Took my stick and practice pad, but wisely enough, I didn't use them. My wrists and fingers had begun to hurt from too much too soon. And especially, I think, from playing through pain instead of stopping completely. So, I'm changing my directive to Painless Practice!!! I've always wondered if it's really true what a lot of people say about gaining speed without "working out". Just by getting more coordinated and your muscles changing over a long period to be fast. This will be interesting. In Cancun I did, however, workout. Yay!
Daily crunches on inflated exercise capsules, and leg extensions.
Monday: Heavy lifting upper body work.
Tuesday: Fire hidrants etc for hips and upper legs.
Weds: 5lbs dumbells doing drummer like movements (Tom House concepts)
Thurs: Squats with capsules on wall, 5lb run through of all the different upper body lifts Monday, and Body Surfing.
Friday: Body surfing and ocean snorkely type swimming. Got SOOOooo dizzy.
Saturday: Taught 13 drum lessons from 8 to 3. Introduced students to the Drum-o-meter. They seemed very excited about it. Recorded their scores.
Sunday: Calf work:
Eyes closed, both feet on wobble board 40 ankle range of motion rotations per side.
Eyes open:
Single foot ankle rotations 40 per side
Single wobble board calf raisers 30 per side (between all that double bass drumming the previous week, and not doing ankle/calf/foot work daily my ankles were really out of it this this morning).
Single wobble pad calf raisers 30 or 40 per side, can't remember!
Lot's of stretching today, too.
Plan to do my one hour of one hand and dbl bass later today. Right now calves are pretty tense. Will probably save myself a lot of pain by just walking around the block first.
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