Training Week #7 #8 #9

Woah, I seem to be neglecting my training progress a lottt!

Blame it on the newfound laziness. Hahas.. Actually more on the gloomy weather. Somehow there are always some dark clouds decorating the sky even when it NEVER rains.

So I have been exercising very little.. here is a summary for the 3 weeks I have missed...

Activities:
11/6 Thursday - 20 lap swim
10/6 Wednesday - 5 km run + 6 pull-ups
31/5 Sunday - 40 lap swim front crawl! (2km)
27/5 Wednesday - 30 lap swim front crawl (1.5km)
25/5 Monday - Gym (Abs, Arms, Chest), 1 km Run

Stats:
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 82.5 kg
BMI: 25.46 kgm-2

Just keep swimming.

Since I did 30 laps with front crawl last week, I thought I might push it a little by going swimming again.

For the first time in my life, I did 40 laps of front crawl!! And that's with 35 consecutive laps. Wahhh. I'm so proud of myself =))

Training Week #6

Well.. It was basically a hiatus from all exercise, so there's nothing much to report except for the run on Sunday. Which really shows why one should not stop exercising for prolonged periods.

The timing was slower than the first clocked timing. Ugh.

Activities:
24/5 Sunday - 4.5 km run / 4.2 km in 30 mins (7.1mins/km)(17.2 mins for 2.4)

Stats:
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 82.5 kg
BMI: 25.46 kgm-2

Training Week #5

Signs that you are experiencing burnout:

• Perpetual tiredness, even when you have just woken up from bed


• Lack of motivation to exercise


• Increased irritability

Looks like this is the record low on the amount of exercise done since the beginning of my regime. The fact that NYKRT stopped their water training does not help =/ I need new motivation!

Well, at least I lost weight. Hahas.

Activities:
13/5 Wednesday - 50 lap Swim @ Delta (2.5km)

Stats:
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 83.0 kg
BMI: 25.6 kgm-2

Training Week #4

Okay, so I didn't really exercise at all this last week. Pfft.

AND I GAINED A KAYGEE! FREAK.

Activities:
9/5 Saturday - Dragonboat
4/5 Friday - Gym (Abs & Shoulders) + 3km run

Stats:
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 84.0 kg
BMI: 25.9 kgm-2

Unmotivated.

For two consecutive days, I have scheduled some kind of exercise but failed. That does not bode well for my training.. I am starting to feel my belly growing bigger. Urghs. =(

On a completely different note, I dreamt that I was in a swimming pool and I swam one whole breadth of the pool in one stroke and one breath after someone asked me something. Hm.

Inertia.

I have come to realise through personal experience that the less you do something, the more you irk doing it.

Take for example the slight hiatus from exercise last week. I figured I would bounce right back into running, gymming and swimming, but I had a really hard time convincing myself that I needed the exercise last night. All I wanted to do was to get more income from le Pad in Restaurant City and catch more mice with my brand new Ambush Trap. I was supposed to be running for 30 minutes. Right now, I am thinking of how dreadful it would feel to swim 50 laps later =/ Yet I know I would probably feel better once I get into the pool =D

The same principle applys for my Bible reading. Once upon a time, I was reading every day on the MRT. Right now, I'd much rather dig my head into Laughing Proudly Throughout the Pugilistic World to find out how Linghu Chong escapes the next death trap. Do I need to mention piano practice to prove my point?

The panacea, of course, is sheer discipline. Get back into doing whatever you were doing. Will yourself to get your butt off that chair and start tying your shoelaces. Perhaps all I need is to quit my job.. Hahas.

Lay off the weights.

I have an inkling why Enqing and Ivan don't like going to the gym. I'm starting to find it quite irritating too.

The fact that there are so many people squeezed in the same room together with you is a major turn off. The groups of guys who pretend they are working out when they are actually just talking to each other makes me just want to scream or kill somebody.

Plus the fact that everyone seems to be looking at what you are doing, which makes it feel like I'm in a zoo enclosure.

Pfft. Looks like I am not going to go back any time soon.

Anyways, I did my abs and lats pull-down plus bicep and tricep curls. Then I ran 3km in 20 minutes on the treadmill. I couldn't squeeze out the rest because frankly, I just wanted to get out of the place. Haha..

Training Week #3

I slacked off a bit this week, essentially just working out on Monday and Thursday. The badminton was not very strenuous but I guess kayaking training made up for it. Haha..

Did I mention how cute the J1s are? I must be getting old if J1s are starting to look young to me =/

Anyway, training will be affected this week since I would be having dinners here and there most of this week. Hopefully I don't gain weight! The highest I went to was 83.0kg and the lowest was 81.5kg. Unfortunately it didn't maintain and when I weighed myself this morning, it was still 83kg. Bleh.

Gymming later. Pray for people to stay at home because of swine flu and not go gym! Haha!

Activities:
2/5 Saturday - Kayaking Training
1/5 Friday - Badminton & Table tennis
30/4 Thursday - 60 lap swim @ Redhill (3km)
27/4 Monday - 5 km run in 30 minutes (6 mins/km)(14.4 mins for 2.4)

Stats:
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 83.0 kg
BMI: 25.6 kgm-2

Labour Day.

We went playing badminton and a little bit of table-tennis yesterday at Tampines SAFRA. It's been so long since JEDIT did something strenuous together! Hahas.. Gym swim does not count!

It felt good to be sweating and using my bag of bones. We haven't played badminton in a while, have we?

Got a chance to try playing ping pong too after watching Table of Glory on Channel 8 for so long. Wah.. So reminiscent of Primary School lorh. Those were the days of smelly armpits and smacking ping-pong balls here and there. Lol!

