Thursday, July 14, 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]

Yesterday was the Y, and rowing, and weights, and stretching. Yay the Y.

[weirdquark]

Body weight exercises; tried a bunch of one legged squats (partial and assisted pistols going all the way down) and push-ups with one hand higher than the other.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, two hours climbing, and afterwards I got into mayurasana with my legs straight for the first time.

[chaobell]

X Stretch today.

[devilc]

standard arms and abdominals
1 mile on the treadmill @ 2.4mph

[vass]

Active recovery day: half a kilometre of swimming, and some stretches and rehab-type things with a friend and her list of exercises from the physio.

[ex_sunne737]

15 minutes jump rope
weights

[lyorn]

Some errands, some bicycling. Maybe 6 km?

[semielliptical]

Yoga, 30 minutes.

[willful_zephyr]

Full Moon, tonight - so taking a rest day. Actually, did some very light yoga to work out the kinks from lots of Pilates, yesterday. But, the thought was Rest Day.

[smackshack]

Crossfit kettlebells. Lots of variety in this workout. The warm-up included cartwheels, which I have not done since I was maybe 12 or 13 years old. I did ok until the last wheel, when I lost momentum right at the upside-down vertical point and fell flat on my back with a thud so loud the entire gym came to a stop for a moment.

Fortunately I only hurt my pride, and I think the volume of the thud reflected the fact that I fell flat on my whole back, and not on an easily-crumpled corner or my cranium.

The rest of the workout was hellish but I finished in time, which I don't always do, so my mortified shame is leavened with a little bit of pride on that front.