welcome back /dn, hope you are better and the work is mellowing a bit for you
An interesting thing about mardi gras/fasnacht/carneval:
Basel is the last city in europe to party in the calendar year. Our carneval actually starts the Monday after the week of Fat Tuesday+Ash Wednesday. It lasts exactly 3 days and starts on Monday morning at 4am! All the lights goes out in the oldest part of town and thousands of people who are in cliques (the groups that actively participate) are all dressed up with masks and costumes and they play the piccolo (a type of flute with an annoyingly high pitched tone) and the drums (very impressive). The cliques are the remanants of an old system that existed in Basel when every male citizen of Basel had to belong to a guild such as the tailors, printer, silversmiths, etc.
Another interesting thing, more related to our blog. On Monday night I went for my 85 minutes of being stretched like a rubber band by Fritz, the guy to whom I go for Thai massage. So Fritz said that he can tell that my muscles are toning and firming up and that my body feels more assertive but he said that when you haven't been doing so much exercise and then start, your muscles tend to firm up but contract. He showed me a couple of very simple exercises, especially for the back muscles, in order to keep the muscles supple whilst toning them with cardio and workouts. He should know, the guy used to be a professional Kickboxer in Europe.
yesterday:
1 minibagel, 1 latte, 1 cup of orange juice
10 mejdool dates (I am an addict, not good if you want to stay away from starchy carbs)
a heap of stemed veggies with some herbs
a smorgasboard of 1 spoon chickpeas, 1sp mushrooms, 1sp daal, 2 pepper poppers, 2 samosa, 1 sp. mashed potatoes
1 2.5dl of microbrewed Basel beer
1 great movie, a German movie called keinohrhasen (Earlessrabbit), romantic comedy that could compete with any hollywood movie and win...great soundtrack to boot
15 minute streching, 15 minute bike ride
1 comment:
So you missed the other movie?
'Bout warming up and cooling down... I usually do Jump rope first before any workout. If I run, then I tend to take it easy for the first block or so...
For cooling down, I really just like to sit around for a few minutes and hang out... Let the muscles just relax.
It's pretty huge!
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