2M2M — Day 56: Getting close to the finish
This is a post in a series concerning a challenge called 2 Months 2 Master: learn a difficult skill between 1 March — 30 April 2018, spending a maximum of 15 minutes a day on practice. Report every day on your learning process. We were inspired by Max Deutsch and his M2M. I teach first year students at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium. All students have their own challenge. Mine is: do a one arm pull-up.
“Het paard ruikt stal” we say in Dutch, meaning: “The horse smells the stables.” That means the horse will increase its speed, tired or not, it knows it is all over soon. That is the feeling that I’m getting now: it will be all over soon. And the thought: have I done enough? Is this what’s in me? Really?
“Water under the bridge” of course. We had a good run, still not clear where it is going to finish. I have found that the focus on one thing, only this challenge, for 2 months, is not for me. I want to taste all of life, because I am all of life, and narrowing things down to this one challenge, bores me. And I do not want to be bored.
So here we are. I am tired. I did not work very hard today, but as I said yesterday: every day is different. I had classes today: new groups. It was really nice. I have learned to enjoy meeting new groups during the years that I have been teaching. First it was all stress: “Are they going to like me?” Now it is more of a last minute thing: “O my God, I hope we’ll connect, or it will be a long 60 minutes for everyone.” The moment they enter, that is over. The joy of sharing knowledge and practicing together outnumbers everything.
I am a bit confused at how slowly I lose weight, and sometimes gain it again in one day. I have had other experiences in the past. Maybe that was because I did a lot more running back then? Sometimes I would go for three 8–12 km runs in a week. That is a good way to burn calories, I guess. I want to make that happen purely with bodyweight exercises now, and that has a very different curve. It feels a bit healthier though. Things never go really fast in growing processes do they?
All the rest is love and peace. I wish you goodnight.
- 1'40" Hanging neutral grip — difficulty ***
- 1'40" Handstand facing wall — difficulty ****
- 1'20" Hanging overhand grip + 1 pull-up — dif ****
- 1' Hanging underhand grip + 4 chin-ups — dif *****
- 10 dips
- 1'30" Hanging overhand grip + 1 pull-up — dif ****
- 1'30" Hanging overhand grip — dif *****
- 1'40" Handstand facing wall (15" right hand, 15" left hand) — dif *****
Weight: 76.7 kg
