I have a 3 Floyds Zombie Dust, while @jackieLbrewer is drinking a margarita. @biggrovetavern.
Category: Photography
2022-04-20 12:10
We’ve gotten Indian food a couple of times during the pandemic, but this is our first sit-down meal at one in two years, and we’re celebrating with Kingfishers. @jackieLbrewer
2022-04-12 17:59
Estas preskaŭ sufiĉe varma por atendi la aliajn esperantistojn. Preskaŭ.
2022-04-10 12:50
Cherry blossoms are pretty close in the arboretum. (Viewed with @jackieLbrewer)
2022-04-09 16:55
Jackie bought a dress from Wool&. They claim their dress is so versatile, durable, and easy to care for that you can wear it every day for 100 days. If you do, and provide photographic evidence, they’ll give you a $100 gift certificate. Here’s a picture of @jackieLbrewer on day 25.
2022-04-04 12:43
Our first lunch at @sevensaints since before Omicron. I’m drinking Triptych Brewing’s Fly You Fools, and after tasting it, @jackieLbrewer decided to have one as well.
2022-04-03 17:10
I have new shoes. They are very orange! (Vivobarefoot trail running shoes in Molten Lava.)
2022-03-16 14:19
Sockeye salmon with the Great Salmon Rub from @Grovestone. Red onion and poblano pepper sauteed in olive oil. Extended Jam by @DESTIHLbrewery. Lovely wife @jackieLbrewer.
3022-03-11 15:02
For our main meal of the day, I cooked Kerala Roadside Chicken with shallots and red chilies. And red cabbage (cooked by @jackieLbrewer and not a traditional Kerala dish, she admits).
Figuring out plyo-lunges
When I first attempted plyo-lunges two or three years ago, I gave up after a single attempt. It was clear that I was endangering my ankles, knees and hips, because I had no control whatsoever over that move. Over the next couple of years, as I worked on the basic lunge and then the walking lunge, I tried a plyo-lunge a couple more times, without feeling like I had good control—until a few days ago when I figured out what I was doing wrong.
If you’re not familiar with the move, in a plyo-lunge you lower yourself into a lunge, and then from the bottom jump, switching feet in the air so that you land with the opposite feet forward and back, and lower yourself into a lunge position on that side. They’re also called jumping lunges or scissor lunges.
The error I was making—which seems kind of obvious, now that I’ve figure it out—is that I was somehow imagining that I should jump from the bottom of a lunge on one side to the bottom of a lunge on the other side. Of course, that’s crazy. What I need to do is jump from the bottom of the lunge on one side to the top of a lunge on the other side, and then sink to the bottom of the lunge on that side, before repeating.
Once I made that my intention, all of a sudden I felt like I was moving with adequate control. I still need some practice to do the move smoothly, and some increased explosiveness to do it well, but it no longer feels like I’m endangering all the joints of my lower body (and possibly my life) on each attempt.
(I’m making the effort because plyo-lunges seem worthwhile for working on adding some sorely needed explosiveness to my lower body, but also because they’re a component of the Superhero Bodyweight Workout that I’m hoping to do this year, after last year ended up being a bust.)