Wednesday, July 13, 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

[vass]

Weights:
Back squat: set 1 15kg 6 reps, set 2 15kg 10 reps. Abysmal form. I really haven't gotten the hang yet of sitting far enough back and then being able to get up again.
Bench press: set 1, 6 reps of 15kg db and 4 reps of 12.5kg db; set 2, 7 reps of 15kg db and 3 reps of 12.5kg db.
Rows: 22.5kg, 2 sets, 10 reps.
Shoulder press: 10kg dumbbells, 2 sets, 10 reps.
Stability ball plank: 2 sets, 60 seconds.

[weirdquark]

Three sets of six TGUs increasing from ~12.5# to ~17.5# followed by 11 minutes intervals on the stationary bike.

I've been struggling to increase my shoulder press past 20-25 pounds for a while now, so I may stall out on increasing these next week. Or I may improve my shoulder press. I know this week's one-arm overhead squats got much easier after doing TGUs last week.

[chaobell]

I am now in a between-P90X-rounds "do whatever" week, this morning it was 45 minutes of Zumba.

Yesterday it was hopping on the bike at 6:30 in the morning to run to the store and buy cat food after waking up to find an empty bowl, a bag of Whiskas with about two tablespoons of food in it, and two dirty looks on fuzzy faces.

[rydra_wong]

REST DAY.

[semielliptical]

Yoga, 25 minutes.

[smackshack]

Ran 5K, did 2 sets of 30 crunches on the bouncy ball.

[willful_zephyr]

Pilates at lunch.