Monkey bars for oxygen

It’s not about having buff shoulders, it’s about oxygen

“The ability to hold one’s own body weight from one’s arms has a direct impact on how much oxygen the body takes in and how much the lungs inflate with each breath.”

Katy Bowman, blog post from May 12, 2011, ‘ABCs, BABY VERSION’

Wow.

I’ve always wanted buff shoulders. I’ve only just started thinking about how much oxygen I can take in at any one time. Isn’t that crazy?

Drills:

Hanging from the at-home adventure playground (ouch! how my raw hands)

and

No-breath butterfly! (It’s actually the best way to keep my body flat in the water.)

But maybe as well as being able to survive deep, long wipeouts and miles of butterfly I will also look like Sarah Connor in Terminator II.

Altogether more glamorous than my at-home adventure playground: magical tree sea place by Kigamboni beach in Dar Es Salaam where we were lucky enough to visit last weekend

About me

Deborah Kasia Krupski

Welcome to this blog, home to a collection of my personal journals. The posts on this site were written between 2014 and 2019 when I was in the wind with no fixed abode. What precious times and when we were all much younger! Where does the time go? Since then I've had no time to write for myself or even consider what it is I need to do in this world beyond earning a crust, and I dare say most of what you find here is severely out of date. I'm keeping this space for the domain name and posterity. Almost deleted it recently to save £40 a year (who doesn't need that?) but glad I didn't even though former selves will always make present selves cringe a bit, or a lot. I hope to get back to myself one day soon and break the shackles of what feel like really menial days (Saturn in the 10th - if you know, you know). And maybe add something here of use and / or interest. And maybe not, maybe just something to give some fuel to the haters. Bouan appétite! (Yes writing from home, which is Jersey - at least for today.) Debbie Krupski