Many beginners warm up to get tired. That habit quietly undermines learning. This essay explains how to structure a martial arts warm-up that prepares the body and attention for skill training, while assigning conditioning as homework instead of class time.
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Recovery Has a Tempo
This essay reflects on a quiet training moment—stiffness while putting on socks and reduced range during warm-up kicks—to reveal a deeper discipline: recovery has its own tempo. Rather than signaling decline, temporary limits often mark adaptation still underway. Through training literacy—reading signals without dramatizing them—the practitioner adjusts with intelligence, preserves standards, and allows the body to reorganize. Patience doesn’t lower expectations; it refines them.
Where Joy Goes When We Share It
A simple morning walk with my dogs,Caesar and Anubis, revealed what joy remembers even when we forget: it grows best when it widens beyond us.
Musings on Martial Arts, Taoist Philosophy & All Things Wellness Related. 