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 417

Told myself to lay off the left arm because rotator cuff was in pain, so I decided to do weight training.

Halfway through, couldn't resist and decided to do some floor exercises, with push ups on toes, tricep push ups and stuff...

FML.

Pain again.

Really don't know how going to do Attack TT on Thursday.

Day 416

I was a dumbass and went to the gym to do weight training even though I knew I had some kinda problem with my rotator cuff. I did with "correct form" this time around, but it became even worse, after Sunday, everything went downhill. It was so painful that I couldn't even sleep at night...

Day 413

Despite saying that I will go for weight training at the free weights area, I still keep going back to the machines. I must be BOLD and use my damn workout gloves, otherwise am I buying it to hide it in my bag? -__-

Advanced:
-> chest press @ 35kg now
-> fly @ 26kg
-> shoulder press @ 45lb
-> assisted pull ups @ 21.5kg
-> lower back row @ 30-35kg
-> abductor & adductor @ 50lb
-> leg press @ 70-80lb

Right now doing Brazilian crunches for 8 crunches, set of 5. It's very exhausting.
I do 75 "C" crunches
Tricep push ups look good only if I plant my feet firmly against a wall.
Push ups on toes are ok. Been doing it more and more frequently. I'm ashamed whenever I admit to someone that it's only something recent that I picked up. "What is push-ups if not on the toes? What other option is that? On the knees? What's that?" Hahahaha.

Day 411

I worked out in a random gym in Singapore, did weight training and running for 25 minutes at 9-10kph. :) My friend said I made a Sg pervert uncle's day because the guy was sitting directly behind me, not working out and just looking for 10 minutes. After that, he just walked out of the gym! Fail...

Day 410

Weight training day... forgot what I did though. :p

Day 404

My friend came to True Fitness Taipan with me in order to give me a good workout in the free weights training area. I was quite interested in his workout regime, and I think after reading this blog, he thought I could lift a lot. Well, I *did* prove to him that I *could* lift what I said I was lifting on this blog.. but only on the machines!! For free weights, the amount that I can lift is like, half of what I can do. E.g: machine chest press I can do @ 35kg. For free weights, it's about 15kg only. So that's actually less than half!

The weight training session was very informative, and he taught me a lot of weird exercises.. different ways to attack your body. Did deadlifts (@ 80lb.. damn low right? Considering I have one mad friend who does it at 185kgs... madness!), reverse push-ups, Brazilian crunches, shoulder raises, triceps dips, attempted pullups (totally dangling there like a fool), etc. Wah, it was all very challenging.

The strange thing about the training is the delayed reaction my body had. Throughout my sister's wedding on Sat & Sun, I didn't feel fatigue. Suddenly on Tuesday, my arm started aching. Wtf? And my back feels sore!

Day 402

Did weight training... no time to dance, so I didn't! Don't remember the exact weights but it was my normal ones la.. hahahaa.

Day 400

Weight training at the gym.

Some improvement :
Abductor & adductor @ 50kg now.
Shoulders can start comfortably at 40lb
Other things, still pretty standard.

I can do push ups on the toes again! But a far cry from my glory days of 32 in 60 seconds. Hahaha!!

Day 396

Weight training day. Mostly on upper body as there was not enough time.
I'm now starting at 35kg for chest press, 26kg for fly...
The rest I don't really remember. Sucks that the pulldown machine is spoiled...

After that was Body Jam with Shirlyn. Trying to remember what songs we did... *quite blur as blogging this late*

Can't remember the tracklists, but we did the performance tracks from "I Decided" /"Shut Up and Let Me Go"/"Tomorrow Can Wait", and also the performance track from "Sexual Healing" (Body Jam 42). Quite a workout! After that, I practiced for my team teach track on Friday... woo hoo...

Day 395

Weight training day.... somehow I still feel very flabby after weight training. Usually everything feels "tight" after finishing. Maybe because I didn't go all out... today there were weight increments, so generally by the 3rd set, I'll be "pancit", even though the first set (with heavier weights) was easy going. Will see how... tomorrow I'll be weight training again. Hahahaha.

After that, went for back-to-back Cardio Wave classes with Hazrin. After a long while of not doing cardio wave, it's suddenly very syiok! Maybe because all the songs were so nice... :) And guess what? For the first slot of cardio wave, the entire class was PACKED. Like, every single machine was taken up. Lucky I was early.. lucky I got to leave work early.. hehehee.

