Influential people in my life

As I was working today, a guy comes up to me and asks for a lighter (which I actually thought he asked for a ladder). And suddenly I remembered back to the days when I always had a lighter in my pocket. This is because a friend of mine always smoked and seems to never carry a lighter. And then I started scrolling through my memories of people that has influenced me in a way or another. So here's the list in nor particular order:

June - Thanks for smoking so much that I suddenly picked up the habit of carrying a lighter around just cause I know you were going to ask me for a lighter everytime we head on out for a break

Bella - For influencing me to type everything out properly on the internet. With capital letters and commas and proper spacing. I think it actually helped my English....I think

San and Colin - You guys pointed out my mistakes and made me a better man than I was. Thanks dudes

Rudy Reyes and Nate Fick - For providing me a direction and goal in my life. You guys are my constant motivation in everything I do

Chris Tam - Introducing me to the world of fine cigars and whisky. I still have your gift to me dude

Conny - For teaching me the loser song. Now whenever someone says loser, that song instantly plays in my head

Jen - The animal game. Moo moo miow miow!

And that's all I can think of now. Most I can say are just minor influences, but the few that are major, you have my thanks.

I also have lost 10kgs since I started working out. Booya!
Another 5kgs to go and then I'll see if I should lose more or not.

I'm napping too much

Recently, life has been a little bit...down. I'm not depressed or anything, but the fact that I sleep away my days because of boredom is really bugging me.

I hardly play any games these days, and I've been trying to find things to do in to fill up my free time. So I took back up reading and that's going good but I can't just sit down and read non stop. I can do for an hour or so and that's it. So I stop to take a break and try to find something else to do. Failing to find something to do would result me hovering to my bed and eventually...napping. And the fact that I've stopped my body weights work out due to a bad back isn't helping at all. Everyday I look forward to my work out activities and now I have more days doing nothing productive.

I injured my back muscles through squats. I wasn't focusing on my posture and I injured it. Because this stupid mistake, I have to stop working out to let it heal up first. Its been a week already that I've stopped and quite possibly it'll be another week till I get back onto my normal routine. I'm afraid that I'll lose motivation in continuing with my plan and/or just get plain weak that I gotta spend more time working out to get back to where I was. I hate getting injured >_<
I guess the day before I get back working out I gotta just load back up with motivational videos(oorah!) to get myself pumped up about it.

60 push ups

So, I managed 60 push ups in a row today. Could it have been luck? Wrong posture?

I don't know, but all I know is that I managed 60 push ups. The training regime sure works that I can tell as previous I can only do 30. So in one month, I've effectively doubled my strength. O_o OMG! =D

Disappointing day

I stopped 3/4 into my squats work out. The pain is reaching unbearable stage and I literally roll around in agonizing pain. I think I might have slightly injured my back as well from this. I've decided to repeat the week for squats. Besides being in pain and disappointed at myself, I've been progressing good in the other work outs. I can jog for 5 minutes straight now, do more sit ups and push ups. And it seems that I'm losing about 1kg per week. This is all good news to me =D

The more I talk about the pain I go through for squats, the more I dread doing it. I have to change this mentality. By repeating this week's routine, I hope that it'll build my confidence up for squats, as well as my strength.

As a side note for personal motivation, I have to keep this up until I can reach the goal of doing 100 push ups, 200 sit ups, 200 squats and run 5km in 30 minutes or less. Plus if I keep this up, I'll end up with a great body (woot!) and be really fit, ready to rip a new asshole for anyone if they ask for it :P

So one more day tomorrow of jogging and a well deserved rest day on Sunday =D

YAY!!

Let's see

Now let's see how many reps I did today for sit ups, push ups and squats.

Push ups = 105
Sit ups = 111
Squats = 132

Now let's compare to what I used to

Push ups = 70
Sit ups = 90
Squats = 60

I also used to be able to only do 30 sit ups per minute with my feet stuck under my bed. Now I can do (well, last check was the previous week) 40 in a minute without any aid. Definately an improvement and I'm sure I can do more when I do a stress test at the end of next week (I hope to hit 60 at least). Right now the goal is to do 65 sit ups non stop as fast as I can. We'll see in two weeks!

Now in jogging news, I can jog 3 minutes non stop right now. Now to you people who normally jog, I know 3 minutes isn't much, but hey, I have not jogged at all in my entire life so 3 minutes is an achievement for me =D
In two weeks, I should be able to jog 20 minutes straight. We'll see how things turn out.

In desperate need of motivation!

Now, my previous post listed out my previous work out regime. Looking back from my current regime, it looks piss easy :D

This is the fourth week of my new training regime which includes both weights, body exercises and jogging! (OMG yes, I actually jog now). I must say, I actually enjoy jogging. With the right shoes, running does hurt my feet anymore and it isn't as hard as I thought (or boring actually).

I've been using this three websites for my sit ups, push ups and squats

http://www.hundredpushups.com/
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/
http://www.twohundredsquats.com/

And I use this for my jogging regime

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

I do all the other work outs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I usually start with either push ups or sit ups, following by either one which I didn't do, then weights, squats, then weights.

