exercise_every_day | Monday, January 30, 2012, Check-In

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.

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From:

devilc

Standard arms and abdominals
1 mile on the treadmill at 2.4mph
1 mile round trip walk to/from work
15 minutes of walking on break.

Edited Date: 2012-01-31 04:30 pm (UTC)

rydra_wong

Rest day.

... I don't want to take a rest day. *grumps*

weirdquark

Lifting day: squats, bench, power cleans.

I really didn't want to lift this morning (though I really wanted to lift last night) but after I started I got into it and actually did extra stuff. Today was my high rep/low weight day for squats, but I'm moving back up to 100# next week, and that's where I got stuck last time, so I wanted more practice lifting heavy before I tried it. Threw in increasingly heavy singles up to 100 after my three working sets, where I did 2 reps before failure due to being tired, and then kept going. Did singles at 105 and 110 (my previous 1RM) and... still kept adding weight. I wasn't able to get the bar back up after that, but I had gotten advice that said negatives (putting 105-110% of your 1RM on the bar and just lowering it slowly) is useful, so I did a few of those too. It was awesome. Must do more negatives.

My shoulder felt a bit strained when I attempted pullups this morning, probably from pullups yesterday, but bench went fine until the last rep on the last set when my arm was all like, oh yeah, I'm strained! and I couldn't make the last rep. So close though!