Day 21

Week 2, Day 4 The Challenge is done. I increased my numbers a bit and was able to hit those number for the first 2 rotations, which is half the workout. I did need to modify the military pushups as my triceps just aren't that strong yet.

On the second 2 rotations I had to decrease my pullup number by 5(I use the bands) but was engaging that isometric hold with each one. I also find that if you fully extend the arms, you get a much better burn on your lats. The reason I say this is I found I had a tendency to not extend fully and continued to maintain constant muscle contraction. When you do that, you don't allow the muscle to stretch fully and get the best workout on that muscle possible. This goes for all resistance exercises not just on a pullup/lat pull down.

The Challenge is a straight up push/pull workout and the only slight amount of anything different is the warm up and cool down, but that amounts to a little over 4 mins of the workout. The burnout section at the end of the 4 rotations went better for me and I was able to do more cycles of the pullup/pushup sets. I changed it up a bit as a single pullup and 3 pushups go with one cycle and you continue this pattern for the entire 2.25 mins. I decided to do 3 pull downs with the bands because 1 is not enough, so I did 3 on the pull downs and 3 on the pushups for the burnout. It felt good not to be able to do pushups at the end.

I enjoy the soreness of a good workout. I have to say as a guy, The Challenge will probably always be my favorite workout. CVX tomorrow, so watch out shoulders you are next.