2-12-17 HY: Insanity MAX 30: Tabata Strength + Splits + TCF.

2-12-17 HY: Insanity MAX 30: Tabata Strength + Splits + TCF.

Today was sort of a do nothing day in the morning. But late morning my wife asked me to take down the Xmas tree.  Yes, we've had our tree up all this time.  I was wondering how long we could keep it up so I wasn't saying anything about it, but today was the day it came down.  Then a little errand running outside and that was it.  Came back home and started getting ready for the workout.

I was ready for the new Tabata, or so I thought.  I just figured that it would be the same set up but with more intense moves.  What I wasn't ready for was no break. And in place of the break was a recovery move for only 30 seconds.  Also, sticking with the same base move and then using variations for the circuit was brutal.  That first circuit with the Diamond Jumps and Burpees.  I almost tapped out in the middle of that circuit, but I was able to push through.  But I felt good because outside of the previously mentioned big differences, I was getting through.  The first Push Up circuit was brutal, but I was ready for it and conditioned well enough to get through it.  What I wasn't ready for was the push ups that came later.  Specifically, with the Shoulder moves.  The V-Push Up series, was so brutal and killer, I could barely get through it.  The third move, the V-Push Up Hold just got me.  If I am in motion, I can keep it going, but holding a static move low like that was just too much and I collapsed on my head.  I almost got though it, but the pain and burn were tremendous.  My MAX OUT time was 20:15.  That was so intense.  I also think I may have slightly injured my left shoulder.  It has been in a chronic nagging pain ever since I slept on it wrong a few weeks ago, but I really feel it now.  I rubbed some Ben-Gay cream on it, but I can still feel the pain sort of lingering.  I was planning to do some weights today, but doing shoulders yesterday and then that brutal shoulder work today, I thought I should give my shoulders a break, because I'd be doing either Chest or Back today and those parts still depend a lot on shoulders.  So I'll do weights tomorrow.

Splits were good.  I pushed as hard as possible, but on the side splits, I am unable to keep my hips square and go low.  If I pull my legs open and go lower, my hip rotate into the direction of my front leg.  And today, the pain wasn't in the stretch, it was in the nerve.  Like a pinched nerve or something.  Even now, a few hours post workout, I'm still feeling what feels more like joint pain in my hip flexor than a pulled muscle.  Is that normal?  Flow was on point today.

In the end, I torched a modest 750+kcals.  Much shorter workout today because of no weights and no extra ab routine.  But felt good to get done early.