9-25-17 (Monday) HY: 10 Minute Trainer - Total Body + Lower Body + Abs + Arm Shaper + Lower Back Strengthening + TCF.

9-25-17 (Monday) HY: 10 Minute Trainer - Total Body + Lower Body + Abs + Arm Shaper + Lower Back Strengthening + TCF.

Vacation is over, so it's back to work.  Today was my first day back and my first class of second semester.  Nothing too hard.  I always used to dislike the first week of a new semester because of the "Getting back into the saddle" feeling.  But today, it was easy, like I never took a vacation.  Nice!  When I got home, I started my workout right away.

I was looking for something to spread out my YAYOG with, but I didn't want to do weights just yet.  So, I figured that I hadn't done 10MT for a long time, so I went from the top with the first DVD.  The first DVD had three routines on it, so I figured I'd bang out a quick 30 minutes and be done with it.  I went with the heaviest band and it  was extremely tough.  I probably should have gone a little lighter, but I didn't want to take the time to reset the handles on a different band, so I stuck with it.  There were some easy moves in Total Body, but the strength moves were a lot tougher than I remember.  The Presses, the static curls, and others really got me a great pump and burn.   Talk about burn, Lower Body totally fried out my legs.  The burn was so intense on all the squat moves, and the two band moves at the end just crushed me.  Major BURN!  I was actually planning to give my abs a break today, but Abs was on the disk, so I went with it.  I was doing fine, until that Three-Point Plank move.  For a whole minute, seems easy and short, but it is neither easy, nor did it seem short.  I felt like forever. In the last 30-seconds, I had to take a lot of breaks and stretch out my shoulders in Child's Pose.  But I didn't get too much of a burn in my abs, but I was feeling it in my whole core.  Great KILLER series of routines from Tony.

For my Arm Shaper, I went with Military Push-Ups.  NEW RECORD!!! I went and pumped out 50 Straight.  I was actually going for only 40 reps, but when I hit 40, I was still feeling good, so I kept on going.  Then I hit a wall at 43, and the last 7 were extremely brutal.  Slow reps, all of them.  A huge struggle just to get them out.

I did only one round of the Lower Back Strengthening because with the 10MT Abs, my core was already feeling worn.  I went through all the moves at 12 reps, and I used the 7.5kgs for the Good Mornings.  Good round.  The Flow series topped everything off nicely.

In the end, I torched a surprising 825kcals.  But I guess I shouldn't be surprised because the workout was a lot more grueling than I had expected it would be.