Strong people are useful. 💪🏻 Carrying my water jug up the stairs this week was the easiest it’s been in as long as i can remember! I don’t tend to have to change the jug at the water cooler, so the only time i get to lug one is when I’m in India. Year after year, i watch my perception of the jugs weight changes. Sometimes she’s heavier, sometimes(like now) lighter.
One of the marvelous things about my gym-rattiness and my yoga practice is how they can nurture and inform each other. oh sure, sometimes they can be at odds, but i credit my workouts for keeping me injury free on the job.
This year i brought a suspension training rig with me to play with. I thought I’d share with you guys some of the stuff I do.
BIG MIKE’S On-the-Go(a) Suspension Training:

Day 1:
45(sec) on: 30 rest
4 Rounds
Arms to side for all
Pistol Squat (R)
Pistol Squat (L)
Chest Press
Row
Reverse Lunge (with resistance band pulls) (R)
Reverse Lunge (with resistance band pulls) (L)
—� -Rest a while-
50 Side plank twists
50 suspended push-ups
50 supported pull-ups

Strong people are useful. 💪🏻 Carrying my water jug up the stairs this week was the easiest it’s been in as long as i can remember! I don’t tend to have to change the jug at the water cooler, so the only time i get to lug one is when I’m in India. Year after year, i watch my perception of the jugs weight changes. Sometimes she’s heavier, sometimes(like now) lighter.
One of the marvelous things about my gym-rattiness and my yoga practice is how they can nurture and inform each other. oh sure, sometimes they can be at odds, but i credit my workouts for keeping me injury free on the job.
This year i brought a suspension training rig with me to play with. I thought I’d share with you guys some of the stuff I do.
BIG MIKE’S On-the-Go(a) Suspension Training:

Day 1:
45(sec) on: 30 rest
4 Rounds
Arms to side for all
Pistol Squat (R)
Pistol Squat (L)
Chest Press
Row
Reverse Lunge (with resistance band pulls) (R)
Reverse Lunge (with resistance band pulls) (L)
—� -Rest a while-
50 Side plank twists
50 suspended push-ups
50 supported pull-ups

Strong people are useful. 💪🏻 Carrying my water jug up the stairs this week was the easiest it’s been in as long as i can remember! I don’t tend to have to change the jug at the water cooler, so the only time i get to lug one is when I’m in India. Year after year, i watch my perception of the jugs weight changes. Sometimes she’s heavier, sometimes(like now) lighter.
One of the marvelous things about my gym-rattiness and my yoga practice is how they can nurture and inform each other. oh sure, sometimes they can be at odds, but i credit my workouts for keeping me injury free on the job.
This year i brought a suspension training rig with me to play with. I thought I’d share with you guys some of the stuff I do.
BIG MIKE’S On-the-Go(a) Suspension Training:

Day 1:
45(sec) on: 30 rest
4 Rounds
Arms to side for all
Pistol Squat (R)
Pistol Squat (L)
Chest Press
Row
Reverse Lunge (with resistance band pulls) (R)
Reverse Lunge (with resistance band pulls) (L)
—� -Rest a while-
50 Side plank twists
50 suspended push-ups
50 supported pull-ups

Settling in. I didn’t realize it, but my hammok’s colors match Goa’s football team’s colors.

Was that eleven lords a’ leapin?

Scooter hair and new sunglasses— two of my absolute favorite “little things” about my time abroad. After watching Atomic Blonde on the plane, 👁 knew 👁 was due for a pair just like these.

My favorite spot for an egg sandwich. This year, in the interest of making sure my nutrition doesn’t suffer, I’m asking for three eggs. 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

In between Anjuna and Vagator, a lovely little steeple.

Chia porridge made with coconut milk and topped with papaya, red bananas, strawberries, blue berries, goji berries, and my absolute favorite: chikoo. Oh! And dried coconut. A true yogi’s breakfast at #beanmeup

Caught my heels this morning on Vagator beach.

Caught dawn this morning on Vagator Hill.

Adventures in Panjim— the capital of Goa. Saw Star Wars 😂

At #DCAshtanga, we value cultural exchange, and denounce bigotry and oppression of all stripes. Here I️ am doing forest yoga, not to be confused with Forrest Yoga. Did you know we have the best landlady— @gratefulweirdo who owns and operates @kaliyog…

At #DCAshtanga, we value cultural exchange, and denounce bigotry, appropriation, and oppression of all stripes. Here 👁 am doing forest yoga, not to be confused with Forrest Yoga.
You’ll note I’m doing my Ashtanga practice in the forest (which is not Mysore style, it’s just ashtanga, since Mysore is what you call it when it’s taught like it was/is taught in a specific place). That said, 👁 do sometimes do Mysore style Ashtanga yoga in the forest, when I️ practice with my teacher... who teaches in the forest (and isn’t Ana Forrest ;)). Forest yoga isn’t necessarily Forrest yoga, and ashtanga isn’t necessarily Mysore. I’m being a bit glib... but the drill down here highlights difference between appropriation and exchange, something we take seriously at #DCAshtanga. Check out a class with @gratefulweirdo in the Forrest tradition at @kaliyogadc and of course you can stick around to learn Ashtanga, Mysore style, with me, or one of our incredible teachers, who learned from someone who studied the method in Mysore (me!).

Wigs, short shorts, formal wear.

Wigs, short shorts, formal wear.

“We call this mosquito net green. But how do you know what I see as green looks like what you see as green? No, all we can say is that we both agree that this thing we see is that which we both call green... which tells us nothing about either the net or the color.”

“Old is Gold” #mjhtravel2017

From the last time I was in the best shape of my life.