Today was a kind of a bummer. I was feeling good in the morning and war ready for the day. Then, as I was driving to work, my seat cushion was a little off center. In order for me to center it, I have to lean way over to my left and then twist around to readjust it. Well, as I was twisting, I guess I twisted my neck as well because I felt a sudden pain on the left side of my neck. So that when I sat normally, looking to the left was painful. All day at work, I was trying to massage the spot, but it stuck with me. I've had this pain before and doing weights with this type of neck kink always becomes more painful. Needless to say, I wasn't looking forward to that. But today, weights was scheduled so I figured I was in for some pain.
As I started my workout, I decided to do the low reps, high sets with my Pull-Ups. So, I did the 4 variations on the workout sheet: Chin-Ups (3sx6r), V-Pull-Ups (3sx4r), 5-Grip Pull-Ups (2sx2rds), and Parallel Grip Pull-Ups (2sx6r). For a total of 10 sets. The first number is the number of sets, so "3s" means 3 sets, and "6r" means 6 reps. For the 5-Grips, 1 set consisted of 2 rounds and each round had one Pull-Up on each grip, so each set had 10 reps. I just about hit failure on the V-Pull-Ups, but mainly because of my left shoulder. It is still not at full strength, but it is coming along slowly but surely. But it was intense today.
I mostly kept the weights the same as the last time I did this routine on May 16. The only change was on move 3. I moved down to 8.75kgs on this one because my arms were already feeling it, so I figured it would be best to go down and not injure myself. There weren't any surprises. The burn came quickly on a lot of the moves. Again, it was those slow reps that killed me. With every other move a biceps move, my arms were so PUMPED! It felt good, but I know I'm going to feel it in the morning. I almost cramped out on the Hamstring Curl with the resistance bands in move 5. Keeping my hips forward really challenges those hamstrings. It was an awesome workout. Luckily, I tried not to put too much stress on my neck, so I didn't have any issues with that neck kink.
I went right into abs. Since I sort of hold this routine responsible for my chest issues last week, I was a little nervous, but, as it turns out, I was feeling a lot better about it as the routine progressed. I was feeling the burn pretty quickly once the 5-minute mark passed. I felt really good with the Push-Ups. I was able to keep the core strong throughout the routine. But I still came close to failure about three times. I wasn't able to keep up with Chalene's transition pace. On a few moves, I needed a little more time, not much, but I had to rewind the video. I remember taking three separate breaks. The first one was just before crossing my feet straight up, and then touching my ankles on either side. I needed a breather just before that one started. I don't remember the other two breaks, but I took them. Much more burn with the weighted oblique moves as well. When I finished, I really felt the hardness of my core.
The splits and Flow were fine. No residual soreness so everything was good.
In the end, I torched way over 1000kcals. A good day for a big calorie burn.
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