Today was almost a carbon copy of yesterday. This is turning into a really relaxing, do-nothing vacation. The reason why I say "almost" is because I didn't play tennis with my son and wife today. I played with my regular club today. My son suddenly was invited to a small reunion of friends which he went to instead of playing tennis. Any my wife was tired and a little busy busing my daughter around. So, I was left at home pretty much all day. I binged-watched a few shows that I am into and all the other stuff that kept me on the couch yesterday.
I had a lot of expectations for today since I was hitting the ball so well yesterday. However, there was a big problem, and that was the surface of play. On the Omni-Court at the park I play with my wife and son at is a lot more reactive to spin and is a much slower surface. The hardwood gym floor is probably the fastest surface out there. So my timing was way WAY OFF! I sort of got my timing for my forehand, but my backhand never caught on. The one good thing that I was really happy with was my serve. It wasn't super great, but I was able to sort of square up my form on my serve. I would probably give myself a 60% for tonight's performance. I served five games - I won three and lost two. I was playing net better, but I'm still not putting away shots I should be putting away. The court in the gym looks so much smaller than the court at the park. I'm afraid to hit out on the tight angles. So hopefully I can find my range on Sunday at the tournament. But it was a fun session none the less. The gym was also still extremely hot and humid. There was a breeze coming in through the open windows every once in a while, but not enough for me to say it felt good. Just enough to notice, then it would die. So I was sweating like crazy again, leaving puddles on the floor. If I could find a group to play with on a hard court or omni court I could keep my timing constant, but until then, I'll play where I can.
When I got home, I had dried out a little, so I did my Arm Shaper task for the day. It was a fun Tabata-ish workout. I basically did each set straight with no break between moves. The most brutal move had to be the Clapping Push-Ups. The graphic has the person on her knees, but I did them Extreme-Tony style, feet off the ground as well as the clap. But for the third set, my pace was a lot slower so I got only like 15 reps. BURN!!! Also, I am not really going for size in my arms, I'm going for shape and cut, so instead of using heavy dumbbells, I went with lighter dumbbells and did the moves a lot faster to more reps in and keep the muscle under tension for the whole time of the move. It took a good 40 minutes. I took a 2 minute break between sets. Below is the graphic for the workout. It wasn't just for arms, but it worked almost the whole body. I got a good workout on my core and legs as well.
Then, to end my day, I completed a Flow Series. Again, to get me ready for bed.
In the end, I torched just over 1200kcals. This week of Tennis conditioning is going to be a huge calorie burn week. One more day!
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