December 4, Tuesday, HY: Transform :20 Preview + LIIFT4 - Back/Biceps Circuit + Quad-Challenge + TCF.
I had a lot of time today to work out, but I just wasn't feeling it for any cardio or T25 for some reason. As I was procrastinating in my workout clothes, my coach posted a demo video of Shaun T's newest program due out in the new year. Transform :20. It was of Shaun T basically doing a few moves and progressions that come out in the program. It uses a step, but I don't have a step so I did it without. Luckily, there was a guy to do it without the step so I could follow him. The moves were pretty standard stuff, but it seemed much tougher than it probably actually was because of the lack of a timer or a progress bar. I didn't know anything about the program process. I went in blind and the moves seemed to go on forever. I learned afterward that they were only about 30 seconds, but when you don't know when the end is, it seems like forever. It was only about 15 minutes, but I got a nice sweat on. Then I went to the next program.
Today was Back and Biceps. It wasn't too bad. I chose a weight that I thought was relatively light, but it turns out, it was enough to burn me out. Again, it was a bit odd doing a program without BGM, but I guess I'm starting to get used to it. It was only lifting weights today along with the core set. My arms and back were feeling the pump.
I took a few minutes to do the Quad-Challenge. The reps are still low so I could bang them all out pretty quickly. Then the Flow.
In the end, I burned a good 1085 kcals. I was surprised that I burned that many calories in this workout, but I was happy.
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Dec. 3, Scheduled Rest Day but did the Quad-Challenges.
December 3, Monday. Just the Quad-Challenge
Due to my late schedule, I couldn't do a regular workout, but when I got home, I did do the Quad-Challenges. Just a reminder, my Quad-Challenge is not for my quadriceps, but rather a four move challenge that I do every day according to the schedule I posted at the beginning of the month: Push-Ups, Pull-Ups, Burpees, V-Ups. It is still the beginning of the month so the number of reps is still relatively low so I breezed through the moves hardly breaking a sweat.
Sunday, December 2, 2018
December 2, Sunday, Tennis Day +!
December 2, Sunday - Tennis + Quad Challenge.
Today was the first tennis day in December. I thought it would be colder than it was, but there was a little rain, but it was very light and stopped after a little while. The bigger worry was the ash from our active volcano, but that ended up not being a thing because the winds carried the ash a little further to the south so it just missed us.
Practice started out as usual, and we did all the usual drills. I got to practice a little late with my wife so we weren't able to do a warm-up so our warm-up was the first drill. I was shanking a lot of balls, but I was able to find my contact point and within minutes, I was striking the ball well. My serve was firing at about 60%, but my first flat serve was totally gone. I couldn't hit anything in. We did a new drill after the regular stuff, a ball toss stroke drill just to work on form. 30 balls straight. The toss was often off so I was unable to really find my stroke on the forehand, but I was able to do a little better on the backhand. It is a tiring drill.
I had a chance to play only one match today. An erratic guy was my partner against the team that won the most recent mixed doubles tournament. In the first four games, all the games were breaks. As for my service game, I hit two double faults on the deuce side but got the point back on the ad side. I was able to work the score to the game point, then I muffed an easy forehand long. Then we started again at 2-2. This time, the first two games were holds. So that meant the deciding game would be on my racket at 3-3. Erratic Guy was on a good wave so we worked the score to 40-Love, then we faltered and lost two points to go to 40-30. Serving to the ad court, we were going at a crosscourt rally, then I hit a hard topspin ball that looked like it was going to carry long, but at the last moment, the bottom dropped out and it caught the back half of the line, Point-Game-Match! We were very happy to get the win. My daughter came to visit us at the courts so we took a little time to be with her.
Personal Note: A few weeks ago when the Tennis Club had their annual Tennis & BBQ at a special and far location, I didn't go because a couple days later my daughter would be taking her university entrance exams. Well, the results came were announced and she passed. So, that means my daughter is now an unofficial University Student. We have been celebrating for and with her for the past few days. So it was special and unusual that she came to the courts. This was only her second time to come. So we were kind of doting over her.
