I'm not new to working out, and have been exercising fairly consistently for about 2 years now. I recently started FB Blend (my first Fitness Blender program) and have just completed Day 10, the second Abs + HIIT day.
I've now done two of the program's Abs + HIIT days and am feeling kind of unsatisfied after them. During the exercises I am giving them my all, keeping an eye on my form (I am not new to working out as I've mentioned, so I feel I have a pretty good sense of when my form is off) but I am not feeling a "burning" sensation in my abs during the workout. I feel a general sort of tired (not specifically that my core is burnt out), work up a good sweat, and some exercises are a struggle, but as much as I focus on activating my core and syncing my breath, I'm not feeling that burn!
I have definitely felt a burn in my abs while working on my core before (as recently as a couple of months ago if I had to guess) but now it just isn't happening... Last week I waited to see if I would feel soreness the next day, and I did feel a bit of soreness in my core, but just a bit in my upper abs and obliques, and absolutely nothing in my lower abs. I know soreness isn't a good measure of exertion necessarily, but I was hoping that since my effort wasn't paying off in a burn during the workout, that maybe it would show up as DOMS, but it didn't really.
I don't think it's to do specifically with FB, as I tried returning to the kind of workout where I used to feel the burn in my abs (a very mindful and activation focused yoga video) and though I exerted myself to a point where my torso was SHAKING, I still didn't feel that signature burn.
So does anyone have any guesses as to what might be up and what I might be doing wrong? I'm not dead set on feeling the burn, but does not feeling it mean I'm not working to my fullest? I wouldn't be so fixated if this wasn't something I had experienced before and used as a guide for how much effort I was putting in. Now I'm not so sure if I'm working hard enough or wrong or what!
Abs not feeling the burn
Hello!
I'm not new to working out, and have been exercising fairly consistently for about 2 years now. I recently started FB Blend (my first Fitness Blender program) and have just completed Day 10, the second Abs + HIIT day.
I've now done two of the program's Abs + HIIT days and am feeling kind of unsatisfied after them. During the exercises I am giving them my all, keeping an eye on my form (I am not new to working out as I've mentioned, so I feel I have a pretty good sense of when my form is off) but I am not feeling a "burning" sensation in my abs during the workout. I feel a general sort of tired (not specifically that my core is burnt out), work up a good sweat, and some exercises are a struggle, but as much as I focus on activating my core and syncing my breath, I'm not feeling that burn!
I have definitely felt a burn in my abs while working on my core before (as recently as a couple of months ago if I had to guess) but now it just isn't happening... Last week I waited to see if I would feel soreness the next day, and I did feel a bit of soreness in my core, but just a bit in my upper abs and obliques, and absolutely nothing in my lower abs. I know soreness isn't a good measure of exertion necessarily, but I was hoping that since my effort wasn't paying off in a burn during the workout, that maybe it would show up as DOMS, but it didn't really.
I don't think it's to do specifically with FB, as I tried returning to the kind of workout where I used to feel the burn in my abs (a very mindful and activation focused yoga video) and though I exerted myself to a point where my torso was SHAKING, I still didn't feel that signature burn.
So does anyone have any guesses as to what might be up and what I might be doing wrong? I'm not dead set on feeling the burn, but does not feeling it mean I'm not working to my fullest? I wouldn't be so fixated if this wasn't something I had experienced before and used as a guide for how much effort I was putting in. Now I'm not so sure if I'm working hard enough or wrong or what!