Tuesday, October 18, 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

[devilc]

Standard arms and abdominals
Walked for 26 minutes on the treadmill for a distance of 1.12 miles.
(Next week my goal is 27 minutes of walking.)

[resolute]

Tai chi! As I said on Twitter, my goal is to look less "beached walrus" and more "lumbering polar bear" when I do tai chi. Oh, and, also, to tip over less than half the time I am standing on one foot.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, two and a half hours climbing.

[weirdquark]

Upper body split workout. It was nice to lift two days in a row (arms now pleasantly tired) but I may want to work on the order a bit. I wanted to do a circuit but ended up rotating through half of the exercises and then the other half because of how I needed to use the plates and ended up moving two back exercises (lat raises and bent over rows) to the end because I didn't know if I'd have time for everything and those were the ones I was most willing to cut. I did, just barely, but it meant doing similar movements instead alternating what upper body muscles I worked to give them more of a rest.

[semielliptical]

Walk/run: Couch to 5k, Week 5, day 1, followed by a short stretching session.

[eruanna]

Last week, I was sick for several days and didn't work out at all. Today, just 15 minutes of cardio and a few minutes with hand weights.