6-10-16 HY: Insanity: Cardio Recovery + Splits + TCF.
Finishing out my RECOVERY WEEK today with Shaun T and the shorter of his recovery routines. It is interesting to me that this is a recovery routine because it made my legs burn like crazy. The slow squats and lunges then with the slow pulses. OUCH!!! All the slow movements really focus the pain so as to concentrate on tensing up the muscle then releasing it to relax it. Oh my goodness. It worked. My inner thighs were burning on the squats, my quads were burning on the lunges, shoulders were burning on those oblique moves. Man, it was like a full body burn. I very much appreciated the burn today, for sure.
All that burn was really noticeable on the splits. I was able to get really low today. I tried something new today. Instead of switching after one set to the other side, I did two sets of stretches on each side. That allowed me to sit into the stretch a lot more and I really needed to breathe though the pain today. I usually get pretty low on my left side splits, and not so low on the right side, but today, the right side got almost as low as the left, and the straddle splits hit a new low as well. It was nice to really feel the pull in my inner thighs, hammys and hip flexors more than usual. Great stretch. The Flow was also on point, smooth and clean.
In the end, I burned a nice 350+kcals. Satisfying end to my recovery week. Happy Weekend, Everyone!
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