Today was a good day. Finished work early, got home and relaxed. Started my workout at the regular time, or even a little earlier.
Since it is resistance day today, I went with Incinerator, a routine I hadn't done in a month, so I figured it was time to get to it. I really like the style of this routine, blasting one body part at a time. I didn't change the weights any from last time, but I was happy that I was able to increase my rep count on several of the Max-Rep moves. "Increase" may be a little exaggerated, because most of the increases were by just one or two reps. The first Max-Rep move was #2. Pull-Ups. I increased one rep to 11 reps. Next, #4. Push-Ups. Up two reps to 29. #6. Chin-Ups. Up one rep to 11 reps. But this one surprised me the most, #8. Military Push-Ups. Up three reps to 28 reps. #10 & #12. Pike Press & Flipper. Up one rep to 20 on both. That was a nice progression over the past three runs through this routine. Steady improvement. Next, #16. Skyfers. Up two reps to 22 reps. On #17. Arm and Hammer (10 reps). It is actually 20 reps because it is a two-move move, a regular curl then a hammer curl for one rep. I almost made it straight through, but I burned out at 16 reps. That is up 4 reps from last time. Plus, only two sets instead of three. Finally, in the Burnout, I was able to speed to 4 extra Push-up reps to 20 Reps. A lot of little step ups there, so I was happy. Oh, I said I kept the same weights all the way through, but I just realized that there were three moves that I increased the weights juuust a bit on. #11. Pterodactyl Flys. #13. Popeye Hammer Curls. and #14. Kneeler Curls. On all three of them, I went up 1.25kgs. Not much, but it went from easy to tough really quickly with that little increase. The final big change was on #15. Hail to the Chief. I did that move on my Swiss Ball. I was able to get better range of motion and didn't have to worry about hitting the floor with my weights. My arms were fried again after this one. Burns so good!
I went straight to the Abs routine and again, fried my abs on those control moves. I felt just a touch better than it did on Sunday. But I still got a good burn. This was still tough, needing to tap out early on the Balance Biker, by rep 16. Almost made it.
For the Arm Shaper, today was a series of Vinyasa's but with an added Side Plank. This was meant to focus on the arms so I held the poses for about 5 breaths each. I did a series of 6 runs, but for the Side Planks, three on each side. My Triceps especially felt it today with this one. When I started Yoga years ago, Down-Dawg was extremely tough on my triceps. But recently, it is taking a lot more for that burn to come. Step by step.
I took time to do my Splits training and I was really pushing the Hip Flexor stretches so I could open them more. Finished up with a good series of Flows.
In the end, I torched 900+kcals. I was totally fried out in my arms today. But a good kind of fry!
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