Kickstart Day 8

Forgot to post this yesterday, but on Tuesday I managed to go for Yili's "Express Body Combat" class. A sweet and short introduction to the new release - BC 54!

I don't have the tracklists yet, so just off the top of my head, I would say that the warm-up is pretty ok, nothing new. By the 3rd track, there's already major complications --- so many kicks! I didn't know by track #3 gonna be so hardcore already. Honestly, I didn't know if I could make it. And right after that, we have the usual jump kicks track... it's really a HORROR-FILLED moment. There's new combos as well to mix things up a bit... a lot of us got confused. Something like two back knees, step back, side kick, step back again and then a lunging front kick. Halfway through, you would forget about stepping back, or forget the side-kick!

This whole class will tend to make your limbs feel very tired because it likes to concentrate on one part of your body ONLY, like the roundhouse kicks without putting the leg down (balance.. balance!!) or after that, single jabs on only one arm for like .... countless times.

The Muay Thai track was not that difficult. In fact, for the whole new release, there is also a lot of concentration on stamina and cardio. Lots of running on the spot, and I love the jumping and running! It brings me back to my happy Attack days, haha.

Ok, that's all that I remember, about 17 hours since the last class. Happy holidays people, will post whenever I can!

Kickstart Day 5

Another day, another day of combat! I know, I know... so much Combat! I'm starting to remember more tracks now.. and my stamina is back! Now, I can consider going for Body Attack soon... hahaha! Not my fault that there's so much BC... it's really the most convenient class to go to, though I will try to alternate more in the future. Thinking of either swimming or going for Zumba tomorrow. Haven't done weight training in quite a while too... only squeezed in some chest press after Yili's class on Tuesday before rushing back to cook for the hubs. Just to record, on the chest press machine, I'm currently at resistance level 7. I do about a total of 50 chest press only, and then I stop. Already I can feel my arm muscles becoming taut again. :-) But I would need to start downing protein shakes again if I want to make them big... hahaha!

Anyway, went for Body Combat, Terence's class at SH. I got some extra storytelling to do at the end of my post, so just go to the track listing first. Same as last week, he started with No Easy Way Out and Are You Gonna Go My Way? The first track after warm-up was the very fun "THUNDER!" song.. just that too bad most people don't do the arms.... aiyah, it's because of small things like that that I like Terence's classes anyway. :P Next up was Bagpipes, another oldie track that I love, and then back to the new track listing with True Believer. Hmm, True Believer is one of the newer tracks that I don't mind. :P For the recovery track, he went with Shake Ya Shimmy, which nobody shakes again... so ... blah.. Don't want to be the only one shaking my ass.

Muay Thai track - back to the new track called Blade, which I specifically told Terence I don't like.... please don't do again.. hahahaha. **demanding member** Reason is because there are too many downward elbows... sometimes feels like swimming in the air, but most importantly, makes me feel like puking. Now that my stamina is back, the puking feeling is not there anymore, but I don't want to risk it, especially when I really go all the way and elbow down in my most gaya style wtf.

Finale track is Summer Rain, another new track that I don't mind... lots of arms, but somehow (maybe because stamina is back), I don't feel the pain.... but it really made me unable to do the conditioning track after that. :P Which was Do It Again, a very old conditioning track with tripod push-up... which not really is a tripod push-up IMHO... just a Superman lift.... Ended with Silence by Alexandra Burke. I just found out the name for this song!! It's really nice, and a lot of people are calling her the new Whitney Houston. Whaddya think?

Anyway, it was an awesome BC class... and nothing beats the tired, smelly, sweaty feeling after the class... and then going for a refreshing shower. Somehow you feel much cleaner than ever. Also been saving a lot of $$ on water bill since I bathe all the time at the gym now. My toiletries at home remain unused!

Okie, now time to story you... as we all know, the parking near the TF SH branch is really havoc. What to do, it's prime area. Usually, I park illegally (like this also can admit), but today even the illegal parking was full. I decided to park behind the gym, which is the "clubs" area... and I thought I was so lucky that I had a parking right in front of this shop that appeared to be closed down. Once I had parked, two guys suddenly appeared and they hung around my car. I just asked.. er... there's parking rates to pay meh? They said yes. I was like .. huh... ok... how much? They asked me where I was going and I blurly (stupidly?) just said the gym. They replied, oh, the gym... well usually we charge people RM10 to park, since this is the pubs area... but since you are just going to the gym, you just pay whatever you feel is right lah.

WTF!! I hate it when they say that! I really feel like just paying RM1, if even that! But I am afraid that they will steal my tires if I do that. I really was in a dilemma... and ended up, I just fished out all the RM1 notes that I have, which amounted to... more than if I paid for normal parking at USJ. Is there some legal parking nearby? Sigh... damn stupid lah. I was also afraid that they will be nearby when I come out from the gym, and indeed they were... and they were talking to a guy who just parked behind my car .. talk damn long and cannot even see I'm reversing is it? Shit lah... FML... moral of the story is I need to open up my small eyes and see where got legal parking nearby already that is not filled up all the damn time!

