W9D4, PiYo: Define Lower + SPS P3 HEAVY Weights 1 + Splits + Tai Cheng Flow.

W9D4, PiYo: Define Lower + SPS P3 HEAVY Weights 1 + Splits + Tai Cheng Flow.
Nice relaxing day. Went to work, went price hunting for a second tennis racket, when out to eat with my wife, went to see my daughter at her "Work Experience" place, relaxed at home, worked out, relaxed, baked banana bread. Day in a nutshell.
I really like doing the "Define" routines as a warm up. Got a good stretch and warmed up my body in only 20 minutes. I think it will be a regular thing until ...SPS is finished.

Today, started the 3-day cycle again. I was quite sore all over today, but especially my back. Actually, my back was a bit painful after yesterdays workout. Double the back work because I replaced the leg press machine move with weighted squats when there was already dead lifts in the beginning. But a good night of sleep took a lot of the soreness away. I went up in weights for the chest press. Getting the weights up is the problem. Since I don't have a barbell bench, I use dumbbells and a balance ball. I wanted to do 25x2kgs but I couldn't get them up the first time, so I went with 22.5kgs. Then I asked my son to spot me with the 25's. He had no idea what he was doing and almost pushed me backwards off the balance ball. I went down to 23.75kgs on the next two sets, but I really wanted to get 25kgs so on the final set, I went for it, and nailed it. The actual press was easy, but getting the dumbbells up and down was tricky. All the other moves were fine, increasing the rep count in the sets. Good pump and burn.
Splits were good. I'm really having to breath through the pain, but I feel I can push more on the side splits. I have to be careful on the straddle splits because of my knees. The first time through I feel more latent pain, but the pain is mostly gone the second time around. So I don't push too hard the first time, but go for the limit on the second time. Starting to put together a good system.
I was pleased with the flow today. I was very stable and smooth.
STORY: The other day I was putting on my pants and as usual, without looking I tightened my belt without looking. But this time, I couldn't find the hole. When I looked down, I was about an inch passed the last hole. I was like, WHOA!!! Losing the spare tire little by little!