1-25-16 HY: T25- Beta: Speed 2.0 + 6-0 Abs- P2: L9 + Splits + TCF.

1-25-16 HY: T25- Beta: Speed 2.0 + 6-0 Abs- P2: L9 + Splits + TCF.

Today, was great! Got a snow day so no work and the kids had no school! So that meant that we had another day to play in the snow. We went out again in the morning, but this time most of the play was sledding. The snow was perfect, but the hill was steep and long. I can't even begin to count how many times I went up and down that thing. Got a really good workout. But the later it got, the sun started to come out and the snow started to melt. My feet got so wet and cold I can't even say. I also sweat like crazy. We were out there for over 2 hours! I relaxed for most of the afternoon until the spirit moved me to workout.

This is the first time to really get back to my alternating resistance and cardio workouts plan. I was happy because I knew it was going to be a little shorter today. The next workout that was actually up was the Beta: Upper Focus but I had just done Bulk: Arms yesterday, so I wanted to do something more cardio-ish so I went with Speed 2.0. Oh man, I lost a lot of foot speed. The very first move showed me that with no holds bared. I was really struggling to keep up with Shaun T and the team. They looked so casual, but I felt so heavy on my feet. I was really banging the ground instead of lightly landing. I'll have to really hard work to get my speed back all over again. Aside from my sluggishness and slowness, the beginning of the routine went relatively well. But by level 2 of the first circuit, my ankles started to bark at me. Level 3 was fine because it the moves were so quick and I was able to stick it out, but once I hit that second circuit, I was barely moving my feet on the first move, but I had to modify with Tania on the second move (I don't remember the name, but hopping back and forth legs wide open in sort of a sumo squat position.) My feet, ankles and calves were killing me. I reduced my range of motion on the jumping moves, but I had to take a break by the end of level 1. The break was the length of the first move of level 2, then I just rewound the DVD and started again. This time was much better with minimal modification. No stopping after that, but I was really feeling it during the jumping moves. I was sweating like crazy as well by the time 15:00 rolled around. Only 10 minutes to get sweating hard. No straight 25, but I'll have to work up to that. Hopefully I get a straight 25 within the next couple weeks. I'll stick with Beta for now until I feel ready to move on. I may also go back and do some of the Alpha routines.

I moved right into abs. They were already feeling the tension because of a lot of the T25 moves so I figured to only do Level 9 today as well. My balance was soooo off. I was able to do 3 out of 4 all the way to the end, but I just couldn't hold the roll out on the 3rd set. I had to finish early. I sweat even more today with this routine. Killer ab routine, this is.

Splits felt better, but still very painful on the hip flexors. I'm thinking it has to be the cold, but the cardio today did make it noticeably easier than yesterday. The Flow today was also very smooth and clean.

In the end, I torched 692kcals. My workout was also about 40 minutes shorter than usual so everyone was happy about that. I have another off day tomorrow so I'm happy! Gotta love the snow!