Weekly Feature: What did you do?

[cereta]

I can't believe I almost forgot this! What did you do this week?

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[cereta]

I did my usual chair lifts and ledge push-ups, but what I'm really excited about is that on Tuesday and Thursday both, I held an elbow plank for sixty seconds. I attempted a second Thursday and failed at 40 seconds, although that was in part because the WiiFit board was slipping on the carpet. I need a yoga mat, I think.

[rydra_wong]

I held an elbow plank for sixty seconds.

Rock on! \o/

[rydra_wong]

I DID THREE CONSECUTIVE DEADHANG PULL-UPS.

I am particularly smug because I only did two for the first time last week, and, looking back at old DW entries, I found that at the start of May I was still whinging about not being able to do one.

[zennish]

YAY! *wave-y arms of joy*

[lyorn]

Home workout! Two each of 45 second elbow planks (second nearly killed me), 45 seconds "superman" pose, 15 push-ups on the 40-cm-chest, 6 horizontal pull-ups, 9 chair dibs, and 13 vertical leg crunches.

And carrying lots of water...

[urbanoceanix]

I went to the gym again tonight, after going monday and aching a lot since. I used hand weights monday, and a few machines today - I need to investigate and find out what it is I'm doing precisely.

[zennish]

Crossfit (2x, 7 rounds of oh-god-why sumo deadlift high-pulls and push-presses, 45 lb), stairs, 2x.

and I learned why it's a bad reason to throw yourself head-first into pull-ups when you ain't used to them. ow, my rotator cuffs.

[rydra_wong]

Owww. Look after your rotator cuff muscles -- they are tiny and fragile and carry bitter grudges, the little fuckers.

[lydiabell]

I only got to the gym once this week, but I did manage to up the weight I was using for several of my exercises. Especially lower-body exercises, but I improved a couple of the upper-body ones too.

[rydra_wong]

\o/

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I was on vacation last week, which largely consisted of helping my best friend move. On Tuesday, as we were moving everything into and out of the U-Haul I literally thought (and commented to my best friend), "Well this will be my answer for this week's 'What did you do?' on the lifting_heavy_things dw comm."

After church last night (back at home), we were setting up for dinner, and someone was pulling out a large table and I asked, "Do you want a hand with that?" He replied, "I'd like some muscle." (Not as an implication that I didn't have muscle to offer, just a joking literalism as to what he needed.) When I helped him carry it, he grunted approvingly :)

[rydra_wong]

\o/

Ultimate functional strength: lifting heavy stuff that needs to be lifted!

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as I was helping carry things on Tuesday (especially as I was failing to be able to be much help in moving things like futons and bookcases that didn't have anywhere to usefully grip) I was definitely thinking of the theme here of valuing functional strength.