Wednesday, February 9, 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

[natmerc]

Wind-storm last night, so I woke up to work being delayed, and I got to do 90min of shoveling snow and then to stretch out my back I tried out the Kathy Smith's New Yoga tape that I picked up at a thrift store.

Lots of isometrics, but it felt more like a collection of poses than a good routine. I'm really starting to value that relaxed mind+body feeling at the end of a practice and this didn't give it at all. I think it's going on the discard pile.

[rydra_wong]

Lots and lots of walking round London with people from the internet! Now going to try to wind down with some yoga before I fall down go boom.

[yvi]

20 minutes of pretty heavy strength training, and I am so wiped! Did dumbbell shoulder presses, dumbbell rows, bench presses (up 2 kilograms!), deadlifts (up 2 kilograms!), some push-ups and 2*35 crunches.

[just_ann_now]

Elliptical machine day. Not as much fun as Yoga day, but sometimes necessary.

[smackshack]

Ye old flesh-bag is feeling rather more baggy than usual today, so I've decided to let it rest.

[willful_zephyr]

Pilates at lunch.

[alphaviolet]

Unintentional 45-minute walk in very cold weather. I got lost in Quincy. At least it was sunny out...