First Daily Dare of 2017! (Jan 02 - Feb 04)

[Elastigirl]

Did the squats hold. Tried for EC, but ack the quad pain got to me. Did 1:00, the 45s then 15 s. Seemed like with the 45 seconds I could just make myself keep going, but I was falling over, so I had to stop

[Rhovaniel]

Did this in about four stages, so just the 1 point for me. Still felt good when my stopwatch hit 2 minutes though  

[Arcalia]

Wow that was horrible, but I was very happy that my first set was 55 seconds...better than I expected.  These first 2 days have been horrible for a newbie...but doing them is always better than doing nothing.  I'm looking forward to tomorrow's.

[Elastigirl]

16 minutes ago, Arcalia said:

Wow that was horrible, but I was very happy that my first set was 55 seconds...better than I expected.  These first 2 days have been horrible for a newbie...but doing them is always better than doing nothing.  I'm looking forward to tomorrow's.

Are you new to exercising? And you did 55 seconds-that's super impressive. I managed 60 seconds but thought I was going to die, and I've been doing BW exercises for a bit.

[jmk]

In for silver this time

[Arcalia]

5 hours ago, Elastigirl said:

Are you new to exercising? And you did 55 seconds-that's super impressive. I managed 60 seconds but thought I was going to die, and I've been doing BW exercises for a bit.

 

Not really, but I mostly lift very heavy stuff...I don't do much body weight work except for warmups.  But my old trainer loved using the Sally Goes Up thing for warmups, so we got lots of practice in the bottom of a sit.  I freaking' hate that song. 

[Morag]

2 hours ago, Arcalia said:

 

Not really, but I mostly lift very heavy stuff...I don't do much body weight work except for warmups.  But my old trainer loved using the Sally Goes Up thing for warmups, so we got lots of practice in the bottom of a sit.  I freaking' hate that song. 

 

Riiiiiggghhht? I freakin' love that song.

 

 

 

 

Oh and daily dare 60sec reverse plank hold done. I thought I would die. But I didn't. 3 dares 3 extra credits... boooyaa!

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"Travel lightly, for what you bring with you becomes part of your landscape." -Anne Bishop

[jonfirestar]

13 hours ago, Rhovaniel said:

Did this in about four stages, so just the 1 point for me. Still felt good when my stopwatch hit 2 minutes though  

at least I'm not the only one

 

5 hours ago, Arcalia said:

 

Not really, but I mostly lift very heavy stuff...I don't do much body weight work except for warmups.  But my old trainer loved using the Sally Goes Up thing for warmups, so we got lots of practice in the bottom of a sit.  I freaking' hate that song. 

 

Have you done that with pushups? That's freaking brutal.

 

 

Reverse planks with EC done! I had to use chalk to stop my hands from sliding all over the mat but once I did that it was fairly cool to hold.

[Infinity.Creates]

Reverse plank hold was utterly brutal but I managed it!

And can I just say how fabulous it is to be so far down in the rankings! People!

[Jarric]

I'm in again, after totally failing to meet my goal on this last time I'll try and do a bit better this time around!

 

Also, belated congratulations to @jonfirestar for getting Daredevil on the last challenge!

[jonfirestar]

3 minutes ago, Jarric said:

I'm in again, after totally failing to meet my goal on this last time I'll try and do a bit better this time around!

 

Also, belated congratulations to @jonfirestar for getting Daredevil on the last challenge!

 

I'm sure you'll hit it this time

 

and thanks. Although I think Darebee is on to me this time. Those squat holds just sucked.

 

 

[fit927589452]

done with EC

[Inazea]

My expectations yesterday were that I'd ace the squat hold but I had to split it up into 2x 1 minute. Today I thought I'd do horrible with the reverse plank but could easily hold it for one more minute. I guess this challenge will be full of surprises for me.

[Rhovaniel]

Reverse plank wasn't something I'd heard of before. I figured that doing the Daily Dares might introduce me to a few new exercises here and there, but it's only the second day for me! Got it done in one go. Might even add that one into a home bodyweight workout when I can't get to the gym  

[x Valkyrie x]

Done with EC! It was a nice stretch for my biceps, guess I've been living in my little flexed-elbows position for a while! (i.e. phone, video games, and at work)

[Jarric]

Revers plank done with EC. I've done this once before, for the Daily Dare PvP early last year!

[Elastigirl]

I tried it and got to about 20 seconds , and got a massive foot cramp After stretching my foot, I decided to give it another go, and was able to hold it for 60 seconds.

[Merrin]

Reverse plank, no EC. My triceps crapped out 45 seconds in, I waited about twenty minutes, then did the second half.

[Morag]

Haven't I said Darebee is gonna kick me? I have started the dare... 50 (25/25) side planks... 5/25 so far. Damn they are hard! (or I'm soft in the obliques ;-P )

[Alcnedlor]

25/25 Side bridges... I was really glad it was not 30/30 for I don't think I would have succeeded the EC

[Rhovaniel]

All done for today, in stages of 10-10-5 each side. That started off easy and got hard very quickly!

[Morag]

Done too, 5/5 10/10 and just now another 10/10.

Consider me humbled.

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"Travel lightly, for what you bring with you becomes part of your landscape." -Anne Bishop

[Infinity.Creates]

I think I cheated a bit with just laying my spare arm against my side, but those yoga side stretches were probably really good for this

[Elastigirl]

52 minutes ago, IAmInfinite said:

I think I cheated a bit with just laying my spare arm against my side, but those yoga side stretches were probably really good for this

I did it this way too. Didn't notice that the picture has him with his spare arm in front. Not sure if that would have made it harder?

[Elastigirl]

I decided to go back and try the way his spare arm was in the picture. I don't think it changed the level of difficulty, both ways seemed pretty tough to me. A good way to get the blood pumping on a cold winter day.