Precerpt from Grandma's Ninja Training Diary: The Art of the Cooldown
Diary of a Grandma Ninja: The Art of the Cooldown 🌙🧘♀️ After 90 minutes of cardio—dancing, lunging, shadow boxing, and swinging weights—I don’t collapse. I cool down . Because the end of class isn’t the end of training. It’s the beginning of recovery. 🧘♀️ What My Cooldown Should Look Like (But Doesn't) I walk it off : I should take a slow stroll around the room, arms loose, breath steady putting away balls and weights. I should let my heart rate drop like a feather, not a stone. Instead, I dash off to put the weights and balls away and gather up my waiting son. I am pretty sure, anyway, that my heart rate dropped to 50 with my last cardio step. It always does. I stretch with intention : I should do this -- calves, hamstrings, shoulders, hips, and hold each stretch for 20–30 seconds, breathing into the tight spots. Golly gee, I don't. If I paid a price for not doing it, you bet I would. But I don't pay a price, either, and my next task in my rather full life is alwa...