After tennis, when I got home, I did my December challenges offered by my Beachbody coach for this month. Below are the challenges:
These are the first three challenges. The fourth is an extension of the Chin-Up Challenge I was doing in November, but this month, I'm doing Pull-Ups with a smattering of Chin-Ups to keep up the strength. I started doing these challenges yesterday, December 1 so I am on track.
In the end, I burned a modest 1813 kcals. But I got a lot of good done.
Addition:
In the evening, I played Pickle-Ball and Speed Koosh Catch with my daughter for an hour. I sweat so much that I had to take another shower. I had a great time.
Today was the first tennis day in December. I thought it would be colder than it was, but there was a little rain, but it was very light and stopped after a little while. The bigger worry was the ash from our active volcano, but that ended up not being a thing because the winds carried the ash a little further to the south so it just missed us.
Practice started out as usual, and we did all the usual drills. I got to practice a little late with my wife so we weren't able to do a warm-up so our warm-up was the first drill. I was shanking a lot of balls, but I was able to find my contact point and within minutes, I was striking the ball well. My serve was firing at about 60%, but my first flat serve was totally gone. I couldn't hit anything in. We did a new drill after the regular stuff, a ball toss stroke drill just to work on form. 30 balls straight. The toss was often off so I was unable to really find my stroke on the forehand, but I was able to do a little better on the backhand. It is a tiring drill.
I had a chance to play only one match today. An erratic guy was my partner against the team that won the most recent mixed doubles tournament. In the first four games, all the games were breaks. As for my service game, I hit two double faults on the deuce side but got the point back on the ad side. I was able to work the score to the game point, then I muffed an easy forehand long. Then we started again at 2-2. This time, the first two games were holds. So that meant the deciding game would be on my racket at 3-3. Erratic Guy was on a good wave so we worked the score to 40-Love, then we faltered and lost two points to go to 40-30. Serving to the ad court, we were going at a crosscourt rally, then I hit a hard topspin ball that looked like it was going to carry long, but at the last moment, the bottom dropped out and it caught the back half of the line, Point-Game-Match! We were very happy to get the win. My daughter came to visit us at the courts so we took a little time to be with her.
Personal Note: A few weeks ago when the Tennis Club had their annual Tennis & BBQ at a special and far location, I didn't go because a couple days later my daughter would be taking her university entrance exams. Well, the results came were announced and she passed. So, that means my daughter is now an unofficial University Student. We have been celebrating for and with her for the past few days. So it was special and unusual that she came to the courts. This was only her second time to come. So we were kind of doting over her.
After tennis, when I got home, I did my December challenges offered by my Beachbody coach for this month. Below are the challenges:
These are the first three challenges. The fourth is an extension of the Chin-Up Challenge I was doing in November, but this month, I'm doing Pull-Ups with a smattering of Chin-Ups to keep up the strength. I started doing these challenges yesterday, December 1 so I am on track.
In the end, I burned a modest 1813 kcals. But I got a lot of good done.
Addition:
In the evening, I played Pickle-Ball and Speed Koosh Catch with my daughter for an hour. I sweat so much that I had to take another shower. I had a great time.
3 Days of Pickle-Ball with my daughter
November 29, 30, and December 1 were all busy days so I was unable to do a regular workout. But I was able to play Pickle-Ball with my daughter for between 30 minutes to an hour. Each session brought on a lot of fun, a lot of laughs, and a lot of sweat. I got a pretty good workout from playing with my daughter. I also closed out my Chin-Up Challenge on the 30th. I hit my goal of doing 20 reps with no pause or break, straight. But my total was 30 reps so I was able to do the final set of 10 reps in one set. I will be doing a few other month-long challenges next month to finish out the year. Check out the next month for the new challenges. Unfortunately, I got no calorie burn counts for these three days.
28th, Mid-Week Tennis.
November 28, Wednesday. Tennis.
Today's tennis practice was at the indoor facility because of rain. When I arrived at the courts there were only two people there. So, after setting up the nets, we started our warm-up, two against one. Eventually, people started to come until we had a large number of people, but the warm-up alone took up more than 30 minutes of a two-hour practice session. When enough people came I started to hit with a guy who has really good strokes. We were going back and forth really smacking the ball. We started the regular menu and went through all the regular drills. When we got to game sims, that was it. I went up against one of the best members and I was solid, hitting my contact points right on the head. I was really striking the ball well and made a series of points. It felt good to have a practice like that.
