10-24-17 (Tuesday) HY: Tennis + 30-Day PUC + TCF.

10-24-17 (Tuesday) HY: Tennis + 30-Day PUC + TCF.

Due to schedule changes the Thursday tennis session was moved to Tuesday!  LUCKY ME!!!  I was able to get the fast track home which means I was able to get to the gym early, warm up, and start playing.  Also, because of the shift, some members weren't able to come, so there ended up being only six of us, two came late.  So after a good warm up, we started playing a match.  The big thing I am happy about is the fact that Pickle-Ball yesterday didn't affect my tennis any.  In fact, it may have even helped me some, but in ways I can't tell.  I still needed to get used to the surface again, but it came in time.  I was serving very well in this set.  I didn't lose a game, and I hit several service winners and a few aces.  But my flat serve was off.  So my slice serve was it.  My strokes were okay, but I felt a little tentative at the beginning.  But as the set went on, my confidence grew.  My partner and I won the set, 6-3. 

Then, the other team traded with us and my partner and I went to the practice court.  For most of the match time of the second match, we were doing cross-stroke practice.  My forehand really felt good, and I was able to get into a rhythm.  But my backhand just couldn't handle the bounce acceleration.  My timing was just so off.  Try as I might, I was late 75% of the time.  Finally, near the end, we got into a good rhythm.  That is the kind of drilling I like, it is long and I am able to find that all-important rhythm.

We played in the third match and my serve was up and down.  Thankfully, more up than down.  I had three service games in this set, and I won them all.  My partner also had three service games and lost them all.  On my serve, I would get into trouble with my serve, hitting consecutive double faults, then ace and service winner my way out of the jam.  Then in the next game it would go the other way.  Jump up, then crash with double faults.  But I always found a way to pull the game out.  This set, my strokes felt very solid.  A definite and direct result of the previous practice session.  At the end, the score was 5-5 and I was serving.  I already said that I won all my service games so you know we won 6-5, but again, I got down, then a good serve saved us.  It has been a while since I played as well as I have tonight despite the bad shots.  My volleys were a lot better.  Everything all around was better than last Thursday.  I'm really looking forward to Sunday for more tennis.

When I got home, I went right to my Pull-Up bar to knock out 56 pull-ups for day 2 of the final week in the Pull-Up Challenge.  Today's menu was 2 sets of 6 reps of Parallel grip, 2 sets of 6 reps of Pull-Ups, and then 4 sets of 8 reps of Pole Vaulter Pull-Ups.  I felt stronger today, and the first round was quick.  the first two sets of the second round were a lot easier than Sunday, but I could feel the pain and strain coming.  I was able to get first of the final two sets of Pole Vaulter Pull-Ups done straight with just a couple hang breaks for just a breath.  The fourth and last set, I was able to get 6 reps, but then I had to come off the bar.  My forearms were screaming at that point.  I needed to shake them out.  But instead of doing just the last 2 reps, I knocked out a total of 4 reps before failure hit.  So, a revised total of 58 Pull-Ups.  Two more days left and I'm done!

I ended with a good Flow series.

In the end, I burned a good 1607 kcals.  Very good day today!