Experiences March 30, 2008

Sunday morning.
Jogged 20 minutes. Left lower back has tight pain as if blood refuse to flow there.
Wife suggested to see Chinese Chiropractor at 53rd Street and 8 Ave.
Wife recovered from back pain, as she went for the last treatment
after going to cemetary to see her father's grave.


Back to the morning situation.
Met Mr. Lee yesterday, and saw him leading a small group to Tai Chi.
Mr. Lee also does Tai Chi Sword. He said the couple doing push hands are
husband and wife (Dr Leung and wife acutpuncturist)

After doing 3 star block with William Ng, he admits my forearms did get stronger.
This is a result of doing the cloud hands and the first movement of Tai Chi at least
160 repetitions.
Taught and forced William to complete 120 reps on the first move of Tai Chi, hands raised above head. And did maybe only 10 reps (It was 9 am, and I had to leave) on the left hand of
cloud hand.

My left and right arms were in pain as I did the slow motion punching (about 120x) as I drove
to Washington Memorial Park.


Lastly, yesterday, after having 4 chicken feet (boiled for 20 minutes), felt electricity shooting down my left leg to heal the left foot. Left foot felt pain and swelling from Friday nigh,t 20 minutes jogging.

During and 5 minutes after doing 40x reps on outside crescent kick (stand like a cross with arms up at the side, kick to the hand extended) My breathing was difficult from being out of shape, but felt "Chi" being pushed down to both arms and hands, and down to Tan Tien. Did not feel it go further down to legs.

My exercise experiences March 18, 2008

It was either March 13, or March 14, 2008.
I was repeating the first 3 movements of tai chi separately about 160 times each. And cloud hands separately about 160 times. (suppose to be 100's. Like 100, 200. and then 3 sets.)
Shoulders area, tendon sore. Not the shoulder.
Arms were slightly shaking from tireness.

My knees were in pain before I finished. The pain lasted 24 hours - it only returned when I bend my knees..
I didn't practice the knee bending action the following session, to avoid the pain.

Had Leaked on Saturday Morning March 15, 2008.
Didn't perform running/jogging until Sunday. The rule, which I broke, is not to exercise for
60 hours or 2 nights. If leaked on Monday morning, then cannot exercise until Wednesday night.

March 17, 2008 Monday (Bear Stearns bought by JPM Chase Bank at $2 a share)
As I practiced the same movements above, the pain was not there.

March 18, 2008 Tuesday
As I practiced the 1st movement, felt, but didn't see sweat move down my arms.
Strange tingling. In the left arm, the feeling stopped at the elbow, the right arm felt at the elbow, plus wrist area. But only 1 point on the wrist, not the entire wrist, and the forearm didn't have the feeling.

Headache returned in the afternoon, possibly from leaking on Saturday morning, and exercising before Monday night. Took pain medicine, after 2 hours still in pain.

10:30pm March 18, 2008
Headache gone after
1. Orange - one cold orange
2. Cooked spinage (baby spinage from Trader Joes)
3. massage from wife, with medicated oil from Singapore.