Supreme 90 Cardio Challenge

I was tired this morning. I was beginning to feel shoulders and arms, we had a tag sale yesterday(90+ degree heat), and then stayed out later than usual. It took a bit of intestinal fortitude to get started, but once I did, it was a good workout.

The generic warmup works fine for the "cardio" workouts. The stretch doesn't do it for me. He dives right into stretching and doesn't give anytime to cool down. I didn't have time to tack the Plyo cooldown on, so I did the generic stretch. It was ok.

This is another 30 minute workout, which I appreciate as far how long I have time to workout. Pretty basic premise, 30 seconds on, 30 seconds rest. No repeats, no ball. The exercises are mostly a mix of stuff you've already seen with the previous workouts. A little more variety would be nice.

It includes a bit of everything. From push ups to squat jacks, to squat/shoulder presses, some basic ab/core exercises, and some good old cardio stuff like jump rope. You will use your dumbbells, but typically won't need the big ones. You're doing these exercises for speed, not strength.

My brother, who's a day behind me in this program, commented that Tom Holland is presented as a trainer in this program. He keeps time, demos the exercises, and does a little encouraging. Where Tony Horton does most of those things, but also does the workout, making him more of a workout buddy/mentor...you can relate to him, he's panting too. A great example of this is during Plyo, just before gap jumps, he "presses his own personal pause button".

Cardio Challenge was definitely not as hard as Tabata, despite similar exercises. It was a beautiful morning, but my shirt was still drenched. I'm looking for a day off, but still have 3 more routines ahead of me, Legs tomorrow, then chest/back and ultimate ball before a day off. Hopefully I'll get to bed early tonight and feel better in the morning.