Today was an extremely off day. Didn't get a good night's sleep. Felt so weird when I got up. Had ZERO drive or motivation to do anything today. So, I indulged that and did a little more binge watching. Now I'm all caught up with one of my shows. But around 4pm, I was feeling the need to get active and that is when I started to get ready for my workout. By 4:30pm, I was hitting PLAY.
This is the third time through this routine this month, so I really wanted to up the weight a bit, so I went up 1.25kgs to 8.75kgs on all except Pyramid Five. I'm not going to elaborate on each move, but I will say that I was feeling that extra 1.25kgs on every move, and every rep. One thing I didn't want to do was sacrifice form. I was paying special attention to form, and the use of momentum to get the weight up. I didn't want to cheat with weights that were too heavy. Luckily, I was able to keep good form all around. But the only way I could do that was to go a little slower than Segi's pace. So, on most of the moves, I took the rest period between moves, then rewound the DVD to Set 7 of the previous move then started when the break time began. Usually, it was between a minute to 40 seconds. And I would usually end at the same time, or close to it, as the Segi team did. The most taxing moves were Move 1 - EZ Push-Up + Clean + Squat, Move 3 - Skull Crusher + Press + Crunch. This one, I did on the Swiss Ball again for range of motion. And Move 4 - Curl + Military Press + EZ Squat. These three moves just burned me out by round 5-6, and I was running on fumes by Round 7. Honorable mention to Move 7 - Upright Row + Calf Raise. The heavier weight really burned out my shoulders when I hit Round 5 and on. But now that I know I can do this with the heavier weight, I think I'll be able to improve on the next two sessions. Move 5 - Delt Raise + Reverse Lunge. I kept the same weight as last time, 5kgs. I was afraid of going up to 6.25kgs. But it was actually easier than I thought it should have been, so I may go up next week. This routine got me the severe burn and comfortable pump I was expecting.
I was really worn out today, so I decided not to do my bonus Pull Ups but instead, went right into Abs. This routine is getting a lot better for me, so I think I'll go on to another routine next time. But I always get a good burn on the last few reps of each move, forcing that required grunt on the last rep. I tried to keep the range of motion big and really work the core. It worked well. I was feeling a lot better after abs, so I went for the Pull Up Lucky 7 set. Felt a lot better than last time. On the 7th round, I hung at 5 and hammered out the last two reps individually from straight arms.
The Splits and Flow were right on with the required gains.
In the end, I torched 1110kcals. Nice way to start my week. I had a party planned today, but I canceled it because of my weird feeling. I don't know if it will be rescheduled.
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