Anyways, we went watching X-Men Origins: Wolverine after that. Not bad at all. 4 stars! I felt the action was pretty well balanced with the story line. The only complaint is that there was no real climax to the movie. I left feeling informed, but not wowed. Plus the scene with the head that was cut off twirling round and round with laser eyes on just wasn't realistic. Maybe even a little ridiculous. Hahas..

Well, at least I didn't feel like I paid for a shitty show.

Amazingly, we didn't play Left 4 Dead or DotA at all! Wow. That's an achievement.

Progress!

I went running just now, and I managed to do 10 laps in the same 30 minutes! The feeling is very different from last week. I felt much more energetic and very much less breathless as compared to last Monday. Woot! Feels good to see some improvement in my fitness.

I managed to cut about 1.6 minutes away from 2.4km timing. That's very good! =) It's just 14.4 minutes now. The actual timing I reached 2.4km was 14 min 20 s. Good enough for now.

The disappointing thing is that the weight doesn't seem to be coming off. I'm still at 83kg =/

Tummy disappear leh!

Training Week #2

Activities:
25/5 Saturday - Kayaking Training
24/5 Friday - Gym (Abs, Chest, Back), 2,4 km Run
23/5 Thursday - 50 lap swim @ Redhill (2.5km)
21/5 Tuesday - Gym (Abs and Shoulders)
20/5 Monday - 4.45 km run in 30 minutes (6.7 mins/km)(16 mins for 2.4) =(

Stats:
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 83.0 kg
BMI: 25.6 kgm-2

Training Week #1

I've decided to do a weekly review so that I can track my progress =) The week will start every Monday, and end on Sunday. I will still lump everything in the training log though.. And maybe I will add a graph in the future. Haha

Here's for Week #1...

Activities:
19/5 Sunday - 40 lap swim @ Yishun Swimming Complex (2km)
18/5 Saturday - Kayaking Training
16/5 Thursday - 30 lap swim @ SAFRA (?m)

Stats:
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 83 kg
BMI: 25.6 kgm-2

Gym Aunties.

To all aunties out there who happen to go to the public gym,

I laud you for your effort to upkeep your health and self. HOWEVER! Can don't chat on the machine anot? When you are obviously not using it, it's only courteous to vacate the place so that the person standing right in front of you and staring at you can use it! Man!


Yes, I went to the gym today! Did mainly shoulders and abs. I now ache like a head. Hahas..

Rest day tomorrow!

Training Targets.

Artwork by Quezzie

I am giving myself 3 months to achieve my target! As the saying goes, with a goal comes improvement!

Current Height: 1.8 m
Current Weight: 83 kg
Current BMI: 25.6 kgm^-2

Target BMI: 23 kgm^-2
Target Weight: 75 kg
Kilos to shave: 8 kg

Target 2.4 Timing: 9 m 45 sec! (4min/km)
Minutes to shave: 2.7 min

减肥大作战现在开始！

Training Log.

It's about time that I restart this training log! So here's a NEW START for 2010!

2010
Activities:
16/2 Tuesday - 30 lap swim, 100 push-ups, crunches and leg-raises (Weight: 84.0kg)
22/2 Monday - 20 lap swim, 2km run, 100 crunches and leg-raises, 4 pull-ups
8/3 Monday - 2 km run (100m sprint, 100m run), 60 crunches, 60 push-ups
10/3 Wednesday - 3 km run, 90 crunches, 60 push-ups
7/9 Tuesday - 30 lap swim.
9/9 Thursday - 20 lap swim
14/9 Tuesday - 20 lap swim
15/9 Wednesday - 20 lap swim, Gym (calves, quads, deltoids, back)
20/9 Monday - 4.15 km run @ 31:45 min, 20 crunches, 20 push-ups
22/9 Wednesday - 18 lap swim
24/9 Friday - 30 lap swim

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I'm posting a training log up for self motivation =) Watch me disappear! Haha!

2009
Activities:
17/6 Wednesday - 40 lap swim front crawl
11/6 Thursday - 20 lap swim
10/6 Wednesday - 5 km run + 6 pull-ups
31/5 Sunday - 40 lap swim front crawl! (2km)
27/5 Wednesday - 30 lap swim front crawl (1.5km)
25/5 Monday - Gym (Abs, Arms, Chest), 1 km Run
24/5 Sunday - 4.5 km run / 4.2 km in 30 mins (7.1mins/km)(17.2 mins for 2.4)
13/5 Wednesday - 50 lap Swim @ Delta (2.5km)
9/5 Saturday - Dragonboat
4/5 Monday - Gym (Abs, Arms, Lats), 3 km Run
2/5 Saturday - Kayaking Training
1/5 Friday - Badminton & Table tennis
30/4 Thursday - 60 lap swim @ Redhill (3km)
27/4 Monday - 5 km run in 30 minutes (6 mins/km)(14.4 mins for 2.4)
25/4 Saturday - Kayaking Training
24/4 Friday - Gym (Abs, Chest, Back), 2,4 km Run
23/4 Thursday - 50 lap swim @ Redhill (2.5km)
21/4 Tuesday - Gym (Abs and Shoulders)
20/4 Monday - 4.45 km run in 30 minutes (6.7 mins/km)(16 mins for 2.4) =(
19/4 Sunday - 40 lap swim @ Yishun Swimming Complex (2km)
18/4 Saturday - Kayaking Training
16/4 Thursday - 30 lap swim @ SAFRA (?m)

Weight: