August 14, 2010, Check-In Post

[muck_a_luck]

Hey, EED community!

Here is your daily check-in post! I thank my children for having me up to do my yoga at 6:30 on a Saturday. Though I could have been thanking my cat for having me up to do my yoga at 5:00 on a Saturday, except when she tried that out on me, I put her in the bathroom and went back to bed. Alas, you can't lock your four-year-old in the bathroom, or they send some around to the house...

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Comments

[adelheid]

15 minute workout at the (ex)-gym when I went in to cancel my membership there. Alternated 1 1/2 minute brisk walk with 2 minute jogs. That was all the time I could spare in a fairly busy afternoon. 3500 steps recorded on my pedometer, but I didn't have it on during the morning grocery shopping trip.

[shanaqui]

Whoops, comment went in the wrong place. Good going, you, especially for a busy day!

[just_ann_now]

Elliptical machine, stretches, meditation. 108 pushups coming up later today.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

[shanaqui]

Have fun with the pushups! And good going with the other stuff.

[sapote]

PT! Did my PT! I need to upgrade to the more resistant-y band soon, too.

Hey, I want to thank the comm for keeping stuff about food changes behind cuts. This is the first time I've participated in an exercise discussion with that rule, and I just want to say it's really really helpful to me. Thanks!

[shanaqui]

Yay you!

[shanaqui]

Ran and did some yoga this morning. Have discovered that my hamstrings are much less problematic if I spend some time in legs up the wall pose for a while before doing yoga. Will try and incorporate doing that into my day, because my forward bends were much better after doing it for only five minutes, last night...

[muck_a_luck]

Interesting!

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, a couple of 20-minute yoga podcasts, and assorted push-ups (in sets of 10, which is new for me).

[muck_a_luck]

Hee! The results of the push-ups peer-pressure. :D

[rydra_wong]

Seriously! Previously, 5 full push-ups was my absolute limit. So the peer pressure has made a drastic difference!

[lullabymoon]

Just some stretches today, although I did walk a lot more at work.

[muck_a_luck]

Glad you're feeling better. :)

[semielliptical]

About an hour of yoga, with 2 yoga journal podcasts (arms and backbends.) It's so much easier for me to focus in my yoga practice and keep going with a guiding voice.

I wish I could shut my early-morning cat in the bathroom! But she gets frantic when behind a closed door, so instead I let her roam about and yell at me while I wear earplugs.

[muck_a_luck]

Earplugs. An excellent thought.

In all these years, I have only done a couple of really serious yoga practices on my own. I mean, sure, maybe some arm stretches or backbends to get the kinks out at work, but I definitely find it very freeing to let someone tell me what to do, as well as how long to hold postures, so that I can just focus on breathing and not have to think about what to do next.

[alphaviolet]

I'm back to exercising (carefully). Today, I spent an hour at a local park.