12-06-15 HY: Body Beast-Build: Shoulders + 0-6 Abs- Phase 1: Level 3 + Splits + TCF.

12-06-15 HY: Body Beast-Build: Shoulders + 0-6 Abs- Phase 1: Level 3 + Splits + TCF.

Back to a regular workout. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to the splits last night marking the first time in my memory that I went two days without doing the splits training. Wish I was able to fit it in, but just didn't workout.

Today, was a good workout. Shoulders burned out and failed. Only went up in weight on a couple moves. The first move, Shoulder Press, which was planned. Same on the first set (12kgs) but up on the next three sets (14.5/17/15.75/14.5kgs). If those weights look a little off, it was. The 2nd set I did the 12 reps, but I could only do 7 reps on the 3rd set, and then on the 2nd drop set, I did 4 reps then dropped the weight and did the last 4 reps. The other upped weight was on the first move in the Giant Set, the EZ Bar Underhand Press. That up was actually an accident. I was planning to do the same weight as last time, but I saw the order wrong and started with the final set weight. So I went up in weight in a very small increments. 12/13/13.5kgs. Just upped it by 1.5kgs in the end, but went up 7kgs on the first set. That was TOUGH!!! But warmed up enough to up the weight a bit. Oops! In looking at my worksheet, there was one more move that I upped my weights on, the second move on the Super Set after the Giant Set. Instead of going to lower weights, I just kept the same weight from the first move. So I basically more than doubled the weight from last time. Oh, okay, one more, the last weight move, Sagi Six-Way, I just added a small .25kgs to the mix. So 2.25/3.25kgs. And that weight on that move was VERY noticeable. Again, the going up above my head was almost too much, but I muscled through. My shoulders were ON FIRE!!!

I decided to stick with Phase 3 of Level 1 of 0-6 Abs. I felt that I still hadn't mastered that part of the foundation. So I'm going to do it for one more week to make sure I've got that base good and firm. But I got a good burn and I feel I am improving.

The Splits hurt today. After a 2 day break, I had some hip flexor issues at the beginning. It took some tries to get opened up, but I got there. I also switched the order of the moves so I could actually get the splits opened up even more. I now stretch the hammy first, then hip flexor, then go into the splits that stretches everything. So I'm trying to loosen up first. I probably should have noticed this much earlier, but we'll see if it helps in my final push to the 31st. The Flow was clean and smooth so I was happy about that.

In the end, I torched a good 858kcals. Good way to start the week.