Kickstart Day 4

Another day, another day of Body Combat! Sigh, I really can't wake up early for the 7am BC class. This time it's getting better though --- I can actually hear my phone ringing, hahaha! Other times, I sleep through the entire thing going off! Today is a Selangor public holiday, but the team at work is so "lucky" that we have major production problems today! Sigh, couldn't even go for a long weight training + BC workout. Could only make it for Yili's BC slot in SH, and when I came out of the class, there were so many miscalls. :S

Wasn't aware that Yili's class on Tuesdays is an express class -- there's no "circle" track (er... I call it circle, but it's the track before recovery! Not sure what is the actual term) and there's no conditioning. Quite sad, cos was looking forward to that Brazilian twist push-up thing! Anyway, her class is always nice & well pulled off cos she does older tracks... hahahha...  Got no complaints la... except that the class is too quiet! (probably that is what an instructor complains about the students? :P) But I notice that generally SH people are quieter. Even Jon Kin's class considered senyap already...

Started with "Listen To Your Heart" and "Trouble" for warm-up... followed by Love Drunk and Send Me An Angel. Long time haven't done Love Drunk! I really like it, though I find the jab-jab-cross-hooks-roundhouse combination a bit slow for a 3rd track. Should be faster! Send Me An Angel is awesome torture for the shoulders... I remember feeling like dying the first time I ever did it! You will really hope that someone up there sends you an angel...

Had Jigga Jigga for the kicks track, followed by U & Ur Hand for recovery. Muay Thai track was Hyper, Hyper... and ended up with What Hurts The Most for the finale. Wah, the shoulders are really feeling' it now! With no conditioning, we ended with cooldown... the only track which I forgot the name! Hehehe...

Yeah, when it's old tracks, the ol' memory is back in action, aye? New release is this Saturday in J33... who's going? I am thinking of going for either BC or for Jam, one or the other only. Been doing toooooo much Body Combat, maybe will switch back to Jam for a few days! :)

Kickstart Day 3

Yikes! Bet you thought I had fallen off the wagon again with the big gap between the previous post and now. I admit... my promise with my husband is to only go to the gym 3x a week, and actually, I did go 3x last week! But it's really not enough. I really wish to go 5x a week, if not more. However, you can't just ditch the hubs, can you?

I wound up going for Jon Kin's Body Combat class today... yeah, after my friend told me to check it out! Someone else told me it's not so "fun", so she advised me to avoid the class... but, this is a Les Mills trainer leh... should be "hebat" right? My new colleague also told me "go for Jon Kin's class.. he just made us run and run and run"... I was wondering... omg, she went for track & field training instead? Why BC just running wan? Lol!!

His class is super packed!! I am very sien with SUPER PACKED classes because no space to move... and also very malu if I walk out! HAHAHA.... and he is really serious, so maybe that's why my 1st friend told me not as "fun". Ok la, still got smile smile and chit chat, not like some other instructors that really look like they wanna tumbuk you instead of the air... Really, my only complaint is that there were so many new songs... blehk! I don't like! I think the oldest track he did was Beat It? That one was the anomaly. Other than that and "Bring Me To Life", the rest were releases from within 2012... which er.. I was missing most of the time.

Ok, at least I know more track names now : the killer finale track is "Summer Rain", but ... it's not as killer as J.K. makes it out to be. I still *really* despise "Gimmie Dat", but I saw the Ciara video on Youtube and holy heck!! Whatever we are doing in BC is much easier than how Ciara dances in the video. So when I think I'm dying during the track, I imagine how much worse it would be if we had to dance like her instead.

For the conditioning, we had to do this capoeira inspired push up, which Raymond taught me before last time, so it's not that new to me... Of course, I'm still struggling cos in the first place, I never practiced it well. =p It's where you are almost in a push-up position, and you have to twist your right knee towards your left HAND (later, it goes into leg EXTENDS) and at the same time, your left hand touches your right shoulder. It's madness wei!! But really fun! Looks so gaya when you do it right.

Well, that's all I have to talk about for today. Still learning up all the new tracks. I found the name of a track that I really like from the new release : BARK at the moon! Haaha... so fun. Okie, tomorrow is a public holiday for moi, so I'm gonna GYM more... by the way, I have a lot of house chores to do, no wonder I am not super obese yet even though I don't gym so much. :P

Kickstart Day 2

This is my 3rd day in a row of gymming! I'm doing well! Tomorrow, I'm torn between going for a swim at the condo early in the morning or popping by the gym for some light weights training again. At work, just have to tell myself "I gotta go!" and peel myself away from the screen in order to get to the gym on time. Today, I left work by 7:15pm, worried that I would be late for Terence's class at TF SH, but ends up he is LATE! Late by 30 minutes! Grr... but at least he arrives in the end. I was starting to think I am jinxed, everytime come for his class, he will not be around. Also found out the ~real~ reason why class was cancelled on Monday! Sorry to hear about the things that happened to the instructor, but glad all is ok....

Started to get more "gossip" again, hahaha.. found more friends in the gym. One of which is my ex-colleague who already became a BC instructor. I tried her class before, I think she is doing excellently for a new instructor! Anyway, she also always comes for Wednesday BC classes... think she's addicted. For me, just telling myself to pace myself so I don't end up feeling like puking by the time the Muay Thai track comes around! Thankfully, today Terence did a nice mix of old & new tracks, from Leave me alone (I'm Lonely), Bad & Sexy, A Little Less Conversation (I think it's his fave conditioning track). The rest of the songs, I know the lyrics, but I don't know the name of the songs! I am so "out of touch" with BC tracks already. *paiseh paiseh* My memory ain't that good either, I know the warm-up tracks, but I can't remember!

