3-09-17 HY: P90X3 - Cold Start + Insanity MAX 30 - Friday Fight Round One + ChaLEAN Extreme - Extreme Core Circuit + TCF + Wii Sports + Splits.
Today is the final day for Week 4 of Month One of Insanity MAX 30. It took a while to get here needing a two-week break two days before actually completing Week 4 because of the flu. But one week of total non-activity laid up in bed, and then about a week of rehabbing, I finally finished. But I stacked the deck in my favor. First of all, I did Cold Start to optimize and warm up my body before getting into the main routine. That stretch, especially for the lower body really helped me, I think. But instead of using the regular routine video, I actually used the modifier video. I'm still being cautious because of my rehab, so, Friday Fight being the most intense of the Month One routines, I wanted to give myself a mental out. If I started to get dizzy or something like that, I told myself that I could switch to the modifier moves. Things started out well, and I made it to the first break at 15 minutes pretty well. No modifying needed. The second half also started out well, but right around the 20-minute mark, I started feeling the strain. Then I hit a wall. The move that killed me was the X Jump X Plank. I barely finished that move and then as the next moved started, my body just wouldn't move. I stayed in that "Take a knee" pose breathing heavily. I looked up once as the next move started and I thought about getting into the plank position for the Knee Taps, but my body didn't respond. I ended up needing about a minute and a half to catch my breath and recover enough to start back up. So, I rewound the DVD and started at the Knee Tap move, and finished out the second section. So my MAX OUT time was 23:38. That is 7:04 better than the last time I did this routine. The last section has only four moves, and I needed a quick break after the first two moves. But was able to finish out the last two moves in succession. I was dead, but I actually felt good at the end. Not dead like before getting the flu. Awesome Kick A$$ workout routine!
I wanted a little variety for my abs, so instead of Ab Attack, I've done that routine twice this week already, I went with Chalene. It is the first time in a few weeks that I've done this routine, and it was tough. Tougher than I remember it being. I guess that is evidence of my loss of strength. But I am glad to know that I am getting back my strength little by little every day. I really needed those two breaks Chalene puts in this routine. I probably wouldn't have been able to go straight through without a break.
I did the Flow series as a topper for this part of my workout because I had to get ready to go to a night class I teach. Flows were all good.
I was thinking to do my splits in the evening after getting home, but again today, my daughter and son wanted to play Wii, so we got out their favorite games and played. The games we played were pretty active ones, like tennis, batting, pitching, ping pong, etc. So I was moving quite a bit, and I worked up a nice sweat. I was also breathing pretty heavily after several of out games. The one, in particular, that got me all sweaty was a game called Chambara. It is like a sword fighting game. We played several rounds and man, I was really winded at the end.
I finally got to my splits at close to 2 am. Since is was so late, I decided to do only one round, but push a little more. No records, but a good maintenance session.
A lot of activity today. Lots of fun. This ends my regular week of workouts. But, this coming week is going to be a weird one so I may not take an off day this weekend because I know that I will be pressed to get a workout in on Wednesday. I have my school's graduation ceremony, then a night class. I won't get home until late and won't be able to workout. So, I am considering going straight through working out every day until I have to take Wednesday off. We'll see what happens.
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