9-20-16 HY: Combat 60 - Extreme Cardio Fighter + Splits + TCF.

9-20-16 HY: Combat 60 - Extreme Cardio Fighter + Splits + TCF.

I woke up sore in all the good places.  Yesterday's Total Body workout was really total body.  Upper body and lower body needed a good amount of stretching out.

Day 2 of my come back.  Today is cardio day so I decided to go back to Combat and start where I left off which is week 6.  It was a little intimidating to start with Combat 60, but there was no wimping out today.  The one thing I did differently to modify a little bit during my return was to not use any hand weights.  Not much to say, but I killed it.  There was no cardio circuit that I didn't feel good about.  Notice I said "Cardio Circuit".  That final strength and ab section was as usual, extremely brutal.  I was able to do the first set with the team, but that was on my knees. I needed to take a little extra break between sets, and then between the push ups and the abs, but I nailed it.  I was thinking to do some abs also, but I was focusing on the core during the knee up moves and kicks, and I burned it up on the last circuit so I figured I was okay with abs so I went straight to splits.

Big news, I hit a new low today and I feel, REALLY FEEL that I'll get my straddle splits within the next couple of months.  It was like a totally smashed through a plateau and sank even lower.  I was ready to push to the end, but there was still just a little too much pain at the lowest point, but there was no kink in my hip flexors so I pushed lower.  I got lower than 5 inches so I felt really good.  The side splits still have more to go, and since, especially, my hamstrings felt really sore, I didn't push to much on the side splits.  I'll do it more later.  The Flow was also very smooth and clean.

In the end, I torched a nice 1060+kcals.  I cut almost an hour off my workout time so I was happy I could get some extra time to do other things.