Day 43 was flow 1 in Pilates and the first workout of the two "sculpt" weeks of Lift-4. That means switching up the workout order a bit, so the first workout was a chest and back circuit workout. It follows the same three rounds of four exercises, doing 10 reps of each exercise. In each round you do a chest exercise, then a back exercise, then another chest exercise, and a final back exercise, with no rest between the sets and 30 seconds of rest between rounds. After you do the three rounds, then you have three rounds of burnout in which you do regular push-ups, lying back extensions, and then wide push-ups, back-to-back without stopping, with again 30 seconds between each round. Then you finish with three rounds of alternating two core exercises.
This is a tough workout, number one because your body will be used to the chest-triceps, and back-biceps workouts from the first six weeks, so even though it seems like a small tweak, it is not. Plus, Joel is again encouraging people to up their weights, especially for the first round, from the prior week. I would have liked them to do a different workout sheet for the last two weeks because it is harder to keep track of what of things when the chest and triceps and the back and biceps exercises are all bunched together. When I do my workout wrap-up at the end I will explain in more detail. But, overall, it was a good workout.
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