September 27, 2010, Check-In

[muck_a_luck]

Hey, EED community!

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

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Comments

[just_ann_now]

Elliptical machine, stretches, meditation!

[dreamingpixels]

Did week 1, day 1 of the 200 Situps program. Did much better than I thought I would, with my last set maxing out at 16 situps!

[green]

yay!

[willful_zephyr]

Congrats for starting. Good luck!

[green]

I did level 2, day 4 of the 30 Day Shred.

I'm supposed to do w4d1 of c25k today. it is rainy, my knee hurts, and I don't wanna even try two five minute intervals. anybody got any great motivational advice for me?

starting over today with week one of 100 pushups. I am going to get through this program if it kills me.

[rydra_wong]

it is rainy, my knee hurts, and I don't wanna even try two five minute intervals. anybody got any great motivational advice for me?

Is the knee pain a pre-existing problem, or something new? Personally, I'd be thinking about giving it a rest and exercising other bits of the body today.

For me, it works better to take a break from something early and get back to it sooner, rather than pushing myself into aggravating an injury and being forced to take more time off in the long run.

Sometimes, you just need to take a break, and that's okay. It's not a failure.

[muck_a_luck]

Yeah. Especially knees. Screw up a knee and you could be down for weeks. Take care of it now. And especially don't go out in the rain where it might be slippery, and cause you to slip and hurt your maybe-not-so-bad-right-this-second knee.

[green]

thanks. I think I will just walk today instead of trying to run on this knee. it's not something that's bothered me before and might spring from me jumping around to 30DS.

[muck_a_luck]

I quit fooling with 30DS when I decided it was probably the reason my big toe hates me now. Yes. A toe injury.

[rydra_wong]

*nods* Ice is good if it's hurting, and so is arnica or comfrey salve.

[foreverinblue]

I did c35k w4d1 today and I felt just as bad as I did when I did w3d1 last week. I basically wanted to drop dead right there rather than keep going. But then I remembered that it got easier & when I did w3d3 on saturday I was talking to my sister while doing the run and could have gone on for another interval at the end. So hopefully by end of this week 5 minutes will not seem as long as they did today and I can move on to the next week. Not sure this is motivating for you. But it keeps me going. 4 weeks ago I would never have imagined I'd actually go for 3+ runs a week and not quit after the very first one. Hope your knee feels better soon! Don't put too much stress on it while it's hurting!

I also looked up 30 Day Shred earlier and it seems pretty exhausting but like it could work. Would you recommend it? (I'd have to import the dvd *sigh*)

Good luck with the push up program! I've been meaning to give that a try for a while but I've been putting it off since I already know how much I fail at pushups. Any advice how to get started?

[foreverinblue]

*c25k

[green]

I went for a walk instead of doing c25k. I don't want to risk hurting my knee more than it already is. :\ I will keep what you say in mind, though!

30DS is intense, but it's a great workout. I am thinking that maybe the jumping around in level 2 is what is causing my knee to hurt, though. not sure.

pushups: just jump right into the program! it's all explained on the site and it's really simple. :)

[rydra_wong]

With the push-ups: I'm not nearly organized to do the 100 push-ups program, but I know a bunch of people have been doing well by starting with wall push-ups then going to counter push-ups and then working their way down the steps of a staircase, gradually getting to floor push-ups.

Handy article:

http://www.stumptuous.com/mistressing-the-pushup

[foreverinblue]

Thanks for the link! I think I'll try and ease into the pushups by doing some of those simplified ones first.

[gb]

I've been lurking on this community but I have to say THANK YOU THANK YOU for that link. I've always had dreadful, dreadful upper-body strength and I'm too weak to do normal push-ups but until now I thought the only alternative was "girl pushups" (bleh) which were just as hard and less comfortable. Knowing I can build up my strength with wall and counter push-ups first is amazing.

I'm going to go through this site again, maybe I'll get up the nerve to post an introduction to this comm and start a proper routine in a bit. :P

Thank you again!

[rydra_wong]

Yay! Glad I could help! I recommend checking out the whole of the Stumptuous website; it's full of useful stuff like that and is one of the best resources I know for anyone starting strength training.

And welcome to the comm!

[zats_clear]

30 minute walk with Army wife whose husband has been deployed for 200 days already and still have 5 mos left...with no mid-tour leave...and two daughters at home...and this is the third deployment. Yeah. Walking was what I was thinking about, too.

[shanaqui]

Yoga and pushups!

[codyne]

Two-mile run/walk, 4x15 crunches and 2x15 pushups, stretches.

[willful_zephyr]

Was ill all weekend, and slept through most of it. So, I hardly slept at all last night.

Still got in a light yoga class at lunch. If I'm functional this evening, I'll try my exit test for the JV Level of 50 pull ups. Otherwise, I'll do it tomorrow.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, grocery-schlepping, and a day of trying to decide if the nasty cold's going to break or turn out to be nasty flu instead.

Then a low-key 40 minutes of hanumanasana work while watching documentaries on the laptop.

[thene]

Job (some heavy lifting today, but not THAT bad), then my usual run, then some bicep curls.

[semielliptical]

Evening yoga practice, about 40 minutes. No exercise yesterday, I was still under the weather and felt exhausted after just my weekly shopping and cooking.

[to_love_a_rose]

13 push ups this morning before work. It's not great, but it's a start.