8-4-15 HY: Tennis + ChaLEAN Extreme-Lean Circuit 3 + Splits + Tennis + TCF + Foam Rolling.

8-4-15 HY: Tennis + ChaLEAN Extreme-Lean Circuit 3 + Splits + Tennis + TCF + Foam Rolling.

This day became a lot more than I was expecting it to be when I woke up this morning.

Went to play some morning tennis at school for the first time in over three months.  My playing partner has been nursing a leg and lower back injury and decided it was time to give tennis a try again.  We didn't play a match, but we were sort of testing the waters as far as how much pressure his leg could take especially on his lateral movement.  I was directing the ball back to him as much as possible and he was sort of running me around the court.  The gym we played in was like a sauna.  The sweat was just pouring down me like crazy.  I think I used the phrase, "Sweat is 'RIVERING' down me."  But despite that, it was good to get back on the court.  I think I was a little excited because I went for a little too much too soon and I was about 50/50 with the winners and unforced errors.  After the session, I was being called by the pull up bar, so I succumbed and tried some pull ups and chin ups.  First time in several weeks.  I'm very happy to report that I was able to do 5 single pull ups and chin ups with no pain in my shoulder at all.  And in addition to that, I didn't have any pain while playing tennis either.  VERY HAPPY about that. Rehab can now start.  That session torched well over 900kcals.  I was thinking that that would be my workout for the day, so I was happy to get it over with.

When I got home, I started thinking that this is the last week of ChaLEAN Extreme and I didn't want to disrupt the schedule so I decided to go ahead and do the resistance routine.  But since I did abs for two days in a row, even though today was a regular ab day, I would forgo abs and do them tomorrow.  I was supposed to do Lean Circuit 2 today, but I did 3 instead because 3 has a few core moves that are killer so I could kill two birds with one stone.  The target muscles were Chest, shoulders, core and some legs and back.  My biceps and Triceps were still quite sore, but also I was feeling some soreness in my forearms as well.  I especially felt that soreness when I was doing those test pull ups after tennis.  For the shoulder presses, I started at 14.5kgs, then went down to 12kgs.  For the first set of Chest flies, I used 17kgs, then went down to 14.5kgs on the second set.  I did all the push ups on my toes and they all felt solid. 

I went right into splits and on my final round, I felt like I was getting really low.  I was happy about that.  The resistance and splits torched well over 800kcals.  I was like, "YEAH!!! Almost 2000kcals gone!!!  But it wasn't over.

As I was finishing up, my daughter came to me with big eyes and asked, "Daddy, do you want to play tennis with me tonight?"  Even though I was tired, I said, "YEAH!!! Let's Play!!!"  So, I rinsed off and got ready to go to play tennis with my daughter.  She has a good stroke, but she lack control so I have to do a lot of running.  Today, she was aiming for the corners... and hitting them.  My shins were already aching from the morning session, so this was just more pounding.  The stop and go, pivot and dash nature of tennis was even more evident tonight.  I usually take it easy when I play my daughter, but I started to hit out and she was actually returning a lot of my hard shots.  She usually can't handle hard and fast balls, but today, her blocking timing was right on.  Maybe she was translating the ping pong playing style into tennis.  We have had some wicked fast rallies in ping pong recently.  But she got me running around good.  By the end of this tennis session, I torched another 900+kcals.  And my shins were aching like nobody's business.

After a shower and I made half a shake because I was hungry and need some fuel, I was good to go except for my shins.  So, I took about 45 minutes and just rumble rolled my shins out.  It felt so good and painful.  I did the Flow right after that and because my shins felt really weak and sore, I lost balance a few times because I couldn't stop my body's momentum.  But I finally got used to the pain and compensated.  Nailed it down.

In the end, I torched almost 3000kcals today,  That is the biggest one-day calorie burn I've had in a long time.  Definitely yoga day tomorrow... and maybe some abs if I have time.  It's going to be another busy day, but the last one before I go on vacation!!!! Woo Hoo!!!