W11D4, Yoga Shred Challenge, Day 6 + P90X3-X3 Yoga + Splits + Tai Cheng Flow.

W11D4, Yoga Shred Challenge, Day 6 + P90X3-X3 Yoga + Splits + Tai Cheng Flow.

Today I was focusing on getting rid of my soreness.  After three days of hard and heavy and focused weights, I was quite sore.  So instead of pushing more and putting myself at risk of injury, or worsening my back and wrist injury, I went with a more centering and calming and loosening workout.

I was thinking to forgo the Yoga Shred today so as not to double up on yoga, but I figured that it is still in my wheelhouse of getting rid of my soreness so I went with it.  It was short and sweet and gave me a good warm up for the next round of yoga.

I really missed this routine. I hadn't done a pure yoga routine for a while so I was excited about getting back to it.  Getting started, I was doing pretty well.  My back issue didn't allow me to go for the range of motion limits I would have liked to go for with this routine, but I was able to keep up with Tony.  Not doing any PiYo or Yoga for almost two weeks, I lost some balance. That was especially noticeable on my Half-moon pose and twisted half-moon.  My hands out warrior three was also not very good.  But the biggest Uh-Oh happened when I went for the wrap.  Something instantly cramped up in my right shoulder and a shock of pain shot out.  Either a muscle didn't reposition for the move and it got pinched or something like that, because the pain came the instant I connected my hands and started to lift my shoulder.  Luckily, after shaking it out a bit, the pain went away and I don't seem to have any residual effects.  We'll see how it fairs tomorrow.  The Toe Grab Bind move was also not good, but better than I had expected.  Overall, aside from that one incident, great loosening up and calming stretch that was much need was had.

As usual, the splits and Flow were the perfect way to end my workout.