8-01-16 HY: Combat HIIT 2 POWER + Swiss Ball Abs + Splits + TCF.

8-01-16 HY: Combat HIIT 2 POWER + Swiss Ball Abs + Splits + TCF.

Another HOT HOT day today, but after work, I made it home quickly and tried to get cool quick.  But I had to get to my workout quick so I wouldn't have to workout later than necessary.  No more procrastinating.

This routine is a good routine for resistance training with weights and body weight moves.  The intervals were known to me, but they were still brutal.  But today, I wanted to reduce the number of breaks and finish as close to the time allotted as possible.  I started off strong and made it through the whole Warm Up! But then the Weighted Interval came.  I stuck with 7.5kgs and that was enough to get the heart pumping.  I started off strong and did the first set of moves well, but when it came to those FIVE sets of Triple-Presses, my legs and shoulders were BURNING!!!  But I stuck with it.  No extra breaks, but I did have to extend the existing breaks a bit to catch my breath.  But the interval with the Burpees was the nail in the coffin.  The three sets with 8-12-16 reps was BRUTAL!!! I did the 8 reps fine.  I didn't want to stop in the middle of the set, so I pushed the 12 rep set and I was dying afterwards.  I needed to greatly extend the break by about 60-90 seconds or so.  The guy says the last set is "2 sets of 8".  I took him at his word and did 2 sets of 8.  I just took a little breather between sets, but at the end of the 16 reps, I was so out of breath it wasn't even funny.  WHEW!!! BUT, Goal achieved, no extra sets.  That all ended on the next and final interval. The interval on the floor.  The "Get Ups" and the Cross-Mountain Climbers and Spider Push Ups.  I basically had to take a break between each move.  My shoulders were dying, and I couldn't stay up.  I kept needing to reverse the video because I didn't want to miss any time with the move.  But I finally got through it.  Great Routine complete with Burn!

Normally I wouldn't do two days in a row of abs, but I was feeling good, so I decided to just do something new, so I went to the internet again and found a video on youtube that had an interesting set of swiss ball ab moves.  It was easy at first, but the more reps I did the burn crept up on me and then grabbed be from behind and nailed me.  Burned my abs UP!!!

Moved right into the splits and killed it!  Great stretch on the inner thighs and hamstrings.  Hip Flexor is still needing a lot of work to get it loose enough to do good splits.  The Flow was on point. Smooth and clean.

In the end, I torched a nice 790kcals.  Keeping up despite the heat!