4-13-16 HY: P90X3- Cold Start + T25- Beta: Rip't Circuit + Splits + TCF.

4-13-16 HY: P90X3- Cold Start + T25- Beta: Rip't Circuit + Splits + TCF.

Wednesdays is probably the most problematic day of the week for me this semester.  I get home late from work, and I don't really want to do a late workout.  So, my only choice is to workout in the morning.  Luckily, I have the time in the morning, but recently, It's been really tough to get up in the morning.  But from Tuesday night I had been planning for today's workout.  I got to bed early and planned to get up early and do my workout.  Also, again luckily, since my daughter is now in high school she has to wake up much earlier so she is like a natural alarm clock for me, bumping around in the morning getting ready for school. So, today, I actually got up pretty early, the earliest ever for me to get up for the purpose of working and started my day.  In the past, I was worried about not having enough energy to workout on an empty stomach and so I would have a shake-O before my workout.  Today, I didn't feel particularly tired or weak or even hungry for that matter, so, I drank my morning water and started my workout right at 7am.  Again, that is the earliest EVER for me to start a workout.

My legs were feeling a bit tight so I decided I needed a good warm up before getting into my main routine, so I went to my "Old Faithful", Cold Start.  For me, Cold Start is a super warm up in the morning, and it served me very well today, doing for me exactly what I needed it to do.  Then I got right into the cardio.

I had forgotten what this routine was like so I just went with it.  Thankfully, it started off relatively slow, but it picked up quickly.  All the moves were challenging in themselves so I started to get a good sweat on within the first 10 minutes.  Right off, let me say that I did do a Straight 25... sort of.  On one move near the 3/4 mark, the Low Plank In/Out Tap move, I thought I could do it right off just listening to Shaun T's verbal cues, but I didn't hear "LOW" plank at first, so I was in high plank.  Then the timing of the "In & Out" I messed up.  I didn't get that the "In" meant "In right and left".  So I was all bungled up.  So, I stopped, watched one progression, got the corrections I needed, rewound the DVD and started the move from the beginning.  Other than that, Straight 25.  I was very glad that there were several intense ab moves as well, since I didn't have time to get an ab routine in today's workout.  I felt good doing the moves so all was good.

I really wanted to take the time to get my splits and Flow in so I could get a complete workout done so I wouldn't have to do a divided workout.  I wanted to be done once I finished.  The splits were good.  Got to the low mark and pushed to pain, adjusting my hips and angle.  The Flow was also smooth and clean.

In the end, I torched a solid 650+kcals.  I was kind of proud of myself for getting it that early morning workout.  Looks like that is the plan for the next 4 months on Wednesdays.