Today, was supposed to be a double workout day, but as I said before, I injured my left Achilles and am not actively trying to not aggravate it so I can play tennis on Thursday. I was supposed to play this afternoon, but I decided not to play because of that very reason. So, only one workout today.
I was a little troubled trying to find an upper body routine that wouldn't put any pressure on my Achilles. I was looking at some X3 routines, but they mostly had some lower body stuff except for The Challenge, and I was not feeling in the mood to go that intense. Finally I hit on Bulk: Arms. It has been a few months since I did this routine, and when I got the worksheet out, I was thinking the weights were a bit light. Famous last words! I basically did the same weights as the last time with a couple of changes. On the first set, the Progressive Set of Standing Curls, I went up a small plate (1.25kgs) on the light and medium weight and then up a medium plate (2kgs) on the heavy. In hind sight, that was a mistake. I was dying by the end, and I needed to take a break between sets and a few mid-set breaks on the last two sets as well. Biceps were BURNING!!! On all the sets, the target muscles, either biceps or triceps were left burning like crazy! On the last move, the Weighted Crunches, instead of using plates of 7.5kgs, I used two dumbbells for 8kgs. a little heavier. It felt good to get those different style of sets done again with different levels of weight. There were some slow reps, not as slow as ChaLEAN Extreme, but slow enough to get that semi-static pump and burn. I was glad to also keep the pressure off my Achilles.
Even though I did abs yesterday, I wanted to do something Core today, so I thought to do something totally different that I wanted to try but never had the chance or never got a round to it to do. So I went to my online subscriptions and chose a Core Swiss Ball workout. I liked Chalene's a lot so I wanted to see what else was out there. I chose the Fit Ball, Core Strength ab workout. It was lead by an Australian, which was new. There were a lot of moves I knew, but a couple new ones that were pretty tough. But it wasn't only core, it was almost full body. That hamstring pull in almost cramped my hammys. I could really feel how weak my hamstrings were. It was nice to do something different. It was a good 15 minutes ab routine.
Splits were good! I feel like I'm primed to go on past the present plateau so I'm getting ready for another concerted push to go to that next level. Flow was also clean and smooth.
In the end, I torched a nice 700+kcals. No lower body in play so that was pretty much what I was expecting. But the Pump and Burn was Awesome!
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