7-19-16 HY: Combat 45 - Power Kata + Abs + Splits + TCF.

7-19-16 HY: Combat 45 - Power Kata + Abs + Splits + TCF.

Regular day, but woke up rather sore, but not in the place I expected to be sore.  I was expecting to be sore in my legs, and they were a bit sore, but I was a lot more sore in my lats from right below my shoulders all the way down my outer back.  It was really an odd sensation.  I don't every remember being sore in those muscles before.  I wasn't really sure how I even hit those muscles.  Reaching forward and picking things up activated them and thus the pain came.  Once I started today's workout, I realized what and how it happened.

I rather enjoyed Combat 30.  It was a fun and relatively easy to follow routine.  I kind of expected the same from this one.  I got a lot more.  Right from the first punch, I discovered that it was all that punching and blocking that created that soreness I talked about earlier.  Every punch brought along its own little scream party.  But once I warmed up, it wasn't so much the pain, but the strain on the muscles.  But there was some pull when I started putting more power into my punches.  The Intervals were fun. A lot of interesting new and somewhat complicated combinations.  It is interesting that in each Interval, they lead through two separate progressions.  I was expecting them to combine the two somehow, but nope, they left them independent of each other and did them in succession.  I have to say that the Muay Tai moves were really fun.  Love that Flying Knee move, and the High to Low Vertical Punch.  Those are two moves I've never done before.  They do Capoeira, too.  I recognized some of the moves, but I preferred Brett's form for their moves. Sorry!  I was heaving and sweating like crazy the entire routine.  It played out nicely.  One thing though, is it just me, or does the right side seem to be longer than the left?  For some reason, I felt that way today.  I just felt like I was doing more reps on the right side.  Maybe it was just because it was the first time on the right, and was used to it on the left so it seemed shorter.  Oh well.  Either way, Good work today.

I found a little ab workout that I hadn't done yet by another small independent trainer on YouTube that looked interesting.  Funny name.  The routine was called "Abs, Abs, Abs... Abs".  Basically, it was 4 moves done in a succession with no rest in a descending rep counts of 12-10-8-6.  The moves were: 1. V-Ups, Revers Toe Touches, Hand overhead Leg Lifts, and Scissor Kicks (two kicks is one rep).  Every set was really tough, and I got a good burn in the core.

Splits and Flow were good.  My hip flexor needs a lot of work.  I'm almost sure I'll be able to get at least one of the Side Splits by Dec. 31, but I probably won't be able to be totally upright for them.  But I'm trying and pushing.

In the end, I torched a solid 800+kcals.  Since starting Combat, my workout are about30-45 minutes shorter they they were just previously.  I guess that extra time accounts for the 150-250+ more calories burned during my workout.  But I'm feeling a lot of different muscles being worked.