July 31, Check-In

[muck_a_luck]

Hey, EED community!

Bad mod! Went out to do errands without posting a check-in! Hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday!

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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.

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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]

Ow ow fuck fuck ow. Survey says: rest day. I can't even do the upper-body stuff because I don't know what the fuck I did to my shoulder.

[shanaqui]

Despite the most awful night of stomach pain (I get stressed, my entire digestive system throws in the towel, goddamnit), I have strangely done more today than the rest of the week. Did about half an hour's worth of yoga, altogether, ran thirty minutes on the elliptical (with five minutes walk before and after to warm up and cool down), did a lot of stretching after the run because of how much I'm stiffening up, changed my bed (a bunk bed, so it's an acrobatic sort of activity), tidied my room, and am now in the process of cleaning it. I'm tired.

In odd news, despite yesterday morning being so stiff I could barely touch my knees when bending down, yesterday night I got my hands on my ankles with my legs still straight. I was back to just below the knees this morning, but I think last night was probably the most I've ever bent. Odd.

[just_ann_now]

The weather and my weekend schedule were finally in alignment, so I got to take a nice long walk in my nearby park. I rambled through both woodlands and sunny meadows, so it was just perfect for the day. Then, when I got home, I went out and weedwacked some since I was sweaty anyway.

I'm hoping to do the 108 pushups later today; pure laziness would be my only excuse not to.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, then I went with a friend for a swim in the Serpentine Lido. I love, love, love being able to swim in a lake in the middle of the inner city.

Note: "swim" here means "half an hour's very slow breaststroke with my face well out of the water, watching out so as not to swim into a swan by mistake."

Some more yoga may happen later.

[cofax7]

Kicked myself out of a rut and ran the four-mile hilly route today, counter-clockwise (which is backwards from the way I usually do it). Which entails going downhill, then a longass steep uphill, and the final mile and a half is flat/downhill. Sadly had to stop and breathe twice, but I went.

I am getting rather tired of wearing a thermal overshirt to run in July, though. Frelling Bay Area weather...

[green]

A couple of sun salutations followed by 40 minutes of my new yoga video (the one I did yesterday). Did the plow pose for longer than two seconds! I didn't count, but I got some great slow breathing in the pose. My form is probably off but I am doing as good as I can at home without someone to correct me. I'm reading everything I can about correct form so I can get this stuff right.

10 minutes of pilates stretches/warm up.

wunderground.com says Heat advisory in effect from 11 am this morning to 6 PM CDT this evening.... I was planning to push my daughter's wheelchair down the road today and get some exercise that way, but if the heat is going to be that bad (it's supposed to get up to 110 today) then that's out of the question.

[lullabymoon]

Today was technically a rest day, but I did about a mile of walking after work as I went shopping for a sports bra.

The happy thing is, if I had done that 2 months ago, I would be in a heap by now. Instead I'm fairly wide awake and aware. YAY!

[nicolakgreen]

I was feeling so good after my 20 mins yoga this morning I tried another of the podcasts - and managed the whole 30 minutes of that one too. It felt really good, which was nice because I was planning on going to the gym today but woke up with a big mosquito bite on my foot and thought putting shoes on would be a bad idea. I hope it goes down by monday when I have my next session with my trainer booked.