Posted by baseball55 on September 26, 2013, at 19:26:45
In reply to Re: self control, posted by alexandra_k on September 25, 2013, at 20:02:49
I'm amazed that you can even almost do a handstand. And a cartwheel? Never could do that. Even at that 6-7 year age where all kids do cartwheels.
I am a physical coward. I won't ride bikes on streets with lots of cars. I don't like going fast downhill in any kind of device. I stopped hiking after a bad accident while I was hiking alone.
I sometimes accompany my daughter to a yoga class when she is visiting and the teacher just says do what you can, so while others are doing headstands and handstands, I practice just standing on one leg without falling over.
On the other hand, I have lifted weights for decades. I've had to cut back recently because of a bad injury, but I was very strong. Could lift more weight in some exercises than most of the men at the gym. And I was, for a long, long time, the only female in the weight room.
I like lifting weights because it's not competitive (for me anyway), there's no danger of getting killed or badly injured and it doesn't just plain scare me the way handstands do.
So cheers to you that you're attempting handstands. I feel like some idiot, out-of-shape old lady in yoga classes. Which, in fact, I am.
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