Sunday, January 23, 2011, 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

[just_ann_now]

Barbara Benagh's Power Yoga for Every Body, Strength and Balance sequence, challenging level. There really wasn't anything new here, but way she's mixed up the sequences left me a soggy, sweaty, whimpery mess. Good stuff.

[vass]

Today is a rest day.

[juliet316]

I did my martial arts class yesterday. Despite being sore as heck, it's probably one of the best sessions I ever had.

[resolute]

20 minutes on the exercise bike in the basement.

And then an attempted Turkish Get-Up.

bwahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahaha

Okay, if I can do ONE TGU by the end of 2011, I will be happy. I think that's my new goal.

(Failure point: I have not the core body strength to lift my body weight sufficiently to get up and onto one elbow while lying on my back. Yes, that would be *step one* of the TGU. Goals, I can has them. I am now adding more situps to my routine, on the days I don't go to the Y.)

[lyorn]

6 km bicycling, 2 km walking, and a very unsatisfying work-out at the gym. Warm-up nothing seemed wrong, but once I hit the weights, I felt like a wet dishrag. I barely managed two sets of eight where I normally do three sets of twelve, and skipped the exercises that needed the most control, because I was worried about hurting myself.

I experimented with the TGU (no weight) and found that I cannot lift one shoulder high enough to get on my elbow without "flopping", because my legs will go up before the shoulder does :-( Does anyone have an idea what is wrong there?

On the up side, I tried assisted pullups (like this: http://www.stumptuous.com/images/assisted_cage_pullup_2.jpg, only with my calves on the bench) for the first time and managed four-and-a-half.

FWIW

[rydra_wong]

Remember that you don't have to curl up just using your abs -- there is core stuff happening with a TGU, but in my experience, less than a sit-up (though it's more of an obliques movement anyway).

Make sure you've got one leg (the one on the same side as your raised arm) bent, with the foot planted firmly on the floor.

Then you drive off that leg and roll over onto the other side.

Simultaneously, "punch" the raised arm up, and curl your torso up just enough that you get your elbow underneath you as you roll.

Flailing legs are normal. *g*

[rydra_wong]

Yay pull-ups! Stumptuous is full of wisdom!

Re: the TGUs, does any of this help?

http://exercise-every-day.dreamwidth.org/110979.html?thread=875907#cmt875907

[to_love_a_rose]

Trying to get back into this...

30 jumping jacks and some stretching. Not much, but I'm attempting to ease into a routine.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, then a Yoga Today podcast. I'm still a bit cold-y and conserving energy.

Re: FWIW

[resolute]

Okay, drive, punch, roll -- I'll give it another shot this week!

(Thank you for the advice and patience, btw!)

[uisgich]

I've been a little forgetful about posting this week, although I have been exercising everyday!

Weekdays I did my usual 30 minutes walk to and from work, with a couple of added yoga sessions.

Yesterday, it was 30 minutes of yoga, 20 minutes of weights, 20 minutes kickboxing, and a couple of floor barre exercises from the New York City Ballet DVD. Haven't had that one out in an age!

I also started doing the facial exercises that my Mom has been doing for twenty years now and she's looking good for her age, so I decided now would be a good time to make them a routine thing to do too.

So today, I did the same yoga, weights and kickboxing, and the facial exercises later in the day.

My energy levels didn't hit any peaks or troughs this weekend, it was more of a good balanced feeling, with some mild aches this morning.

Re: FWIW

[rydra_wong]

This is geeky fun for me -- I get to babble about the things I've found useful and interesting!

[semielliptical]

Yoga, 30 minutes.

[alphaviolet]

Dancing, 1 hr.

[runawayskellum]

Climbed the East Lomond hill: about 4km with a height of about 100m (from the plateau, which is at about 330m I think...) Pretty invigorating either way!

[lyorn]

I'll have to try. So: 1. move more sideways then up, and 2. get the drive from the leg instead of from the abs (can't try now, my co-workers will look at me funny... *g*).

[alexseanchai]

Resistance bands and pushups. Two sets, when usually I wimp out after one set and no pushups, when I bother doing anything upper-body not-yoga at all.

[rydra_wong]

Leg and abs and shoulder. Think of it as if you're twisting your torso in order to punch your raised arm through the ceiling.

(That's how it works in my brain, anyway.)

This video breaks it down into steps, which might be useful in illustrating that move:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqyIuFIdgRk

[eris_discordia]

I did well today. =)

15 min of cycling (-100 calories)
3 mile run (-325 calories)
15 min eliptical (-125 calories)
1 mile run (-100 calories)

That's basically the equivalent of a 6.5 mile run for me which is about 3x what I normally do. =)