It was the earlier part of the year probably in Q2 when I actually put my heart to losing weight. Dieting was seriously tough at first but once you get it going, it’s not that difficult. The trend of weight-loss is similar to the S-curve where initially, you’ll tend to lose real fast and then slows down when you come to a point. That point is when your body adjust to your dieting and work out intensity.
Ken Mun, whom I consider my PFT (Personal Free Trainer) is the major contributor to guiding me on the weight loss program. Another on the list would be my cuzzy from Australia, Andrew… a recent yearly Sydney 14k runner. Ken was the guy who I climbed Penang Hill with during a team building with my previous company, and all he does is always stay about 10 feet in front of you and then looks at down at you and looks up on the path.. kind of the impatient drill seargant minus the profanity. A real bugger when he does that too often (the whole trip) and you already feel dead in your legs… hehe.. thanks brother. Some top grade “sei chai bao” he is… (thanks for the book for my bday bro)
My exercise regime was something like the below.. spanned out in a few months.
Dieting & Exercising (especially jogging and weight training on major muscle groups)
Warmdown mainly consists of stretching similar to Aikido warmups.
Note: Coming from someone who hasn’t really ran in his life, I think I did pretty well. It was at first around 3 mins.. then 5 then.. 8 then 10.. then now i’m able to do 18 on the road and about 23 on the treadmill.
I have stopped running at home recently due to the unpredictable weather and have started working out at the gym at the company during my lunch time. Alternating my training with 1 day of rest on the weekdays. My target routine.. given by Ken as a “definitely weight loss routine for anyone is”
30 minutes treadmill
30 minutes cross trainers (the ski-like machine)
30 minutes bike ride
I’ve done 26 minutes treadmill at 7.0kph with breaks/slowdown in between and 30 minutes cross trainers. I’m almost dead before I reach the 30 minutes bike ride. I still can’t reach the 30 minutes bike ride after the first 2 sets.
My next target to achieve no matter if i achieve the 30/30/30 or not is a 40/40/20
40 flips & 40 rolls in 20 minutes. Objective is to meet 100/100.
Ok ok.. shall update my blog with the pictures taken of ProjectJD (Daniel & Jane’s Wedding) before the pig gnaws me to death hehehe.. It was a hectic 2 months with skipping a lot of training. Got to get back…