10/25/26 – Sleep Activation
This, “constant activation” that I’m trying on my posterior / extensor chain while sleeping is having some massive effects on the activation in my body! I’m slowly feeling more creaks, pops, lengthening, fullness, and synergy with my legs and torso!?
I need to keep this up, I’m going to try to get a bit more rest this morning, I’m squeezing the living day lights out of my low back and glutes to fight my flexor spasms! The best part about this movement pattern I’m trying is that it’s actually working!? Seems weird and counterintuitive to activate muscles while going to sleep, but this is having some huge effects on my entire posture and movement these past 2-3 days, I can’t stop!
The act of not touching my legs, not looking at them, activating them, and feeling them extend out in the bed while laying supine for 1-2hrs has got to be one of the weirdest experiences to date! Like, they are seriously so extended! It’s almost as if my body is re-learning how to get them in safe positions, and this takes time, trust, patience? Everything in my body is activating right now?!
Also, what do our muscles do in our sleep? What is our vestibular and somatic-sensory systems doing while we sleep? Honestly what the heck are these two systems anyways!? There’s something very interesting I happened upon while working on activating and extending my body while in sleep and supine laying! My body isn’t freaking out, everything is engaged! My shoulders depressed and retracted really help kick this chain of events off! It’s so cool!
I have some research to do! Some movement to do! Trying to wrangle it all in the day is the trick! Sometimes we need relaxing days and nights filled with some fun! It’s all being human.
I had a dream / interesting thoughts about wanting to write some of my relatives some letters!? Maybe let’s work on that this upcoming weeks too!
Feeling, not seeing or touching, my body in extension while in supine is so fascinating! I’m trying to get my body used to this while in supine, so he’s ready to get extended while standing too!
Do your shoulders have to “counteract” your glutes and trunk working to get in extension? I’m up doing some standing and walking exercises in the counter in the kitchen for the first time! Huge win!
Bike ride today too! Only one speed! While pushing my shoulders down, I was engaging glutes more, and then I noticed something interesting, I was steering! Hands free! This was incredible!
Got up in the standing frame while eating dinner to round out the night!
10/26/26 – Language of Signals in The Body
Again, huge morning of consolidation! Not looking at my feet, building trust, cardio, different positions, working more and more upright really is having some carryover and benefits to my entire body!
I was shocked yesterday on the bike ride where my body was literally pushing my feet on the stirrups on the Handcycle to initiate some wheel turn! This whole, “retract depress —> glute squeeze —> push thru feet” combo is having some awesome carry thru in my day to day!
And then fighting these hip flexor spasms, my glutes and posterior chain are really working! I have some research that I need to do this week! Lots of topics to work on!
Okay. Language of Music. How we describe sound. I just had this thought because in the shower as I was working on stability and balance, a feeling inside my head passed over me like a ‘wave’ ‘crescendo-ing’ in and out?! And it got me thinking, “what if I learned more about terminology to describe musical signatures, to help describe the ‘feeling’ of neurological signals inside my body??
Hmmm. So. Let’s try not to feel like how I did at PT today. That was less than ideal…. Ugh.
10/27/26 – Think Day
Big squeeze day for legs. Gotta make my body the priority. Not every little thing that can make me feel good temporarily. My body I’m in it all the time. I gotta treat him right. Especially when he’s not feeling well. Let’s try to remember that. Caffeine and me are kinda enemies these days. Unfortunately. Those couple cups for breakfast yesterday wreaked havoc on my digestive system. Unfortunately.
10/28/26 – Flash Frame / Quad Day
Lots of thoughts. Lots to think about. Lots of scenes flashing through my head at this time. So wild how our minds work?
TODAY MY QUADS HAVE FELT MORE ALIVE THAN EVER BEFORE!!! This was awesome to feel them come alive while walking today! I cannot believe sometimes what it is that causes these changes?! Consistency?! Not looking down? Goodness, all of the above!??
It’s just so interesting how my body doesn’t want to let go! He wants to get up and keep moving!
Pilates today really had me moving more than I ever had outstretched overhead!
And then on top of it all…… BREWERS WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!
10/29/26 – Consolidation Day
My body has made such a monumental jump in sensation and activation! This is absolutely incredible!
Standing frame for a lot of the morning at work!
Standing frame here at night!
Big day for the quads!!
10/30/26 – Night Time Exploration
My body and legs need / are doing so much at night!? I feel like there’s a lot to explore and discover when it comes to night time leg and body activation?
So wow!! These quads are seriously living it up!!! This has been a huge couple days for quad emergence, quad resurgence, activation, and them actually being useful!! Oh yeah too, last night my body was actually able to let out some good toots!?!?! My parasympathetic nervous system must be firing up!!!! This is freaking awesome!!
Let’s continue down this extension train! I can see myself being able to walk with the C- braces and crutches only! That would be so cool!! I’m getting closer every day! Gotta keep up the non-looking use, standing frame time, brace time, brace leans, brace walking, Exo usage, and nighttime routine too! Let’s get prone more too, eh??
Idk why besides being busy I haven’t been able to carve out some time to take my notes morning, during the day, and evening? Maybe cuz the brewers playing, work, life? It’s hard sometimes to juggle so much! Gotta get that lift in before it gets too cold! You got a lot of people who want to help!
I’m seriously feeling such incredible amounts of activation EVERYWHERE! Let’s keep this up!!
Also not looking down at my legs while doing literally everything is helping them so much!
Left leg is easier to step with, and I feel it more, while the right leg is more difficult because I can’t feel the heel strike as much? I noticed too my footplates paint on the left side is worn down more too? There’s gotta be something to this!
10/31/26 – Halloween!
Turns out, lying on my belly while trying to sleep is extremely difficult to do?
SO MUCH ACTIVATION!! Now I gotta get the control part down!!
My posterior chain is waking up and active this morning! All the walking with head upright is doing wonders for my body! It’s hard to think of better ways to practice all of this without getting up in the braces? Maybe more time on the floor is in order? Time in the gym too? I need some more exploration!
HALLOWEEN PARTY TONITE!
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