7-26-16 HY: Combat 45 Power Kata + RevAbs - Merciless Abs + Splits + TCF.

7-26-16 HY: Combat 45 Power Kata + RevAbs - Merciless Abs + Splits + TCF.

Got to my workout right after getting home from work.  It's weird coming home to a virtually empty house.  No kids activity or anything.  It's nice to be able to do my own thing when I want to do it, but I miss the days when the kids would meet me at the door with open arms and ask to play, which would push my workout to a lot later than I wanted.  Those days are just a memory now...

W2D3 of Combat.  Second time for this routine.  It was a really good cardio workout, and I remembered being able to handle most of the routine with little extra break time, so I wanted to amp up the routine a little bit.  I don't have those gloves, but I do have small hand weights.  I knew 1kg weights would be too heavy for all the punches and such, but I have these little half-pound weights from TAEBO that I haven't used in a long time because they are too light for anything, or so I thought.  I thought that they would add just a little weight to my punches so I put them on.  They were light, but I could feel the difference.  I was told that too heavy weights could hurt my joints, so going with the tiny weights was the right choice to see how it would go.  It was Awesome.  Just the right resistance to make a difference.  I started off strong, and pretty much kept up for the first two intervals, but I started to fade on the third Interval, and then I caught my second wind in the fourth interval.  Again, that Muay Thai flying kick is so AWESOMELY FUN!!!  I guess it's more of a Flying Knee than a kick.  That Jumping Low Kick is also TONS of FUN!  It really brings back the days when I was learning Tae Kwon Do.  My kicks were a little better, but still had that hip flexor issue when I would rock back on the base leg.  But I found a better angle at which to kick.  So next time, I'll see what I can do and if I can improve the range of the kicks.  The final Interval with all those punches, the sweat started flying off me all over the room, so I had to keep wiping on the pulse to minimize the splatter.  Great routine!

It was predetermined by me to do Merciless Abs today so no delay in starting up.  I hit failure several times in the third round.  Just couldn't keep my legs up in the static hold. Nor could I get my legs straight in the V-Ups. Work in Progress!

Splits and Flow were right on point.  Very satisfied.

In the end, I torched a bigger 920+kcals.  Really burned it up today.