Anyway, I started to feel all the good aches all over my body.... *yawn* stretch* .... oh, and found out that a lot of my fave BC instructors already left TF.... grrr... never mind, can always find new faves. :) Meanwhile, me friend assured me that the 7am BC classes in TF  does in fact have a lot of supporters! Wow wee... that is unexpected! So now, Leech is going to become a morning eagle...

Kickstart day 1

Leech casts the spell "REVIVE!" on dead blog.... it is successful!!

Well, decided to start blogging here again to encourage myself to work out more often. My current level of stamina is bloody shameful. Last time, even if I couldn't dance well, couldn't remember the choreography... I knew I could still depend on my crazy-levels of stamina to last myself to peak performance right to the end. Right now, I'm gasping by the 5th track in Body Combat! What happened to me!?

For one, I haven't been exercising regularly this year.. at all. I blame it on the fact that I changed jobs LAST YEAR and it has not been stable ever since. Right now, things are thankfully stabilising out, I don't have to work so late anymore, and I am trying to get more work/life balance. I also just got married, and really cannot think of just myself anymore. I cannot go for 3 back-to-back classes after work, and then creep back home at 11pm. My husband is a "morning eagle" while I am a "night owl". If we keep doing this, we will not see each other at all!

Being such a nice person, I decided that I will shift to his schedule... his is healthier anyway (meaning: waking up early). The only bad part is I cannot get his lazy bum bum to go to the gym with me. And he likes me to cook dinner for him. Can you imagine that? As if I don't have to work also. Being a woman is tough! Really have to be superwoman.

Oh and yes... married... I am not staying in Subang anymore, so you won't see me in Taipan True Fitness anymore. In fact, if you see me there... I really won't know what is going on in my brain because it is super inconvenient for me to go there. :P If I go back to Subang, it would also be to see my family and friends, not go to the gym! It's a damn shame because I think Taipan's True Fitness branch is one of the best branches ever! It has the female workout section!!

Nowadays, I will be at either Sri Hartamas or Jaya 33 branch, which is close to home and close to office! Depends on my mood where to go... if there's any Body Jam / Combat / Attack / workout kaki, tell me oh... I have no friends now. :(

My condo also has its own gym and swimming pool, so will try to workout there more often, though the weights machines are seriously limited and lack of choice. And I only swam once here ever since I moved in in August! It's just an elevator ride down, but it's so hard to get the brain in the mood to move once you are back in your own apartment. :(

For the past two days, I was on leave, so I was really pumped up to work out! On Monday, I worked out on the strider machine for 10-15 minutes, and was left gasping for breath wtf. I then hit the machines for about an hour. Had nothing in mind, just more reps and mid-level weights. I know I could go harder, but didn't want to paralyse myself. I am loving the new "Life Fitness" machines in Sri Hartamas branch. It is not plates, but some kinda elastic (??) resistance training. Good to feel the chest press machine again. I will note down the weight amounts properly in next entries. This is just a "kickstart" entry, hehehe.

At night (after cooking dinner for hubs!), I went for Jon Kin's 8pm Body Combat class in SH branch... but was VERY SORELY DISAPPOINTED that the class got cancelled! It was more disappointing that they didn't have anyone officially tell, but I just heard from another member who was standing outside waiting. I was suspecting that something happened already because there was 5 minutes more before the class was slated to start, and everyone was still standing around and not going in. I confirmed for sure with the front desk... and they said that the class just cancelled, not even a replacement class to be given. Seriously, why!?! There was another Body Jam class in the other studio, but felt a bit bengang already... I purposely went out of the comforts of my home to be saddened by this... lol.

Today, I was supposed to go for more weights training, but last night I couldn't sleep because of all the new aches in my body... so I just went for Yili's Body Combat class at 5:55pm. Even at this odd hour, the class was pretty full! She mentioned that it is an anomaly... lol. She did mostly older tracks, like Summer of '69, I Never Liked You, Beat It, .... errr... forgot most of the tracks after that! I know she did the horrible Gimmie Dat track (hate it ... hate it!!!! ) and the Muay Thai was actually one of my favorites.... the one with the push (arms) and then push kick. :) And ended with one of the most awesome cool downs Our Solemn Hour!!!

Tomorrow, my husband will be drinking with his friends, so thinking about whether I wanna go for Body Combat in J33 or in SH? Also, I have been thinking of going for the super early 7am Body Combat classes in SH.... are there actually any people in the class? I would hate max if I go there and ends up that there's only one feller and they cancel it. (Of course, then I could just do weights training la... but I would have to wake up at 6am to go for these classes, and waking up at 6am to go and do weights training is not worth it!!)

Parking at SH branch is also a bitch and it's actually not that convenient for me to drive there from my house. Yeah, from my house I can see the branch, and sometimes I wonder can I base jump and land on top of TF (impossibru la... just dreaming). Instead, have to brave the crazy traffic around that area, and illegally park. My husband already told me not to illegally park there.. but everyone's doing it. There is seriously only 0.5% chance that you can find legal parking at that hour in that area. This illegal parking method, I learned from my colleague J who got some free passes, but I think she is avoiding me. If she knows I'm going to J33, she will go to SH. If she knows I'm going to SH, she will go J33. -__-"

Today, I also found the "hole in the fence" that will allow me to walk not-as-far to get to the gym.. hahaha....

