11-20-16 HY: Tennis + Splits + TCF.
Today was supposed to be a resistance day, but my wife wanted to play tennis, so I played tennis with my wife. I was also intending to do a regular resistance workout in the evening, but after the tennis, I decided not to, because the calorie burn with a lot higher than I had anticipated, so I felt good about the tennis being my main workout for today.
Usually, when I play with my wife, the rallies are relatively short so there is not a lot of sustained cardio. Today, however, we were having a lot of really long rallies. I did my best to get the balls back to her or close to her, but she was able to return most of the balls. And those sustained rallies are a lot of stop and go and run and pack peddle, and change directions. I still am not hitting the ball very hard, but as I gauged how my wife is progressing and getting used to the strokes and timing and distance judging, I started to hit a little harder. But definitely a good workout. I was also right after a rain. The court was dry but still had a couple big puddles around the court, not in it luckily. But the air was heavy with humidity so I got a big sweat on.
I did the Splits and Flow in the evening so tack on another 165kcals or so to that total.
In the end, I torched 900+kcals during the tennis and I was sweating.
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