9-1-15 HY: P90X- Total Body PLUS + Abs/Core PLUS + Splits + TCF.

9-1-15 HY: P90X- Total Body PLUS + Abs/Core PLUS + Splits + TCF.

A new month is upon us and in one week my ultimate challenge will begin. Maintaining a good and healthy diet while in the USA and keeping up my workouts.  I won't have time to go to a gym and there is no equipment at the place I'm staying at so it will have to be all body weight and I am also going to bring a set of bands.  If I can find a good set in the US, I'll get a new set there.  Kind of excited for the challenge.  But planning ahead, I am scheduling a 3-Day Refresh all ready to go when I get back home!

Today was a really free day. No appointments, no chores, totally free, so I took my time and did my workout at my leisure.  Great workout today with a huge calorie burn coupled with a raging pump and burn all over my body!

As the name states, it was "Total Body" today.  And BOY was it ever!  A lot of push up variations, a lot of pull up variations, a lot of weighted twisting variations as well.  Then at the end, there were some killer combos that I really liked, "3&3" and "1&1".  Get the program to find out what those are.  You won't regret it!  Also, a lot of lunges and squats that BUUURNN!!!  With a tiny bit (one move) of yoga to keep me honest.  A lot of the names of the moves do not reveal what the move actually is like in other routines.  For example, "1/2 Dervish".  I assume, if you are majorly into fitness, one might know what that is, but it is similar to the Discus Throwers in the Ab/Core Plus routine.  Or a variation on Loading Dock.  Another challenging combo was "Kid Play" or more descriptively named, "Push up to Bridge Combo".  It was really tough to keep pace with Mark. One tough but great thing I liked about this routine is that it mixed resistance with cardio somewhat.  I really like doing that because for me personally, it give me a bigger calorie burn that just one or the other.  Love this routine!

I was going to do RevAbs Merciless Abs today per my schedule, but since today was so free and I had a lot of time, I just went on and did the longer ab routine.  20 moves in 20 minutes.  5 rounds of 4 moves.  A crunch variation, a lying move variation, a hanging off the pull up bar variation, and a balance/yoga variation.  Also, several of the moves were weighted to give that extra little something something.  The only move I couldn't do because of space issues is the second to last move, "360 Chataranga Run"  I just don't have the space in my room to spin around, so I was just doing a multi-directional plank walk.  I wish I could have done it in Chataranga, but just couldn't.  One of the toughest moves for me was the Seated Backstroke.  It is a weighted move.  I initially tried it with 5kgs, but with the first rep, I said, "NOPE, Too heavy!"  I just wasn't able to control the dumbbells.  So I dropped down to 3kgs.  I might have been able to do 4kgs, but I decided to stay safe.  At the end of each set, I was happy for the decision. OUCH!!!  This routine gave me an exceptional core burn which I am still feeling a few hours later.  That's what I like!!

Moved right into the Splits which were a bit better than yesterday.  But for some reason I accidentally mixed up the order and did something new today.  But still got a good stretch in and got to the mark and even a little passed it.  Finally, the Flow was good.  I moved well and had no big balance hiccups.  Slow and steady was on the menu for today.

In the end, I torched a huge 1267kcals.  When I looked down at my HRM I was like WA WHAT??? Oh Happy Day!!!  And Happy September!!