Well, that's how life has been so far. Wishing MYSELF good LUCK to get back into shape. I plan to shed 7kg in 6 months time. Have to eat healthier too... during my horrible work months, I ate chicken chop (with black pepper sauce) everyday.... lololol...

Day 420

Monday nights.... cherish the back-2-back power classes when they are still around. Starting next week til after Chinese New Year, Terence won't be teaching in Taipan. *gasps of surprise from all his fansies*

Combat on Monday... don't really remember much....
Shake That & Bom Bom Suena for warm-up
Livin' on A Prayer
Poison
Power of Love
the "recovery" track from the latest release
Raver's Paradise (??)
Miracle

I might have forgotten one or two tracks, do forgive. Hahaha! Terence said that I "stole" his moves from Power of Love, cheh! I've stolen it damn long ago lah! :P
Sharingan!

Stayed on for Body Attack after that, which Jason Y finally came back. Haven't seen him for one month, he did the latest release, and give it a breathe of fresh air. Hahaha. Seriously, agree with Frances when she asked him if he's on drugs... he's super energetic from start to finish!

Day 419

Body Combat with Alex C... though I survived (Barely) ATtack with my rotator cuff, it became worse doing BC with Alex C... was so sore and could barely lift my arms to do punches. But it was a great class, back to old tracks, with stuff like Fire, Eye of the Tiger, How Far We've Come. He did Miracle and the two last songs in BC from the latest release, and again he did his Body Attack moves. Lol!!!

At the end of the class, he said that he finds it super easy to do old tracks now, after suffering through the new releases. Do you feel so? Hahhaa. I have to say that old BC tracks are more "fun"... I kinda miss it, hehe.

Anyway, I got this from Teoh from his Facebook. He asked for the Top 10 Body Attack songs for 2009. I will be fair and do top 10 for my 3 fave GX classes - Combat, Jam and Attack! :P

Body Attack
1. Don't Give Me Your Life - Romy Koolhouse (Mixed Intervals from Q1)
2. All I Ever Wanted - Daytripper (Running track from Q1)
3. Something Good 08 - Club4Life (Intervals from Q1)
4. Tubthumping - Smash & Grab ( Plyometrics from Q2)
5. Baby I'm On Fire - DJ Razorsharp (Aerobic from Q2)
6. The Best Is Yet To Come - Hinder (Cooldown from Q2)
7. Fly On The Wall - Dana deWit (Aerobic from Q3)
8. Take It To The Limit - Badlands (Power from Q3)
9. Put a Donk On It - Northern Accelerators (Agility from Q4)
10. Zombie - Andrew Spencer & The Vamprockers (Power from Q4)

[This list damn hard to make because I like nearly all the aerobic, plyo, power and interval tracks... sigh. Also, notice how NONE of the upper body conditioning tracks make the cut, hahahhaa! Lower conditioning, I was tempted Sneakernight. Other notable mentions : Gimme More, Take Me to the Clouds Above, When You Leave, True Faith, Jump, Just Stand Up, That's Not My Name, Bridge Over Troubled Water... damn a lot!! ]

Body Jam
1. Dance Wiv Me
2. Krazy
3. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
4. 75 Brazil Street
5. I Know You Want Me (wanted to put together since it makes the entire performance, but not enough slots, hahaha)
6. Pictures
7. Finally 2008
8. Shake Up The Party
9. Loaded
10. Oye

The year of Latin performance tracks, hahaha. I think 2008 had nicer tracks, hmmm...

Body Combat
1. Numb (one of the best warm-ups!)
2. The Anthem (fast and sweet)
3. Slow & Steady Rush
4. Enter Sandman
5. Desolation Row
6. Tutti Fruitti
7. The One & Only (warm up again, lol)
8. Jump That Rock! (This is not in order of most liked, otherwise this would be #1!!!)
9. Johnny B. Goode
10. Cum on Feel The Noise

The problem with this list, of course, is that I only remember the chorey + song for Attack, the rest is mostly song and vaguely chorey. More on song, so that was the main criteria. Hahahaha! How about u?

Day 415

Did 3 classes, and I was very happy because they were all very nice.

Body Combat - Alex C's class. Did new release for the last time. Sigh, goodbye new release, I'll miss you. The most memorable part of his class is that when he did Miracle, halfway through he started doing Body Attack movements! Hahahhaa! I didn't know Alex C also likes Body Attack. Apparently he did it a lot last time, even considered taking BA training. Awww...

