Friday, January 28, 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

[alexseanchai]

Yoga. Plank thing. Ow.

[just_ann_now]

Happy Friday! Dr-Who-Episode-Length elliptical machine session, followed by stretching. A nice workout.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, 45 minutes shoulder exercises (I can now do a fair amount of the shoulder shape-up DVD from memory), then a certain amount of messing around with horse stance and plies (I'm trying to figure out some balance things in shadow yoga).

[natmerc]

35 min of a relaxation yoga track -- I'm very relaxed so I'm not sure it was "exercise", but I'll count it.

[smackshack]

Did my couch-to-5k run/walk interval session, followed by crunches and planks and cat vomit ab squeezies.

[rydra_wong]

I am intrigued (or is that "appalled"?) by the sound of "cat vomit ab squeezes". Can you describe them further?

[smackshack]

Hm. Well, I don't know the proper name for this, but I'd guess it's probably a yoga thing since I first learned it as part of a Vipassana meditation class. On one's hands and knees, with the back straight, exhale and compress the abs toward the spine. Hold the squeeze, then relax and take a deep breath. Repeat.

I saw someone online somewhere say the exercises looked like a cat vomiting, so the description stuck in my head.

[lyorn]

Went to the gym for an hour with the trainer and got a new program. Let's see where that goes.