9-19-17 (Tuesday) HY: P90X3 - Cold Start + Agility X + Arm Shaper + TCF.

9-19-17 (Tuesday) HY: P90X3 - Cold Start + Agility X + Arm Shaper + TCF.

I think I'll have to readjust my workout schedule while I'm doing YAYOG.  The weekly routine has only three routines and without thinking, I already did two of them to start my week off.  So next week, I'm going to spread them out a little better.  But today, I wanted to test my back to see if I could do some of the higher impact moves.  I'm nowhere near ready for Shaun T style moves, but Tony's maybe.

I did Cold Start to warm up with.  I figured an extra warm up wouldn't hurt.  As the 4-5 minute warm up in the main routine began, and I started with the high knees, I felt a little pressure in my back.  It was sort of a compression type of pressure.  I think probably what hurt my back initially was when I did the Jumping Lunges with the Dumbbell Press in the Upper Body Complex, to keep my upper body upright, I arched it a little too much preventing me from actually flexing the muscles around my spine and so that left me vulnerable.  And I paid the price.  The moves were easy enough, but there were a few moves that I did modify because I wanted to be cautious.  Namely the Jumping Cross Lunges.  There was the variation just before with the Skip, but I didn't take it up that one step.  I also didn't go all out on the Jump Knee Tuck moves.  I kept the highest impact moves low impact.  Several times near the middle and end of the routine, I had to stop the DVD and rewind it to learn the more complicated moves.  But I got a good sweat on and with all that leg work, I'm going to feel it tomorrow, I'm sure!  At the end, there were some Push-Up moves that were tough.  But the toughest move was definitely the last move in the routine, the Plank Walk with the Plyo-Line Push-Up.  This was the only move that I couldn't do for the whole minute.  I broke at 30-seconds.   Then, I rewound the DVD and finished off the last 30-seconds to failure.  Whew!!! That was tough!!!  I am not feeling 100% comfortable with a medium intensity routine such as this, but if I go into it telling myself to modify the higher intensity moves and always keep the protection of my back in mind, I think I'll be okay until I'm back to 100%.  I had a good time with this routine.  The Cool Down had a nice stretch sequence, so I extended it and added some more hamstring stretches, and I also added the Butterfly stretch.  I wasn't able to touch both knees to the floor with my shoes on, but later, with my shoes off, I could.  I'll have to push a little harder when my shoes are on.

Arm Shaper Push-Up variation today is the Standard Push-Up.  It has been too far back in my memory when I did 50 reps straight.  The only time I can remember in over 5 years ago back in the US when I was visiting my family.  Everyone was watching TV and for some reason I just plopped down and banged out 50 reps.  My sister was impressed.  Since then, I don't remember doing it.  So today, I gave it a go, and I KILLED IT!!!  I was keeping a strong pace all the way past 40 reps. suddenly, I hit a wall at 47 and I really struggled to get the last 3 reps.  I wonder if it is a strength thing or a mental thing.  Maybe if I set my goal for 60 reps, I'll bang out 50 reps like nothing.  Huge pump and burn.

I could still feel the ab burn from the past two days, so I took today off from abs.  I also took the day off from the Lower Back Strengthening and Stretching routines.  I went right to the Flow series.  Felt good to cool down with a Flow series.

In the end, I burned a nice 726kcals.  It's getting better.