W9D6, PiYo: Sweat (2) + SPS P3 HEAVY Weights 3 + Splits + Tai Cheng Flow.

W9D6, PiYo: Sweat (2) + SPS P3 HEAVY Weights 3 + Splits + Tai Cheng Flow.

A good day, relaxed and no time crunch whatsoever.

For my warm up today, I did the first two sections of Sweat, the warm up and Heat.  It just a bit under 10 minutes so a good warm up for the SPS P3 routine to come.

Second time around for this routine and no babying this time, started with the heavy heavy weights.  Barely getting up on the last rep each time. Really had to grit it out.  Interesting combination of moves this time. Shoulders, Legs and Biceps.  On the Squat to Presses, I am very happy with my range of motion on the squats, getting a lot lower than 90degrees. Started out with 17kgsx2 and my legs were feeling it.  Went up 2.5kgsx2 on the final set. 17kgsx2 was a good weight so I stayed with it for the bicep curls... all five sets. Couldn't have done any heavier.  It was HEAVY!!!  Needed a lot of mid-set breaks to get all the way through, hit failure a couple times but gutted it out.  The final move, the leg presses changed to weighted squats, I did the 5x pyramid. Started with 25kgsx2 then took off 2.5kgs 7x.  Went down to 12kgsx2. My legs were like jelly afterwards, but they weren't in pain. Now, a few hours after the routine, I am feeling some major fatigue in my quads and hammys.  Sign of a great workout!

I went with a splits prep stretch a friend of my recommended and wow, it was great. About 10 minutes longer than my usual splits training routine, but since I had the time today, I went for it and wow, it really showed me several holes in my stretch routine. If you want to see the routine, I can send you the link from YouTube.  I'll probably stick with this routine for a while and see if there is any change. I really saw the lack of flexibility in my hip flexors. I was stretching them only from a few angles, but this added a couple more angles that I wasn't doing and man! was it tough.  But glad I found out now and started doing it now instead of in December.

The flow was good.  But again, on the left side, I lost my balance on the same move. I didn't go down, but it broke the fluidity of the flow.  Next set was much smoother.  Great way to blast into the weekend and my off day.  According to the SPS program guide, I'm not supposed to take a break, but to 12 days straight, but that is something I cannot do. I need my off day to protect from injury so I'm taking my regularly scheduled off day.

Happy Weekend, Everyone!