Day 36: Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, Ab Ripper X

Every single move today ended with a wince.

I guess that's a good thing. I'll give whoever created this routine credit, cause this workout hurts.

Pushups, tricep extensions, shoulder presses. Just make slight variations for each workout and you have a 45 minute ass-kicking session.

I like the pushups where you move your hands out to the sides, but really despise to the slow ones. I'm sure it's working wonders, but it's similar to resistance bench press, and that was never enjoyable.

Chair dips last week really hurt. Only got through 16 before failure. Today I struggled through 20. Considering triceps make up 60% of your upper arm, it's definitely important to get these strong. Chair dips, throw the bomb, and all the other extensions must be working. Cause they hurt.

As for shoulders, they do some moves in this that I've never heard of / seen / tried anywhere.

Scarecrows: Stand with feet apart, arms out parallel to the ground. Bend the elbow at a 90 degree angle so your knuckles face the ground. Light weights / bands in each hands. Pivot at the elbow so your knuckles face away from you then up to the ceiling, mimicking the stance of a scarecrow. That's one. Then keeping your arms up, pivot back to the starting position, and repeat.

Fly-Row-Press: Arms at your side with weights / bands in each hand. Keep your arms straight and come straight up until parallel to the floor. Bring them back down, then perform an up-right-row. From the peak of this move, pivot on your elbow so you're in a bicep-flexing positiong. Then pressing the weights / bands over your head, a shoulder press. That's one. Bring it back down and repeat.

Honestly felt every single move today, which means tomorrow should be lovely when it comes to my level of soreness.

Finished with abs. I'm amazed that I'm still not entirely comfortable with this whole routine. Plyo tomorrow.