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

[azurelunatic]

I am new! And I am going to see if joining a friendly community will help me find some consistency.

Today I hauled 42 lbs of kitty litter up some horrible little stairs, and did other various and assorted lifting of said kitty litter incidental to its purchase and transport; also assorted lifting of 36+ lbs of soda, and just now a few gratuitous sets of a few reps of getting-out-of-the-chair lifts.

[cereta]

Dude, kitty litter counts. Heck, I'll be lifting bags of dirt tomorrow;).

[rydra_wong]

Kitty litter totally counts. There are hardcore gyms that make sandbags just to do exercises equivalent to lifting and hauling kitty litter (wrestling an unwieldy heavy bag being an especially demanding form of strength training).

[azurelunatic]

The kitty litter was in these 14lb discrete slippery packages, so I put them in one of those blessedly handy IKEA bags and slung it over my shoulder. At this point I'm pleased and surprised that I can sling that about like it ain't no thing. (And I'm also very surprised that the phrasing there came out of my mouth, but that was the phrasing that my head insisted on.) But it's good to know that there's a benefit from wrestling with a big bag!

kitty litter and rewards of strength training

[lyorn]

I get kitty litter in paper bags, (which are not slippery, at least) and a lot cheaper at 20 kilos than at 10, so there's some gain from strength training already.

Also, I had a class on handling fire extinguishers at work, and I could swing those things around as if they weighed no more than *snerk* 3 lbs, and actually concentrate on the fire instead of on the lifting.