Body Jam - Zarina's class, and she did the new release too. Before the class started, I told her that the first half of the class is nice, but I didn't like the last part. Anyway, not bad... despite being only my 2nd time doing the new release, can still follow. Hahaha. Got good teacher mar... *sayangs* Okay, I really like the Latin performance track, and now I like the last performance track too! Don't know why I hated it last time, but I guess there are some things you need to listen more and more to let it grow on you. And how can I forget, I really like the One Minute Man recovery track and the I'll Do Anything For You cool down! :)

Body Attack - new release with Hazrin! Hahaha.. he made me go on stage to do the plyometrics track - Rock It. Gosh. I know I like lunges, but to do it all the way on stage, got a bit of pressure, but of coz, didn't die. Lol. *proud of my strong thighs wtf* I feel bad cos he asked me to do the finale track and track 10 as well, but shadow is one thing but last minute do on stage is too much pressure for me and I cannot live up to it. :( So I felt very bad after this class.... :( :( :(

Day 412

Body Combat, latest release with Terence Tan!
The airconditioning in the studio wasn't working, so we had to do without! The gym was a sauna, and the floor was filled with sweat drops... yucky!

Couldn't do Attack after that. If Combat made the studio a sauna, Attack would've made it... a flood area.

Day 409

New releases new releases new releases!

Body Combat with Terence Tan, Body Attack with Ryan after. Thought it was gonna be Jason Y! **the superstar Monday back-to-back classes!**

Before BC, members were going, "Is Terence gonna be coming?" and looked like gonna walk out if it wasn't gonna be Terence. Aiyoh... support other instructors also la. :P Anyway, he did show up in the end and it was an explosive introduction to the new release... but for me... ok la, it's my 4th time doing it already. :p Used to the movement already. Although Terence keeps saying my push kick is like a step kick. I really cannot get my leg to "mengcangkul" for the push kick la. Isn't that a weird kinda movement. Why so weird one!

But I'm veryyyy happy that he said "good job Leech" for my push-ups. Hahaha. Push ups on the toes babeh!! :P So far I've been doing push ups on the toes all the way for this release. =D Can't say the same for Attack though. :P

During Attack, gosh, kept thinking that I couldn't do anymore because I was already fried from Combat, but you never know what your body & mind are capable of til you push yourself to the limits. Somehow could still finish strong at the end of the release, though of coz my upper body conditioning is still lacking.. *sigh* But I could still tuck jump all the way for the power track and at the end of the class, a member told me, "How come you're so energetic wan ah!" I am starting to think that I am more of a motivator on the floor than when I am on the stage. Hard to explain this... haha. Basically, when I'm on the floor, a lot of members think that I'm energetic, strong, etc... but when on the stage, I start to quake. T____T

Day 408

I had lofty ambitions of working out in both Pavilion and Hartamas today, but woke up late, so Hartamas it is. As mentioned before, it's not convenient for me to go here, so why did I go? Hahaha... because I saw in the schedule that there's someone called "Jeff" teaching there. I haven't gone for his classes before, and I was curious, so sue me. :P

Saw Adrian and wife there as well.. what a coincidence. He wanted to try the new release.. this would be my 3rd time doing it. Hehe. Anyway, we were gossiping outside the studio about who was teaching the class because the time table showed "Jamie" when the online schedule wrote "Jeff". Ok, I was disappointed ok. Cos I came there to "pat" who is this instructor, and though Jamie's class is nice, I went for her class few times already mar... good if I can try someone else right. :P

Turns out the Jeff feller was seated nearby only and heard everything. -___-

Anyway, his class was quite good... but quiet. Most of the time I'm making noise again... I'm such a good member hor? Always support support support. :P The only part I didn't like was when he didn't split the class into 2 for the The Anthem track. Much more fun if we did split the class right? Hah.~

Day 407

Body Combat - Alex C
Body Jam - Zarina

Both awesome classes... but I'm writing this differently because I want to talk about the new release songs instead. Hahaha.

Body Combat
Warm up - awesome song, Numb and I like the travel back and forth with the block and punch. Really gets you pumped up for the fight.
Lower body warm up - I do not hook up... nothing much to say about it. I don't find it exceptionally good, or an exceptionally good song to do kicks to.
2nd track - I Was Made For Loving You... hahaha, my Scooter song! A must have for every Combat release... well, almost every release. Anyway, I really like the song, and if you do the guard and cross jab properly it looks VERY stylish. Not a fan of the backfist and roundhouse kick, but it seems like the trend nowadays for stuff like that (e.g: hook and roundhouse in the previous release).
3rd track - Poison... I loved this song in Attack and I'm loving it in Combat, although I think it's got nicer chorey in Attack. ;P The main reason being I do not remember what the chorey for this is. Am confusing it with the next track (Use Me). I think Use Me is the one with the weird chorey right? The sweeping motion thing?
5th track - a very simple track for the "split class" track. I really like it. Very simple, and lots of high knees. Huh, you think you can tire me out with simple high knees? If my high knees were any higher I would knee myself in the face WTF.
6th track - Warriors Dance - not very recovery at all. Like Alex C said --- do it properly and your legs will be reallllllly feeling it at the end of the track. I think it's pretty difficult for a supposed recovery, isn't it?
7th track - Excalibur --- new Muay Thai track is very nice. I like the 12 knee transition to the pull knee thingy. It's like no break at all, from the elbows to the knees to the drop punch to the whatever la, don't know all the terms. Anyway, it's all very non-stop hardcore, love it love it!
8th track - Miracle --- this will kill your arms. Actually, a very ... simple track choreography wise. I think the instructors will have a hard time motivating the class on in this track. Cos it's too simple already. No challenge. Just constant demands for "bring it to another gear / level!" Eh.
Fire Burning - nice core & upper body conditioning track! Really like it though I hate Sean Kingston (but not so much anymore)
Second Chance - not a very nice song for cool down, but the movements are quite nice...

