10-19-17 (Thursday) HY: Tennis + 30-Day PUC + TFC.

10-19-17 (Thursday) HY: Tennis + 30-Day PUC + TFC.

Yep, another Tennis day, 2 days Back-to-Back days is unusual.  But today was with my older club and on a gym floor.  Needless to say, since playing a lot on Clay and Omni-Courts for the past month or so, timing was a huge issue.  I tried to prepare early for my strokes, but the shooting skid of the ball on that slick gym floor proved too fast for this old dude.  During the warm up, I was more late than on time with a lot of my shots.  But I slowly got used to it.  In my first match, I was still having trouble and it showed.  My serve was okay, at about 60%.  Twice in the set, I literally had a game on my racket and it netted the ball.  That means since we play No-Ad scoring, when the score is a deuce, the next point wins.  Over the course of the evening, about 4 times I lost the game at deuce.  I was not happy.  Anyway, we ended up losing that first set 6-2.  A change of partners and a little more practice under my belt, and a little rise in confidence, we won the next set, 6-1.  Even though we won, I still wasn't feeling comfortable on court.  I didn't feel like I was able to hit out on the ball.  I felt too tentative, and I don't like playing tentative tennis.  I want to play to my strengths.  But a few shots pumped me with confidence.  On shot I hit with a lot of top spin and the opponent let it go because he though it was going out, but the spin pulled it down and it dropped in.  My slice serve was okay but not reliable.  My first serve was gone.  In the last set, everything sort of fell into place.  I started hitting out, with more power and accuracy, with my forehand, but my backhand down the line was totally gone.  And in the last set, I finally won a love game on my serve.  We won that set, 6-2.  It was a lot of fun.

When I got home, I went right to the Pull-Up bar and after some stretching, I got to Day 2 of Week 3 of the 30-Day PUC.  Today, it was 3 sets of 7 reps of Pull-Ups, and 3 sets of 7 reps of Parallel Grip.  The Pull-Ups were fine, I felt strong on them. But I started to wither on the Parallel Grip.  The third set was brutal, but I battled it out.  Since I started to lose fat, I have also lost fat in my hands.  That is causing a little problem with loose skin there.  I have trouble when holding the bar too long, the skin get too pressured and it hurts.  Plus, the pads on my bar are getting too compressed, so not enough padding now.  But I pushed through.  And I stayed on the bar the whole time, for each set, of course.  I got a good pump and an awesome burn.

Then I finished with a good Flow series.

In the end, I burned a bit under 1500kcals. Felt good to pump those Pull-Up out.