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Pushups 6-1
Be Breathed
Intuflow (RPT 9, RPE 2, RPD 2)

Wow, what a hellish weekend. Munchkin #2 was apparently still mad at Mrs. Chops and I for letting the doc take out pieces of this throat, so in retaliation, he didn't let us sleep. Personally, this morning I was still at single digit hours of sleep for the weekend. Mrs. Chops was even worse off. I pounded somewhere near a case of various caffeinated sodas at work today before taking M2 in for his post-op checkup. The good news is that everything is healing up as well as can be expected. The nurse practitioner said that if he's cranky, we can dope him up more. Yay for pharmaceuticals.

In light of all of this, I was sorely tempted to skip another workout (Friday was the first time I skipped reps in a month). But I walked into the living room after putting the kids to bed to find Mrs. Chops working out along with Billy Blanks. And I realized that even though she had less rest than me, she hadn't missed a single workout all weekend. So I sucked it up and did the work.

Day 6-1 of pushups was much easier than last week, even though I only got two days in last week. Still, I only got 23 on the max set (min is 40) before I had to drop to my knees and do "girl" pushups. I hit muscle failure at 30 and again at 38. I managed to get to 40 on the next try and stopped there. I did do another max set later in the evening, and only managed 13. I'm going to get my 100 pushups next week, I can feel it.

Instead of situps, I started on the RMAX Be Breathed workout. I've had this video for a long time, and have done it a little every now and again. I started with about 20 reps of the basic crunch type exercise, then did about 15 reps of a very half-assed "butterfly". It turns out that I'm too fat to lift my legs over my head without some momentum. Which is fine, since I can't really relax into the final butterfly position anyway with this big ole gut in the way. So I'm going to concentrate on this movement for the time being. If anybody is curious about it, I can give a more detailed description of the exercises involved in Be Breathed. Just ask.

Finally IntuFlow was awesome today. I don't know if it's the exhaustion or what, but I felt like I was able to really relax into the movements. My form felt like it was really on today. The only minor hiccup is the 4CBD, which I've mentioned before as being difficult for me. My legs are very big, so they're heavy to hold out in the air like that. And I've historically had tight hips, so when I stick my foot out to the side, I can feel my hip flexors knotting up. It's annoying, but it's pretty mild, and the only discomfort I had during the whole session.

And no, no Kanji or Swedish today. I needed Opeth to wake me up on my morning drive, and I had a hard enough time concentrating on the road without trying to repeat phrases. On the other hand, maybe it would have made for some nice subliminal programming.