Daily workout routines.
"Don't compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday."
- Manuel Scherzer
In 2022 I started practising Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Ruo Quan and Kung Fu twice a week, for two to three hours each at the Garuda Warrior Academy in Vienna.
During that time, I reduced my daily exercise routine to a minimum: three sun salutations before meditation.
Since the beginning of 2023 I changed my routine: I focused on practicing Kung Fu and Qi Gong and visit the dojo only once or twice a month. I practice in private almost every day, switching between the two. Albeit the regular practice, I still consider myself a beginner. My goal isn't mastery, but maintaining physical and mental well-being.
Towards the end of the year, I stopped training Kung Fu altogether in favor of Qi Gong.
During 2021 I practiced the routine below for almost every day - it slowed down a perceived bodily deterioration and considerably improved my constitution. I keep the list for documentation purposes.
Exercise Routine 2021
My daily routine includes a set of morning exercises. I've picked them up from various places, but they were geared towards my needs at physical therapy.
I currently have three sets that I cycle through. Each day I repeat one set two times. When time and energy allows I repeat it three times.
Back
- 3 Sun Salutations
- 20 Back Lifts
- 20 Cross Back Lifts
- 20 Side Back Lifts
- 30 Seconds Back Stretch
- 10 Push Ups
- 30 Seconds Femoral Stretch
- 30 Seconds Femoral Back Stretch
Legs
- 3 Sun Salutations
- 20 Leg Side Lifts Left
- 20 Leg Side Lifts Right
- 20 Leg Side Kicks Left
- 20 Leg Side Kicks Right
- 20 Seconds Hip Stretch Left
- 20 Seconds Hip Stretch Right
- 20 Hip Lifts Left
- 20 Hip Lifts Right
- 10 Push Ups
Belly
- 3 Sun Salutations
- 20 Crunches
- 10 Cross Crunches Left
- 10 Cross Crunches Right
- 20 Side Crunches
- 10 Row Boats
- 10 Push Ups
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