Weekly Feature: What did you do?

[cereta]

I thought it might be fun to have a weekly post where people could comment with what strength training they did this week. It could be a fun way get ideas, cheer each other one, and help our members keep track of their own work.

I'm keeping the title completely neutral, because I want this to be as broad as possible. You can go into detail, you can talk about something new you did or an increase of some kind, or you can just report time or days or whatever makes you happy.

Comment away!

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Despite the comm title, I don't think I've actually lifted anything heavy in the past week *g*.

I recently recovered from a virus, so exercise (apart from climbing) has been fairly informal and haphazard: mostly whatever I feel like playing around with at home and have the energy for.

I've been doing sets of push-ups at random intervals through the day on a "greasing the groove" basis (note: this is not a porno title, really -- it's a strategy for increasing reps by picking a number that's well below your limit, so you don't go anywhere near failure, and then practicing it a lot; I thought I'd experiment with it and see if it works for me).

Oh, and working on pull-ups: doing negatives at home, and practising the very bottom of the movement (from a deadhang, the bit where you have to engage your back muscles) at the climbing wall, where they have a nice metal pole you can hang off in the training area. I WILL GET MY PULL-UP BACK ONE DAY DAMMIT.

And a few bodyweight squats with a broomstick, because good squatting form was one of the big things I learnt from the workshop I attended, and I'm determined to engrave it in my muscle memory. There's a whole thing about sitting down between my legs rather than on top of them (yes, I know this makes no sense in words) that was a revelation to me.