7-31-16 HY: Combat 60 Extreme Cardio Fighter + ChaLEAN Extreme - Extreme Core Circuit + Splits + TCF.

7-31-16 HY: Combat 60 Extreme Cardio Fighter + ChaLEAN Extreme - Extreme Core Circuit + Splits + TCF.

HOT HOT DAY!!!  The kind of hot that makes a full blast AC seem like it's making no headway.  I just felt dead and totally unmotivated for pretty much the whole morning.  Just felt so heavy and sluggish.  But I did get a ton of video editing done so that is one good thing.  My daughter was away at camp as was coming back in the afternoon so I had to pick myself up and go out and get her.  Also, it is "Indulgence Day"! The 31st of the month, so it is sort of tradition for my family to get some ice cream from Baskin Robbins.  So on my way to get my daughter, I picked up some ice cream.  As an aside, I got it, but I haven't eaten it yet.  I will probably eat it over the next few days, just little by little.  Around 6pm, I finally got the will to get up and get ready for my workout. 

Today starts Week 3 of Combat. So I did a new routine today.  It is said to be one of the toughest routines in the program so I was a bit stoked.  I decided not to use the hand weights today so I could learn the moves and combinations.  Good thing, because the combo's were pretty complicated and it took a bit of time for me to get used to them.  Weight distribution and right foot placement to bring out the most power in the kicks and punches.  But once I got a hand of the moves, I got it going.  The new kick/lower body interval made me feel really uncoordinated at first.  I just wasn't getting the rhythm of the combinations.  I was doing them with no power behind them.  But by the second round, I sort of got used to them and was doing them a little better, but still, I fell off balance several times.  Hopefully I'll do better the next time around.  One big negative is my right knee.  I started out my fitness journey with TAEBO and after a few years of doing it, my right knee started to feel a little gimpy, not on kicks or stuff like that, but on one particular move, the right jab.  I am careful to keep my knee square and behind my ankle so as to keep it stable, but still, I guess I'm still putting too much pressure on it.  It started to feel a little gimpy with the "shuffle" as well.  That lateral movement to the right is hitting an angle that is causing some discomfort.  I'm going to have to find a way to work around it or I won't last the full duration of the program without injury.  I ended up modifying a little to keep pressure off the knee and that seemed to help, but that modification prevented me from putting full power into my punches with that forward lunge and push off the back leg.  But the intervals were really good, and they are set up in a way that makes the hour just fly by.  Oh, also, not pull ups today, I wanted to focus on the new routine and get it down.  I like the core interval at the end.  Than circle with the hands and the two center pulses really hit the abs good.  Got a nice burn in the second round.  Fun all around routine.

I still wanted more Abs so I went to a good routine.  I really like this routine because it is directly attacking the core.  I continued the burn here, and I think I got better with my form.  I'm still using the 2kg dumbbells so that is a good challenge.

Splits were good.  Coming off an off day, it was a little slow getting to my mark, but I got there.  I'm finally able to straighten my right leg on the right side splits.  Before, there was always a slight bend, but now, I can straighten it out.  Now to go lower.  Flow was clean and smooth.

In the end, I torched just under 900kcals.  Nice way to start off the week.  I workout in the second floor of my house and today, it was like a Sauna from the morning, so about an hour before I started working out, I turned on the AC to cool it down.  By the time I started working out, it was a nice but not too cool temperature.  If I had left it warmer, I probably would have broken a thousand kcals, but I would have been dead.  So I'm happy with my decision.