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

[yvi]

Thanks for the tips!

And yeah, I think I might train with the broomstick on the days that I am running or something, so that I can get that exercise down. I have rheumatoid arthritis (((not in an active flare, though, so I can do exercises just as everyone else, and am actually under doctor's orders to build up some muscles to protect my joints, before anyone here lectures me))), so I need to pay attention to my joints. No point in damaging them when my body can do that all by itself ;)

[daedala]

Even on the days you are running, you might consider dropping the weights on the squats a lot, or only doing bodyweight squats, until you have the form nailed. Protecting knees is important!

Stumptuous.com has a lot of good advice on why and how to squat.

[yvi]

Even on the days you are running, you might consider dropping the weights on the squats a lot, or only doing bodyweight squats, until you have the form nailed.

I suppose you mean 'not'? I guess I'll see how my knee feels in two days. I've never had problems with them before and I ran yesterday, so it might also be from that and they just need a day to recover. I can't really pinpoint whether it's joint or muscle pain, which leads me to believe it might be muscle soreness. I have arthritis, I know joint pain ;)

Thanks for the links. I think I already read half of them, but not the others. I find things a bit hard to find on Stumptuous.com.

[daedala]

Oh, um, yeah.

The Stumptuous site was redesigned a few years ago and I give up -- I use google with site:stumptuous.com if I want to find something. Even stuff I know is there is hard to find. Grr.