My Achilles felt pretty good today. No pain going up and down stairs. No pain on slightly supported calf raises. So I decided to test my Achilles a bit and do a workout with some lower body stuff. I decided on the first X3 routine. I was a little nervous because my biceps and triceps were REALLY feeling it all day. They felt flexed for most of the day and quickly got pumped when activated for use. This routine has a pretty wide variety of upper body moves so I didn't know how I would perform. But, I was actually surprised that I was able to keep up and do all the reps with Tony and Crew. I didn't push for speed, but I did try and keep the slower-than-usual-for-Tony pace. It was a good slow pace so I could focus on target muscle activation. This routine had a little of everything which was perfect. I had to print out a new set of worksheets so I'm working from scratch with the weights. But using the weight range from yesterday's Body Beast, I think I got good weights. I took a little longer than the 30 minutes because I had to relearn a lot of the moves so after watching some, I went back and started from the beginning of the time. I was glad that there were some Pull Ups and Chin Ups, but I'm also glad that there were only two sets. A lot of balance work as well. The few bicep curls burned out my biceps even though I only used 7.5kgs. I was feeling it. There was a good amount of Core work as well. Which was good because I was thinking to do an ab routine afterwards, but I really didn't want to do three days in a row. There were a couple Sumo-ish Squats that I felt my inner thighs very much, along with Calf raises. No Achilles pain! I didn't go very heavy, but the intensity was there due to the slower pace or the reps. Great workout routine!
I went right into the Splits and I felt really good. I was able to push lower on both the Straddle and Left and Right Side Splits today and pushed more on the time as well. It's coming along. I'm within 4 inches of the ground. Excited about that! Still need to work on loosening those front hip flexors so I can be more upright in the Side Splits.
The Flow was on par with everything today so just rght.
In the end, I torched a pleasant 600+kcals. Less burn but less time. Still a great pump and burn.
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