When I woke up this morning, I was aching all over. Legs and biceps especially. This is the second day burn for me. But I had to gut through it. Another time crunch today. Had to get started on my workout pretty much right when I got home from work because of a business guest coming over later in the evening. Not rest or relaxing today. Just pushing non-stop.
Today's targets were Shoulders, Legs and Glutes. I tried to keep the same weights I did last time so mainly bouncing back and forth between 17kgs and 10kgs. With one 19.5kg exception on the Single-Leg Tap Lunges. But adding to that, the 4 extra sets of Pull Ups, it was a full workout. The 17kgs for the Standard Overhead Press felt good at first, but again, it was the slow reps that killed me. I felt good up until the 6th rep, then I need to really bear down and gut out the last two reps. Actually, that is how it was for the whole routine. Feeling good on the first few SLOW reps, then quickly got tired and and to twist my face into all sorts of ugly to get it done. And I did make a recording mistake on move 7. Frontal Shoulder Press. I wrote down 8-3x2, but it actually was 6-2-3x2. My shoulders were totally fried by then and I needed to take a breather at 6 reps. So I put the dumbbells down for a bit and shook out my arms, then did the last 2 reps, then the break down. All the Fly moves and lateral moves just wasted me. Using 10kgs for those moves might be a bit heavy. Because in the later reps, I couldn't keep in control of weight and couldn't lower the weights as slowly as I needed to. But I didn't drop them down. I controlled them down, but, especially on my right arm, my shoulder seemed to do some odd things as the weight went down. The oddest thing is that my left arm felt a lot stronger today that previously. A long more control and stronger releases. The Shoulder Press moves got more and more difficult as the routine progressed. The 17's kept getting heavier and heavier. But I was able to finish. The one good thing that I am most proud of is raising all my Pull Up numbers from last time. Plus 5 reps on the last 3 sets and plus 2 on the first. Those Wide Pull Ups are brutal, but I love it.
I made the mistake of doing the Push Up Challenge after the main routine. Upper body was spent. The variation I chose for today was the moving push up. Also, I wanted to do the time-lapse video so I had to do it slow enough so the camera could catch the moves. Luckily there is no sound on the time-lapse because I was groaning and moaning. But I think the video turned out okay. Arms got a nice pump and definitely a good burn.
The Splits and Flow were as expected. I ended up cutting a minute off my splits time so and that turned out to be the decisive minute. Because as I was getting out of the shower, the guest rang the doorbell. WHEW!!! That was too close.
In the end, I torched 1006kcals. Big Burn!!!
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