Body Jam
Scared of Me // Freeze --- interesting warm up... harder than average actually. I like the way Zarina kept going "What!!" whenever a weird move came out, because that was seriously what was going through my mind, hahahaha.
Shut Up and Let Me Go --- whoa, damn difficult. Hope to be able to get it later, it's just too complicated, and I just look like a freak when doing this track.
THE WHOLE LATIN PERFORMANCE TRACK IS AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME... !!! I WANNA DO IT AGAIN!!!!
Bucci Bag --- erm... alright recovery , nothing much to say
The last performance track (aka the "Leave the World Behind" performance track) is kinda boring actually. I don't really like it TBH.
Cool down was very nice though! I really like the song! I'll Do Anything For You... :)

One more - did Body Attack (Hazrin's class) after all that. Fuuh, after Take Me To The Clouds Above, was already very fatigued, but I can always depend on my '9 tail demon fox' for Zombie. Zombie Finish everyone! Hehehhee!

Day 405

Launch of fourth quarter release at True Fitness! Sorry, didn't manage to announce earlier on my blog, as you can see, I've fallen quite behind in updating stuff. Anyway, did you manage to go? Hahaha.. heard it was a blast.

It was held at Sri Hartamas, pretty inconvenient for me to go there, especially on a workday, so I went for Body Combat at Taipan. Jaime was teaching... did a lot of old tracks, including "Full Metal Jackass", but was sad she didn't do the saluting part. *cry* Other stuff include "Crashed the Wedding"... and I don't remember. Anyway, she's always very appreciative if you make noise in her class, so show your support by haiyak haiyak hiaahhhhhhkkkk all the way. :P

Body damn pain from my friend's torturous weight training session the day before, so couldn't continue...

Day 401

Wow... what a tiring day today. And I made such a mistake... didn't even drink any supplements to give me additional POWAH. Only drank Redbull... which tastes like bubble gum, don't even know whether it works or not. But hey! It's 1am and I'm wide awake, so it probably is loaded with caffein.

What happened was.... we had Body Attack tuition today. -___-
I found out on Sunday. -____-
I had to present two tracks. -_______-
One of them is the power track. -____________-

Usually, there are 3 slots for tuition --- and we can pick and choose. Last round, the slot I picked only had 3 people, so this round I was determined to pick a popular slot. You know, cos I enjoy public humiliation. Haha, no lah, because there's more "sharing" if you do tuition with more people around. So yeah, I really need more hammerings. I was wondering if I should blog about it or not cos .. I don't see other people mention their mistakes. But somehow I think I learn better if I mention out my shortcomings.

Started with Body Combat in Taipan. Tuition only at 10pm in Jaya33. So I didn't want to miss BC since I already missed it last week. I didn't go as all out as I would go since I was "conserving energy" for tuition. Hahaha. There is definitely less vocal output from me today. :P Anyway, there were times even the squeaks that I emitted were louder than the rest of the class. Quite paiseh to continue.

Ok, we go straight to the tuition since I have more to say there. I was presenting the power track and lower body conditioning... as mentioned I found out about the tuition on Sunday, and if I had a choice, I would've taken a later slot so that I could have more time to prepare. But my sis is getting married this weekend, so here's no way I'm going to miss her wedding dinner so that I can go for tuition ok. Ahaha. This weekend will be a busy one for me! All weekend long in super high heels!

Luckily in a way I was given track 9 to do because I personally love this track the most out of the current release. Seriously, it's a great track.. full of energy. I like this track and also the "speed on up" (Take It To The Limit") track from last release. I think the power tracks are all amazing. Of course, I feel doubtful doing power tracks because I feel like fainting doing track 3 and 4 and MOST of the time I'm doing agility. (Btw, the agility track from latest release is SUPER nice.) Anyway, because I really like this track, I was already learning the chorey for it from the day of the workshop. Still, I was not fully confident on this, so all of Sunday and most of Monday was spent learning track 9, cos I didn't want to force all my friends to do, like 64 jump jacks at the end if I missed out some steps. =p

For the other track (the lower body conditioning one), I mistakenly thought it was gonna be easy peasy so I left it for the end. Later, found out there's a new move being introduced, and then I started sweating (Monday afternoon in the office only started learning, sei mei) and then I found out that the switchover from one leg to another leg has some really weird timing transition. I REALLY REGRET NOT PRACTICING EARLIER. It is not to say difficult... but just a bit tricky, and really have to be on the "hear out" for certain bits.

In the end... haih. I also donno what to say about my presentation. I think I took the "you must precue" thing a bit too far and end up cueing a bit early... and then there was one tuck jump where I suddenly felt my leg gave way (I got a cramp somewhere around track 6 which is strange cos damn long never have cramp ady) ... which was a pity cos earlier we were doing the tuck jumps all together, it looked damn nice ok! Everyone can jump so high, in sync! Other than that, all the beautiful scripting that I came up with earlier... all just went outta my head and I think I was just repeating stuff. Hahaha. What I find funny is that I can even talk to the other people in the class like damn casually, but I feel out of breath and panic when I have to give instructions.

