The new year and the couple of months leading up to it were filled with a lot of bad experiences that I am not at liberty to talk about here. But suffice it to say that I was very limited in my workout days and especially in December, I did literally no workouts at home. The only thing I was able to do in the area of exercise was two Pickleball practices in December.
However, going through that experience of stopping all resistance workouts cold turkey had some adverse effects on my physical body and my mental state. It was extremely weird to experience that. After about two weeks of no resistance training, my body started to twitch. Only a little at the beginning, but in the last week of December, it became more frequent. I couldn't feel comfortable and I was always feeling restless. So, the intention of not working out, I was to be of service and use my time to support and be with one who I thought needed my attention. But I realized that in order for me to be my best and strongest to help others, I need to take care of myself. So, from January 1, 2020, I started back with resistance workouts at home with BeachBody programs.
I started off with a great program, probably one of my all-time favorites, ChaLEAN Extreme. On January 1, I started with Burn Circuit 1. But my schedule was extremely erratic so I don't keep a regular calendar, rather I workout when I can. I also stopped going to my tennis club from December, and I was planning to go back in January, but I wasn't able to. I am tentatively planning to go back in February, but that seems unlikely. Fingers crossed, though.
Anyway, I kept my record sheet digitally and saved them all so I could post them in one big shot. So, here they are, all my record sheets for the ChaLEAN Extreme Burn Circuit!
My progression week-by-week can be seen as the weight got heavier. Compare week ones to week fours and you can see a little rise in weight. I stress the word "little".
Today, I started the next Phase of ChaLEAN Extreme, which is the Push Circuit. Heavier weights, with fewer reps. For example, if you look at the Bicep Curl weight in week four of Burn Circuit 2. On the final week, week four, I was curling 10kgs at 12-3 reps. But for the Push Circuit, I started week one at 12 kgs at 8 reps. I also added a small set of Pull-Ups for some added work and the desire to get my Pull-Up strength back up to where I can do at least 20 Pull-Ups in one set.
The big thing though was my move to push for spreading Pickleball in Kagoshima. I'll write about that in my next post.
Until next post, I hope it is not another 3+ months.
