10-10-17 HY: P90X3 - The Warrior + Splits + TFC.

10-10-17 HY: P90X3 - The Warrior + Splits + TFC.

After a big day of tennis and a brutal YAYOG Advanced workout, I was feeling a little worn out, so I went with an intense but slower paced routine.  I also wanted something "full body", and something relatively new or "not-done-in-a-while".  It has probably been more than a year since I did The Warrior so I thought I'd check it out, and sure enough, it was exactly what I wanted.  Like YAYOG Circuit training, there are four moves in five sets.  But unlike YAYOG, there are different moves for each set, but the focus is the same.  So, I liked the variety MUCH more in this routine.  The focus of the moves are, first, an upper body move, then a cardio move, then an abs/core move, and finally an explosive legs/lower body move.  Each focus point was hammered each round.  Although there were only five rounds/sets, each move was a minute long so the total workout time was more than YAYOG.  The great this is that since there was a tough ab move in the routine, I didn't feel the need to do a separate ab routine afterward.  I got the burn I needed already.  By the end of the routine, my arms and chest, core, legs, and cardiovascular system were pushed to their limit resulting in an intense, full body burn. 

All that done, I was able to cool down and move right into the next part of the workout.  I was feeling good, and I was feeling tight in my legs, so I decided to revisit my splits training.  I went through the full routine, borrowing a lot from Tai Cheng's Neural Reboot 4 routine as usual.  As expected, I lost distance in my splits, and I was pretty tight in my right hip flexor especially on the Straddle Splits.  But after a few shakes of the leg, I was able to get the muscle back into position and go down so the stretch hit my inner thighs.  I started off the session about 25cm up but finished around 18cm.  Hamstrings are still a big problem so I did a little extra to stretch and loosen them up.  But the biggest problems are still my Hip Flexors.  I'll have to push those every chance I get to maintain a good level of flexibility.  Then I finished off with a good series of Flows.

In the end, I burned a good 700+kcals.  Surprisingly good workout today and shorter than usual.