What did you do today? March 14

[banshee]

OK, last night I got in about half of my upper body workout and then had to stop because my shoulder/neck started acting up. I have a feeling I'm going to have to be careful with my neck. I tend to tense up those muscles when doing the upper body workouts that involve the shoulders, and I don't think they're up to a lot of workout yet. So last night I did pull ups, arm pullovers and side pulldowns. Tonight I'm going to do the other half of my upper body - chest presses, lat rows, lat pulldowns, and triceps pulldowns and pressdowns.

I think it was a good thing I stopped when I did - my sinuses were going nuts this morning, so apparently there is still some mold down in the basement. Doing more days of smaller exercises is I think going to be the norm until it fully clears out down there.

[hawk]

You bead and bend over your work and use your arms and probably tense your shoulders. I sew and paint. I have the same problems. I do a martial arts rotator cuff stretch that helps. I bring my elbows out to the side shoulder height with my thumbs down. I rotate the left thumb under my armpit as I rotate the right thumb back over my shoulder. The thumbs should stay on your skin,then you reverse it and slowly rotate your thumbs to the opposite position bringing your right thumb in front of your shoulder and down under your arm and your left thumb up and back over your left shoulder.Your elbows stay out in the same position and do not move. I do 200 a day for kick boxing.
There are plenty of other shoulder stretches. They feel really good when you lift weights.
I worked out my lower body last night and rode a bike for about 50 minutes today and then did my ab bootcamp.

[Shadow]

For me it was low step cardio and abs/core.

[Mitra]

I had an unscheduled rest day :rolleyes:. The same thing happened last Tuesday. I think I need to plan my exercise for the morning on Tuesdays, since leaving it until the afternoon doesn't seem to be working at the moment.