Check-in Post Oct 11, 2011

[devilc]

Hey, EED community!

Here is your daily check-in post! Hope everyone is having a great day!

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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.

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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.

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Comments

[devilc]

Standard arms and abdominals.
26 minutes on the treadmill at an average of 2.65mph, for 1.09 miles

1 mile to/from work
Unpacking and organizing the rest of my cubicle.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, two and a half hours climbing.

[zing_och]

Walking. In the rain. Uphill both ways

[weirdquark]

Warmup and stabilization exercises from NRoLfA.

[semielliptical]

Walk/run: Couch to 5k, Week 4, day 1. This is the first time that the transition to a new week felt difficult. It included two 5-minute runs and I didn't make it to 5 minutes either time. I realized that I'm used to being able to *see* the end of run, ahead on my path, and visualize when I would switch back to walking. I panicked a bit when the longer runs felt endless. (Yes, apparently "over 3 minutes" = "endless" for me!)

Yoga to cool down after.

[vass]

Swimming, 1km!

[smackshack]

You know, I think half the pleasure I derive from my CrossFit classes comes from the fact that I can whimper and moan about them at length on this com, and so far nobody has told me to shut up. For that, I thank you. And after taking a week off because of illness, today's session seems to have given me a lot to whimper and moan about, including some new exercises I'd never tried before.

WARM-UP
Fast feet, high knees, jumping jacks
Bear walk around the gym
Reverse bear walk around the gym
Spider crawl around the gym
Prisoner walk around the gym
3 X (10 push-ups & 10 squats)
2 X (10 virtual swings, 10 x 16 kg KB cleans from ground, 10 x 16 kg Russian swings

WORK-OUT
4 rounds of the following (which took me a bit over 20 minutes to finish):

• 10 X parallette bar hand step-up thing [1]
• 10 x hot-potato squat w/ 20 kg KB [2]
• 5 x 16 kg KB overhead press (per arm) [3]
• 10 x overhead lunge w/20 kg KB for the first two rounds and 16 kg KB for the second two rounds [4]

[1] I'm not sure what the exact name for this was, but you hold a plank position while "stepping" up on the parallette bar and down again with your hands. The extra zing for this exercise comes from a rubber tension band on your wrists that you have to fight against to keep your hands spread apart.

[2] Hold a kettlebell in the racked position on your chest. Every time you reach the apex of your squat, use your rising momentum to flip the kettlebell from one arm to the other, and use the dropping motion of the squat to cushion the landing of that kettlebell on the receiving arm. (Strong motivation not to pause during the squatting routine!)

[3] The overhead press is made harder by the fact that you're not allowed to use the handle on the kettlebell. Balance the canonball bit on your palm and try not to drop it on your head when you get tired.

[4] Snatch the kettlebell and hold it overhead in one hand, then do a series of lunges. Switch hands for each series. I found that I was able to do the 20kg bell on the first two rounds, but I couldn't hold it for the last two, so I downgraded to the 16kg bell.

[resolute]

CrossFit is, as far as I can tell, *of the devil*. Whine away!

[smackshack]

It totally is! But for some reason I seem to respond to sadism...just as long as I can whine about it later and beg for sympathy. :-D

[ex_sunne737]

Stretching and planks at home

[resolute]

Walked my dog for a half hour in our hilly neighborhood.