Friday, August 19, 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]

19 minutes intervals, elliptical. Switched to alternating between one minute high resistance and one minute low resistance instead of two, which I think is much better for doing intervals on the elliptical; so not up to doing the same on the bike. Will be working on increasing my speed more on the high resistance bits -- it's not nearly as slow as it used to be, but it's not as fast as it could be either.

[chaobell]

Cardio X.

[resolute]

Rowing today, and stretching.

I have these weird lumps on my ankles and calves. I realized this week that they are *muscles*, under the existing fat. Woot!

[rydra_wong]

W00t! It's an excellent feeling to look at new muscle and think: I MADE THAT, ALL BY MY OWN EFFORTS.

Though I then have to remember not to go round poking at the exciting new lumps in public.

[smackshack]

Excellent! Bravo! Keep up the good work!

[lyorn]

\o/ !

The discovery that I could get real, actual, *visible* muscles was what got me hooked on strength training. :-)

[flowerstar]

14 km biking

[ex_sunne737]

Rest Day, still have troubles walking from my exercises on Tuesday.

[lyorn]

5 km bicycling, 1 1/4 km swimming.

By the end of summer, I want to be back to swimming what I usually did at the *beginning* of summer, i.e. 2 km.

Whoops, forgot to post this before I went to sleep

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga. Then it was hot and I didn't want to go to the gym and my legs were still achy from last time, so I decided to take the advice I was handing out to dorothean and did planks and side planks and inverted rows and more plank variants and then an exercise that I don't have a name for, the one where you do a side plank (on your hand) and your top arm does a reverse flye, with as much torso rotation as possible.

And I got a new personal best for my elbow plank time! \o/

[illariy]

Had a non-exercise day today :-/ but did at least get in the usual ~45 min of cycling and climbing 4 flights of stairs with heavy bags after grocery shopping. So better than nothing. I sure hope to do more on Saturday or Sunday, though, especially push ups and planks!

[smackshack]

Practiced the "hollow body position," did planks, then took a 5K run.