Wednesday, August 3, 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

Bench press: experimented a big with a barbell. 12.5*10, 20*10. Then back to the dumbbells: 15*7.
Dumbbell row: 22.5*10/side.
Dumbbell standing shoulder press: 10*10.
Side plank: 15 seconds/side. Fun.

Gym fear level: bears.

[weirdquark]

TGUs, 25lbs.

I was thinking that they inexplicably sucked more than last week, because I wasn't able to do three full sets at my ending weight from last time, but then I looked at last time and determined that I hadn't done three full sets at that weight last week either -- I started at a lower weight for the first set and moved up. So I'll start at the same weight next week.

Since my sets were shorter than I expected due to not being able to do as many reps, I threw in a few shoulder presses for fun.

[chaobell]

Shoulders & Arms, starting to carefully up my weights a bit again now that my elbow has stopped being stupid.

[rydra_wong]

TOO DAMN HOT.

Morning yoga, but otherwise calling it a rest day unless I experience a sudden surge of energy after sunset.

[devilc]

Standard arms and abdominals (with help from my cat, Alucard, who insisted on licking my belly button between sets of crunches.)

1 mile on the treadmill @2.5mph.

[ex_sunne737]

30 minutes on the elliptical

[willful_zephyr]

Pilates class over lunch. The word for the day was, 'fierce.'

[lyorn]

5 km bicycling.

[flowerstar]

Only a short walk in my break and riding the bike to and from the station ... I blame the weather (it started raining when I left work, so I opted for the train instead of the bicycle).

[semielliptical]

Yoga, 25 minutes.