11-10-15 HY: Body Beast: Beast- Cardio + Abs + Splits + TCF.

11-10-15 HY: Body Beast: Beast- Cardio + Abs + Splits + TCF.

When I started Body Beast, someone said to me, "Just wait for the cardio day!"  Judging from the intense nature of the resistance days, I thought the cardio would be really tough.  When I started the routine, the clock countdown started at 30 minutes.  I thought, "Wow, only 30 minutes, I was just doing Insanity for 50 minutes, this will be easy."  Again, famous last words.  This is the first cardio routine of this type that I have done.  Basically pushing strength moves to a higher tempo but lower weights.  I practically burned out on the first move.  Three rounds of 20 seconds on then a 10 second hold is a lot more difficult than it seems.  And Segi really pushes all the way through each move.  I don't remember the names of each move, but each one of them just about killed me.  At the end of it, my legs were shaking and wobbling as I was going down the stairs.  I was so glad that the breaks between moves were long, or so I thought.  After the first move, the break was pretty long, close to a minute, then another break was around 30 seconds or so.  But the breaks kept getting shorter and shorter.  I couldn't keep up.  TOUGH ROUTINE!!!  I'm looking forward to doing it again to see how I do, and how long I can hold out.

According to the schedule, cardio and Abs or on the same day, so even though I did abs yesterday I went for it today.  Only around 10 minutes, and the moves were mostly moves I had done before, but with different combinations.  This time, I was able to keep pace all the way through with no extra breaks.  It wasn't as intense as I thought It was going to be, but a great mid-intensity and short length ab routine.  I didn't get quite the burn as often, but I may have been dawging it a bit after dying from the cardio.  It didn't feel like I was letting up, but I might have been.

The Splits was GREAT!!! I was so happy today, because on the straddle splits, on the first round, I went right to my mark and past it!  I did take some extra time to have my daughter stand on my knees as I sat in the butterfly position.  The last time I had her do it, I was feeling a lot of pain, but this time, the pain cleared rather quickly and I was able to sit and breath at a relatively controlled rate. YAH!!!  The Flow was good.  A slip in the memory caused one restart, but after than, it was all good.

Overall, a shorter workout today, so in the end, I torched a good 655kcals.

I should also mention that when I got up this morning, my biceps and back were feeling pretty good. No soreness like I thought I'd have.  But once I started moving around and carrying stuff that required my to hold my forearms at a 90degree angle, yep, I felt it coming on.  Then about an hour after waking up, I felt the soreness come on.  Yes, I had soreness, but not as much as I thought I'd have.  Happy Dance!