IHC Numbers - February

February has been my first full month of testing out my new way of recording my numbers and it has been going way better than my previous process. I got a small separate calendar booklet that I have been recording my daily/weekly numbers in (I was recording things daily before but on my big calendar so things got jumbled and it was difficult to transfer the data to my big spreadsheet.) I have also made a change to add my numbers to my big spreadsheet on a weekly basis (before I was aiming for monthly, but in actuality it was closer to every quarter of the whole year which was terrible). Not only does this make the transfer not as big of an even because I wasn't adding up everything from the past couple months, but it also lets me be aware of missing numbers before they start to feel overwhelming, instead of trying to rehaul all my daily/weekly goals to try to account for huge chunks of missing things I can just sneak in a few extras around my established routine which is feeling much more sustainable. 

One requirement that continues to be left behind is my sparring, I thought I had made a plan that would work for me but I am realizing that because somehow it got almost completely ignored for all of last year, it doesn't pop up on my radar of things to do until I'm putting in my weekly numbers and I realize I still haven't actively tried to work on them. So moving forward I'm going to work on getting myself to remember it it the first place (I heard a very relevant quote yesterday "you have to establish a habit before you can expand upon it" so I'm going to worry less about the quality (i.e. what concepts of my sparring am I working on? what sort of practices should I be doing to improve my sparring the fastest? what parts of my sparring are the weakest right now.) and worry more about the quantity (i.e. just doing any kind of sparring training regardless of what specifically I'm doing, or how long I think I should be doing it for). I want to clarify that I'm not saying I'm going to train mindlessly, but I'm going to try to get less in my head about "I need a big chunk of time to work on this" "I will wait so that I can focus on just this thing" and just do anything, and then worry about the specifics once I've gotten my brain to recognize the habit at all.

Requirements (where I am/where I should be/where I'm trying to go)

Push-ups: 6520/5400/50000

Sit-ups: 6400/5400/50000

Hand Form: 90/100/1000

Double Broadsword: 85/100/1000

Sparring: 12/100/100

AOK: 181/100/1000

km: 77/155/1609


Mastery: I have also sort of left this one behind so moving forward my plan in to try to focus on one sentence each week, both memorizing it, but also thinking about it throughout the week and trying to apply the intent of each phrase to my training for the week. There's 21 sentences so I think I'll loop back around to the beginning once I reach the end and that way I can see how the context of each phrase will change based on my progress between each time I get to the same sentence which I think will be really interesting. I will try to record my thoughts (definitely in my master spreadsheet and I might post them as blogs depending on how things go)


Personal Requirements (where I am/where I should be/where I'm trying to go)

100 Ways to Say Hello: 14/10/100

Monthly Form Focus: 45/35/333 

Monthly Goal: 1/12

Read 3 Books on Anti-Racism: /3 just ordered the first one today so I will start making some progress on this one asap

Comments

  1. Malinda FerrisMarch 1, 2023 at 10:26 AM

    I like what you're going to try with Mastery. Great idea!

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  2. Kevin LindstromMarch 1, 2023 at 11:03 AM

    Sparring is the one thing I see a lot of people struggle to track or meet the requirement on. Open training days are one way to get some rounds in.

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