Friday, August 26, 2011 Check In

[willful_zephyr]

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

[willful_zephyr]

Ashtanga yoga practice at home.

[devildoll]

Hilly hiking, 4 miles. Ankle held up well. \o/

[semielliptical]

Yoga, 20 minutes.

[smackshack]

I took a long slow walk.

[flowerstar]

28 km of cycling

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, barbells. This time, it was ALL SQUATS ALL THE TIME, and I got a new personal best in my back squat. \o/

ETA: Also, the plot thickens: it turns out that as well as the rogue 18kg bar, the free weights room also has a 22kg bar floating around. With hindsight, this may explain a lot of my workouts.

I was assured that I had one of the 20kgs on Friday, though.

This is in a gym where one of the staff previously swore that all the barbells weighed the same (after I asked, because I was pretty sure one of them was lighter than the others).

[lyorn]

I sometimes wonder about the barbells in my gym. According to the trainers, the small ones are 7 kg and the big ones 20 kg, and it is completely possible that seeming changes of weight are caused by air pressure, mood, time of day and amount of caffeine in my bloodstream, but still...

I tried to weigh them using the old cat-weighing trick, but a barbell, other than a cat, does not balance well towards centre of mass, and the scales couldn't deal with it.

[rydra_wong]

See, I know that air pressure/mood/time of day/levels of caffeine can cause drastic fluctuations in how much things weigh. As a climber, I am intimately familiar with the phenomenon of variable gravity.

It's bad enough without things varying in mass too!

[ex_sunne737]

40 min on the elliptical

[weirdquark]

Intervals on elliptical.

[lyorn]

35 km bicycling.