rydra_wong: 19th-C strongwoman and trapeze artist Charmion flexes her biceps while wearing a marvellous feathery hat (strength -- strongwoman)
rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [community profile] lifting_heavy_things 2010-07-10 08:02 am (UTC)

This week, I have been mostly ... [/Fast Show]:

Doing a bit of fooling around with different bodyweight or lightly-weighted squat variations: trying plie squats, goblet squats, lateral squats, and establishing that I am nowhere near flexible enough for a Cossack squat. And doing a lot of squatting in malasana trying to open out my hips. I have not figured out what's going on (or not) in my hips when I squat.

But I've found that I can use my cheapo TRX knock-off system to do very-very-assisted pistols, so w00t.

Ironically, it was only while writing this comment that I found this video, which may be my happy place for a while:

18 Bodyweight Squat Variations

Mostly, though, there's been a lot of lying around whimpering and sitting in cold baths on the days when it's too hot to move. This has not been an intense week.

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