For weights, I'm now doing 13kgs bicep curls. I usually do 2 sets of 5 reps.
I do two different triceps exercise, one lifting 13kgs with both arms and the other lifting 6kgs with one arm.
And I still do the '21' for toning using 8kgs then 6kgs.

Right now, I'm repeating week 3 for sit ups as well as week 4 for push ups. I struggled with both last week and decided maybe I should repeat the week. As stated on the website, it is indeed easier repeating the week. I'm stronger than last week! =D

I'm right on the money for squats on week 4. I actually dread squats as it is THE most painful exercise out of all of the workouts. You see, the other workouts just tired me out rather than hurting me tremendously. Squats however, is the total opposite. I seem to have the strength to go through what the plan requires but the PAIN. I guess I just have to man through it like I've been doing and think of the awesome outcome of having steel thighs which help in my jogging as well.

I'm right on plan with jogging on week 4 starting Thursday. I jog on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. I have to say the jogging plan from that website, so far, really works. My stamina has grown so much since the first week that I keep looking forward to each session as I know each jogging session I do, my stamina increases and the week's jogging plan gets easier.

However, I can't say the same for my odd days work out. I've been losing motivation to do them as the required reps for both sit ups and push ups for each session is crazy. The increments in reps is roughly 3 per set per session, which might not sound a lot till you try it. I'm really pushing and stressing my body out each work out session. As you can tell, pushing yourself to the limits every work out session can have a toll on your motivation as most of the time I can't do the required reps of me in one go. I'll have to take a short break then continue on. This destroys the confidence in me as the website says I should be able to do it. Some say take it slow. But hey, I'm training up to be a monster so hearing something like that ain't gonna help. So right now, not only am I fighting against the pain threshold, I'm going up against my will. One half of me says its enough, the other says keep going on. So far its going good as there have been days that my motivation has hit rock bottom and I still power through. So as they say, its really mind over body.

And so, I've started back blogging to keep my spirits and motivation up. I hope this works and that I finish my regimes in at least in about 3 more weeks hopefully!

p.s. This post is so jumbled up I can't be bothered to edit it

My current work out regime

30 sit ups

30 push ups

20 squats

20 crunches

1 set of 8 reps of 11kg dumbbell concentrated arm curl

20 sit ups

1 set of 15 reps of 5kg dumbbell triceps lift (Don't know what's it called really)

20 crunches

1 set of 21 lifts (7/7/7) of 8kg dumbbell arm curl

20 sit ups

20 push ups using dumbbells

20 squats

20 crunches

1 set of 8 reps of 11kg dumbbell concentrated arm curl

20 sit ups

1 set of 15 reps of 5kg dumbbell triceps lif

20 crunches

1 set of 21 lifts (7/7/7) of 5kg dumbbell arm curl

20 feet-elevated push ups

20 squats

Total:

90 sit ups
80 crunches
70 push ups
60 squats
2 sets of concentrated arm curls
2 sets of triceps lifts
2 sets of 21's


I can only do 30 sit ups in a minute. This is abit disappointing for me as the goal is to reach 60 per minute. I was thinking of increasing my weight for my concentrated arm curl to 13kgs but then I started doing it slower which really stresses my biceps, which is recommended by some health magazine to do arm curls. Other than that, I wish to do more of everything, especially sit ups and crunches.

All in all, I've been working out consistently with no breaks lasting longer than a day. I sure hope I can keep this up and that the upcoming trip will not phase me out of this regime as I *think* is actually working.

All was well until I discovered...

Crunches. Yes, I thought I was king until I talked to Vernessa, aka "sis". Apparently my 135 record means crap. I gotta do at the very least 50 sit ups per minute. And I have to do crunches to work the lower abs better. Which I started after getting instructions from her. Now, according to her, it would hurt like crazy when doing it. But when I did it, it was tiring and that's it. My abs didn't feel like it was on fire or anything....till I did sit ups right after. Now THAT just killed me. I was laying there with my abs kicking the living daylights outa me. I messaged sis about it and she said, "Keep at it! Its worth it!". Plus, we made a bet on it to keep working out until she got back from Singapore. Whoever stops, gets to buy the other an expensive dinner. It is ON sis! Talk about great motivation.

So I'm sitting here now, with my abs aching a little, thinking what else to write on here. Oh, I recently got to know my work neighbours a little better. The creepy dude at the massage centre, and the people from 3! The creepy dude ain't so creepy when he smiles, and 3 people are much fun!

And it seems that blog is transforming into a work out blog. Well, its kinda good for myself I guess. At least I'm keep track of my progress. I really can't wait till everything pays off. I've started eating steak (one which I hope to eat more of) cause I want more protein to build muscles and am going on a dairy diet as well cause apparently, dairy helps you burn more fat than muscle! I won't go on protein shakes or anything like that though, makes me bulk up like crazy. Not something I want. Right not, THE main goal is to lose my tummy, and be replaced with awesome abs, hopefully by summer? I've implanted in myself that its about time I do something about my weight and damnit I will! One step at a time.