Today was an extremely odd day. I don't know what happened, but when I woke up this morning, my left Achilles was very tender. Putting pressure on it caused some major pain, so walking up and down stairs was rather painful. Walking on a flat floor was painful if my pace was high and that would cause me to walk with a limp. So to hide my pain, I walked quite slowly. During tennis yesterday, I don't recall anything at all that I did that would have caused this to happen. Especially since, as I said, I was feeling a bit sluggish because of the heat. So I was moving slower and not pushing as hard to run for shots. So this is a complete mystery. But either way, It is happening and I have to deal with it. The thought of totally canceling my workout today crossed my mind for just an instant, but that died a quick death. I was thinking to do all my moves sitting or in a position that wouldn't pressure my Achilles, but when I thought about it, Lean Circuit 3 doesn't really have any major lower body, much less, Achilles moves. So, I decided to just go ahead and do the routine, and if any move proved to cause any problems, I'd just modify it.
This routine, looking back at my performance last week, I needed to go down in weight for the shoulder moves, so I dropped 1.25kgs on the shoulder moves. But I kept the weights for the Chest moves and upped one move. I wrote in the Breakdown moves, and only the first Breakdown required a different weight. I went 22kgsX2 on the Squats. On the shoulder moves, Overhead Presses, etc. I went down to 15.75kgs from 17kgs. I barely made it to 12reps. Only one move needed a mid-set break, move #6 Dead Lift Frontal Press. This time, instead of letting the weights down on the Dead Lift, I kept them up like Chalene does. If I was going at a faster pace, I could have done 12 reps, but again, those slow reps just wasted me, and I couldn't hold them up the whole time. So I put them dumbbells down at 7reps, and then finished it out plus the Breakdown. Chalene was right, a lot of push up in this routine, but that makes this routine all the easier, because push-ups are my jam. The one move that I went up in weight in was move 5. Push Up Side Plank. I went up on Kg. Started to shake at that weight, but I could probably use a higher weight next time. All the other moves were done to failure at 12reps. Got an awesome Burn and Pump!
Moved right into Abs. I am still using the 2kg dumbbells instead of weighted gloves, but that weight is getting easier, but I burned out today. I'm learning how to activate my core more so I'm glad about that.
I didn't want to put any extra pressure on my Achilles so I decided to hold off on the splits today and see how it feels tomorrow. So I went right into the Flow and everything went smoothly.
In the end, I torched a respectable 700+kcals. Nice way to finish out my week and ChaLEAN Extreme. As I said earlier, I am planning to try a new program that I got from the Beachbody summer sale, Combat, but with my injury, I don't know. It seems like a lot of jumping around and what not, so I may have to hold off for a bit until I'm healed and in top condition. You will know by Sunday what program I will use as my Hybrid Primary Program.
Happy Weekend!!!
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