Happy with a regular schedule, which means today was RESISTANCE DAY!!!
First, the extra Pull-Ups. For the foreseeable future, I will be doing all my pull-ups with added weight. Not sure when I'll do a test set without the weight but one of these days I'll have to, I guess. But not today. For the first three sets, I did it with 10kgs, then the last set, the parallel grip (Horn) pull-ups, I did it with 12kgs. As you can see, the reps are still below 10 per set, but they are up a little from the first time I did it with weight. One thing that was very different today was the fact that I wore an elbow brace today because the pain was a bit much the last time. So, I wore the brace I recently got for tennis. Huge difference. It really seemed to protect what I can only define as over flexion. It held the muscle in place, especially on the Pull-Ups and Shoulder Press moves. I also added the Breakdown set onto the first three moves again. As for the regular routine, I pretty much kept the weight the same as the last time. The only change was on move 8. Lateral Delt Raise. I was feeling extra worn out on my right side, so I went down from 10kgs to 8.75kgs. Which is odd because on move 7. Frontal Shoulder Press, I had a little incident on the 6th rep. As I was coming down, near the top, my arm suddenly lost strength and it was all I could do to not drop the dumbbell. So I shook it out, did three, then did the 3 Breakdown reps. There is a little wavy line under the last 3 reps because that second set of 3 was really shaky. Extremely worn out and had to kip and whip up the weights with not so great form on the last couple reps. I felt a little weaker on the Press moves, but a little stronger on the Raise moves on my left side. Whereas my right side felt a tad weaker. I think it was all the tennis from Sunday. I am not fully recovered yet. But I felt a good burn just at the right times and the pump came on quickly.
I was anxious to try the Anabolic Stretch so I went right to stretching the three muscle groups, Shoulders, Legs and Glutes. I still have to learn the names of the different positions and "Poses" so I had to do a little quick research, but I was able to stretch out my legs and glutes easy enough, but the Prone Maltese, I had a little problem because it stretched only the anterior shoulders, I needed to stretch the medial and posterior. So I did an addition shoulder stretch to hit all sides. I felt good progress was made. I still trying to find the sweet spot for the Anabolic stretches so I may not be doing the most effective positions yet, but I'm learning.
I ended with a good Flow series and later in the evening, with a good dose of EMS.
In the end, I burned 752kcals. A lot of good things came out of today's routine so I was satisfied. But a few odd things happened as well that I will have to watch for the next time around. Don't want that to happen again.
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