11/16/2021
Day 2 of 80 Day Obsession, Round 5 is with the workout B***y. Phew, that’s done! And once again, I stick to the food plan and did the proper workout. So far, so good. Food wise, I stuck almost exactly to yesterday’s meals. The timed nutrition aspect can be complicated but worth it once getting it down. I’m going to mix things up with the meals so that I don’t get bored, there’s something to be said with sticking with a plan once you’ve found one that works! As for the workout, it was really heavily focused on the one body part, in stark contrast to yesterday’s total body approach. It combines being relatively gentle in the sense that I was never gasping for breath, dripping sweat, or trembling under heavy weight, with being really quite intense in the sense of burning out my flutes and quads. There were no weights or sliders involved but every single exercise involved the bands and really made the most of them. The workout started on the floor and remained there for some time. A round on your back involving different variations on bridges then a round on all fours based around leg lifts then a particularly torturous round lying on your side. Three moves of 15 reps each in each of those 3 sets. After that, it was up to standing, for one round featuring small, focused moves, then a final round based around the more traditional squats, lunges, and side squats but with bands still and with the muscles under constant tension. Like yesterday, the whole thing was then repeated but my endurance seemed a bit better today and the hour went very fast. I’ll see whether or not it aches tomorrow but the glutes and associated muscles clearly got a lot of work and thoufh rarely directly targeted, I suspect there was quite a bit of sneaky core work going on. On the whole, most other muscles didn’t see much action but I quite enjoyed being so ruthlessly focused.