Review of Beachbody Les Mills Combat Day 37

What I did and why

Today was Day 37 of Les Mills Combat! I'm doing the Warrior program so that meant I was back to Power HIIT. I greatly enjoyed me HIIT free week and was sad to see it end. The good news was that it was Power HIIT to get me back into the flow and not Shock Plyo. I still get a few more days free of Shock Plyo! 

Power HIIT

You can read a play by play of the workout on Day 2 of Les Mills Combat. It's been over a month since I did this workout for the first time. I'm still not fond of a workout that has a warm up that includes inchworms, squats and lunges, but this workout isn't as back as Shock Plyo so I got over my issues. 

The other day, I thought about buying 10 pounds weights to use during this workout. The last time I did this workout, I was thinking that I needed heavier weights. I didn't wan to waste the money going to 8s and then having to bump up to 10s, but I put off buying them since they are cheaper at Dick's than they are at Walmart. Boy oh boy was I glad that I didn't get those 10s! If I had the 10s, I would have felt obligated to use them! My shoulders were pretty weak from all of the push ups yesterday! They didn't hurt when I woke up, but by the time I was done with all the cleaning and pressing, oh my they were on fire! It's been 10 days since I did this workout. In those ten days, I pretty much forgot everything that was in it other than the section with the weight for the shoulders. I really like that section! Give me some iron and I'm a happy girl! Make me do burpees and I'm a sad sad girl!

Speaking of burpees! Yes this workout had burpees! You do 8 reps and then rest. Then you do 12 reps and then rest then you do 16 reps., but they make them harder by doing more with the squats. I always modify the burpees, but I don't always modify it in the same way. Today's mission was to really jump back with my feet and jump forward with my feet instead of stepping back and stepping forward. I didn't worry about the push ups, but I did do the squats. So for the first set, this jumping back and jumping forward thing was working out for me. It even worked for the bulk of the second set, but towards the end of that one, I had to start walking my legs back and front again. I did that for most of the third set too.. Burpees are evil!

I normally do the modification for all of the jumping sumo squat stuff too, but this time, I did the jumps for most of them. I eventually had to start modifying. I didn't do any of the plyo lunges. I don't think I'll ever be able to do plyo lunges! I can barely do lunges without jumping around with them. I did backwards lunges instead of the forward ones that they do I was thinking that this workout had drop squats and skaters, but it didn't! That was a pleasant surprise! I did, however, forget about the mountain climbers! I stayed up on my toes for almost one full set. I didn't do them fast, but I was on my toes. The second set was all on my knees. I'm still not sure if I'm doing the spider pushups right. I just don't get why they're called spider push ups though.

Okay, so after the workout was all done, I totally had Jell-o legs. This isn't surprising. What was surprising was when I was trying to eat popcorn at morning break 3-1/2 hours later, my shoulder was on fire! It was so not having the hand to mouth action. I had to take breaks from eating! I don't think I've ever had that happen before! I've had a hard time holding up a hair dryer or a hair brush, but I've never had an issue feeding myself after a workout! Madness I say! Madness! 

I wasn't looking forward to doing Power HIIT again, but I'm glad I did it. I feel better about things since I did the jumping back and jumping front with my feet with the burpees and I did the jumping with most of the sumo squats. I'm definitely getting stronger even if I'm not dropping the pounds like I want to! 

BodyMedia Screen Shots

Here are my BodyMedia screen shots. The first tall blip is from the warm up. I'm not really sure what that next hump is from. I don't have anything like it from the first time that I did the workout. I also don't have that big dip at the end on my first workout either. Simply puzzling! I only have 4 extra calories on this workout compared to the first time that I did it. I was pretty bummed about that. I thought it would be more since I put so much extra effort into the burpees and those jumping sumo squats. Oh well! I'm still happy that I did it! Not looking forward to Shock Plyo though!

Beachbody Coach

I became a Beachbody Coach for a couple reasons. If you're interested in trying out Les Mills Combat, feel free to visit my Beachbody page and sign up. I love these workouts. If you like TaeBo or other kickboxing type workouts, you should add this one to your collection.