Old Man Kicking...

I am constantly looking for excuses for my achy knees - anything but getting old. If my knees ache because I'm getting old, it is an irreversible downhill battle. If the blame lies elsewhere, there is hope they can recover and be youthful and fresh again! Last night I found another non-aging excuse for achy knees.

Last night we didn't work any horse stance or low stances. We did work kicking - the entire class. I'm thinking my elderly knees are irritated at the twisting motion involved in roundhouse kicks. Man, my knees are wimpy. Perhaps it isn't age, maybe I need to find exercises to toughen my knees up.

No matter how achy my knees are, the horse stance is no problem. If I could do other exercises so that they react that way to higher stances etc that would be great.

Anyhow enough of my whining about getting old and being a wuss...

Workout

Last night's adult class went great! We worked the 'daily' aspects of training more thoroughly than usual - cleaning up our basics, working the standing pillar etc. Pat was there and help with the clean up of the basics in warmups. We went over basics we haven't done in a while, sweeps and 'aerials'.

Then we reviewed some of the stick work we had done on Monday. That went really well, time flew by.

We finished class with some leg conditioning and a ton of ab work then a bit of arm work with pushup exercises. I'm still feeling it this morning - so I know it was good heh.