Stretching

Ever since I've started doing Kung Fu again, I've been adding some basic stretches to my work out routine and I've been noticing a lot of difference. I've never been someone who can touch my toes without bending my legs and though I still can't do it, I am getting closer and I'm able to kick higher too.

I started doing a bit of hunting around on the splits because I know this will be useful in Kung Fu and general flexibility and I found plenty of websites saying you can learn the splits in a week, which I think is a load of rubbish. That's probably possible if you're a dance or gymnast, not if you're an everyday, tightly wound, limited flexibility person like myself.

Anyway, I found this site http://www.wikihow.com/Stretch-for-the-Splits which looks pretty useful. I think I'll try to add these stretches to my routine in the morning and possibly before I go to bed at night. In fact, we'll add the splits to the challenges on the Twelve Month Mission.

On that note, here's how things are looking so far:

Football Tournament - Completed
5km Race every month for a year - In progress
Splits - In progress
Six pack challenge - In progress
Hundred press up challenge - In progress
Kung Fu - In progress
Three Peaks Challenge - June 2012

There's still plenty of work to do. Woah.