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 391

Short weight training session. The usual suspects! :P

Day 388

Weight training day... I think work @ the office is taking over my life... I keep going to the gym late (this time starting at 9pm) and work out til 1030pm. By the time I get home, dog tired... online til late.. then start the cycle again. Gosh.. this is horrible. Thing is, I kinda do enjoy my work, but I just wish that I wasn't so busy!

Today I increased some of my fave machines, trying to push harder .

Chest press : Now starts at 35kg, 32.5kg, 30kg. Struggled towards the end, but amazed self at being able to complete it
Vertical press : Maintained at 35kg, 27kg, 21kg (the machine has weird increments)
Fly : 28.5kg starting, but this was not really good. Will try again next week. Think was totally broken after the chest press
Abductor & adductor remains
Leg press now starts at 80kg

I'm still doing 100 single lunges a day. Really kills. Next weight training might increase to 150 single lunges. It comes in sets of 50, so that's why the next increment is so high.
Bicep curls & shoulders , increased to 4 sets instead of 3 sets. (Realised at this point that the Benny Benassi mix for California Dreamin' is EXCELLENT for lifting)

Did BA65 for lower body conditioning , core workout and cool down. Hehehe.

Day 386

Weight training day... everything same as before... but some breakthroughs ...
a. can do shoulder press @ 40lb again! And properly, one full set, not like 5 and then kantoi
b. my chest press @ 32.5kg is quite steady ady... can go higher next week, sadly my abductor & adductor is stuck @ 45kg (Start) and 35kg (end)
c. my tricep extension can start at 27kg now!
d. my vertical chest press can start at 35kg now! Remember the time when I said I was stuck at 27kg and no way I can suddenly "jump" 8kg (cos machine is weird like that)? It's amazing what you can do with more and more weight training
e. my dunno what chest press machine which I was stuck at 22kg... now can go higher already. Wah.. feel so powerful. All these chest press.. good for pushing. :D
f. got one damn cute guy at the gym (nothing to do with breakthrough, just felt like saying it)

Day 382

Did weight training, again, everything same as before. The shoulder press machine was taken so I did the pulldowns. Think it was 26kg, 24kg, 21.5kg. Also did the same shoulder raises and bicep curls free weights set. Raymond told me not to do so many reps, and instead use heavier weights. Hmm.. the problem is that there wasn't anything heavier than 8lb weights available that day.

On Sunday I felt so tortured, but today everything was alright again! So one more weight training with these weights set, and then I'll increase the weights.

Did push ups on my toes too... good to see that I can still do it, though doing 32 in one minute (like for BA training) seems like a lifetime ago. Gosh...

Didn't do cardio because I was actually doing weight training, and was walking to the women's only workout area when Hazrin pulled me into doing cardio wave class. Hahaha. He has a whistle to teach cardio wave! Why so fierce!? Anyway, I only did the last 15 minutes of his class.

Day 380

Weight training... same thing as what I did on Wednesday, but for some reason :
=> got very tired on the chest press... last week @ 30kg for the lowest reps was alright for me. This time, I was suffering! And I think I grimaced so much that I made a spectacle of myself. -__-
=> couldn't do the shoulder press @ 40lb anymore. So I stuck to 25lb. Hmm.. even then it was a bit of a struggle.

Other than that, everything else remained the same. I will continue at this weights for at least 2 weeks, before raising the bar. Was proud that I did 10 x 5 sets of bicep curls and 10 x 5 sets of shoulder raises with 8lb weights in each hand though. I know it's not much, but these are prob areas for me and anyway, I rarely do free weights. Was forced to do it only because the other machines are all taken up! Boo! :P

Ran on the threadmill.. 10 minutes only at 10kph... trying to get used to the speed before going for longer distance... hahaha. Anyway, I was bushed. :P How to catch up to Kevin like this? Feller runs for hours and does 100-200 lunges a day wtf.

Day 377

Bad day at work... so much things to do.... planned to do weight training and then have an awesome Jam session for cardio. But wound up leaving work at about 9:30pm... so by the time I arrived at the gym, it was already 10:15pm.

Anyway.

FUCK MY LIFE.
I lost my chorey notes for BA 66.
Curse the feller to hell who took it and didn't return it to the gym lost and found.
I keep saying... whatever I have found in the gym throughout the years... I always gave to lost and found. Whether membership cards, WATCHES or lock & keys... but whatever I have lost, NEVER been returned to the gym.

