Well, I got home at a good time to start my workout. Luckily the rain had stopped and my daughter was home and the lilting request came, "Daddy, do you want to play badminton?" Oh, YEAH! So we played for close to an hour and a half. It was really fun and the time went by really fast. If the sun had stayed up longer we would have played longer. I put my HRM on before we started playing so that served as my preliminary warm up.
I got started on my regular workout a lot later than I had wanted, but even then, no shortcuts. Full on workout today with X2. I'm just sticking with the schedule for routine order so up today was X2 Total Body. The routine is deceptively long, but when you factor out the warm up, it is only about 40 minutes long. Only two rounds so I couldn't do the Body Beast thing with the weights so I stuck with the same weights on most of the moves because Tony does only one side in the first round and the other in the second round. But the moves that has both sides in both rounds, I upped the weights a bit in the second round, but I kept the rep count both at 12reps. The most brutal move was move 04/16. The Switch Lunge Press. It is odd because in the first round, one rep consisted of the front and back lunges, so it is like a double move. But in the second round, each lunge was a rep. So I had to pause the DVD and do the double move to keep even. But the second round just about killed me. I had to take a few mid-set breaks. In fact, there were a lot of moves that really winded me and I needed a little extra recovery time because I was doubled over heaving to catch my breath. Mule Kick Burpee is one of those moves. I thought I could do like 10 to 12, but I ended up only doing 6/7, and I was dying big time. That Crunchy Lever Pull-Up was also a killler. I only pulled off 8/8 reps. The Push-Up Side Arm Balance on medicine balls move, I had to modify because I don't have two medicine balls. So instead of med balls, I used my foam roller. And even though the balance issue is only forward and back, that need to keep that balance actually made the move a whole lot more intense and really forced me to activate my chest muscles a lot more. The One Arm Chest Press was tough. The right arm was fine, but on the left arm, in order to stabilize on the ball, I was flexing muscles in my back that I didn't know were necessary for that type of move. Almost to the point of cramping. But it was alright. I had a lot of balance problems with the Warrior 3 move and 1/2 Chair move. I hope that improves as time goes on. Great workout.
My core got a serious workout so I was planning not to do a core routine, but the X2 Ab Ripper started so quickly, I felt guilty for not doing it, so I just went ahead and did it. KILLER ROUTINE!!! I had to modify a few reps at the end on some of the tougher moves. But it felt good to get that in. Glad I did it.
Splits were great. I had that low feeling and I pushed it lower than ever today. Feels like I'll get full splits soon! And the Flow was spot on! Smooth and Clean.
In the end, I torched a big 1300+kcals. Love these big burn days!
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