Wednesday, August 17, 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

[weirdquark]

Weights. Did a new routine that was supposed to only take ~20 min and it did in fact only take 20 min, which was awesome. It also throws in back squats, which I haven't done for a while. The last time I did squats back in stage 1, I was using dumbbells, but I recently acquired a barbell and jury-rigged something so I sort of have a squat rack, so I can now do front and back squats without being limited by how much I can curl the weight to my shoulders. Legs not feeling it, probably because I had no idea how much I could squat with a weight on my back. So I started low and added ten pounds each set. The last set felt like it was about at what I could do for the number of reps that I was doing, so we'll see how it goes when I do three sets at that weight rather than having what was basically an extended warm-up.

[rydra_wong]

Yay for a sort-of squat rack! Makes so much difference.