My cold is doing a bit better. I'm not coughing nearly as much and I'm not as nasally. I had to make some quick alterations to my meals today. One of meals just didn't taste right so I had to split my afternoon snack to cover morning and afternoon so I'm a tad bit behind in my caloric intake. It's too late in the day to make it up so I'm just going to write it off, but make note of it.
When I arrived home from work, I changed into my workout clothes right away. I know myself well enough that if I start to relax when I get home, the likelihood of me doing a workout greatly diminishes. So I changed and went right into Cardio X.
The interesting thing about Cardio X is that it is a mesh of different kinds of cardio. It starts off with a little yoga to get you warmed up, then it moves into some kenpo, plyo, and ends with some core synergistic moves. I've noticed in the past that as I move from one section to the next, my heart rate will drastically increases so it gets progressively harder as I go along.
Typically, I will skip the yoga portion because I can only ever do two vinyasas before my wrists start to bother me. That was then though. These days, I believe I am unstoppable. I told myself during the warm-up that precedes yoga that I was going to do the yoga and that my wrists weren't going to bother me, that today was going to be a good day for my wrists. And sure enough, it was a very good day for my wrists. After not having done yoga in many months, I did just fine. It wasn't easy, but it didn't bother my wrists in the slightest. I was incredibly ecstatic about that!
I admit though I got overzealous during kenpo. I went to kicking high after not really working my hamstrings in a while and I know I strained my left hamstring. It's a little bothersome, but nothing a little stretching, icing, and resting won't cure. That's just fine because tomorrow is an upper body weight workout. I'm just going to take care of it, but not let it sideline me. If it still bothers me in two days, I'll work around the injury.
Plyo kicked my butt and by the last core exercise of Superman-Banana, I was struggling big time, but I dug down deep and made it through. I am pretty proud of myself and feel quite confident about what lies ahead in the coming weeks. I really think I can pull off this goal.
By the way, my goal is to be 12 pounds leaner in the next six weeks and have my body fat around 28%. Can I do it? I'll be back later to say.
Rating for the day: 7
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