Awareness via Sciatic

I'ts always a tough balance sometimes to work and train hard and take the time to maintain, such as a proper warm up and stretching. Proper warm up and stretching should be approached and practiced with discipline and a common component to well rounded martial arts training. I struggle with this discipline and I know better and a couple weeks ago I learnt this the hard way. I developed pain in my sciatic nerve that amplified to intense and the inability to walk. Not really a good thing as it basically demobilized me and cost me training time and a couple days of work.  After a visit to the chiropractor and a reflexologist, along with some intense rolling, stretching, and some hot tub time, I could finally walk. My alignment was completely out of whack. My right leg was a few inches shorter due to hip and pelvis misalignment and when I laid down on the bed, my right foot was straight up and my left was pointing down at a 45 degree angle. One shoulder was much lower than the other and my wrist was all out of alignment. Talk about a bent frame.

So I thought back to some of the things I was doing that may have contributed to this and what I need to do to avoid it. I did a lot of sporadic intense training with not really warming up properly or proper stretching after words. Qi Gong was hit and miss as well. I did some different types of kick work with ankle weights and some weight training with heavier weights. Basically I drove it, like I stole it. I always make the mistake of pushing through injuries....take the pain, the show must go on and you need to work....until you can't walk and then it's like, "man your stupid!!" Things must change if I want to train until I can't.

So obviously a plan must be drawn out and followed. First off hydration and the proper food my body needs to run and operate smoothly. It sucks our food is so messed with and lacks a high concentration of the nutrients it is supposed to obtain and loaded with crap we don't need and causes health issues and inflammation. So in order to facilitate my needs I am taking different vitamins and supplements. Fuel, covered. Qi Gong, Tai Chi, stretching, and my new friend, the roller must become routine. For the next little while I am going to focus more on this and some form work. I am going to remove some of the higher impact training for now aside from some high rep and light weight work. Definitely going to need some cardio to get that blood flowing properly and improve my circulation in order for all of those intricate parts to get what they need to run and operate correctly. My goal is to reach a balanced structure and rebuild my base muscles. In other words all of the smaller ones around joints and supporting muscles. We'll see how it all goes after a few weeks. See you at the Kwoon.