4/5/26 – Quick Note to Start the Week
I’m pretty amazed at how my legs and body responded to all this walking I have been doing this week, and especially yesterday! My gut, holy smokes!
It’s wild how my low back is working, hips, obliques, rectus abdominis, and low pelvic floor as well! I’m truly amazed!
Need to get up and get my body taken care of! More thoughts on all the new ideas to come!
4/6/26 – Body Confusion
Wow, my legs have been so straight all night! I’m so happy this has happened! I’m not sure what the combo I did yesterday, or last night, and getting my body to actually stay in extension, but I’ll take it!
I needed quite a bit of rest last night too, I conked out. And it’s crazy, my body during rest is staying more and more in extension! I can feel my glutes and quads tingling, my lower left abdomen rearranging, and something in my front abdominal region too? It was weird because I was feeling new areas in my lower abdomen, and I was having a more difficult time breathing, because of some newfound tightness? So I slowly breathed into those regions, they loosened up, and drifted off into sleep!
This is pretty incredible right now, my legs are feeling awfully like legs! So much activation everywhere! I mean I know laying prone before bed is important, but I can’t think of anything else causing this significant of changes? Maybe all the walking and taking a break yesterday as well?
So many GERD-like symptoms, it’s so crazy! I feel like I’m literally rearranging my insides to be more and more in extension!
I’m pleasantly surprised with how my body is feeling this morning! I’ll have to make sure I get some good standing frame time in!
Well. This was premature….. my legs had fallen out of the bed and were out dangling….. uh……. That was a twist of events……
50ft on the crutches! 50 ft walking backwards!!!
4/7/26 – Body Observations
Warm. Fuller. Boy, lots of activation from all the work I did yesterday at PT! My calves and feet are really waking up!!!!quads are getting stronger!! Glutes are staying on and activated!!
I didn’t get to lay on the floor after dinner to let my body cool down, that was a mistake! I was hydrated and got in the standing frame, but never the floor. It’s wild, I’m really getting in the groove of how to help work my body. It only took how many years. Goodness.
It’s really my abdomen, I feel like, that needs the floor time / prone time the most. I feel like that’s the most overworked muscle group in my body right now, and it’s hard to give him a break once I’m up! So floor time it is!
GOODNESS MY QUADS FEEL SO ON! This is incredible! This sure is wild. Getting my body to wake up one day at a time! I’m gonna be walking with the crutches before I know it! I actually had the thought about when I take the leg braces off to do walking! That day is going to happen, I can feel it! With how much my quads are turning on now, it’s only a matter of time, I can feel it!
Better get up and atem and get things moving for the day, let’s try to hit that 2-3hr mark in the standing frame again today! That helped so much!
4/8/26 – Smashmouth
Did I burn my mouth on that hot drink yesterday with John? I think I might, because the roof of my mouth is awfully raw? So weird, how that can happen and I just noticed that now?
These dang stubborn hip flexors. I can feel how I need to actively squeeze my glutes, to keep my hip flexors at bay right now while laying supine this morning. It’s interesting because I’m actively working on relaxing and contracting, all at once here? So weird?
I feel like I swayed towards the “tired” end of the spectrum. As opposed to being rejuvenated when I wake up, I can feel how my body is still tired. Why is this the case?
I got up and did a short walk last night, and laid on the floor afterwards. So I was hopefully I would get decent rest? But I can just feel how not well rested I am this morning. Dangit.
So much to do, so much to see, so what’s wrong with taking the back streets?
Let’s see how today goes, not much we can do about this now!
I did 300ft in 20min!!! Fastest time yet!!
4/9/26 – Hope | Faith | Action
Man oh man! My legs are really trying to get in extension! My low back is feeling fully there, and my knees are really trying as well! I have an interesting ask to try to do today, so here we go, I need to get up and get moving!
This is a wild morning wake up! My low back is sweaty on both my left and my right side this morning! That’s a first, usually it’s just my left side? On my right side also sweating? Knees and ankles are feeling extremely full, and whole body is feeling very engaged.
I can feel how my right side is trying to wake up and engage, trying to balance out this tight left side.
My right shoulder, actually my trap, was very tightened over work last night? I’m not sure what was up with that?
Last night, I was noticing how interesting my right leg felt? It is almost as if it was like a new right leg? Like I couldn’t fully describe all the new sensation? Not sure what just happened? Not sure if it was from the black and tans?
Toes are feeling mighty interesting?
Hope | Faith | Action
Maybe that’s what it’s all about? Having all three of these ingredients to be successful?