Still... it was better than my presentation for track 10.. which was... really bad. Hahaha. Once the sides were switched, I totally lost the beat for the whole track and had to hazard a guess as to where we were. T_T I felt so bad... sigh...

Anyway, it was a great learning experience la. I felt bad cos I had to torture my friends thru my presentation (this is why I am not team teaching so often... hahahaha). After that, the head teacher gave us some comments... and he was really kind to me. I was damn scared he was going to yell at me for screwing up the choreography, but he said something strange to me, which was "I think you are too used to doing the cardio tracks, so when it's a slow track, you lose the beat." Hmm... I think what I did wrong was that I underestimated the track, and didn't spend enough time to learn it up. Bad bad bad. Everything needs time for the skill to be nurtured, so don't play play. Even warm-up tracks and conditioning tracks have a lot of choreography involved. :)

Other than that, I definitely still need to work on my precueing and scripting.
Definitely need to work on my knees out positioning, and also my heel jacks! Not forgetting triceps push-ups! Gosh! So many things! How am I ever going to dig myself out of this hole.

Day 399

Went for 2 classes today - Body Combat with Alex C, followed by Body Jam with Zarina. Actually, felt damn tired, especially after going all out during Body Attack yesterday, but I'm now in "the zone", whereby I feel really weird if I skip gym even for one day! Yes, it's very hard for me to go out on dates now. >=(

Body Combat was quite stressful cos Alex asked the newbies to follow me if they couldn't get a hang of the mirror image concept. Dot dot dot. Few tracks I remember from today : Whatever You Want, Elevator, Shut Up N Drive...

Body Jam ... Zarina said she taught us tracks which will help us prepare for Body Jam 51... always appreciate the heads up! I think most of the instructors will be doing that.
We had
- New Day & Conga for warm up. I think doing "New Day" really gets the class warmed up! I used to dislike it because I couldn't get the direction & leg movement correct, but once you get the hang of it, it's a really great song to dance to! Agreed?
- Bring Em Out "four corners" "line dance" lol.
- Shake Up The Party / Loaded for Latin
- This Ain't Sex recovery
- Freakin' Fakin' House for performance track. Super energetic!!!!!
- Spotlight cool down

Fuuh... when I blog right after the classes, I usually remember the tracks! Better take care of this blog properly.. hehehe.

Day 392

Alex C's Body Combat class...
Weight training again. Mainly upper body as I was rushing home for something.

Sorry, lack of updates. Totally have not been updating gym blog. :(

Day 390

Super Monday night!! Hehehe. Am on leave again, so I got to do 3 classes again! Yay...!

Went for Clarissa's Body Jam class. Debated between this or Pump... and I decided to do this because my arms are usually killed even after BC's conditioning track, so I didn't wanna push my luck that Jason Y would not do a triceps track. The most I did was worked out the triceps on the triceps extension machine while waiting for Clarissa to start. Looking back, I even regret doing this, hahaha.

Anyway, the class was fullll of old songs... quite syiok to dance to although they were a bit toooo cardio. I am still recovering from the hen night last weekend! (Happy to say that there was no vomitting involved because I'm good and trying to cut alcohol out from my diet already. ;p So I didn't drink that much!)

Warm up : Sandcastle Disco (long time haven't done this song, totally forgot about it and was wondering whattttt track she was doing, hehehe)
1st performance : the One and Only performance... dang! havent' done this in ages!
2nd performance : the "Voodoo drop" performance track (think it's from Jam #45)
recovery : Blame It (my most hated recovery track at the moment)
3rd performance : Ring the Alarm / What Comes Around /Put Your Hands Up For Detroit performance tracks
Cool down : See You In My Nightmares (this song sucksssss)

After that was Body Combat with Jaime... replacing TT's class. Actually, the class quite energetic and power also.. but dunno why everyone so silent. Haih. Have to support a bit... so I buat bising as usual. After the class was over, SOMEONE said that I was so syiok sendiri wtf?? I think it's his first time seeing me in Combat? I'm so-called "syiok sendiri" EVERY WEEK ok. Scratch that, I'm SYIOK SENDIRI EVERY BC CLASS. Hahahahahhaa!!

Anyway, I don't remember ALL the tracks done, because some are really really old. O_O I only recognised a few. I was wondering whattttt warm-up track that was, macam tak pernah buat! :
Blow Your Whistle, Power of Love, California, So What, Here I Come (TRICEPS PUSH UP!!!!!) and Because of You.

SOMEONE also said that I suddenly smiled for no reason at the power track in BC. The honest-to-God truth is that suddenly some guys at the back started shouting towards the end and I felt happy and proud of them.. hahaha. Cos that means the onus not on me to start. They too contribute and "led" the way so to speak. So I smiled. I am such an innocent creature, kept getting dissed pulak for my innocent actions. Hmm...

Finally.... Jason Y's power Body Attack class ... fuuh. Can't remember life before going for BA after Combat. Hahaha. I'm glad that I have Attack in my life now. :D He did a lot of old tracks! I think he did the first 3 tracks from BA 57 (All Over The World, A to the B, Little Don), then did the "Tricky" track (I know it's not Tutti Fruitti cos I have done Tutti Fruitti before and that's not the name for this track!!). Continued with another 2 tracks from 57 - Beware of the Dog and Forever Young. Tian ah!! Beware of the Dog is the most torturous upper conditioning track! Wait, I think Get Shaky is worse, but this one is quite bad also. Sooooo many triceps. And I'm so weak! I am so pissed with myself. Towards the end, my arms totally gave way when I was doing the chest press and I my whole body crashed onto the mat wtf.