When I got home, I did my Chin-Ups.
In the end, I burned a good 1611 kcals.
Today's tennis practice was at the indoor facility because of rain. When I arrived at the courts there were only two people there. So, after setting up the nets, we started our warm-up, two against one. Eventually, people started to come until we had a large number of people, but the warm-up alone took up more than 30 minutes of a two-hour practice session. When enough people came I started to hit with a guy who has really good strokes. We were going back and forth really smacking the ball. We started the regular menu and went through all the regular drills. When we got to game sims, that was it. I went up against one of the best members and I was solid, hitting my contact points right on the head. I was really striking the ball well and made a series of points. It felt good to have a practice like that.
When I got home, I did my Chin-Ups.
In the end, I burned a good 1611 kcals.
27th, Trying the new program, LIIFT 4.
November 27, Tuesday - HY: T25 - Alpha: Total Body Circuit + LIIFT 4 - 50/50 Chest & Tris + TCF.
I was free after work today, so I was able to take the time to do a regular workout. But actually, it turned out to be almost a double workout. I started off with the brutal T25 Alpha: Total Body Circuit. I really wanted to do well with this one, but I ended up needing to take a break a little earlier than usual. I didn't make it all the way to the Burn out like I did last time. I ended up taking several breaks before and during the Burnout. But I took a long enough break so I would be able to blast the move that took me out and forced the break. But I got through it.
I wanted to do some Upper Body weights and I was thinking to do it, as usual, just freestyle, but I just got access to Beachbody on Demand so I was browsing their new programs and LIIFT 4 sort of jumped out at me. LIIFT started out with weights which was exactly what I wanted so I went with the first program. Basically, it was three rounds of a superset. And there were three different sets of those for a total of nine sets of moves. The first two rounds, I kept the same weight, but I went up in weight on the last round. That weight round took a little over 20 minutes, but it felt longer because of the number of sets. After the weights, there was a HIIT section. I went through the first round, but I modified it because I was still tired from the T25. The final part was abs/core. I did their moves instead of doing an ab specific routine. The program was nice, but I was a little put off by the fact that there was no background music. So it felt like it was missing something.
I did the closer Flow and for the first time in a while, I had no problem with the right Flow.
In the end, I burned a good 1126 kcals. Good workout today.
I was free after work today, so I was able to take the time to do a regular workout. But actually, it turned out to be almost a double workout. I started off with the brutal T25 Alpha: Total Body Circuit. I really wanted to do well with this one, but I ended up needing to take a break a little earlier than usual. I didn't make it all the way to the Burn out like I did last time. I ended up taking several breaks before and during the Burnout. But I took a long enough break so I would be able to blast the move that took me out and forced the break. But I got through it.
I wanted to do some Upper Body weights and I was thinking to do it, as usual, just freestyle, but I just got access to Beachbody on Demand so I was browsing their new programs and LIIFT 4 sort of jumped out at me. LIIFT started out with weights which was exactly what I wanted so I went with the first program. Basically, it was three rounds of a superset. And there were three different sets of those for a total of nine sets of moves. The first two rounds, I kept the same weight, but I went up in weight on the last round. That weight round took a little over 20 minutes, but it felt longer because of the number of sets. After the weights, there was a HIIT section. I went through the first round, but I modified it because I was still tired from the T25. The final part was abs/core. I did their moves instead of doing an ab specific routine. The program was nice, but I was a little put off by the fact that there was no background music. So it felt like it was missing something.
I did the closer Flow and for the first time in a while, I had no problem with the right Flow.
In the end, I burned a good 1126 kcals. Good workout today.
26th, Monday, an off day.
November 26, Monday.
Today became an off day because of the late Monday class. But I did do a little stretch on my shoulders and still knocked out my Chin-Up Challenge. I did 24 reps today in three sets, 10-10-4.
Today became an off day because of the late Monday class. But I did do a little stretch on my shoulders and still knocked out my Chin-Up Challenge. I did 24 reps today in three sets, 10-10-4.
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