Regular day, regular schedule. Back to resistance today.
I started as I usually do setting up my weights. I have to stoop over to get my weights out of their holding area and I could quickly feel that the stooping position was putting too much pressure already so I had to be really careful not to re-injure my back by getting into a bad position. I started by reducing the light weight. I noticed that Segi was using only 10lbs for his light weight on the first Progressive Set, so I decided to go down to 4kgs on my light weight. Segi's medium and heavy weights take big jumps where I usually went up by only 1.25 - 2.5kbs. So on this move, I started off really light and then jumped like 5kgs on each step from there. Previously, I did 7.5-10-12 and back down, but today, it was 4-7.5-12 So my jumps were a lot bigger. That immediately brought on a huge pump. On the next Single Set, I cut the light and medium weight a lot. 14.5 to 7.5, then 17 to 12 on the medium weight. But on the Drop Set, I went up to 22 then 19.5kgs, just one plate off the previous go. I kept the Force Set at 12, and that was tough. But I was able to get it done. Now the pump was so tight. The next Single Set for Triceps was the Skull Crusher. I kept the weights the same as last time. It was a good range for me. Struggled on the last of the Drop Set. In the next Progressive Sets for biceps and triceps, I kept the same weight as last time. The lighter weights. Light and medium were fine, but the heavy was almost to failure on the right, and I lost range of motion and height on the left. Also, had to do a mid set break. But on the descending set, the burn was on. Man that was a rough set. The triceps Kickbacks were better, but the burn was on as well. The final Single Set, I did again as a double set, the weighted Crunches, and I kept the 12kgs, but this time I did the back first then the front. Wore me out! HUGE PUMP and WOW Burn!
I moved to Abs. I would be going to Ab Ripper X this week, but I have to take a step back because of my back, so I went to Swiss Ball. Immediately I went to ChaLEAN Extreme and got this routine out. It is great to work my abs. Felt good. I also chose this routine because the back support I get from it is great. So I didn't have to worry about my back. Watch that angle especially when getting something off he floor. Got to be smarter. But I got a good workout and will be hoping for more burn later this week.
Splits were really good tonight, to my surprise. My legs were pretty sore today after the Pickleball yesterday, so I was a bit worried about it. After the initial pain, I was able to get comfortably low on all spits. The Flow was right on track as well.
In the end, I torched just over 900kcals. It was a good routine to get back into resistance. I felt really good about it.
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