February 14, 2019, Thursday - P90X3 - X3 Yoga + Shoulder Care Yoga.
Today is Valentine's Day all over the world, but here in Japan, it is a day for women to give men gifts. Then, men return the gifts on, what I can only assume is exclusively a Japanese creation, "White Day", March 14. Truly a commercialized holiday created purely for profit and greed of businesses. I do not participate in the White Day Fraud on a personal level so I gave my wife and daughter a small token of my love today. Nothing on White Day. But socially, I do white day as it is a social thing, if I receive something. I did, so I will.
Anyway, today was a relatively free day, but I did have a little work to do in preparation for my business trip tomorrow. After that prep was done, I got really sleepy. I ended up taking a nap which lasted way longer than I had expected. That oversleep put me into a time crunch for my workout. I had intended to do X2 Yoga which is about 70 minutes long, but I ended up having to do X3 Yoga plus the 14-minute Shoulder Care routine. I felt stronger this time around and the push-ups during the Vinyasa were not painful. But my legs were still pretty sore from LIIFT4 Legs on Tuesday. The routine went very well, but there was one move that is sort of my benchmark for X3 Yoga success. Yes, you got it, the "Wrap" move. I barely was able to do it last time, but today, I think it was mostly because of the stiffness and soreness in my legs, but I couldn't even touch my fingers together on either side. It wasn't even close. Last time I was able to grasp a bit on both sides, but today, not even a glancing touch or brush. One bright point was the fact that I was able to hole Crow Pose for 25 seconds. I felt very stable in it.
The shoulder Care was good, I am getting to be able to slowly open up my shoulders. I did cut out the portion of the routine that is done in Warrior two pose. I was using a smaller towel today and it wouldn't have really done anything today because I wouldn't have been able to extend my arms or pull my shoulder tight.
In the end, I burned a very modest 230 kcals. Pretty much what I expected.
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