Today was another day when I felt really lazy and basically sat and watched the political news on CNN most of the morning. My body was feeling quite tired still, I assume from yesterday's ride. I was planning on doing a recovery or a yoga routine today. Then things changed. Today, my daughter was planning to go out with some friends so my wife and I were planning to just relax at home. But then my daughter's plans fell through. So we decided to go out for dinner. We wanted to go to a new burger joint that just opened up about an hour away, but it is the only one in our area so we really wanted to give it a try. This was our chance and I knew I couldn't not do a regular workout. So I changed my workout plans and went hard.
I had totally forgotten what Back + Base was all about, but I knew since it was Back, there would be Pull Ups. But the Base part? Not so sure about that one. It ended up being Plyometric Cardio. So it was a variation of pull up alternating with a plyometric move. Only 10 moves done twice in two rounds. I thought, "Easy Peasy!" WRONG!!! For most of the Pull Ups, I stayed right in the middle of the Tony-stated range of 8-12reps. On the worksheet, when you see two numbers with a hyphen between them, the hyphen means I either came off the bar, or took a break for a moment and just hung on the bar. All the moves were BRUTALLY INTENSE except for the Surfer Spin. That was rather easy and served as an active break. But after each of the other plyo moves, MAN!!! I was totally dying!!! Heaving like crazy, well, not that bad, but hands on the knees trying to catch my breath. The one anomaly was with the V Pull Ups. In the first round, I could only do 5-5. But in the second round, I was able to pump out 8-2. Not sure how that happened. Maybe I got a second wind. On the Kippy Cross Fugly Pull, I really got into a nice rhythm and knocked off 10 straight both rounds. But I was doing A LOT more kipping in the second round. But the move that killed me the worst was the last move, "Jack-in-the-Box Knee Tuck". At the end of both rounds, I was just spent and could barely catch my breath. After the first round, I definitely needed breaks that were a bit longer so I added about 30 seconds to several of the break times. More after the Plyo moves for sure. But the workout ended only about 8 minutes overtime. That is a lot shorter than the other routines in X2. But I got a great burn and a good pump. My legs were dying though, so I had to push hard to finish especially in the second round.
I was feeling so spent, I took a step back and decided to go with a shorter Ab routine, and I had the ChaLEAN Extreme Ab Burner disk in and playing through and had finished the first few moves when I remember The Core Challenge that my Beachbody Coach is running in a Challenge Group. So I stopped the routine and dug out the Challenge graphic and started off. Not to bad at first, but the deeper into the cycle, the more tired I got. But again, I caught a second wind, and the last 4 moves, I was able to push through. This is what I did.
That 2 minute Bridge, I didn't think I could do it, but was happily surprised that I made it all the way through keeping form, or at least as high as I can get. My shoulders are really tight on Bridges. I'll need to open them up soon. But it was nice to get one round of this challenge done. This is the first challenge that I have completed with my coach since I've been with her. I've been with her since January of this year. Shout out to my coach, Elizabeth!
The Splits were good today. I was able to push low and long. I added some time in the straddle position to hopefully keep them open longer than usual. The Flow was Awesomeness!!!
In the end, I torched a good 850+kcals. I didn't want to workout at the beginning, but it was so worth it in the end. This time, I got my own butt off the couch.
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