Friday, November 5, 2010, 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

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, barbell time. I've tweaked a muscle or tendon in one arm so I kept the bench and overhead press light and mostly worked on maintaining my squat, and did a bunch of good mornings to keep my back happy. I foresee some time spent with an anatomy book working out what I've disgruntled so I can re-gruntle it again.

In more cheerful news, I almost got a fifth consecutive pull-up (my chin didn't quite make it over the bar). And I've started using the assisted pull-up machine to work towards one-armed pull-ups. The unilateral movement is important for climbing, and I've noticed that my right arm is doing more than its fair share of the work in pull-ups, so I want to get my left arm (literally) pulling its weight.

[willful_zephyr]

Yay! For the pull ups. One handed? Yikes! That's impressive to even try.

[rydra_wong]

That's with huge amounts of assistance right now. *g* But I figure any improvement in that direction is a good thing, climbing-wise. And it might also help the regular pull-ups if I can get my left arm in on the action some more.

(Also I am a pathetic John Gill fangirl.)