Day 15 is the start of week three of 645 and nears the end of the adapted version of XB stretch that I have been doing. So, today was Mobility in XB and lower body strength again in 645.
Mobility is definitely one of the routines in XB that I am not overly fond of. It is very hard to do correctly if you are not limber and especially if you are not limber and carrying extra weight.
For the 645 workout, you go back to the same exercises as week 1, but you increase the amount of weight you use for the weighted exercises and reduce the number of reps (down to 10 reps). For the exercises that you do for an amount of time, you bump the time up to 30 seconds. The first block is the EMOM block doing banded goblet squats, then the second and third block has three exercises that you do for three sets, again with no rest between exercises but 45 seconds of rest between the sets.
The workout was good, and very challenging with increased weight. It was as much a core workout as it was a lower-body workout. Interestingly, Amoila says during the workout that he does not recommend crunches for people who are beginners because of the stress on the back, but recommends strengthening your core by doing the kinds of exercises in this workout (like low-plank, the DB chops, etc.).
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