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Hello. y.werin, martial artist, 2nd time challengee, 1st time monk. So I am very injury prone and only slightly flexible. I also think too much. Terribly analytical I am. I thus decided to address this. Originally I was just going to look at things from a posture point of view, y'know, practice kamae, find weak points, address strength and flexibility and movement requirements, etc, etc (I may be oversimplifying my original idea, by which I mean I am). However, on reflection I thought this might provide a jolly decent opportunity to get my head in to gear over several things that I am rubbish at (in the sense that I am rubbish at remembering/bothering to do them). These are things that I have long flirted with, but never made any sort of commitment to. That's right, flexibility, mobility, OS and meditation, I like you and I'm going to put a ring on it (in a metaphorical sense; my wife is ring-bearer in the whole real life sense). So details. What? OS, min. 4/week.Yoga, min. 2/weekMobility Set, going for DailyBalance Work, also dailyEvening Stretch Set, min. 3/weekMeditation, min 3/week Why? To reduce my injury potential and help fix all the kinks from my many previous ones.To (hypothetically) increase my speed, agility and general health, as well as my general strength and flexibility.To work with an idea of relaxed tension and, by extension, develop better positional engagement for both stability and the generation of power. That looks pretty daunting to me now that I've laid it out like that, particularly alongside my MA training and other workouts, but really it's not as big an investment (time-wise) as I've built it up in my head to be (I have now done the maths). Feedback, Input, Insults all graciously accepted.