Friday, April 29, 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

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, barbells. Out of curiosity, I tried Dan John's unholy front squat/Tabata hybrid (do 8 fast front squats, rest 10 seconds, repeat for 7 more rounds), using just the bar. All I can say is that it'll be nice when I can feel my quads again. Not quite as lung-scorching as Tabata sprints, but not bad.

I did some work on my deadlift, which feels unloved, then finished up with a spectacular fail when I tried for one overhead squat too many.

(With lifts like that, the escape tactic is to throw the bar one way and yourself the other way as hard as you can, so it was LOUD. ETA what I didn't make clear, that I am pleased by this fail; it proves I can flunk the lift massively without being hurt, and a good fail lets me know that I'm working at my limits.)

[lyorn]

Oh. Wow. Note to self, be aware of possible directions of throwing bar/myself which are a) clear and b) at 180° from one another, when I start with the overheads.

[rydra_wong]

It's not quite as melodramatic as I made it sound, really. You just have to register whether the bar is falling forwards or backwards, and make sure you go the other way (sideways is not an option), with sufficient force to keep yourself and the bar apart. I was using the squat rack, so I sort of threw the bar at the safety bars while leaping backwards.

[chaobell]

Legs & Back, actually did the jump version of the 80-20 Speed Squats this time.

[yvi]

Ran a bit (500 meters run, 250 meters walk, 250 meters run) and did a bit of strength training.

[lyorn]

7 km bicycling.

[semielliptical]

Walk, 45 minutes.

[daedala]

Last night, NROL4W, Stage 2, B4. Done with Stage 2!

[atropos]

Just joined. On this day and Thursday, I worked on an exercise DVD--THE FIRM-Total Body Makeover. There's 4 workouts and I did the first two.