It was a VERY long day. I went to see my daughter's first ever Field Hockey match. I used to play Ice Hockey in my younger years so I thought I could follow it, but the rules seem to be extremely different and I couldn't catch what was going on. Whistles were blowing and I didn't see anything. I'll have to do a little studying up on the game. But it was beautiful weather, but very sunny and no shade. Sitting in the sun for over 5 hours just take it out of you. It was an interesting and frightening game. The players were taking these huge hacks at the ball regardless of any nearby opponent. I was afraid for my daughter's head! That was a big stresser for sure. By the time I got home, I was just exhausted. I was just relaxing and I fell asleep on the couch. My wife picked me up and moved me to the bed. Hehe, not really, but I moved to the bed and took a good nap for about 30 minutes. I woke up really NOT in the mood to do anything, much less workout. But still, it was not a struggle to decide to workout, it was a struggle to get started to workout. I knew that once I got started, it would be okay.
I got started pretty late, so I was thinking to lighten my weights and keep up with Chalene and finish in about 35 minutes or so. But again, once I got started, I knew I couldn't short change myself by going light. So, I went heavy... a little too heavy on the first move, actually after the Wide Grip Pull Ups. 17kgs on Sumo Squat with Overhead Press started off fine, but again, the slow reps got me, and I barely made it to the 12th rep. Shoulders were on fire! In the next set, for the shoulder move, I decided to go down to 14.5kgs. That was a little too light, so on the final set's shoulder move, I went up to 15.75kgs and I couldn't make it to 12 reps. So I did a split set of 8-4, then the Breakdown Extreme set of 3 reps. I'm feeling it now in my shoulders. The soreness will hit tomorrow or the next day. There was a lot of leg work also. Lunges, Squats and Calf Raises. I went as heavy as I could. The two moves with the Squat/Calf Raise combo topped me out at 25kgs. The Lunge with a Calf Raise was 19.5kgs. All three Lateral Raise moves were at 10kgs. I felt a little tension in my right shoulder, but it felt just like a little rearranging of the tendons and muscle fibers. Nothing pulled, but close. I killed the pull ups today! I finally returned to my max set of 20 chin ups non-stop. It has been a while since I did that. I was planning in my head to stop at 15 reps, but I was feeling really good, so I just kept going and just eked out that 20th rep. Still got my chin over the bar so no half reps here. I changed the 4-Grip Pull Ups into the 5-Grip pull ups, and hit a new record of 25 reps. That's 5 reps per different grip. Everything was as run on the DVD except for the Lunge with Lateral Raise. For the Breakdown Extreme Set, Chalene does 3 slow push ups. But I did two of the main set moves on each legs, THEN I did the Push Ups. Oh, also, when Chalene does a combo move in the main set, the a single move in the Breakdown, I still do the Combo move. I don't see why the legs shouldn't get the benefit of the Breakdown as well. This routine clocks in at about 36 minutes, but I did it in a little over an hour. Here's why, First, I do the extra 4 moves of Pull Ups and Chin Ups. Then, on this particular workout. Almost on every move, I had to transfer weight plates around because it went from a heavy weight to light weight to medium weight in one set of three moves. And I only have two sets of weights. If I had one more set, I could do it without switching plates, but with only two sets, a light and heavy, If I want to get the full benefit of appropriate weights, I have to transfer the plates. But the extra time is definitely not a rest. Great workout, and I got the BURN, literally on every move, and the target muscles got a huge pump. Glad to get the workout in today.
No more dilly dallying, I went to the next level of abs today, and will stay with the advanced routines all week on ab days. I really like this routine, because it is non-stop movement and the burn comes and stays the whole routine. Abs got a good tightening feeling/sensation that lasted a while.
The Splits and Flow were really good today. I added more time to the splits training and pushed hard today. Little by little, I'm increasing the time so I can push more and get lower sooner. The knees felt fine, but I'm still waiting for the front hip flexers to loosen up. The Flow also didn't cause any Tweakyiness on my knee. But I babied it a bit which I will continue to do for this week, then I'll try to put more weight on it.
During the main workout, my legs were shaking like wet leaves, so I decided to take some time to foam roll them, and especially my calves. That felt really good, because I just sat on a big hot spot till it disappeared. LOVE IT!!!
In the end, I torched 1136kcals. Big Bang start to my week.
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