Day 106

Cardio machine day ... last week was the strider, so this week I am back to the Cardio Wave machine! Feel a bit sleepy today, so was only on for 25 minutes. Boy can you sweat after 10 minutes! And now I'm able to float without holding on to the handlebars for a grand total of...

2.5 minutes!!

Which is great. Previous record was about 30 seconds. :P

And I've managed to carve away 1kg of the US indulgence weight gain. 1kg lighter than when I first stepped into TF about a week ago. Not bad!!

Day 105

Crap la... after one day of rest, I thought my calf/ankle was right as rain, but after an hour of Combat, it's aching again. God... it feels like my calf/ankle will never be okay again. It's been almost a month! Then again, once upon a time, I thought my left eye would never be ok again and now it's no longer itching the fcuk outta the eye socket. @_@

Taking things easy, only went for Body Combat today. One day... maybe I'll go for Body Attack after that. One day when my leg doesn't feel like you're hammering it when I'm walking.

There was another instructor shadowing Terence today ... her name is Karen. Something about a clearance ... don't know what that means. But she's one of the best combat instructors to shadow him, so thumbs up! Think she pass the clearance without any problems, but then again I'm just a n00b who am I to judge!

Terence kicked off the class with Shake That and ... dunno the name of the follow-up warm-up track. Was conned into thinking we were back to old tracks! After Karen took over, it was BC34 until the conditioning track (reverted back to Twist & Shout) and then back to BC34 for the cool down.

Since this is my 2nd time doing some of the new release and 1st time doing some of the new release, I can give some comments about it...

Namely that aside from Shut Up n Drive, I kinda dislike it. :P Then again, I always hate the new releases and it's only thru constant drumming that I gain an affinity for it. Hey, first impressions right? If you dislike someone the first time u meet them, would u keep on trying to befriend the feller?

The Way ... kinda simple. No comments about this one.
The final track is crazy.... 4 different levels of punch / upper cut?? @____@ You have no idea how many times I realised that although I started on the same side as the instructors, halfway thru I find that we have switched (cos I'm slower)!
Muay Thai track is ... complicated.

Another track... forgot the name... quite complicated choreo. Punch in front, then punch down to the side (and the leg must move front and to the side too). Complex complex...

Don't remind me about the jumpkick track... started hating jumpkick tracks when they incorporated capoeira into it. The studio is packed with people, how to do ginga? And don't remind me... I am standing next to that dangerous guy again... He ah... has super power in his moves but no rhythm. Seriously I cannot even feel free to move around coz I'm afraid that if I don't see if he has stopped or not, he might grievously injure me.

Anyway, that jumpkick track is damn confusing la. Got dunno what sashaying to the side and then ginga. Then got knee, kick and ginga. Then jumpkick and ginga. Haiyoh.
Go back to the days of Bagpipes can?

But "Shut Up & Drive" more than makes up for it.... nice song and cute choreo. Hehehe.

Day 104

I vowed to myself not to do marathon-classes on Saturdays as often. Kinda wastes my Saturday away --- not to say that exercising is not good --- but too much of it can make you get bored with something quickly and you start resenting the gym instead.

Anyway --- my calf is not so strong now - best not to stress it. :(

Right. Went for Body Attack (Jason's class)... my god, by the 3rd track or so I was suffering ady. Even "jog in place" was killing my calf. Anyway, he did the new release for BA... starting to like it more and more, especially Wind It Up. =)

After that, went for Dance Mania (Danny's class) ... first time in at least a month! Omg... I miss this class soooooooo much. I thought Danny already forgot me. T_T And he said that he would be doing an "old song, old routine", so I thought I ought to know the steps, cos I think I only missed a few classes since he started teaching in Jaya33? But it was a song & choreo that I totally didn't know - Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Outta My Head. It was a "robotic" movement kinda dance, quite difficult lor!

To be honest, I still can't remember the choreo, right til the end of the class. :P And the embarrassing part is that at the end of the class, where Danny caters to our "inner performers", he selected me among 5-6 others to dance in position coz supposedly we "dance a bit better than the rest". I was going "wtf WTF wtfFF!!" cos the entire class I was seriously damn behind in the movements - couldn't remember what I was doing and not doing it technically correctly too. :P Maybe he just layan cuz he knows I always goes for his class and if I don't get selected I'll boycott. :P Nah... I was really hoping I won't get selected because I knew I'd screw up...

And of coz the first run-through I screwed up so badly. Kinda forgot the moves after the first 8 counts! :D Kena marah!! :P So then he rearranged us and then he said he'll partner me. -___- Giving me extra pressure la...

