I always have a time crunch on Fridays, but today, I was able to make it home early so I could do a whole workout. So happy about that. It has been a while since I was able to get it done on a Friday.
Another Shoulder day, but it almost felt like a Total Body day. Did a lot of Chest, Abs and Legs as well. There were some big differences with this routine. The most notable is the absence of the Pull Ups. I didn't add extra pull ups on this final routine just to give myself a little break at the end of the week. Thank goodness for that. Shoulders were really feeling it today. Two shoulder days in a row is pretty brutal. Again, I tried to stay with the previous weights, but from the middle of the routine, I thought they were too heavy for 12 reps. I will probably go down in weight next week. Two big changes are on move 2. Reverse Lunge and Arnold Press (single arm). My strength difference really showed up today. On my right arm, I barely made it to 12reps. But on my left arm, it took me three sets, 6-4-3 to get it done. I added on extra rep because I figured 2reps is nothing. Then, the other big change was on move 6. Dead Lift Frontal Press. Usually, I break the two moves up instead of combining them. Mainly, because I want to protect my back. So, I use 10kgs X2 for the Dead Lifts, then 17kgs X2 for the Frontal Press. But today, I did the combo and went down to 14.5kgs X2. Failed at 10reps and this time, I did only 2reps to finish out the set. Everything else was as programed. Oh, one minor change. On move 7. Traveling Push-Ups, the Breakdown is Triceps Push Ups, but I did Diamond Push Ups instead. They get my Triceps better than just the regular Triceps Push Ups. I made a discovery today as well. On lifting moves and lying fly moves, I was afraid that the dumbbell bar would hurt my palms so I padded up today. But they hurt even more. So I removed the padding, and without the padding, there was almost no pain. Weird! So next time, I'll not use padding from the start and see what happens. Major muscle activation and burn today.
I was really tired today. The huge amount of tennis yesterday and the lack of sleep were all contributors, but were basically unavoidable. Yeah, I couldn't have used my time better, but no going back now. It is what it is. So, since I was feeling a little exhausted, I did an Old Faithful ab routine. Burned like a charm.
As I said, I was very happy to be able to do my Splits and Flow. So I got those all done today, But since I skipped yesterday, I'm still due to get them done on my off day, which is tomorrow, Saturday. But I'm okay with that.
In the end, I torched a nice 950+kcals. Nice way to end the week. Oh, I also did Day 20 of the 22 Push Up Challenge. Today, I went with the modified One-Arm Push Up. When I do them with Tony in P90X, I have always done them on my knees. But today, I did a Half modification in that I started on my toes, and went down on one knee for some extra needed support. I've never seen it done that way, so maybe I invented something. HA! But I was glad to be able to do them even modified. But I look forward to the day when I can do them all on my toes.
Finally, I missed posting my May calendar, so I'm posting both my May and June Beachbody workout calendars here.
Have a great weekend!
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