Getting back to vacation! But today, I was sore all over. For some reason, the sorest place was my triceps. There were sore and hard. Lats were sore too, but not as much as the tris. Today was supposed to be resistance day, but up was Arms and Shoulders. NO WAY! Legs and especially front hip flexors were sore, too. So, I thought about it and considered my schedule the rest of the week and decided to take a recovery day and do some yoga. I considered doing left side training because of all the Tennis I've been playing, but opted against it since tomorrows workout will be for upper body tomorrow.
The first few moves were fine, but when we got to the place where we had to do 5 slow military push-ups, elbows squeezing ribs, my triceps were SCREAMING!!! It was truly painful, but I gutted it out and completed all 5. From that point on, the push ups during each Vinyasa slowly got easier and easier, but there was a constant but latent pain the whole time. The routine went well overall, but the toughest move in the first half for me was still the Half moon sequence. Had some balance problems. I wasn't able to stay up very long on my right side. Stayed up a little better on the left but not much better. On the reverse Half Moon, it is a lot easier for me to hold the pose on my fist than on my fingertips. Leg is still not that high on either side. I was VERY happy that I could still do the Wrap pose. Crane was very disappointing. I couldn't hold it for much more than a few seconds at a time. Pushed flexibility is good, but without that push, I can't hold in a flexible position at all. When we got to the Frog pose, I can usually go lower than today's depth, but today, there seemed to be a pinched nerve of something in my left front hip flexor that would cause a shot of pain if I tried to pass a certain point. So I didn't push it that much. That also affected my Pigeon pose when my right leg was back. Every time I tried to push my foot out, my calf would start to cramp, so I ended up just keeping my foot under my body. Also, when I put the top of the back leg directly on the floor, my arch would start to cramp. Not fun pain. The Plow sequence was another tough one. Still can't touch the floor above my head. But all in all, I got through everything and felt really good and loose afterwards.
I did some extra stretching after X2 Yoga, so I took a little time to get into the stretch. I was planning to only do about half of the stretches, but I ended up doing more and for longer. I was able to get really low today, and I adjusted my hip and feet position to get the lowest results.
The Flow was as usual, smooth and clean. It was good to do it as loose as I was. Felt really good, but still had the soreness.
In the end, I burned a mediocre 423kcals. But I wasn't expecting a big burn anyway. The recovery was the priority.
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