But anyway, after that I really forced myself to concentrate (despite my left calf / ankle) and I think was managing to "bluff" my way through the next few rounds. :) And I think it was a decent showing... hehehe. So thanks to Danny for somehow forcing me to learn the choreo and believing in me... *this sounds so kua cheong & dramatic*

:)

This is why I love Dance Mania classes. Incidentally, we'll be having Ronicia in Taipan on Thursdays! Perfect! I did mention that I love her DM classes and now I get to go to her classes too. Muah! :)

Day 103

Good news and bad news for me today!

Good news --- luckily I didn't sign up for True Spa! Turns out that Pauline is already a member, so I can buy packages under her name @ member's price! Mwahhaha!! Here I come Body Polish and Shiatsus. =)

Bad news --- the ache in my left calf / slightly above ankle area is still damn painful! I don't know what's wrong with it, been massaging it daily with Counterpain. Sigh... I really don't know how I'm going to gym if this goes on... like today, I was damn gung-ho and was prepared to go for three classes. I ended up only going for Jason's Body Jam class. *sigh*sigh*sigh* After that, the pain became quite intense that I was limping up and down the stairs. Cindy told me to go back home and not push myself.

The class today was good --- a mix of old and new. Well, practically everything was new tracks until after the cooldown. Now the cooldown and warm-up tracks don't look so difficult after all! Maybe Simone was doing some extra special stylo moves, cos I remember it looked damn complicated. And I still like the disco track --- Chaka Khan/ I Feel For You, and I still love Impacto (although I tried to 'go lower' and it's fcukin painful ok.

The old tracks today:
~ Don't Stop Movin' (S Club 7)
~ It's Raining Men! (I honestly don't EVER remember doing this track, but it's really fun!)
~ I Need To Know (I think it's Jason's favorite track)
~ Candyman (he announced that it's a track pple don't like. Hahaha! In my class, only a handful of pple can do it properly. Seriously, I super "tou kai" doing the movements. :D)

It was really fun la.. great choice of tracks. Happy clappy music.

Btw, the cleaner came in again for Jason's dance class... muwahahhhaa. Cindy was once again very unhappy bout it. :P

Day 102

Today I wanna complain about damn oblivious and selfish people!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to Jaya33 for classes today even though Taipan had nicer classes (they had Ronicia's funky line class!!) because I had a free back massage from True Spa which I wanted to redeem today. Anyway, it's no biggie because Jaya33 had Alex C's Body Combat class.

I was in the class early... standing in my favorite position - front to the left. Then this old lady came in and she stood like directly in front of me.
WHAT THE FUCK OK!! DO YOU NOT SEE ME THERE ALREADY??
If she wanted me to move, then ASK don't just fucking stand like 1 step in front of me.
WHAT THE FUCK.
THERE WAS SO MUCH SPACE EVERYWHERE ELSE.
AT THAT TIME THERE WAS JUST THREE PEOPLE IN THE CLASS.

I just moved away la... cos I was so pissed I couldn't think of a polite way to ask her what the fuck was wrong with her.

Later this regular came into the class and stood a little near to her, so she move and stood even nearer to me.. wtf... in the end I got my most hated position in a class...
directly in front of the instructor
and facing that pillar thing so that I can't even see myself in the mirror..

Shit.. don't want to talk about it anymore.. I can feel my blood pressure rising already.

Seriously --- I don't care if you're a "regular" or whether u are damn kam cheng with an instructor or what-the-fuck-ever. If you come into a class and someone is already in your "regular" place, you don't act like fucking queen of the world and make them switch places. Here's an idea: WHY DON'T YOU MOVE INSTEAD, BITCH!

Anyway, it's not like she was damn good at BC and if she stand in front all of us can follow her... *bitch*bitch*bitch*

In other news .... the class was alright otherwise.
It was a mix class, the 2nd half of the class was from the new release, so I finally got to try it. I really like the recovery track (Shut Up & Drive). It's a bit complicated, but if you do it properly it looks damn stylo ok! :D

The other tracks --- no comment. Haven't done them enough to have a real "feel" of it. I like the cool down though.

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The True Spa back massage was pretty darn good! I like the environment --- very hygienic and clean an comfy. Only problem is there's a lot of people being shown around the place so it was quite noisy ---- there's this lady with special loud voice asking questions, how to relax la.

My masseuse was pretty good... she can apply so much pressure that I thought she was stepping on my back! Really felt like she was realigning all my bones. The body oil that they use smells nice and isn't too sticky, unlike the one I got from Jojoba Spa last time (Times Square).

Normal price for the "stress relieving back massage" is RM100... RM50 for member price.

Damn... I'm so easily influenced. I really felt like joining True Spa after a chat with the consultant. Thank God I left my wallet and all that in True Fitness cos I knew that I'm the "easily convinced" type. They offered me this package whereby I pay RM1,500 but I get 18 treatments. The ala carte price of these 18 treatments is over 3k, and the member price for these 18 treatments is still over 2k. If I don't join today, the next time I join, I'll get less than 18 treatments....

