Monday, January 3, 2010, Check-In

[muck_a_luck]

Hey, EED community!

Here is your daily check-in post! Hope everyone is having a great day!

If you are posting for the first time, or new to the community, please review the community's standards, below.


1. Mod (that's me!) will post a Daily Check In post, for those who prefer to note their daily activities in response to a prompt. Please only place exercise comments here.

2. All members are encouraged to post daily independent posts about their activities, if they prefer that to a prompt.

3. Please place any NON-EXERCISE comments in independent update posts and behind a cut. Some people are sensitive to discussion of diet and nutrition. That is integral to many people's exercise activities, so I want members to be able to discuss that, but for those who are here strictly to log exercise, I would like them to be able to avert their eyes.

4. Everyone is encouraged to introduce themselves, discuss their exercise goals, and post updates on their activities. "I finally made it to running a mile!" or "I kicked up into handstand today!" are updates that we all want to hear about and share! Please put long posts and entries involving diet and nutrition behind a cut, though.

5. Aside from intro posts and injury announcements, please try to include an exercise update in every post.

Comments

[adelheid]

28 minutes on the Wii Fit, including 15 minutes of Yoga (added a new pose). The rest was mostly balance games. Also did some swordplay, table tennis and regular tennis on Sports/Sports Resort.

GF is doing a workout on Sports Active right now, and I might do that when she's done.

[natmerc]

I'm on day 3 of committing to doing either some yoga or pilates every day in January. It's been more than a decade since I had even a semi-regular yoga practice. My whole body's inflexible as a board and it's contributing to injuries.

I've been picking up old VHS tapes and DVDs on sales and never using them. I've got lots of 10-30min up practices for busy days and some more challenging and longer ones for when I've got more time and energy.

Right now, after Patricia Walden's "Yoga for Beginner's", I can't say I'm any more flexible (yet), but I am calmer. It's a great DVD to re-learn or learn the basics.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, 30 minutes of kettlebells and clubbells, and a long walk in the park.

[yvi]

I am feeling every one of those squats and deadlifts from yesterday in my thighs today! Still, that just meant I did a slightly smaller set exclusively targeting my arms today. About 20 minutes in total, I did bench presses, flies, biceps curls and reverse flies

I hate reverse flies (or Dumbbell Seated Rear Lateral Raise as I just see they are called) and have to do them with dumbbells without any weight, but I guess I need to do *something* for my posterior deltoid. Though now that I am searching it looks like I could also do Barbell Rear Delt Raise. I like barbells more anyway.

[rydra_wong]

I guess I need to do *something* for my posterior deltoid. Though now that I am searching it looks like I could also do Barbell Rear Delt Raise.

IMHO, you don't need to work every single muscle individually (unless you have a specific reason to want to isolate a particular muscle, e.g. to rehab it, or you're a competitive bodybuilder). If you check down at the bottom of the list there, it points you at "General Back" -- most of the exercises there, like rows, will work the posterior deltoids along with a lot of other muscles. And something like a row is more of a functional movement anyway.

[yvi]

I just do isolating exercises when other parts are sore - I actually do dumbbell rows on most days I do weight training. I wish there were more exercises for the 'general back' with barebells and dumbbells *sighs*

[lullabymoon]

15 minutes of yoga and 10 or 20 reps on the free weights for various arm exercises.

[lyorn]

No walking today -- I dug my car out of a car-shaped heap of snow.

Standard gym program. Interval running today: 1,59 km in 10 minutes. Nearly a mile!

I'm working on three sets of twelve reps in good form for all my exercises with the current weights before the end of the month.

[just_ann_now]

Morning work: Shiva Rea's "Sun Salutation" and "Water" sets from the Daily Energy dvd.

Evening work: MTV Power Yoga. I did much better at keeping up this time. Wobbly on my nemeses, the standing poses Eagle and Dancing Shiva, but that's just a matter for continued practice. A good day.

[muck_a_luck]

Lookin' good! :D

[just_ann_now]

If she were a little better at explaining the poses, I would have been fine - I had to spend a lot of time stopping and saying "Do Whut Now?" to the screen.

[watersword]

20 minutes of Pilates (holy wow is my right hip tight and what on earth has happened to my shoulder flexibility?) and 27 pushups.

(ps, muckaluck, whatever auto-updater you use for these much-appreciated posts needs to be told it's 2011!)

[muck_a_luck]

Alas, the auto-updater is, in fact, my brain at approx 4:30am each day. It doesn't catch up with the year change til I get to the office in the morning, apparently! Will try harder! :D

[semielliptical]

Yoga, 30 minutes.

[alexseanchai]

Up and down and up and down and up and down the damned stairs.

[zennish]

Crossfit - except I popped - okay, dislocated - my sacroiliac joint on a deadlift. And it wasn't even a heavy deadlift! *mourns* It just... wanted to go, and it did, and now I'm hobbling all over the place and sulking in a ridiculous fashion.

Here's hoping some physio tomorrow will pop it back in - if it doesn't, rehab for this is really gonna suck. Bah.