Hello everyone!

I'm back with another Buff Buddies journal. I hope that everyone else is having a great time still, and hope those goals are being met! If you're still kicking butt and tuning in, keep it going!

This week's workout see Kris Gethin's DTP getting even harder. On this week of his muscle building program, we're doing DTP XXL, which sees the previous DTP style workouts including supersets. Instead of doing one exercise on a down set of 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 and then doing an up of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 (with rest = to reps), we're doing a superset of 2 exercises at 30-10 (5 sets) with no rest between them. The same goes for the sets going back up.

One of the big differences on this week focuses on the rest on the way back up in the DTP. In the past week of DTP (2nd week of it), we focuses on a rest = reps mentality. On the down set we'd rest as needed, on the up set, we would do 10 reps, rest 10 seconds, do 15 reps, rest 15, etc back to 30 reps. This week we're doing a set rest on both the up and down of:
30 reps: 45 seconds
25 reps: 60 seconds
20 reps: 75 seconds
15 reps: 90 seconds
10 reps: 115 seconds

So far this week has been extra challenging due to the supersets, which required a big amount of cardio. However, my body is hurting a lot less than last week.

I also hit a new best on the run, but it was in a different setting. Our track at the gym is exactly 2 laps for 1/4 mile. I decided to mix up my cardio last night (Tuesday) and did 2 laps as fast as possible. Stopped to do a set of pullups. Repeated this until I had done 8 laps (1 mile). I had a timer running and stopped it every time I completed the 2 laps, then started as soon as I started running again. While this is slightly off from a constant run, I managed to clock in 9:32 as apposed to the 9:51 mile time from last week.

I hope everyone else is having a great time!

Good luck!