IMAX 3

I decided that I wanted to try a workout rotation, in order to be more disciplined and to maximize the effectiveness of my workouts. But I'm not ready to create my own rotation yet, so I have chosen to do Cathe's own Strength Building Rotation, which uses mostly Hardcore Series workouts (which I have most of). By pure coincidence, yesterday's workout was the first workout on this rotation, so today I did workout #2 on the rotation - IMAX 3. You may recall that I tried to do IMAX 3 a week or two ago, and had a rather difficult time with the footwork, and the jumping (oh the jumping!). Not only that, I wasn't even able to get through the entire workout. So this time I modified a bit - by completely eliminating the use of the step. I did the whole workout on the floor, which greatly helped me with learning the footwork (no step to trip over!), and allowed me to do the whole workout, start to finish. What a feeling! It is still a very challenging workout, even without a step. My heart rate stats prove that.

Workout: IMAX 3
Duration: 57:58
Kcal / %Fat: 428 / 35%
Max HR% / Avg HR%: 98% / 80%
Time in Moderate Zone: 22:24

Doing this one without a step made it a true interval workout for me. When I did this on a step, I was anaerobic almost the entire workout. But without a step, I am able to bring my heart rate down into the aerobic range after each blast (22 minutes in my moderate zone is GREAT for a Cathe workout!). So I am getting the benefits of interval training, which is good. But, pushing my heart rate to 98% of max is probably pushing it rather hard. Although, at no point during the workout did I feel like I was going to pass out, or throw up, or die. I was just very out of breath. Which you're supposed to be during intervals. So, this again confirms my suspicion that my actual max HR is higher than my calculated max HR. One of these days my HRM will explode when I push my HR above my calculated max, and it gets all confused. :-)

My biceps are killing me from yesterday's upper body workout. And for some reason, my triceps are really sore too, even though I didn't work them yesterday. Must be from Monday's workout. Hopefully the soreness will ease up soon, because I believe tomorrow's scheduled workout is Gym Style Chest & Triceps. Either that one or Gym Style Legs. Can't remember. :-)