This is the beginning of my regular schedule. From now on, Monday workouts get to happen in the morning. I like morning workouts because it gets my day started nicely and it frees up my evenings after work. LOVE IT!!!
I knew that The Pyramid was more of a strength routine, so I was considering going back to Alpha Round to do Cardio or Total Body Circuit. Ultimately I decided to finish out Gamma today, and then go back to Alpha or other cardio on my next cardio day. I was nailing the routine right from the beginning, but once I got to the Plank-Pike Up move, I was dying and had to take a break. After that, I took a lot of breaks, and I ended up adding about 5 minutes to the total workout time. But I got a good burn, and I also got a pretty good cardio workout from the few cardio moves as well. I burned about 50kcals less than a regular cardio workout so not that much loss. It in interesting how much +1 rep +1 rep can kill you. I could feel myself just dying to get through those last reps of the final step. One thing I sort of wish this routine did was standardize the rep/step count. the max step should be like 8 reps, or 10 reps. But it would fluctuate between 6 and 10 so sometime it felt a little light and sometimes it couldn't end soon enough. Oh well, maybe in the next program. But great all around routine.
At the end of Extreme Core Circuit, Chalene said to rest the core tomorrow (today) but I had the time, so I wanted to do a little core, so I went with Ab Burner. More range of motion, flexing harder, always does the trick to intensify an easy routine. Got the good burn I was looking for.
Splits were good, Flow was great. Happy to energize myself like this in the morning.
In the end, I torched a good 700+kcals. Let's get this party started and run it the whole WEEK.
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