8-21-16 HY: Yard Work + Combat 30 Kick Start + Insanity - Cardio Abs + Splits + TCF.

8-21-16 HY: Yard Work + Combat 30 Kick Start + Insanity - Cardio Abs + Splits + TCF.

Today was a moving day/resting day.  In that I was either moving or resting, no in between.  Once I got up in the morning, I was going.  I wanted to sleep in because I was up late the night before.  My wife had to bring my daughter to her club but the last thing she said to me was, "If you want to do the yard, you should get up soon."  I had wanted to do the yard last week, but it was just too hot, in the 100's.  But in the earlier morning, it is not as hot.  I didn't tell my wife that I was going to do the yard today, but her words rang in my head, and I couldn't get back to sleep.  So I dragged myself out of bed, had breakfast then got ready for the yard.  By the way, my biceps and triceps were quite sore since yesterday.  A little better today, but still sore.  So using the weed-wacker wasn't particularly appealing.  I did an extra round of cutting today to get everything extra short.  So basically, I cut the grass, raked everything up, bagged it, then went back over the whole lawn cutting grass that escaped the first go around.  The whole thing took a little over 2 hours.  I had always been curious as to how many calories I burned doing the yard, so today, I wore my HRM while working.  I was expecting about 400-500kcals in the two hours, but I was extremely surprised that I actually burned just under 900kcals.  But even though I'm not doing a lot of heavy intense lifting and such, I was constantly moving, and my whole body was pretty much flexed to hold and control the weed-wacker and the other tools.  The heat that came on for the last 90 minutes or so probably played a part as well.

After taking a shower and all that, I was just exhausted.  Again, I think the heat had a big part to play in zapping my energy.  I pretty much just vegged on the couch and eventually fell asleep, ending up taking a 2 hour nap.  When I woke up, I had lunch, yes, a very late lunch, close to 5pm then got started getting ready for my workout. 

I originally thought to just continue on with Combat Week 5, but I just was not feeling up to doing Combat 60 today.  I was still pretty tired, and still a little dehydrated. So I decided to just start up Week 5 again which begins with Combat 30.  I was also thinking to not use the weights, but when it came right down to it, I couldn't NOT use the 1kgs.  So I got them out and used them.  I immediately felt their resistance, and my biceps especially, were aching on the extension.  I was a little out of wack during the second interval, the kick interval with balance, but I reeled it in and got it under control by the end.  I also felt as though I hit my second wind really early because I felt a lot more energetic than I though I would.  I had to take a little extra long break between the 4th and 5th intervals, and the 5th and last intervals.  Aside from that, I got through pretty straight.  I felt pretty good at the end.

I was thinking of a trainer whose Ab routines I could do this week, and I almost went back to Chalene, but then, I figured I'd give Shaun T a try.  I don't remember too many "only ab" routines he has, but I knew about Cardio Abs.  So I figure I'd do that one today, then find what other ones he has.  There is one Shaun T Ab routine that I have not done yet.  It is the one in his deluxe pack, the one I just picked up the beginning of this summer from the Beachbody Summer Sale, the one called "Insane Abs".  I will get that one in this week.  The cardio moves at the beginning of Cardio Abs were fun and different, but I knew they were coming.  For me, the way Cardio Abs is set up, the burn doesn't hit until the very end.  Then it hits you like a ton of bricks.  The final move is those two level hip thrusts.  On that last set, I was absolutely dying!!! Collapsing after the final rep. Talk about BURN!!!  There are little burns at the end of the little progressions, but the big burn is at the end.  Definitely hit me hard... But in a good way.

Added some time to the Splits today, and was able to get low quickly.  The Flow was also good, but had to adjust because of my gimpy right knee.

In the end, today turned out to be a big calorie burn day.  I torched a nice 1650+kcal in my two sessions with over four hours of work.  Big start to my week!