I don't get it? So much weight training and I still can't do track 5 properly? Haih, what else can I do but WORK EVEN HARDER!!!

For agility we did Mercy, which was a fun track. Forgot the intervals track, then it was Nowhere Fast for power. I Feel Free and Do It To It for conditioning and ended with It's All Coming Back To Me.

Very fun class lah! Yay... can't wait for BA class again. Hahaha... I'm loving it~~

Day 387

Wah, today's classes were all awesomeeeee. Felt such a rush and sense of accomplishment after finished 3 back-to-back classes. :P

Started with Leonara's Body Jam class... haven't gone for her class since my Wisma Consplant days, but now she's back, yay. She did a lot of Latin tracks, I loike.
Warm up : dunno the name of the track... hahaha. Too old already?
1st performance : Hollywood meets Bollywood (the Church, Pump It performance track)
Recovery : Long Way To Go
2nd performance : Ran Kan Kan
Random track : Adrenalina (from Body Jam 31... zomg!)
Cool down : Lollipop

Cool... haven't done Adrenalina in a long while. But I think Jason Low used to do it... heheh. Usually I walk out a bit early from Jam to "pa wai" for Body Combat, but since it's Leonara's class, I stayed to the end. :P By the time I walked up, Jayson was just about to start Combat, cool, I am so on time. :P

Got a lot of funny things happened during the class, but don't know if I can write it hear or not since I kena forced into revealing my blog address to him. Anyway, I don't think he'll read it since erm... this is just a boring blog. Keke.
Warm up : Man in Motion
1st Track : [wasn't paying attention because at this point, a guy walked into the class that looked like my colleague! and this is a colleague that i don't like. and he was doing... quite badly. i was so excited i actually ask pauline to look (disturbed her in the middle of combat.. which is bad, i know! but i couldn't help it!). in the end it wasn't my colleague also.. just an ALMOST lookalike, hehe]
2nd track : don't know the name of the track, but 3 jabs to the front, 2 to the side (L-shape).. erm... I think you can say I was still blur at this point. :P
3rd track : You can't stop the beat.. nice! Long time haven't done
4th track : Cold As Ice
Recovery : Vogue
MT track : Ravers Paradise
Finale track : Back in the UK (hahahahahaha! I love this track, but Jayson didn't do the finger pointing ala Saturday Night Fever pose like Terence!)
Upper body conditioning : Dancefloor Anthem... gosh.. 3rd time in a row doing this for BC
Cool down : Think it's Use Somebody

Anyway, one part that is damn funny is when there's the 'downward punch' for Ravers Paradise, this Jayson actually allowed himself to be a "target" for me ler. It's a total shocking moment for me because no instructor ever lie on the floor to allow me to hit them before... hahaha! I didn't even know am I supposed to hit him or not, but I hit anyway la. Hahahaha! Gosh.. this is great.

Finally, it's Body Attack with Jason Y... and I convinced Pauline to continue going for the class even though she was saying that she's hungry, on fruit diet, no energy, etc. I said that after exercising, won't feel hungry already. And I said she can always do the option and if really cannot tahan, can walk out la. Nobody will "see u no up" (in other words: look down). So she gamely went, and I am proud to report, she stay the whole class. :) Good job!

And Body Attack was greattt.. so full of energy.. even though there's just 5-6 of us in the class. Wah... started with first 3 tracks from BA65 (Everywhere, That's Not My Name, Baby I'm on Fire), then Crank Dat, then had a pretty easy upper body conditioning track.. Thank God... cos I keluarkan all my tenaga for Dancefloor Anthem already. So it's amazing I didn't collapse on the mat here. Hahaha. Running track was All I Ever Wanted which is a damn good running track, one of my faves... and agility was You Can't Stop The Beat. Pauline turned to me and say, "Why both the Jasons do the same song wan?" So ngam...

8th track was I Believe (super inspiring song for an intervals track) and finally... don't know the name of the last power track, where FINALLY all the lunges we have been avoiding suddenly emerged. But ok la.. I have been practicing my lunges! Like Kevin G, he do 200 a day, I started at 100 a day... maybe will raise to 125, 150 and then only go up to 200. See how lah. My quads damn big already lah. T___T

And after class... Jason said some stuff to me that made me very ... T____T (emotional). But he's so nice... a lot of pple been very nice & inspiring & motivating to me lately. So I'm very T____T ... hahaha. Really hope I can make it.

Day 381

Body Combat with Terence kinda was not so enjoyable today... blame it on the floor. Donno what happened... maybe it's a combination of the floor + my new shoes, I was slippin' and slidin' all over the place. Super not syiok to do decoys when you keep wondering if you're gonna wind up flat on your face the next.

So ... really, don't feel like writing about today's class... I wanna go all out! Instead, I couldn't... and I wound up not going for Attack for the same reason. Sigh... saved up all my energy for Monday night some more! Blehkz.