Day 233

Left work really late, late for yoga, late for classes. Sigh.
Just 30 minutes on the strider, with the "hill climb" set. "Cascades". Not a bad workout, my legs are aching now... but it's time for funnnn!! I need to go for some dance, combat or attack classes now!! Nowwww!!!

Day 232

Weight training Tuesdays :
a. 20 minutes on the cardio wave
b. 3 sets of leg extensions (25kg, 20kg, 15kg)
c. 3 sets of leg curls (as above)
d. 3 sets of squats (50lb, 40lb, 30lb)
e. 3 sets chest incline (24kg, 17kg, 17kg) <-- something like that, don't remember
f. 3 sets of seated row (?? forgot)
g. 40 sit ups (normal style), 20 sit ups butterfly style
h. 3 sets of triceps extension

I don't think I'm getting a proper back workout. Nowadays the machine which really works the back is totally taken up by buff guys who I'm afraid to ask if it's my turn yet. :(

Day 231

Woke up late. Only managed to go for Body Attack today, which was team taught by Jason & Hazrin. !!!! Two of my fave Attack teachers... *gosok* Hahahhaa...

Sadly, they did most of the tracks that I've been doing religiously ever since I started going for Attack classes again... hahaa. Don't get me wrong, it's still fun, and despite doing the chorey so many times I can still get the cues wrong (e.g for that "Brazilllll~~~!!!" track). Dunno la, I miss the days of Layla (even though I always got the arm movements wrong... well, I want to practice!) and erm.. I can't remember! But I like tracks with L-shape crosses and lots of jumps into the air!!!!!

Surprisingly.. I'm still alive after the class... and I feel so "awake".... hahaha. I guess I miss gym loads after being sick for so long... (ie: 3 days.. hahahaa).

Day 230

I'm really not following my own schedule... hahaha! Another weekend, another weekend of NOT going to Jaya 33. :( I keep waking up so late, and honestly, it's all these damn computer games. Ok, I swear I'm going to wean myself off these addicting things. But the other cause is my troubled tummy --- still not fully recovered from my food poisoning.

So, I only went for Body Combat (Alex C's class) and Body Jam (Jeremy's class). Alex C did mostly new songs. *frown* But it was nice also lah, cos there was stuff like Bad, which I haven't done in AGESSSSSSS but like doing because I so remember it starts with a switch-knee, hahaha. So everyone else will be blur but not me! Muwahhahahaa. ^_^ Damn perasan wei!!

But Alex mentioned that he doesn't like the chorey for that circle track... Hymns or donno what. He said it was too repetitive. Hmm.. which Combat tracks do you like or dislike? :)

Jeremy's class ... sigh... I'm so sad. I had to stand at the back. :P For the first half of the class, he did one of the newer performance tracks... the very "Indian" inspired one with Church, Pump It, Beautiful People, etc. This is like... the second time that I'm doing this track? Yeah, I stopped gym for long periods at a time last year and it ALWAYS happened during the launch of the releases, so that when I went back to the gym, they would no longer be doing the newer releases. Hahahha.

(Digress for a bit: Talking about releases, who's going to the launches @ Pavilion? I am NOT. Why is it always on a weekday night? Super inconvenient wei... and besides, not feelin' the theme. ;P)

However, after the very difficult track, we then had Livin' a Lie which I never really got the hang of the 3 steps but which I really like anyway cos I think the song is realllllyyy nice. :)

After that was one of my favorite-st performance tracks ever --- the one with Sean Paul, Gwen Stefani, Bobby Brown, etc. Sigh.. really miss doing that track.~~ Super energetic and fun & funky moves! :D

Day 229

Am still recovering from viral food poisoning, so I decided to take it easy today. Cycled for 25 minutes using the "RAndom Hill" program on the stationary bike... tried to keep to a constant RPM of 100, but let's be honest... on those steep climbs, I went down as low as 70.

Felt like killing the total n00b next to me who kept saying to the chick next to him, "What's this? I totally can't feel anything!". Saw that he was cycling at level 3 and his resistance chart was totally flatlined.

YEAH OF COURSE YOU CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING THEN.

Get a clue?

Day 228

Wow... one week felt so deprived of Body Combat, and now I feel like I'm doing too much of it. O___O Terence's class today... but sadly he did mostly new tracks. T___T Except for I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) and the theme from Rocky + cool down & conditioning. The rest were all pretty new right? Best Damn Thing, I Will Survive, some tracks from BC 33.. (I think)... that's all pretty new...

Hey, I think I really like the Pump It track for conditioning now... it's really painful but I much prefer a lower body workout than a triceps workout. :P
(But I want firmer triceps... how leh!?!) .

Anyway, the class was really fun... it's nice to see more and more people starting to "make noise" in the class. I usually stand in the "quiet section" aka where there are no instructors / people who underwent BC training... but they are also starting to "heat up" already... :D Pauline, I told you to come for Terence's class!!!

After class, this lady who I talk to occasionally was announcing all the way down the stairs, "I liked that very much! Ooh, I love it!"

Me : "Er.. you're talking about Combat? Just now?"

She : "Yes! Mm.. I just loved it!!"

Hahaha.. isn't that wonderful? People singing your praises all the way down to the locker room. Kembang-lah, Terence. ;)

After Combat, I went on the Cardio Wave for 15 minutes. This is a new technique (rolls eyes...) taught to me by my fellow gym enthusiast / colleague Raymond. He said that if I had not enough time to do a full workout, but I find that my results have plateaued after a while, I could just top it up a notch ---- just a notch --- by working 15 - 30 minutes extra after classes. Felt rather tired today, so I just went for 15, but if the machine is anything to go by, that's another precious 134 calories lost... hahaha. So who knows... maybe lama-lama jadi bukit! :D

Day 227

Time for weight training!

20 minutes on cardio wave.
3 sets each of abductor & adductor (30kg, 25kg, 20kg) [Increased weights!]
3 sets of squats (50lb, 40lb, 30lb)
3 sets of chest press (15kg, 12.5kg, 10kg)
3 sets of seated row (19kg, 17kg,14.5kg)
30x sit up
20x butterfly-style sit up
1 min 5 secs of plank! (increased 5 secs... slowly trying to extend til I can do plank... infinitely hahaha)

Okay, today I found out that the chest press actually works the TRICEPS and not the BICEPS as I thought. So now I have no idea what I am doing that makes my biceps get more and more defined and my triceps hanging like a fat person's chin wtf.

Also, monthly weigh-in session... found that I neither lost nor gain weight for the month of February. That's kind of demotivating... but I prefer to think that I lost fat and gained muscle, so it nullified the weight. I do feel better about myself and I swear I did lose weight compared back when I had to work overseas. So it's all good. :)

Let's see what March brings. *positive*