Today, my nephew is coming for a visit and will be staying with us for four days and three nights. So, there is a chance that I will not have time to workout on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, so I'm getting in at least today's workout before he gets here. So today's workout is happening in the morning.
I started Push Circuit today and I thought that it would be a little shorter because of the fewer reps, but it ended up actually being a little longer because of my extra recovery times. For all the moves, I went down in weight from the last time I did this routine close to a year ago. I went down a good 5+/-kgs as you can see below. But I did go up in weight from the Burn Circuit. I tried to keep breathing as much as possible, but a few quick holds helped me get the weights up. I also stayed with the slow reps. But the oddest thing is that I was so out of breath at the end of almost every move. And my pump was incredible. Arms, upper chest, shoulder, legs. WHEW!! Major workout. I followed the program to a "T", except for the addition of my inter-tri-set set of Pull-Ups. Another odd thing as far as the construction of the routine goes is the last move, Push-Ups. Throughout the routine, it was clear that the target muscles were arms and legs. Why put a back and chest move right at the end? So, instead of doing regular or wide push-ups, I did Diamond Push-Ups to help burn out my triceps one last time. I was a little disappointed that I couldn't do more pull-ups, but I have to keep reminding myself that previously, my range of motions wasn't full and I kept an elbow bend instead of going all the way down. I want full range of motion. One big thing that affected me today was my grip strength. Gripping the weights, doing Towel Pull-Ups, really activated my forearms. I was trying not to over grip my weights, but I still got tired. Again, though, I must sing the praises of the slow rep. It enables me to really think about form and focus on the target muscles. It is especially noticeable in the Push Circuit where we do one body part at a time instead of doing compound moves or synergistic moves. Good old fashioned straight forward weight lifting. Old School!
I started the next level of ab/core routines with Extreme Abs. It is fifty percent longer at over 15 minutes. So I was a little nervous about it, but I ended up feeling really good about it. I got a good burn in the old abs as well. More moves and more reps. Definitely a step up. Except for the lack of a weighted move. But burned it up nonetheless.
Splits were fine as well as the Flow. If I keep this up, staying flexible will be easy. I just need to keep on doing it. No getting lazy.
In the end, I torched well over 1000kcals. Nice morning workout, now I'm free all day to relax and pick up my nephew.
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