I've only memorised about 75% of the stuff... and what pains me is that BA66 is the one with the bonus track, so I can't get the chorey from the video (cos it's not there). I know... the chorey is same as the interval track for "I Kissed a Girl", but it's slighttlllllyyy different. Well, I wouldn't know now would I. Gotta cari kawan to photostat the book again but it's soooo not the same as having the original ok. I feel like ordering another DVD set just to get the book back again. See?? This is what I get for being studious and reading & practicing chorey... just left the booklet around. I know la, I'm careless but I can't help being negative and thinking that if I was just a lazy bum, I would still have my chorey notes with me. :P

I can't stop thinking about it, because this is something so valuable and useful to me... and to any other ordinary member.... who found it... or THREW it away... gosh... it's like nothing to you... but for me it's a precious commodity... *whine whine whine*

Anyway... I'm watching the video to write down short chorey notes of my own til I get my own back. Grrr... *marah*

Weight training today :
- chest press 6,8,10 @ 30kg, 27.5kg, 25kg ** increased **
- incline press 6,6,6 @ 13.5kg (I know, that's soooo little compared to chest press, but the movement is different, and we all gotta start somewhere. After comfortable @ this weight, will increase for sure)
- fly @ 26kg, 24kg, 21.5kg ** increased **
- abductor & adductor (still @ 45kg,40kg,35kg)
- leg press (@ 70, 60, 50).. **increased **
- low row @ 35kg, 30kg, 25kg ** increased **
- back extensions @ 25kg, 22.5kg, 20kg (I got back problem... don't wanna stress it)
- some kinda back dunno what ... forgot the name (26kg, 24kg, 21.5kg) --- as above
- leg curl & leg extensions @ 35kg, 30kg, 25kg **increased **
- did 3 sets of triceps extensions (free weights, 8lb each hand) --- the usual triceps machines was taken up by great hulking guys... blehkz

For cardio + other conditioning, I did a few tracks from BA... hahaha.. so I can remember the chorey as well. Did BA66 tracks 1-5 (I must admit, it's very good punishment when you forget the chorey, cos then you'll feel the pain when you are doing endless number of squats when you could've been doing an easier movement) and then randomly did # 7 just cos I like the chorey for it. ;p Then jumped to "Right Round" to work the abs...

Was about 11:40pm when I finally finished everything... productive day... but still damn sad over the loss of my booklet. And when I asked the frontdesk if anyone found this thing.. she didn't even bother to check and just said no. !@#@#%#$^)$#%(#@$ Pretend to check also cannot ah. WTF!

Day 374

Weight training day... + Body Jam! Usually I don't do weight training on Wednesdays, but because I'm gonna be on holiday soon + missing out on weight training yesterday, terpaksa-lah. I ended up staying in the gym til 11:30pm! *sigh* I had to work late, by the time I arrived, it was just in time for Shirlyn's Jam class. My God... and it was all the very cardio tracks as usual.

Warm-up : Work
1st performance track : Waters of March
2nd performance track : Robocop / Party Like a Rockstar / One Night Only / Turning Me On
Recovery : Livin' a Lie (loveeee this song)
Last performance track : the Harder Better Faster Stronger performance track... *Dies*
Cool down : Somebody Else's Guy (sad song, but it's really nice, easy listenin')

Had weight training after that. I decided to go back to HWLR because I feel really bored doing LWHR and also because I feel myself not getting stronger doing LWHR. Back to HWLR ... see what happens. I decided I don't care if my arm looks bigger than usual la. I'll just wear long sleeve tops foreverly forever from now on. :P

Chest press : 27.5, 25, 22.5 for 10, 12, 14 reps
Fly : 26kg, 21.5kg, 19kg (the machine rosak sikit) for 8,10,12
Abductor & Adductor : 45,40,35 for 8,10,12
Squats : 70,60,50 for 16,18,20
Shoulders : 25lb, 25lb, 25lb for 10, 10, 10. I tried 40lb... and could only do 5. But that's getting somewhere! Before this I was doing only 10lb, remember? So after a few weeks of weight training, can already lift more. :)
Triceps extension : 19kg, 14kg, 14kg for 8,10,11 (couldn't make it)
Back : 26kg, 24kg, 21.5kg for 8,10,12

Random free weights @ 8lb in each hand for bicep curls and er... I don't know what the movement is called, but supposedly works your shoulders. Yes, I am suddenly very concerned about my shoulders. :P

For abs, I did the chorey for BA65 Pokerface, hahaha. At least it will help me remember the chorey. And the cooldown for BA65 also for light stretching. Perhaps I shouldn't have 'cooldown' because I tried running after that (extra cardio mah...) and I wanted to train for marathon, remember? Crap lah... I can't run for nuts. I think I can JOG for long periods of time, but I started at 10kph and was dying already. I stopped after 5 minutes! Kekeke!! Really no motivation as well, since it was really late but really, no excuses lah. How can I run quickly for marathon if I can't even last 5 mins @ 10kph? And btw 10kph is really slow, cos that means I will take exactly 1 hr for a 10km marathon, and that's at CONSTANT speed. Sighhhh.

