Today was somewhat of a busy day. After waking up late, I got ready to go out with my wife to help her with a bunch of errands she needed to finish at the mall. Basically buying a lot of stuff for the kids that they needed and couldn't be put off any longer. She had her list and I was the driver, carrier today. Long story short, we were out for over 6 hours and most of that was walking around the mall and carrying all of the purchases. I would, as discreetly as possible do curls with all the bags and Triceps extensions. Of course, near the end of the day, with the number of bags growing, I started to really get a nice little pump. Also, as we walked through the crowd, I would do lateral raises with static holds with the bags as we weaved in and out of the people. Sort of fun sneaking a workout in there like that.
We got home around 5:30pm and we relaxed a little. Then I started to get ready for my workout. I wanted to start at 6 o'clock. We had set the timer for the AC to kick on about an hour before we got home but for some reason it didn't come on and my workout area was close to 37 degrees Celsius, which is close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. So I turned on the AC and had to wait for it to cool down. I had to wait a good 45 minutes before it was down to a bearable temperature. Then I started my workout.
I wasn't really thinking about upping my weights, but I ended up upping just over half of the weighted moves. I upped #1 Squats, #2 Lunge, #3 Sumo, #8 Adductor Lunge, #9 Cross Reach, and #11 Bridge Kicks. The most difficult weighted move was #2 Lunge. I just wasn't able to explode up as fast from the bottom. When I went down to the lowest point, I would slowly come up for the first 5-8 inches, then when I was a little higher, Explode up. So it ended up being only half an explosion. I may have to go back to the 17kg weights. The most difficult non-weighted move was again, #10 TT Plus. I was burning by rep 7 and barely made it to 10 on both sides. The move with the least amount range of motion was a tie between #4 Weighted Pistols, and #11 Bridge Kicks. Today I had a bit of a balance issue on #4, more with the left than the right, but I had to tap out about 5 times. I only tapped out a couple times on the right side. #11 is always tough because my hip flexors are too tight and the shape of my bow back prevents me from really push out straight. But it was a good lower body workout. I felt the burn with virtually every move. Surprisingly, the most intense burn came from #5 Side Kick. The burn on the last 3 reps was extremely intense on the base leg glute. I was dying and needed some extra time to stretch out the glutes. Two sides, same burn.
I moved right into abs. I was sort of thinking before not to do Ab Ripper X again, because of what it did to my Hip Flexors before, but I didn't want to run and hide from that pain, so I went for it today. I know I hit those Hip Flexors hard and I'm sure I'll feel it someday, but I also did a lot better on several of the move. I was able to go longer into the tougher moves without tapping out. Great burn today. Again, only made it to the 40th rep on the Mason Twists, but I did an extra 10 for a total of 60 reps. OUCH!!! I felt that!!!
To try and fight the soreness, I went with a combo of Unlock Your Hip Flexors and Splits. It felt good to focus on a trouble area. I hope it works out and I don't have much soreness tomorrow. And the ending Flow Series was right on.
In the end, I torched a low 760+kcals. I was hoping for more because it was lower body, but I didn't hit a grand. Oh well, great day all around despite that.
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