8-02-15 HY:ChaLEAN Extreme-Lean Circuit 1 + 10 Minute Trainer-Abs + Splits + TCF.

8-02-15 HY:ChaLEAN Extreme-Lean Circuit 1 + 10 Minute Trainer-Abs + Splits + TCF.

I was debating on whether or not to do Push Circuit again, and I almost did, but I figured I would just go ahead and keep doing the 3 week cycle with all three circuits to keep the weights in.  I'm still babying my shoulder so this is keeping the strength up, but after this week, I'm full on into my vacation so I may go with P90X just for old times since I'll have more time. Stay tuned for further developments. :-)

Today's target muscles were biceps, Triceps, and legs.  But definitely the arms more.  We switched leg positions at 6 reps several times so the legs often times only got half the workout the arms got.  A few times, the Extreme set was squats, but that was only 3 reps.  My biceps got totally fried today.  I realized that I was cheating on my  bicep curls in that I was lifting the dumbbells in a straighter vertical line than on the elbows pivot arch.  My elbow would go back instead of stay at my sides.  So, I was very wary of my form today and the jury is back, my biceps are weak.  Previous times doing this routine, I was lifting 14.5kgs and even up to 17kgs, but today, with the correct form, I started out at 14.5kgs, then went down to 13.25kgs on the next bicep move, then down to 12kgs on the rest of the bicep moves.  Furthermore, I discovered that my left arm is much weaker than my right.  Not that surprising.  But from the very first bicep move, my left arm totally failed before the 10th rep. on each weight, but on 12kgs, I barely made it to 10 reps on the full curls.  The last move is essentially a half curl and I was fine until the last two reps when my left gave out.  But I got an awesome pump and burn.  For at least 40 minutes after the workout ended, my arm were like jello. Thanks to PiYo, my triceps held up very well. But I was still cautious, and didn't go past 10kgs.  It would have taken me a lot longer to add weight when doing the leg work so I didn't.  I just stayed in the 12kg range.  It was easy,  But when doing the reps that slow, my back also is influenced.  Looking forward to the transformation.  But I will probably go down to 10kgs the next time around.

I went with an old favorite for abs.  I really like this routine a lot. So it was fun to dust it off and do it.  I was really tough, especially getting through that row of plank moves in the middle.  Tried to integrate the RevAbs principle into this routine and do slower and more focused reps.  Burn Burn BURN!!!

The Splits were good.  I really tried to let my body weight push me down, and I held it for as long as I could with that extra push. OUCH!!! but in a good way.

The Flow was again thrown a little off balance at the beginning, but I reeled it in and nailed it in the end.

In the end, I torched a respectable 1191kcals.  Lovely way to start off the week and start a new month.