The treatments sound quite nice.. they don't just offer massages... they have something called body polish that sounds realllllllyyy good too. It's basically full body exfoliation..

Okay I don't wanna think about this anymore. It's still the first week of the year and I'm already trying to overspend.
I still have to pay for gym, car, parents, my camera, etc etc...
Too many monthly payments as it is already!

Day 101

Planned to go for a spinning class, but I left work a tad too late. Was still determined to do some cardio workout, so instead of cycling, I went on the good ol' strider. ;)

50 minutes (just like a typical spinning class), travelled 6.3 miles, losing 463 calories. If those measurements can be believed.

Of course, stamina levels are no good. I hit a heartrate of 161 within 10 minutes on the strider. Usually I only reach above 160 after 20 minutes of a good workout! Peaked at 171 and that was that. Thank god for the trusty ipod that pushed me further when I felt like stopping. I've never done 50 minutes on the strider before, so I'm glad that I still have the mental strength to push me all the way through. :) This when I STILL have the slight strain on my left calf (I first started to feel it during the Body Attack launch in DECEMBER) and I'm still aching all over from BC yesterday.

Here comes the Counterpain!

Day 100

Hmm... coincidence? The 100th day of going to True Fitness lands in 2008. The first day of 2008 that I'm working out. Yessirreee I'm finally back from the forsaken land of California. Only it wasn't forsaken la. I thought California pple are big on fitness and there would be tonnes of gyms all around. Well, there are some , but they don't go around advertising everywhere. The only gym chain I saw there was Bally's (but I didn't go in. Shy. :P)

Since it was also my first day back at work after a 3 week break, I really really thank God that I wasn't swamped with work and was able to make it back to Taipan in time for Body Combat (Terence's class). I thought they'd still be doing the new tracks (I haven't gotten a chance to do BC 34), but today's class was a mix track class... with a LOTTA LOTTA OF MY FAVORITES SO WHO'S COMPLAINING RIGHT!!

+ Angels and Dancing up a Storm for warm-up. Nice!
+ I Need a Hero --- mmm... ok this track is kinda growing on me.
+ Jigga Jigga --- when I have the energy, this is one of my favorite jump-kick tracks. I heard the song on my ipod while I was driving back from work and was thinking, "hmm.. feel like doing this track today, too bad it'll be the new release." =) Sheesh, I have some kinda prophetic vision la, I swear.
+ Crash The Wedding for the track-where-everyone-feels-like-walking-out. And Terence had to make us re-do it... twice? Thrice? Holy heck!~
+ Sweet Child O Mine for recovery. Was a bit lost here, I always have trouble with the going back and front bit. Anyway, a track from way back --- always welcomed.
+ Shake Your Body for Muay Thai. Erm... best MT track ever, hello? =p Die die also can muster up the energy to do the descends/ascends
+ Here I Come for conditioning. Die!! Whatever muscle I have in my triceps and biceps are GONE after the 3 week reprieve. I swear, I cannot even do more than 2 triceps push ups!!
T______T
+ Because We Believe for cooldown. Other favorites : When Love & Hate Collide, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (to date, the only BC instructor who did this in the classes I attend is Swee), Breathe Easy (only because other pple get confused with the choreo but I'm used to it so I can action... hahaha!)

I forgot the name of the last track. I'm guessing it's ... Paradise? Dunno.

Anyway, it was a great work out. I was thinking about going for Body Attack after that, but seriously had no more energy. *fuuh* Best not to strain oneself after so much lazing around right?

I weighed myself ... I gained 3 - 4 kg. No surprise since I can out eat my boyfriend 2:1. No joke... now he keeps saying that I'll eat him out of house and home. I don't really feel pressured to lose weight since part of the reason why I KEEEPPPP on going on and on about wanting to weigh less than 50kg is because I wanted to look good for my bf. Since I've already spent so much time with him being FATTER than usual, and he has no complaints, that whatever! I'm going to not give myself so much smack for not exercising every day of the week.

Of course, I still wanna gym because it is FUN... just that I won't keep obsessively weighing myself EVERY DAY. Sometimes I've packed my gym gear and am already walking out of the gym and then I realise that I forgot to weigh myself. I will walk back to the female changing room just to see if I have lost even 0.1kg of weight for that day.

Enough of that!

So 3-4kg .. big deal! I know how to lose it.
And best of all, now I'm SO FCUKING SICK OF FAST FOOD AND PIGGING OUT, I SERIOUSLY DON'T WANNA EAT OUT ANYMORE. To me, the most delicious sounding food is PORRIDGE. I'm not kidding. You wanna lose your appetite, just keep eating fast food for one week.

I had In N Out Burger, Jack in the Box, Taco Bell, University Chicken, Pizz'a Chicago, Cheesecake Factory, Popeyes, blah blah blah..

Wait til you see my my main blog when I blog about my California food trip. Can really make you feel like vomiting seeing what I shove down my gullet.