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Acroyoga log
May. 1st, 2018 09:21 pmThe other day at our acroyoga session Johan and I were discussing how much better it was feeling; in 2.5 weeks there was already a very noticeable improvement in his flexibility and strength. While we are still working primarily on “basic” stuff, it is feeling much easier already. Therefore I commented that I should extract the acroyoga information from my exercise log and keep a more detailed acroyoga log, making notes as to how many hours it takes us to reach various milestones. This evening (after getting home from yet another really fun acroyoga session) I finally sat down to play with the spreadsheet.
In the 2.7 weeks since we started working together Johan and and I have done ~13.95 hours of acroyoga together, in 12 sessions.
In that time we have achieved the following milestones:
* He no longer needs to put a folded sweater under his hips to get his legs mostly straight and at 90 degrees to his body when lying on his back
Bird has become easy to get to and holdable for a while before his legs shake.
* We are managing to get from Bird to Throne most of the time, and can often make it back to Bird again from there, no matter which of us is flying
* We can easily do Candlestick with me flying, but I need to work on my arm strength, and he on his head and handstands a bit more before we can do the reverse.
*We were able to do the See Saw Counterbalances from this video on pretty much the first try, with either of us flying
* We have managed to do the box with either of us flying.
* So far we have only done the cartwheel to straddle bat on the one occasion we had Elinor to spot and help guide the flyer into place (but now that I have found this video to show him, perhaps we will manage that one without help soon).
Contrast the above numbers with the 21.75 hours of acroyoga I did before we met, in I don't know how many sessions (but rarely more than once a week, often with a month or two in between, especially when Elinor was travelling), and spread out over 2.2 years.
Given that we are practising 4 or 5 times a week I don’t think it will take long before we are much better. Though, to be fair, over the past couple of years, while I didn’t get to do acroyoga every week, in between the acroyoga sessions I did lots of strength training, and, the second year, a couple of terms of weekly gymnastics training as well, all of which really helped the acroyoga.
Note that the above totals are approximate. After each session the start and stop time went into my exercise log to calculate the total hours elapsed, and then I would tell the spreadsheet what percentage of the session was “exercise”, and what was “social” (or perhaps “useful tasks). Some days the split was 75% acroyoga, 25% social, other days the whole time was called acroyoga, no doubt that other spits have also occurred, if I cared to search the spreadsheet for the details (I don’t). It all depends on how it felt at the time I did the data entry.
In the 2.7 weeks since we started working together Johan and and I have done ~13.95 hours of acroyoga together, in 12 sessions.
In that time we have achieved the following milestones:
* He no longer needs to put a folded sweater under his hips to get his legs mostly straight and at 90 degrees to his body when lying on his back
Bird has become easy to get to and holdable for a while before his legs shake.
* We are managing to get from Bird to Throne most of the time, and can often make it back to Bird again from there, no matter which of us is flying
* We can easily do Candlestick with me flying, but I need to work on my arm strength, and he on his head and handstands a bit more before we can do the reverse.
*We were able to do the See Saw Counterbalances from this video on pretty much the first try, with either of us flying
* We have managed to do the box with either of us flying.
* So far we have only done the cartwheel to straddle bat on the one occasion we had Elinor to spot and help guide the flyer into place (but now that I have found this video to show him, perhaps we will manage that one without help soon).
Contrast the above numbers with the 21.75 hours of acroyoga I did before we met, in I don't know how many sessions (but rarely more than once a week, often with a month or two in between, especially when Elinor was travelling), and spread out over 2.2 years.
Given that we are practising 4 or 5 times a week I don’t think it will take long before we are much better. Though, to be fair, over the past couple of years, while I didn’t get to do acroyoga every week, in between the acroyoga sessions I did lots of strength training, and, the second year, a couple of terms of weekly gymnastics training as well, all of which really helped the acroyoga.
Note that the above totals are approximate. After each session the start and stop time went into my exercise log to calculate the total hours elapsed, and then I would tell the spreadsheet what percentage of the session was “exercise”, and what was “social” (or perhaps “useful tasks). Some days the split was 75% acroyoga, 25% social, other days the whole time was called acroyoga, no doubt that other spits have also occurred, if I cared to search the spreadsheet for the details (I don’t). It all depends on how it felt at the time I did the data entry.