What is the connection with Hope and faith and our consciousness and our ability to make rational thoughts in our ability to actually think? Like, we’ve been trying to create a model of rain based on electronics or a computer or the Internet, but all of this is all created by us, humans. I do think it’s really interesting that we don’t talk about that very much and how our brain thinks operates or processes? I think there might be something to this because people who are more hopeful than have some form of confidence in himself do seem to behave differently? I’m not sure but Maybe this is an idea worth exploring! Emotions….
WOW!
Cycle
CrossFit
Cycle!
Dang, I am more pooped than I’ve been in a WHILE! This was insane! Doing 3 massive workouts today! My body really wants this, he’s so hungry to keep up this work! I can’t wait to get my own Handcycle!
4/10/26 – Consolidation Day / On My Own
Yesterday was one of the biggest cardio days I’ve done in a WHILE! That was incredible! Also, my left and right glute are engaging like crazy! And my hips are staying in extension way better than usual!! This is amazing! I really needed that rest last night, goodness gracious!
Idk what it is about stressing our body and pushing it to the max, but I was seriously not even sure where I was getting the energy yesterday to do these back to back to back workouts!? It just doesn’t seem to make sense to me!?
My low low back is feeling constant activation, legs are warmer, and I’m gonna have to get up and do a good walk today and see how my body responds! I know I need to take it easy still because my watch somehow said I needed 72 hours of recovery?!
What’s interesting, is how I just did the first standing / walking session in the braces, for my first time, ever on MY OWN! For a whole hour! This was insane! I’m like, kinda shook that my body was able to do this! Working to stand taller and taller on my own is such a peculiar thing! It doesn’t quite feel like you are either pushing it, or that expectations for me and what I’m doing is different? Hard saying! But I better leave it at that!
4/11/26 – White Blood Cells
This is so wild, my toes! Oh my toes! My low back and glutes! My lower legs! My lower left side is loosening up too! I really was liking how I was listening to music while doing my standing / walking work last night, and just wiggling to the beat of the music from White Blood Cells – by the White Stripes! It was perfect because they have somewhat slower beats to the song, and I was able to try to follow along! It was weird too because it almost felt like my hips were trying to do it on their own!? So I would take a deep breath, pull my shoulders back, try to set them, keep my air in me, and shift my hips to get me taller! It was great!
It was really awesome because I DID IT ALL ON MY OWN! I can’t believe this! It was almost like I had a lil anger in me, to start? Like that emotion, of feeling antsy, angsty, and discontent? It was interesting too, learning from The Future of The Mind, it was said emotions are just subconscious / subcritical reactions our brain makes when it needs to make a decision without full rational thought. Or something close to that. It’s interesting because I’ve been trying to think about my emotions, how I feel in certain instances, and trying to better determine what they’re telling me? And for the most part, these days at least, it seems to be telling me more about movement.
So here I am wiggling and hips-a-moving to The White Stripes, and I can feel my emotions change and that anger fades, and happiness starts to come out?! So weird?!
I really like moving my body. Turns out my body seems to be good at it, and likes it too. So I better just keep moving him more and more every day! Especially now if I can get up in the walker by myself and sit down safely! This was HUGE! I wonder where I’m gonna go from here?
I think the longest continuous stand was for 6-1/2min, so let’s continue to push this number out! I wonder what a good target value is? I’m really trying too, to let go of the walker more and more, so working in reps with my hand raised is also another progression I’m working on as well! Plus I need to try to open up the lower right leg support, it’s wayyy too tight now? Crazy how my body and legs are changing!
I really like re-reading my notes, building off them, and making connections that I previously was unable to make at the time I originally made the note! I just made a new connection, this was a thought I had last week during Project Hail Mary, about the idea of working together with other people, and how much more productive it can be! It’s almost like working with ourselves, gets better when we re-read our notes from the past? Like we’re accessing part of our “split brain”? Or something? That concept from The Future was interesting, talking about split personalities and having multiple identities in the same mind! But what if that is part of leveraging that idea, is using our notes and thoughts to build off for ourselves?
Storms & mechanisms…. Hmm, fun ideas to think about..
Well today has been a wild one. I need to get up walking in the braces earlier in the day. It’s tricky because of the setup time, but to be honest, I’m getting close to being able to get myself up in the, wait scratch that, I already am getting myself up to stand in my own! Now I need to progress to walking and sitting down on my own!
My body sure is a beast to be reckoned with, if I’m being honest! I got up in the braces today for a walk without stretching them out, and boy was that a mistake! My legs weren’t stretched out all! Goodness!
Long week. Time for some rest!
The Astronaut on Earth 
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