Drenched in Sweat

I finally started the 2nd phase of Tony Horton’s Warrior’s Cardio from his book Bring It! last week. The first session felt like it was going on forever but I was surprised that I finished it pretty close to the allotted time, which was about an hour. It was a few minutes after but not by much. This phase made me sweat the most out of Horton’s cardio workouts. After three sessions, I’m still breathing hard specially on the first 2 circuits. It does seem to be the most challenging than the last 2 circuits. My favorite move is the jack-in-the-box jump squat. It’s challenging but kinda fun specially if you aim for height. I don’t like the double lunge/double squat switches though because it just seems to aim for complication when regular jump squats or leaping lunges would have accomplished the same thing. I’ll probably rearrange the order of the moves or even replace some by next week. I think I’ll stick to this phase with some modifications until the end of the 90 days which ends in less than a month.

Something new I tried yesterday: tabata intervals using this nice free timer. Well, actually working up to the tabata protocol which is 20 seconds of high intensity effort and 10 seconds of rest over 8 rounds. I’m doing 10s/20s for the moment and it felt alright even if I did 4 sets of 6 rounds. I wasn’t drenched in sweat at the end but my heart rate was up even if 10s seemed short. Granted, they weren’t composed of strenuous moves like burpees, jump squats, etc. I did predominantly karate moves (punches & kicks) with jumping jacks, and double jump rope and surprisingly, I’m a bit sore today. I’ll try this setup twice more this week and reassess the situation for next week.

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