Thursday, August 25 Check-In

[rydra_wong]

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

[resolute]

Walked the dog, did some bicep and tricep work with the sledgehammer.

[rydra_wong]

Yay sledgehammers!

[resolute]

Man, I love the 8-lb sledge I bought. When I can't get to the Y, I do ALL SORTS of weight-activities with it. And all of them use more core muscles than typical free weights, since I am twisting and balancing.

[rydra_wong]

If you ever run out of ideas, I suspect a lot of clubbell exercises would work pretty well with a sledge.

[resolute]

Believe me, you are *first* on my list of people to ask for inspiration and workout ideas.

At the moment, I tend to do motions I do frequently, but holding the sledgehammer. Put away the dishes on the high shelf. Mount and aim my shotgun. Pick up the kids' legos from the floor. Shelve comics and books. That sort of thing.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, two hours climbing, 100 knuckle push-ups while watching BBC iPlayer (50 full push-ups, 50 on knees, racked up over about half an hour).

It definitely feels like my shoulders stay better aligned with the knuckle push-ups, maybe because in the version I'm doing you have your palms parallel, which externally rotates the arms and tends to keep my shoulders in a more stable position.

[willful_zephyr]

100 knuckle push-ups

Very nice.

[rydra_wong]

I thought it might be a good idea to have a mini "push" workout after climbing sessions, to get my scapula stuck back on my back.

My cunning plan is to aim to increase the percentage of the 100 that are full push-ups, and increase the number of consecutive reps before I take a break. Watching telly is a crucial part of this plan.

[willful_zephyr]

LOL. Pandora is a big part of my home workouts.

[smackshack]

Much respect for the knuckle push-ups.

[rydra_wong]

They seem to be much comfier for my shoulders than regular brand, and I figure any extra wrist stability I get out of them is a bonus.

[semielliptical]

Walk and yoga, 40 minutes each.

[lyorn]

NRoLfW, stage 3 workout B for the third time.
Also, 8 km bicycling.

[flowerstar]

28 km cycling (+ a little bit in town)

[devilc]

It's been a bad day in the hip and back department, plus, I massively stubbed my toe last night getting out of the shower.

Standard arms and abdominals
.30 miles on the treadmill at an average of 2.0 mph before I just couldn't do it any longer. :/

[weirdquark]

Intervals, bike.

[smackshack]

CrossFit Kettlebell outdid itself today, inducing dizziness, cramps in my calves, burning lungs....

Warm up with 24 kg bell: squat cleans & Russian swings

50 overhead swings @ 16 kg

21 - 15 - 9: Burpees, 8 kg KB Twists, 16 kg Goblet Squats

50 Russian swings @ 20 kg

[rydra_wong]

... holy crap. I'm not sure whether to consider that terrifying, awesome or both.

[smackshack]

It's terrifying while it happens but awesome in retrospect. :-)

The terrifying thing about kettlebells, for me, is that when I get tired and I'm pushing my limits, I fear that my grip will go, and the bell (which is typically being swung in an arc of some kind) will fly into another person, or fall on my head, or -- perhaps worst of all -- just fall with an embarrassing thud a foot in front of me because by then my moves have become pathetically weak.

[devildoll]

Ripped in 30, Level 1. Modified where needed for ankle (still! arrrgh!).

[willful_zephyr]

Ashtanga yoga. Most of the primary series.