only one tired doing 4 Day split?

[cocob1]

Dear Cathe,
I started out this month doing the 4 day split right after doing last months slow & heave series rotation.
I did extra cardio of walk/running 3 miles the first week of the 4 day split on the "off" days.
This week I did a very tough athletic yoga on my off day and today I could hardly get through boot camp.
My question is this, are these new work outs tough and I don't realize it? Are the breaks in the rotation for a reason and I should have taken them?
I feel like a woose and I only do 90% of the weights you use in the series because I don't own weights that are that heavy yet.
4 day split seems easy but I find it to be a real challange.
This week I'm going to take the off days for a real rest and only do easy stretches.
Colleen (the whimp) in Minneapolis

 

[atgood]

Not Cathe, and I sympathize with your situation!:-(

But one thing that jumped out at me in reading your post is that you said you did "tough athletic yoga" on your day off! Yowza--you must be Wonder Woman--my hat is off to you! But I would also say that that would then not really qualify as a "day off." In fact, depending on how vigorous the session was (i.e. Ashtanga/power yoga level, for example), I would say that you actually threw in another day of a full-body workout into your rotation for the week! Contrary to popular belief, yoga can be tough stuff, as you probably know. So this may be a factor in your overall fatigue level.

I hope you rally and feel better soon!

:7

 

[cocob1]

Thanks Atgood.
I had no idea power yoga was so tough. I had a level 2 Baron Baptist dvd and I put it on yesterday.I had bought the dvd at a Tuesday Monring for $2. I don't do yoga but I think because I'm in such good shape from my Cathe's I kept up with it.
I was pooped.
Thanks for the wake up call.
Colleen

 

[Bettypcw]

Hi Colleen,

Can you tell me when you picked up the Baron Baptiste DVD, and what its title is? I just realized that there's a Tuesday Morning near me, and I'd love to get one of those DVDs.

Sometimes when I don't feel up to a Cathe workout, I do power yoga, but then realize as I'm doing it that power yoga is hard too.

Thanks!
Betty

 

[Aquajock]

Not Cathe, but you may indeed have fried your legs unduly last week sticking in the walk/runs on the "off" days, following it up with athletic yoga; athletic yoga can be very taxing on the leg muscles, and many of Boot Camps drills are real leg burners (the forward and lateral suicides, the diagonal two-footed hops forward with a tuck-turn, and so on; in fact few of the drills in 4DS-BC AREN'T leg burners).

I vote take the rest days as Cathe has outlined.

Just in passing - HELLO COLLEEN IN MINNEAPOLIS!!! I'm here in sunny Plymouth.

A-Jock

 

[cocob1]

Hi A-Jock. I was just in Plymouth today. I live east of Lake Harret.
I am going to take an off day today just as it says in the rotation and not feel guilty.
Now I know that when Cathe says stretching or gentle yoga she means it!
Colleen ;-)
PS Betty, I bought it at the Tuesday Morning in SW Minneapolis. I got #2 & #3 in the series. They didn't have #1. It was tough. Especially the legs and shoulders.