HY: ChaLEAN Extreme: Burn Circuit 1 + Splits + TCF.

HY: ChaLEAN Extreme: Burn Circuit 1 + Splits + TCF.

Started a new program today from the first full week of the month. I sort of wanted to get back into the BB weight lifting game so I went with the program that put the love for weights in me!  I got out my old worksheets so I could see what kind of weights I was lifting the last time I did the program and I was shocked. I didn't have the confidence to lift that heavy now.  This time through as a hybrid, I an not planning to do the program exactly as scheduled, but doing things here and there, but my basic plan it to alternate weights and cardio days 6 days a week with Saturdays off.  With 3 weight routines per stage, this will work out perfectly and I can regain my strength.

Perhaps a little explanation is in order here.  For me, when I do resistance training, I gain strength relatively quickly, but if I don't do weights for more than a week, even if I'm doing resistance training with body weight exercises, I loose strength. So if I want do stay strong with the weights, I need to regularly do weights.

I also did a little adjustment to the routine in that at the beginning and the end and after every 3 moves, I add a set of pull ups.  I used to do 20, but today, I only did 10.  For most of the lower body moves, I kept the same weight, 44kgs, but was very winded and my legs were rubbery afterwards, so that was good.  But on the upper body moves, posterior flies, mainly, I went from 10kgs, to 7.5kgs.  Also, I saw that I upped the number of reps from 12 to 16.  Four more that what Chalene does in the routine.  So, this time, I decided to actually do each rep slowly and smoothly without jerking up the weights.  I got an awesome cardio effect and I was really breathing. Following the cues from Chalene, I got an awesome pump and burn.

The splits and Flow were good.  I had a major hiccup in one Flow that forced me to restart, but things were good from then on.   In the end, I torched over 850kcals!

Happy to start a regular program within a hybrid again.  It give me the structure and freedom that I need with my schedule.  Great way to start the week.