Ended late today, so its just pull ups - and away from mainland Singapore again tomorrow onwards!
Did something slightly different today - it was intervals at the stadium, and a first with Rings at this place.
Its nice and sunny - I'll be heading to the pool later and do some swim sprints (all out effort for 1 lap, recover, repeat). It's great to indulge in anaerobic endurance training once you've got the hung of things.
And of course later I'll end the session with a fried chicken cutlet from the mall. All the ramped up training and workouts has left me feeling nothing short of great - better sleep, wholesome appetite, elevated mood levels, body raring to go!
Which on the contrary, I see those who are doing it wrong end up feeling the wrong way - shitty moods, tired & exhausted, and getting no where they aimed for. Which brings me to the next point - the Cardio Queens.
Cardio Queens have never been, and will never be the sustainable way to healthy living - but the mindset is understandably hard to change - I for one, was running too much for my own good and neglecting the other important aspects of fitness.
Updates: No swim done today as it drizzled this late morning - so it pretty much lazy until my barbells at night.
WOD:
2 rounds of
Before
I remember when I got down to my goal weight of 150 lbs. On one hand I was absolutely thrilled. I couldn’t even remember the last time I weighed 150 lbs! On the other hand, I still had a lot more fat than I imagined I would at that weight. I was a little shocked. I was a runner and runners are supposed to get skinny! What happened!? So naturally I cut calories a little more, and increased my miles. At my max I was eating 1800 calories a day and running almost 50 miles a week. I knew deep down that this was not a pace I could sustain for long, and what’s worse, at 140 lbs the weight completely stopped coming off. I was so frustrated and depressed.
And After.
Read Cardio Queen Gone Primal
At first we need to clear two things. Firstly, despite the fact that I’m not following a strictly designed workout plan, none of my workouts are random. I always try to get a well rounded workout and progress gradually. Secondly – primal training is just one of my five or four weekly workouts. Training in forest is my hobby. I really enjoy it. I don’t look at it as a workout – it’s more like a way to test my abilities, enjoy nature and relax. All the “real” work is done in other training routines. Bodyweight exercises, pilates, martial arts etc. I do the rest of my workouts because it helps me to develop a strong and functional body in a safe way. I do it because I want to live a healthy life, not because I enjoy doing pull-ups or squats. Of course I don’t hate it either. It feels good to achieve the goals I set for myself – like the one hand push-up or pistol squat.Read more...
Read What Is Primal Fitness
I'm slightly engorged and sore from yesterday's workout and good quantities of meat. Ramping up today's workout too as I have the luxury of time and rest during this festive period!
Did a run & sprints after work today - the (extremely) hot sun left me very dehydrated!
We Primal types know better of course. Although we eschew the carb-based foods (potatoes, donuts, corn chips, battered/breaded everything) that disgrace fry pans and deep fryers everywhere, we get along fine with the fat itself.Read more...
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Getting annoyed again by how work is turning out - which reinforces one of the few important lessons my colleague reminded us of - trust no one but yourself. And all that just suddenly made me tired out, hence, the below average workout today.
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Its time to take a bodily rest and so its a Rest Day for me today.
Mark Sisson's #1 Reason Why The Primal Blueprint Works For Him:
1. I’m lazy.Read more...
Ironically, I spent 25 years of my life pursuing high level fitness and peak health through hard work, discipline, sacrifice and misery. That didn’t work out for me. I’m over it. Now I just want the best results with the least amount of pain, suffering, and sacrifice. I jokingly tell my ex-triathlete buddies, “I’d rather look fit than be fit.” Of course, the irony is that when you actually do what it takes to look fit (eat right, cut the Chronic Cardio, sprint a bit now and then and lift intensely two or three times a week ) you become VERY fit. And healthy. And happy. And more productive. The best part of Primal Blueprint living is that you can get appreciably better results with significantly less time, less effort and less sacrifice. Instead of the old 20-30 hours a week I used to put in training, I now train less than three hours total a week. I try to play the rest of the time.
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Ended work late so I did a really quick workout after work.
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I've not been doing enough pull ups so that formed the main gist behind today's WOD
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Spent much of the day sleeping in in a bid to recover fully from the annoying cough. Did a pretty decent run & sprint session today despite being pretty out of touch with it. I need to brush up!
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It surely felt good to have 1 day to sleep in per week - so far I have been rising a little past 5am for Mondays to Saturdays and 730am for Sundays for Dragonboat practice. And as a result of that I have lesser time to do my intervals and weights - bad! So that's one of the reasons why I skipped Dragonboat today.
Yes, Muscles are Beautiful On Women:
"Women who claim to be afraid to train hard because they “always bulk up too much” are often already pretty bulky, or “skinny fat” (thin but weak and deconditioned) and have found another excuse to continue life sitting on their butts."
- Mark Rippetoe
His followers believe that he too is capable of fearsome feats. When Mr. Durant told a gathering of New York cavemen that he had seen Mr. De Vany at a seminar in Las Vegas, Matthew Sanocki, 34, asked if Mr. De Vany looked as muscular in the flesh as in pictures on his blog.
“He looks great,” Mr. Durant said. “You feel like he could, at a moment’s notice, charge at you and trample you.”
"Women who go to the gym are cheap sluts who just love being surrounded by men."
Went dragonboating today with the company, followed by a great dinner at Seoul Garden but sadly I just wasn't very hungry today. Its probably due to the annoying-cough-that-won't-go-away.
Today's not too bad a workout, albeit a quick one.
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Today's a long day at work too, so I hit the chin up bars on the way home followed by some barbell lifts at home.
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Been overworked so its been zapping out my energy. I recall quite a good workout on Monday involving push presses and push ups; I skipped workout on Tuesday; and today being Wednesday, I took it easy due to the annoying dry cough.
WOD:
Yesterday was not as fun as it should have been Dragonboating - too many noobs in the boat makes it unfun (ha ha!)
I'll stick with rowing with my company. They provide the nice paddles & life vests, endless supply of water too!
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