Friday, December 10, 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

[just_ann_now]

Short elliptical session this morning; Rodney Yee tonight.

[muck_a_luck]

BTW, I meant to respond to you the other day. I love the rocking, too! :D Though the point where I breathe a sigh of relief is the standing wide-angle forward bend. That's the turing point for me. Though I realize the backbends do come after that, but for some reason it is the standing sequence I find the most killer on that DVD.

[just_ann_now]

I breathe a sigh of relief is the standing wide-angle forward bend. That's the turing point for me.

Oh, me too! Half-Moon and Warrior III are out of the way. Wheel is upcoming, but I'm confident to be good for at least 2 out of 3 for that, so it's a nice gradual roll to the end from here on out.

[zats_clear]

downward dog with my dog (and other sun salutation bits as well - extra long since my back hurts!)

[alexseanchai]

Housecleaning and groceries hauling.

ETA: The beginner 2 segment on my Yogi Marlon Brando DVD has a sequence that involves down dog, plank, cobra, down dog, possibly something else in the middle, I don't know the pose names well enough yet and she doesn't name half the poses she demonstrates. Anyway I got halfway through round three of that sequence and my arms just Would Not Play. Either I'm still tired from grocery-hauling this morning (entirely possible; two hundred thirty-four cans of seltzer et al) or my upper-body strength sucks just that much. Possibly both.

I can't even remember the last time I did any upper-body strengthening exercises other than down dog pose.

[muck_a_luck]

Sounds like a cousin of Surya Namaskar A. Nothing like the regular practice of sun salutatinos to work those arms!

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, not at all dissimilar to what's in your icon. I think I need to go back to resistance bands for a while before I try that, though.

[lullabymoon]

I had planned on getting back to the gym today, but I went shopping instead. Walking on ice ended up being my workout for the day.

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga, grocery-hauling.

[natmerc]

Crossfit Friday near suppertime. One of those long workouts where you're quite happy to go outside afterwards in the 20F weather just to cool off. No PR's and I had to do some mods but I finished it.

[zennish]

Freaking burpee pull-ups.