Wednesday, February 14, 2018

2-13-18 (Tuesday) HY: ChaLEAN Extreme - Extreme Intervals + Extreme Abs + TCF + Ab EMS.

2-13-18 (Tuesday) HY: ChaLEAN Extreme - Extreme Intervals + Extreme Abs + TCF + Ab EMS.

Thanks to my schedule change, I was able to get home a little early today, and I was feeling a little tired, but good, so instead of relaxing and having a little snack as I normally would, I went directly to my workout preparation and then to my workout.  Today would normally be Pickle-Ball day, but that moved to Thursday, so That means Wednesday and Thursday will be sports days, and that leaves today as a Wild Card Day.  Since I did resistance yesterday, I didn't want to do weights today.  Also, because the next two days will be sports days, I really didn't want to do an all-out cardio day either.  So, what to do?  I finally decided on a mixed routine of cardio and light weights.  And since I haven't done it too many times, I chose Extreme Intervals.  There was one thing that also influenced my decision to not do another resistance day, and that was what happened when I woke up.  When I woke up this morning, I had a wrenching tightness and pain in my left lat.  The pain made it hard to take a full breath in.  Bending to the left also was painful.  Thinking back on yesterday, the only thing that I can think of that might cause this was the very first move of yesterday's workout in the regular routine, the Cross-Body Chops.  I vaguely remember a little pull in my lat, in the first few reps but it didn't hurt at the moment at all.  It didn't hurt at all for the rest of the day yesterday either.  So, today was rather a struggle.  I was also a bit sore in my upper chest.  But that was nothing in comparison to my lat.  Anyway, I made it to my workout and then I started off. 

The workout was fun.  I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times, I love the routines that combine weights and cardio.  This is one of them.  I was plugging through the routine, which is about 40 minutes long, and at the point where 23 minutes or so was left, as I was getting up from the floor after doing the Dumbbell Chest Press, I suddenly felt a cold sweat, and I began to feel my strength sort of gush out of me.  I could feel my muscles just sort of releasing all their strength.  I've had this happen a couple times before, but this is the first time it happened in the middle of a home workout.  I was crashing.  I happened to have a Protein Bar on hand and so I stopped the DVD and ate it.  I just sat on my Swiss Ball for a few moments and slowly I felt my strength coming back.  As soon as I felt up to it, I got back to the workout.  Cardio was up next, so I did it a little modified.  And that was not because of what happened, it was because I didn't have enough room to do the full range of motion in the move.  But I slowly felt better all the way until the end.  I never felt fully energized, but enough to get through the routines.  As I look back, my legs were toast right from the beginning.  The first series involved variations of Squats, and my legs started feeling it right away.  I guess I missed the signs.  But I'll need to be more careful to gas up before any workout.    Crashing is no fun.  But that notwithstanding, the cardio sections got my heart pumping and the weighted sections got my muscles burning.  It was a good routine. 

Then, abs.  I wanted to get in some regular abs, so I stuck with Chalene and did another Extreme.  It was good, and I got the burn several times during that short 15-minute routine.  I finished off with a good Flow series and then EMS later in the evening.

In the end, I burned over 550 kcals.  I think it could have been more had I not gassed out in the middle.  Lesson learned.

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