Today was an off day for me from work because Sunday, I had to work by attending the school festival. It is the big event of the second semester and all the students were there manning their respective booths and such. So I went to show support. Thanks to that, I have today off! So, in the morning, I went to see the new movie Star Trek: Beyond with my tennis playing partner, who also like science fiction movies. I'm not going to say anything about the movie except that I LOVED IT!!!! The best movie I have seen in a long time. Definitely worth another see, and buying the BluRay. INDULGENCE DAY!!! Today is the 31st. So that means ice cream at Baskin Robbins is 31% off. I have ice cream only on this day, so I went and had a double scoop of the seasonal ice cream. It was delicious! Motivated me to workout when I got home.
Today, I restarted the Bulk phase again. This will be my third time around. Also, this officially fills my worksheet dates. so today's workout weights are designated by a black dot. The last time I went through this routine, I reduced my weights. I stuck with those weights and I was able to really focus on my form and using the target muscles, my chest. I really had to think about activating my pecs to get them to flex up the weights. My reps were also a bit slower than Segi. When I went fast, I found that I was not activating my pecs as effectively. At the end of the routine, my chest was feeling really pumped, and even now, three hours after the workout, I'm still feeling the tension. But I am getting ahead of myself. On the first Super Set, Incline Fly and Incline Press, I used to use almost double that weight I used today, but I wasn't feeling my chest at all. With a much lower weight and much more control, I feel the tension on the chest muscles. On the Press, I'm still feeling a lot of tension in my inner shoulders than my chest, but at the top of the press, I am able to flex the chest muscles. I like being in better control. The Force Set was really tough. I can press more, but 17kgs is perfect for this particular set. I really struggled to get the weights up on the last set. Got a great burn. Still a little too much on my shoulders, but it's getting better. Progressive Set, Almost failed on the increasing heavy weight, but had a better time with them coming down. But the last set was brutal, but I got through it straight, no breaks. I kept the weights also on the Combo Set. I love this move because bringing the weight down, I really can flex my chest. Great feeling when I'm working the chest. On the Multi Set, I almost failed on each of the Decline Push-Up sets. I was able to increase the reps on both of the other moves by a couple reps. I again added the Band Uppercuts at the end. This time, each rep had a static hold at the end. Really finished off that awesome pump. I did up the band tensions though by one level up. Plus, I used my other set of bands on the middle tension. That static hold at the top of each rep really gave me the pump I wanted. Great routine!
I was thinking of going to Ab Ripper X, but I have plenty of time to get to that level, so this week, I decided to go with 10 Minute Trainer - Abs. Now that I have worked on my form with Brett and Chalene, I wanted to increase the intensity on this nice routine and see if I could push the burn even more. NAILED IT!!! Huge burn. But huge burn on the shoulders as well with all those plank/ab moves in the middle of the routine. Tony transitions so fast here, and I need time to re-position my mat so I won't kick stuff in my room. The routine ended up being 18 minutes. But the burn was real.
The Splits and Flow were right on point. Getting low and deep little by little.
In the end, I torched an awesome 1123kcals. Great burn for a resistance day. With all the tennis I'm doing on my cardio days, I'm sort of wondering when I'll get to finish Combat. I still have about 3 weeks left to complete the Warrior schedule. But it will get done.
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