Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Beachbody Les Mills Combat Day 23 Review

What I did and why

Today, I did Les Mills Combat Day 23. I'm doing the warrior program so it was Shock Plyo. If you've been following along, you discovered on Saturday that I don't really like this workout. I disliked it so much on Saturday that I counted out the number of days that I would have to do it again before the program was over. This morning I even contemplating if it would be wrong in a moral sort of way to just do the other HIIT workout and say that I did Plyo. I decided that it was definitely wrong. I decided to do 60 days of Les Mills Combat, and I needed to suck it up and do the 60 days as prescribed by Les Mills Combat. I did Shock Plyo!

Shock Plyo

Shock Plyo is a 30 minute program. You can read a play by play of the workout on my review of Day 5 which was the first time that I did Shock Plyo. I just re-read my review. After doing this workout for the firs time, I decided that I might give up on the program. Well, I'm glad that I didn't give up on the program, but my love for this program has not happened. I didn't detest it today as much as I did on my workout on Saturday last week which was Day 20 of Les Mills Combat. While I did the workout this time, I tried to find ways to get into it more. I want to like this workout. I have to do it 5 more times! I don't have to do it next week though! Woot Woot! I tried challenging myself to go as low as I could on the lunges. I even went down until my knee hit the floor so I could tell how low I was going. I've apparently been going down pretty far on my lunges. They don't look like they go down very far on their lunges. I can't do the plyo lunges and I don't even try. I don't try to keep up with them while they do lunges. I also don't do the forward lunges. I only step back with them. 

Okay, so the burpees just suck, but I'm getting better with the last standing cardio segment. That's the one with the "drop taps" and ski jump squats. I'm not jumping with them, but I'm still getting better with them. The drop taps aren't as torturous as before. 

I was talking to my husband about the workout and I think I discovered why I hate this workout. This workout has no real warm up. The warm up includes things like burpees and jump squats. What the hell kind of warm up is that? I need a nice warm up to workout the stiffness before I do sucky stuff. Plus, I need the endorphines running around in my body so I'm less cranky about doing sucky stuff like lunges, squats and burpees. Just like I hate to start a hike going uphill. Even though I know getting back to the car will mean downhill, it doesn't matter. I need to get some movement before I do stuff that sucks. I think I might try doing five minutes on the step before starting this workout the next time. It might make me hate it less.

I did bad with all of the push ups since I did push ups yesterday! Why can't they figure this out so I'm not doing push ups two days in a row!

As I'm nearing the halfway point with this program, I'm contemplating what I'm going to do next. I really like this system of having it all planned out so I don't have to think about what to do, but there are times where I get frustrated that I'm sore when we go hiking because I wasn't able to go easy the day before. Oh decisions decisions. 

BodyMedia Screen Shots

It's kind of crazy looking at these compared to previous workouts. The dips and peaks are not always in the same places. I had three more minutes of vigorous activity in this workout and an extra minute of total activity, but I had less calories in this one than the one on Saturday. WEIRD! Did I mention yet that I don't have to do this workout for 17 days? I'm soooooooooooooooooooo excited about that! I have one more HIIT workout this week and then I get a full week off of HIIT! When I start back up with them in the following week, I do the other workout on Tuesday! 17 whole days without this workout! I'm sooooo happy happy joy joy!



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