Today was a nice relaxing day. Spent it with my girls shopping for school supplies. I did get a shoes bag for my tennis shoes, but mostly getting stuff for my daughter. Got home late in the afternoon, so I started my workout at the usual time. I was more sore today than I was yesterday. I guess as I age, it takes longer for my body to react to the physical exertion. Oh well. Even though I ended last week with resistance, I am starting with resistance this week, and I guess I'm just going to have to take that double cardio on Wednesday and Thursday. I'll have to work something out for Friday so I can do a full workout in the short time I have. I may have to split my workout. I really don't want to do that, but if that is the only thing I can do, it will be done.
There were a lot of double moves today, and a lot of changing the weights around. I really like applying the Body Beast weight increase rep decrease practice to these workouts. I can really feel that burn a lot more. I really had to focus today on my chest in order to activate it on the chest moves.
The triceps moves were really tough because half the moves were double moves, but I got a huge pump. I really tried to focus on my form, especially with the heavy weights. The chest moves were a bit challenging because I used heavier weights. The weirdest thing happened on the last circuit. The chest move was a Chest Press with Leg Raises. The light weight was a bit tougher than the previous circuit, but I was able to do all the reps with a struggle. I got nervous so for the second set, I only went up 1.25kgs. I started to feel a hint of failure just before I hit the top of each rep, but at the same time, I felt okay. So for the final set, I went up the 2.5kgs and on every rep, I really had to gut it out. Again, just before the top of the rep, I felt like I was going to lose strength and my arms would collapse. It was almost like a small charlie-horse just before hitting the top. But I barely got through the set. Good pump and burn.
I hadn't done abs alone for a while, so I went with Mercy Abs from RevAbs. I was looking for that burn, and I found it. Or should I say, "It found me." Good burn! I was going for range of motion on the moves and form. I got that good tightness in the core, that I was looking for.
Splits and Flow were both on par.
In the end, I torched 1100+kcals. That's is more than usual for me on an upper body routine. But I am happy and satisfied with it.
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