Day 41 - Reasons to Splits

Splits are gooooood! I am loving the morning burst of energizing jumps and 8-min Abs workout. My energy level is up in the day without feeling all jelly-O, fantastic!

I am also enjoying tuning down in the evening with strength training without feeling that I am overtly perked by the cardio workout.

Splits feel more rounded than rushing through my regime and I am able to focus more on each group of targeted exercises. :)

Woohooo!!

Day 39 & 40 - Morning Affairs

It been consecutive 3 days of working out in the morning. Brilliance! Gonna keep it going.
The new paradigm of splitting the workout into two segments works wonders! Today, I had only some time to spare before heading for a class. So, I decided to just do my jumps and the 8-min abs workout. This freed up sufficient time to have a proper breakfast instead of rushing off (if I had done the full regime). Coming back in the evening, I just had to complete my strength training.

Now, this is a brilliant split to help bridge my sleeping habit and early waking! I can now wake up a little earlier (instead of much earlier) to do my jumps and slowly, adjust on my waking habit to fit in the rest of the exercises in time to come! *beams*

Aside, the jumps are great endorphin dose to kick start the day :D

Day 38 - A Brand New Start

Ok, I had learnt my lesson. Today, I woke up earlier and really psyche myself up for a morning exercise. In my head, the only objective is to get through the regime in the morning. This is because:
1) I want to maintain my metabolism rate through the day.
2) It allows me to get an earlier rest (it's just too difficult to get to bed after exercising in the late night as my body is all awake!)
3) It minimizes and negates any possibility of not exercising cos it's just too easy to say, let me do it tomorrow!
4) It's just killer to do 2 sets of exercises in a day given the intensity now. Moreover, it's not effective and inconsistent (yes I hear you Patrick!)

There's gozillion reasons to do so, and whatever it is, I am glad I did it :)

Day 36, 37 - Doubleup

I never did learn the lesson of how a "just 5 min nap" can totally ruin the plans ahead. Yesterday, after getting home late and changed into my exercise gear, my mind just willed my body to "take 5 min nap" before I get outside to start my exercise. 5 min became 50min, and before I knew it, it was dawn!! This seemed to be a repeated matter for some time. Tsk. I am putting my head at how to minimize these as . . .

I need to double up my exercise in the morning and in the evening! Man, that's twice the hard work! Anyways, the pistol squats were killers! I felt my thighs BURN and turning jelly-like as I finished up my last set. Woooo and somehow, the exercises this week is really a big step change. I felt "strengthless" after the regime and my wobbly legs were screaming for support! Bicycle was tough too.

Two work outs in a day is not fun, uh-uh... but at least it cancels out the guilt.

Day 35 - Questions are the Answers

It had not been a great day, started off rushing to prepare my meals and rushing off to work, followed by long day of lessons and ended off with a nagging feedback.

Just not one of those high rara days.

I mean humans are creatures of rationalization. Me included. So I started reflecting on my day as I did my skipping - about how and why this happened to me, why am I so bleah bleah bleah (bad bad negative thoughts). I started to rationalize what happened and became defensive about my actions. In my mind, I was accounting and defending for my responses, giving entitlement to my reaction on the day's situation.

Then the skipping cleared my mind. I began to feel different towards my thoughts/rationalization. Instead of being defensive, I began to feel grateful for what had happened. I acknowledge my lack and took the feedback as a pointer to grow. I begin to question the value I can add to others through this experience and plan for my action to demonstrate the new understanding. It was a liberating moment :)

Truly, questions are the answers. If I change the way I question my day, the process can be a wonderful tool that will lead to a positive growth.

Day 33 till 34 - Sleep

I had been letting myself go on the blog, and had not been updating daily...tsk tsk.

These days, I am feeling rather lethargic, probably due to the lack of proper sleep. Been sleeping at wee hours like 2, 3am. Total flip of my unusual prompt discipline on my meals / exercise. The swing on the latter had been pretty smooth but am still struggling with resting early or waking up earlier for my exercises.

Sleep is my focus in this month. Apparently, I fare rather poorly on this sheep-dash test.

Any tips to waking up earlier PCPers?

Day 30:31:32

Day 30:
Pro-te-in shopping! I was overwhelmed by the variety of protein powders available in the stores! And gosh, they are HUGE!! Mega! I was lucky to have the 2-for-1 deal on the powders and got myself 2 bottles (well, 2 HUGE jars to be precise). History was made.

Proud owner of Whey Powder: Extreme Milk Chocolate and Double Rich Chocolate. No price for guessing who's the chocolate lover.

I was pretty concern on the mixing of the powder (hearsay that it's difficult to dissolve these protein mix) and was intrigued by a simple yet smart innovation of a whisk ball in a shaker!

Being a sucker for such "eureka" design, I bought one of those shaker. *blush*




Day 31:
Protein powder taste funny. Really weird. Probably I didn't shake it with milk. The aftertaste is synthetic. Not a huge fan of it. It's funny to see my peers exclaimed in disbelief when they saw me downing the blend two times in a day. They must have thought that I am mad and probably on my way to be the next . . .

*GASP*

NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo.

I just want to be really fit. Not B(poof)uff.

Day 32:
8 min abs is pretty funny! I followed it once but dear dear, my neck is strained. Not much feel on the abs! Got to refine the way I am doing it.....right, gang? *snigger*