Saturday, March 12, 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

[resolute]

Off to the Y for cardio. No weights today. Not enough time, what with the kids' swim classes and my work schedule, but I did weights four days this week already, so I'm calling it good enough.

[natmerc]

Eoin Finn's The Pursuit of Happy Hips dvd, the 50min "Easy Street" routine. More meditative and I like how he really focuses on alignment and provided a couple of block adjustments I'd never seen before.

Halfway through the (non-easy) extended standing sequence, I realized I couldn't "feel" which hamstring I pulled last year. All that roller work really loosened up the muscle scarring! :) :) :)

(now if only my right hip would heal, but I think I've been pushing it a bit too fast and am going to back off a bit)

[seleneheart]

Walked the neighborhood. Tried to do a Sun Salutation upon waking up, but realized that it's really not possible to do that and avoid push up situations at the same time (which I was told not to do for at least a week). Did a very awkward downward facing dog as a result, but I really needed to stretch my legs out.

[semielliptical]

Walk, 45 minutes.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, three hours climbing. I should say that part of this time was spent aimlessly faffing around and chatting to people, and most of the rest was spent falling repeatedly off the Same. Damn. Move..

[just_ann_now]

Morning work: Power Yoga for Every Body, "Strength and Balance" sequence, Challenging level. Side planks, why so difficult? Why why why?

Afternoon work: Two mile walk in nice fresh air. We didn't see too many signs of spring, though, which seems rather ominous considering it's mid-March.

[lyorn]

12 km hillwalking, and some swimming afterwards (but mostly soaking in the hot pool). With the barbell squats yesterday and the walking today, I really feel my legs now...

I'm considering doing a group tour in the Alps in Summer, some easy climbing, but they require sufficient fitness for a two hour uphill walk to get to the climbing site. I wonder how to train with the local hills in the area being low (no more then 200 metres above valley level) but steep, instead of the endless uphill slogs on real mountains. Two hours on the elliptical sound too boring to survive.

[vass]

Swimming, 25 minutes, interval training. Eight intervals. And then a nice relax in the spa.

[alexseanchai]

SQUARE DANCIIIING

[rydra_wong]

A lot of people seem to go for reading or listening to audiobooks or podfics on the treadmill.

Thinking more laterally -- any tall office buildings in your vicinity that might let you walk up their stairs a lot? That'll be way steeper than any uphill walks you'll have to face, but should certainly prepare you.

[lyorn]

There is the university's computer sciences building across the street...

*thinks*

Running up and down the stairs at a university building at my age might go beyond the amount of weirdness I'm comfortable to project. Maybe I'll just set the ellipitical to very high resistance and do half an hour. And find some bigger hills for the weekend.