Today I worked out at 10am, now I also decided to try something new. I have been reading about drinking green tea 30min before your workout, that the caffeine can help boost your workout and the green tea can also help increase metabolism and burn more calories. Well I am not huge on caffeine, granted I had my share of it before with pop and once in a blue moon when someone offered me coffee and put it in front of me. And I have not drank pop since I started the workouts, either way I don’t drink much caffeine. So I decided to give it a shot anyways, since this workout has about a 10min warm up, I decided to drink it 20min before. I also did not have much for breakfast other than a nature bar. And oh man, all I have to say is HOLY COW!!
Lets see…
Core Synergistics:
| 01 Stack Foot/Stagger Hands Push-Ups | N1 | 60 | K1 | +5 | |
| 02 Banana Rolls | R | all | +0 | ||
| 03 Leaning Crescent Lunges | R | 24 | W | 0 | +0 |
| 04 Squat Run | S | 60 | W | 0 | +0 |
| 05 Sphinx Push-Ups | N1 | 20 | K1 | 20 | +4 |
| 06 Bow To Boat | R | 8 | +0 | ||
| 07 Low Lateral Skaters | R | 20 | W | 0 | +0 |
| 08 Lunge & Reach | R | 20 | W | 20 | +0 |
| 09 Prison Cell Push-Ups | N1 | 16 | K1 | +0 | |
| 10 Side Hip Raise | RL | 30 | LL | 30 | +4 |
| 11 Squat X-Press | R | 30 | W | H | +0 |
| 12 Plank To Chaturanga Run(sec) | P | 30 | C | 30 | +10 |
| 13 Walking Push-Ups | N1 | 44 | K1 | +0 | |
| 14 Superman Banana | R | All | +0 | ||
| 15 Lunge-Kickback-Curl-Press | R | 20 | W | +0 | |
| 16 Towel Hopping | S | 60 | +0 | ||
| 17 Reach High & Under Push-Ups | N1 | 30 | K1 | +5 | |
| 18 Steam Engine | R | 50 | +0 | ||
| 19 Dreya Roll | R | 14 | +2 | ||
| BONUS ROUND | |||||
| 20 Plank To Chaturanga Iso | S | 30/30 | +0 | ||
| 21 The Halfback | R | All | +0 | ||
| 22 Table Dip Leg Raise | R | 60 | +5 |
Reading this chart:
- Last column is the difference in reps since the last time I did this workout:
- Green = More Reps than last time
- Red = Less Reps than last time
- R = Reps
- S = Seconds
- N = No Knee
- K = Knee
- P = Plank
- C = Chaturanga
- W = Weight
- M = Medium Resistance Band
- H = Heavy Resistance Band
I will start by saying that my energy levels were pretty high for not having a good breakfast, also I sweat about 3 times as much than I have every sweat before on this workout, I was sweating like if I was doing Insanity instead, and I started sweating right after the first exercise. A lot of the workouts I did what was asked to do, but I did a lot stronger. And some of them I ran out of time LOL Right off the bat I started with 60 stacked push ups, my chest was about to explode LOL.
At times I had to slow myself down though, I felt my heart beating pretty hard, I did not want to end with a heart attack due to over doing it, so I was smart enough to use the time between exercises to bring my heart rate down, because even though I do not have a heart rate monitor, I knew and I could feel it was way out there.
The prison cell push ups I was taking advantage of the time when he was giving demo to bring my heart rate down that I ran out of time, I could do probably another but I did the same amount as last time.
The plank to chaturanga run for the first time I did all of it, remember that I was never able to do the 3rd chaturanga run, and this time I had no issues going down and just doing it, I was not running really fast but I was still moving my legs and my chest never touched the floor and lasted the entire 30sec, so that was awesome.
This was one heck of a workout, with so much energy and sweat, it was intense. If your a huge coffee drinker not sure how much of a difference it will make for you, but you can give it a try, and by the way I took it plain, I had never had green tea, it was not the best tasting thing with nothing else in it, but hey when something is good for you, forget about the taste and take it LOL.
I will also say that when I was done, I still had adrenalin shakes, I was still going. I have decided that every workout that requires energy I will drink green tea, for except yoga and rest days, so I will be drinking this 4 times a week, only the one time before my workout, we shall see what difference this makes on workouts with weights, which start next week, however, I will start mentioning now, I will have to take a 3 days pause on P90X, it makes me sad but I will be going to the cottage for the long weekend, and I wont be back home till Monday night, the cottage has no running water or electricity, and there will be work to do around the place, so I decided that I will take those days off, if it is not to cold I will substitute for swimming and working around the place :o)
Tomorrow I have Kenpo X, and I will do this at work.
Thank you for your time:
Mike
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