3-11-16 HY: BB- Build: Legs + 0-6 Abs- P2: L13 + Splits + TCF.

3-11-16 HY: BB- Build: Legs + 0-6 Abs- P2: L13 + Splits + TCF.

Another somewhat eventless day for me. Got up a little late. Did a little shopping with my wife in the morning. That's about it.  Had a shake for lunch so I could get right into my workout.  I knew it was Leg Day, so I wanted to be a full readiness.

Started off great! I even upped the weight on the first set from 10 to 17kgs on the Sumo Squat.  I was feeling the burn starting to come, but I was fresh.  Then I got slammed!  At the beginning of the next Super Set, the very first move, the very first rep, I went down, and my left quad immediately seized and almost cramped up.  I almost freaked! I walked it off and stretched it out. I tried to massage my thigh and nothing was working to get that tightness out.  After a few minutes though, my quad started to relax.  I was like, "What is going on?"  I almost decided to go to an upper body routine for today, then I hit on the idea of reducing my range of motion.  So I started that Super Set again with the Alternating Lunge at about half the range of motion and it seemed to be okay.  Once I got it warmed up, both quads were feeling really good and loose.  That is probably the biggest complaint I have with Body Beast is that the warm ups at the beginning are extremely insufficient.  I know, if I feel that way, I can always warm up more before pressing Play, but that is not the point, all the other routines have a good, very focused 8-12 minute warm up at the beginning of each routine.  Body Beast is the first program that has a measly 90 -140 second warm up.  For a high intensity program I would expect more.  Anyway, once I got warmed up, things became a lot better.  The Giant Set was painful, but in a good way. Not because of cramping or inadvertent muscle contractions.  Same weights through that Giant Set.  The final Giant Set was awesome because of the gains.  A gain for every set. On the Calf Raises, I went up 10+ reps on each leg for both sets of weights. For the Seated Calf Raise, I went up 5 reps for both sets. and for the In and Outs, also +5 reps for both sets.  Very happy about that!  Aside from that initial scare, it was an awesome workout.

This was the final day for Level 13 for me.  And it was the best I've done with it thus far.  Control, breathing, steadiness were all there.  Also the burn.  I didn't feel any discomfort during the first two rounds, I felt a little coming on in the third round, and the burn jumped me right at the end in the last 10 seconds of the final set. BOO YA!  Nailed it.  I feel a lot more confident to move on to Level 14, the final level next week.

I really pushed the splits today, and the right-side splits were particularly improved.  It is just a matter of pushing at the right angle so as not to work against the join in my hips.  But progress was evident!  The Flow was smooth and clean.

In the end, I torched a solid 955kcals.  Great way to close out my week.  Happy Weekend!