Tuesday, August 16, 2011, Check-In

[weirdquark]

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 (or someone else) 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

[weirdquark]

Intervals on the elliptical.

I've been doing intervals on the bike, so I haven't used the elliptical for a while. I had set up a program where I do two minutes at a low resistance and then a minute at a higher resistance. I can tell that my legs are stronger than they were the last time I used the program because while the higher resistances I had picked weren't all easy, none of them were difficult either. So as an interval program it wasn't great, but it was a pretty cool measure of progress.

[chaobell]

Core Synergistics. So did not want to work out this morning. Did it anyway. Still kind of wish I'd slept in, but know I would have felt crappy if I had.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, three hours climbing, 100 pushups on knuckles and knees.

ETA: And I discovered I can do a bottoms-up TGU with my little kettlebell. And I wrote a DVD review: Fitness: now with anarchy, cats, and zombies.

[devilc]

Standard arms and abdominals
25 minutes on the treadmill at an average speed of 2.5mph -- did 1.09 miles.

[ex_sunne737]

Body Weigth Exercises, mostly burpees.

[kayim]

A 40 minute walk at lunch time, and a 15 min lower body workout on the Wii.

[semielliptical]

Walk, 40 minutes.

[lyorn]

10 km bicycling.

[willful_zephyr]

Ashtanga yoga, primary sequence. Finally, ooohh finally, can get my shoulders into the right place for pincha mayurasana. Unfortunately, only after all the work - so I'm too tired to hold it more than a few breaths. But, I'm not fighting to hold the pose - at least for today. Tomorrow will be tomorrow.

Also, I gave kurmasana a try, and was very surprised at how far I went down, and how comfortable it was. Still working on bhujapidasana, but was more stable than last week.

[dorothean]

I'm new! I joined because I just came back from a vacation in which I hiked a lot, remembered how much I love it, and decided that I don't want to lose the strength that I gained.

Today I hiked the longest trail around the highest point in the county (called a mountain, really a glorified hill): a bit over two miles in one hour.

[mackiedockie]

2200 meters on the rowing machine, solid round on the weight machines.

[mixofsun]

Walked for about half an hour, and then did a few minutes on the stepper.