Anyway, for chorey I have finished all the BA65 and first 8 tracks of BA66. A lotttttt of polishing up to do. *fearful*

Guess what? Tracklists are out. I'm only putting my faves, haha:

Body Attack 67

1	Closer	Chris Crew (Warm Up)
2	Release Me	Agnes (Mixed Intervals)
3	Gimme More	Mandy Brewer (Aerobic)
4	Rock It	Bhuvan Brothers (Plyometrics)
5	Boom Boom Pow	Beat Factory (Upper BodyConditioning)
6	Number 1	Beat Bandits From Outer Space (Running)
7	Put A Donk On It	Northern Accelerators (Agility)
8	Take Me To The Clouds Above	Global Nation (Intervals)
9	Zombie	Andrew Spencer & The Vamprockers (Power)
10	Wherever	Stafford Brothers vs. Hoxton Whores feat. Frank Stafford (Lower Body Conditioning)
11	Goodbye	Jessica Friendly (Core Conditioning)
12	People Get Ready	Seal (Cool down)

I'm not really looking forward to doing upper body conditioning to BEP... I kinda find their songs annoying. O_O Anyway, I'm kinda excited about the new release... hahaha. Especially since I have familiarised myself with the old release already. So I am cocky again... otherwise I will be dreading this. :P

Body Jam 51

1	Scared Of Me	Fedde le Grand feat. Mitch Crown
2	Freeze	T-Pain feat. Chris Brown
3	Shut Up And Let Me Go	The Ting Tings
4	Da Latin Bomb	Filip Le Frick
5	Oye	Gloria Estefan
6	Oye Como Va (Filip Le Frick Remix)	Tito Puente Jnr feat. India
7	Oye Como Va (Love Assassins Remix)	Tito Puente Jnr feat. India
8	Oye (Pablo Flores 12" Mix)	Gloria Estefan
9	One Minute Man feat. Ludacris	Elliot, Missy "Misdemeanor"
10	Bucci Bag	Vandalism
11	My House	Kids Of 88
12	Leave The World Behind (Dabruck & Klein Remix)	Axwell, Ingrosso, Angello, Laidback Luke feat. Deborah Cox
13	Leave The World Behind	Axwell, Ingrosso, Angello, Laidback Luke feat. Deborah Cox
14	I'll Do Anything For You (Original Mix)	Lee McDonald
15	Breathe Into Me (D.O.N.S & Menck Club Mix)	D.O.N.S. feat. Luke Parkin & Moira

*Gasp* Fedde Le Grand, Ting Tings!! Not familiar with the rest, except for Oye Como Va, and I hope it's had the shit remixed outta it.

Body Combat 42

1	Numb (RainDropz! Mix)	Jan Wayne vs RainDropz!
1	I Do Not Hook Up	Kelly Clarkson
2	I Was Made For Loving You	Scooter
3	Poison (Al Storm Remix)	Groove Coverage
4	Use Me	Hiroshi Free
5	The Anthem	Good Charlotte
6	Warrior's Dance	The Prodigy
7	Excalibur 2000 (Radio Mix)	F.C.B
8	Miracle (SAD Remix)	Cascada
9	Fire Burning	Sean Kingston
10	Second Chance	Shinedown

What's with the Kelly Clarkson songs for the lower body warm-up? And Cascada songs for the final cardio track? Hahaha!
I'm already curious / excited about the Scooter song for the 1st cardio track.
And The Anthem!!!! Very nice song.. I had it as my wake-up call tone for the longest time ever. What is this track for? The split class / circle track?
Eeehhh... I hate Sean Kingston songs.... and I cannot imagine doing push ups or crunches to this. Anyway, Sean Kingston is not a good role model for push ups or crunches. *bitchy

Siow!! I'm looking forward to new release, and it's one month away! :O

Day 370

Weight training day @ Taipan again... nothing much to say, same old same old. Just that I wasn't really in the mood, so I didn't really keep track of the reps or anything. I just did whatever weights I felt like and however many reps I felt like. Hehehe. I know, this is so undisciplined, but dun care la. At least doing some kinda weird weight training better than none... I think.

Told myself to train for marathon by running on the threadmill, but if I had no mood for weight training, I lagi had no mood for running. I blmae my shoes. :P Can't wait til I get new shoes from Thailand!