So the other day I’m thinking, “I wonder if I’m getting enough Vitamin C in my diet?” Don’t ask me why I thought that. How should I know? I mean, okay, I barely eat any fruit at all because I’m all lo-carb and what-not, so I guess I just thought I should check or something.
And I’m looking at food labels and I see that just 3 of these baby peppers I really like have 270% of the RDA of Vitamin C. Does that make any sense at all? That’s twice the Vitamin C of an orange — with 10% of the calories and 15% of the cost.
You know what? Screw oranges. You are hereby expelled, dismissed, banished. I grow tired of you. Leave me!
Anyway, on with Cabal Fang Workout of the Week.
WOOTW #23 — Another Grappling Conditioner and the Hourglass Meditation
- Another 10-minute Grappling Conditioner. Pick out the heaviest medicine ball you have, preferably 10% bodyweight or so. Set timer for 10 minutes and complete as many sets as you can before the timer beeps of 8 Walking Lunges per leg (crushing your medicine ball with a good Cross-arm Clinch the whole time), 8 Get-ups (hugging your medicine ball throughout), 8 Medicine Ball Push-ups, and 8 Splay-n-Punch (you can put your medicine ball down for that).
- The Hourglass Meditation. This variant of the Middle Pillar Exercise is actually the second half of a longer exercise called the Caduceus Ritual (if you want the rest, pre-order the martial arts book and you’ll be one of the first people to get it). (1) Start by standing in a relaxed position with with hands out at your sides like the letter “A” and breathe deeply. Imagine that there is energy in the earth beneath your feet, powerful energy being incubated in the earth, in the form of swirling prismatic colors. Close your eyes and inhale as you imagine the warm, prismatic light entering through your feet and flowing upward through your body. (2) Slowly bring your palms together as you inhale and draw the earth energy up through your feet. Bring your hands up to prayer position at chest level. Hesitate with lungs full and airways open as you envision the light filling you up. (3) Begin to exhale. As you do, slowly part your hands and raise them up into a “Y” position. Conceive of the prismatic light exiting through your arms, head and hands like a shower of multi-colored sparks. (4) Continue to exhale as the sparks fall all around you. Slowly return your arms to “A” position. (5) Hesitate with lungs empty and airways open. Imagine the shower of sparks and energy re-entering the ground where it came from. (6) Repeat for as long as you like, but 5 or 10 minutes should be enough to leave you feeling relaxed and present.
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My daughter-in-law just got back from Japan. As you can see by the picture on the left, she brought me two gifts – tenugui (手拭い) and hashi (箸).
Robert Mitchell Jr. 