Today was a national holiday, Sports Day, so no work today. Instead, I spent most of the morning watching the 2nd presidential debate and the analysis afterwards. Riveting stuff. Felt really lazy today. Anyway, I didn't know what routine was up today before I started to prep. But earlier in the day, I was doing some shopping with my girls and I started to feel a slight pull in my right upper inner thigh. It was like it was almost getting ready to cramp, so I would massage it some and it would be okay for a bit. So needless today, I was hoping today's routine would not be Legs. When I discovered it WAS Legs, I considered changing to another routine. But then I figured that it was only while I was out and I hadn't felt anything since coming back, so I decided to go ahead and do the Legs routine, and if it did feel like it was going to cramp up, I'd stop and switch to another routine. Luckily, no such feeling so I went on and finished the Legs routine.
I think the toughest move in the whole Bulk: Legs routine is the first move, Front to Back Lunges. I was first introduced to this move in Supreme 90, a non-Beachbody program that is similar to P90X. I always died on that move there, and it was the same here. I just barely made it to the last rep in each set. I'm very happy that the first set is only 12reps. 15 would be brutal. The Progressive Set with Squats is not too bad. I only have a 25kg X2 dumbbell set and squatting 50kgs isn't that hard. I was doing over 100kgs on the machine at school. The Force Set, I went from one 25kg dumbbell to two 13.25kg dumbbells. I think I can go heavier next time around. The Progressive Set was also good. The heavier weight was starting to tighten my back, but I was able to flex it safe through all three weights, ascending and descending. I was also able to keep up with Segi. The final Legs Super Set has the second toughest move, the Alt. Side Squat. That move just kills the inner thighs. If there was a move that would trigger a cramp, this is it. But all was fine, no cramp. The Dead Lifts were fine. I think I can go a bit heavier next time. The biggest change I did was to double the ending Super Set. Sagi does only one set of each move once a circuit. One side per circuit. But I did both sides in each circuit, and I burned out my calves, and I got a good warm up for my abs. Also, I don't spell "BEAST" forwards and backwards, I do a mirror image, so the first time is normal, and the second is like your seeing the word in a mirror, so the movements are all equal. Great routine, but I'm wondering how much I'm going to feel it tomorrow or the next day.
Moved right into abs and it was good. I mean, I feel I did better than the previous time. I'm happy my abs are starting to get stronger. The Splits and Flow were also good. Getting Lower and keeping a high level of smoothness. I felt a slight pull in my left glute, so I took some extra time to stretch it out.
In the end, I torched 1100+kcals. Legs really burn a lot of calories when you focus on them. But the Piper is waiting.
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