique:
- Imagine your spine ending at your tailbone and reaching up all the way and ending at your tongue
- Imagine keeping your spine open at extended
This imagery has a couple of benefits:
- Most importantly for me, this allows me to move my body and my tongue without feeling like I cannot maintain tongue posture (mewing always felt static and forced to me)
- Simple and seems quite relaxing to me
Valorant 30: Resetting
Byjack
Rank got reset yesterday. I am sliding back into gold 1.
I thought about a few things today:
- Creating a Valorant learning course syllabus
- Focusing on playing the perfect game
- Focusing on effort and energy
- Focusing on the personal journey I am going on and the lessons I learn about myself
- Alex Hormzi approach of making it impossible for you to fail
Lessons I’ve learned about myself so far:
- Success means love to me
- Anger and rage covers hopelessness and out of control feeling of something that is uncontrollable or difficult
- I yell at myself because I’m afraid of failing
UNIT 1: VOD Review
- Day 1 – TenZ – 3/9/23
- Day 2 – CNED – 3/10/23
- Day 3 – Yay – 3/11/23
UNIT 2: Map Understanding
- Day 1 – Icebox – 3/12/23
- Day 2 – Split – 3/13/23
- Day 3 – Ascent – 3/14/23
UNIT 3: Mechanical Breakdown
- Day 1 – Crosshair Placement – 3/15/23
- Day 2 – Flicking – 3/16/23
- Day 3 – Spray Control – 3/17/23
The Knee Strength Challenge
Byjack
I’ve had knee problems for my half of my life. I wanted to get the motivation to heal the knee. It started with the Knee Mobility Challenge, which by the way wasn’t even my first knee challenge. Then I started to work on my overall fitness and knee motivation with the JiuJitsu challenge.
This is sort of a continuation of that.
My current goals:
- Lift up my knee and bend it feeling stable, comfortable and strong
- Stand for 5 minutes while feeling comfortable
- Lay on either side feeling comfortable and relaxed
- Sit on my heels while feeling comfortable and relaxed
- Be able to jump feeling stable, comfortable, and strong
- Able to kick a roundhouse while feel stable, comfortable and strong