Dear Emma,
It's now 12.57am late nite and I'm still wide awake. This is one of those days where my mind simply refuse to go into sleep mode. It seems like a eternity since the last time I couldn't fall asleep. The past 6 months been a rather tiring one with my new job, hence I had little problem sleeping at nite.
The refusal to sleep reminded me of myself when I was in college days, those days when I simply refused to sleep to watch a movie or etc. I was like an owl back then, active at nite, sleep at day. Sometimes I could go without sleep for 2 days straight... How I aged since...
I have been always complaining bout how I couldn't b*tch bout being in mid life crisis since I was still not mid aged yet... Yet in another 4 days, I will be 32 years old. 32 years old... Oh man... Another 3 years before I can declare myself mid age crisis. Just 3 more years... *Sigh*
So what do I feel like b*tchin about in this late hour? I dunno frankly speaking. My creative juice seem to be running low recently. Let me think, what I been doing today. I practically spend the whole day at home today. Surfing, counter striking and juicing...
Anyway, I was told I am going to be involve in a personality team training conducted by my company. So, I was surfing for personality tests to see if I had a change in my personality. I retook the Carl Jung personality test and to my amazement, was stereotype as ISFP. In my last personality test, I was labelled as INFP. So did I change my personality or what?
Technically, both ISFP and INFP are introverts that are live their life according to a set of belief that they hold dear inside their heart. ISFP is a more hand on guy, grounded to physical things and action oriented. INFP meanwhile is more de attached from physical reality, dwell in the imaginary world in their mind and prefer to daydream than to do something.
Reading the description of the ISFP and INFP, I'm convinced the test I took is faulty and believe I still fall inside my original INFP type. According to some material I saw on the net, a good example of a INFP is Frodo from Lord of the Rings. The reluctant hero that plays the hero role due to his conviction to his belief he has to complete the quest. Another cool character that is INFP is Calvin from the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes".
INFP are in general great listeners. One that is willing to lend a ear for others to pour their hearts to, as long as the topic is something that INFP deem as meaningful (non empty conversation). INFP keep their feelings and thoughts deep inside themselves and are only willing to share em with a selected few that are really close with them. They are also constantly trying to make sense of this world and hold a set of belief that they place as a sacred unspoken oath. They sometimes are deem as cold by other due to their lack of physical reaction to things but the reality is that they have a reaction in the inside, it's just they are good at masking it on the outside. They however are de attached from reality and due to their perfectionist behaviour sometimes take things too personally.
Dear Emma,
I finally hit my targeted weight of 70kg... That's a 10kg increase from my original 60kg bodyweight before I started gymin. Hard to imagine it already been 5 long years since I first started doing my 1st pushup in July 2009.
There's definitely been good days, bad days and really bad days during this 5 long years of sweating blood while pumping iron. Injuries come and go. I injured my tricep, shoulder and even spine. But that's all part of the parcel of this discipline...
Looking back, my motivating for working out definitely have changed through the years. From the initial gain stronger body for running and putting some meat into my upper body to gaining a acceptable strength ratio in my lifts. I started with a classical bodyweight workout I got via Scooby's youtube videos. Then I got exposed to the mental and spirtual exercise via Pilates and Yoga. I made some great progress during my 1st 2 years putting on 5 kgs before plateauing for 1.5 year.
My working career and mating attempt went down the tube during that period... I however stumbled across power lifting (Starting Strength) and decided to try something new to break the plateau. I made some progress in terms of weights I could lift (and gained 2.5 kg) before finally injuring my lower spine courtesy the deadlift.
Took some time off heavy weight and attempt to further improve my skill in Pilates by taking Pilates instructor course. Learnt a lot from the course, but the most important lesson learnt was I'm no instructor material. I returned to power lifting but found my strength pummel quite a lot compared to my peak before I got injured. Slowly rebuild my strength via Wendler 5-3-1 but my lack of discipline to follow the program made my progress really slow. I took a month of it due to my US trip before deciding to restart my whole power lifting training from ground zero via Starting Strength. Almost hit my peak again and walah... I finally achieved my magic 70kg body weight.
So where do I go from here? To be honest, I'm not so sure myself. I'm considering taking another break from power lifting and venturing into a more all rounded workout. A little bit of strength, flexibility, balance, aerobics and core. While most people say the danger of training for everything is you might end up gaining nothing. But I think "gain" is depends on one's goal.
While I feel stronger especially after lifting weights, I do feel my body is heavier. My new fitness goal is to obtain a body that feels light. To feel light, one body must be strong and weight must be light. Hence a proper bodyweight-strength ratio is required. Also to feel light, proper movement patterns should be practised. I will be focusing more on bodyweight exercises to obtain the bodyweight-strength ratio as bodyweight exercises are a great indicator of how fit you are (Too fat or lack strength = little reps). Also I want to refocus more on Pilates to obtain at least the "Breathing", "Spine Elongation" and "Spine Articulation" aspect down. Also look to fix some muscle imbalance I develop in my body, mainly anterior and rear deltoids issue. Looking forward to this new journey....
I finally hit my targeted weight of 70kg... That's a 10kg increase from my original 60kg bodyweight before I started gymin. Hard to imagine it already been 5 long years since I first started doing my 1st pushup in July 2009.
There's definitely been good days, bad days and really bad days during this 5 long years of sweating blood while pumping iron. Injuries come and go. I injured my tricep, shoulder and even spine. But that's all part of the parcel of this discipline...
Looking back, my motivating for working out definitely have changed through the years. From the initial gain stronger body for running and putting some meat into my upper body to gaining a acceptable strength ratio in my lifts. I started with a classical bodyweight workout I got via Scooby's youtube videos. Then I got exposed to the mental and spirtual exercise via Pilates and Yoga. I made some great progress during my 1st 2 years putting on 5 kgs before plateauing for 1.5 year.
My working career and mating attempt went down the tube during that period... I however stumbled across power lifting (Starting Strength) and decided to try something new to break the plateau. I made some progress in terms of weights I could lift (and gained 2.5 kg) before finally injuring my lower spine courtesy the deadlift.
Took some time off heavy weight and attempt to further improve my skill in Pilates by taking Pilates instructor course. Learnt a lot from the course, but the most important lesson learnt was I'm no instructor material. I returned to power lifting but found my strength pummel quite a lot compared to my peak before I got injured. Slowly rebuild my strength via Wendler 5-3-1 but my lack of discipline to follow the program made my progress really slow. I took a month of it due to my US trip before deciding to restart my whole power lifting training from ground zero via Starting Strength. Almost hit my peak again and walah... I finally achieved my magic 70kg body weight.
So where do I go from here? To be honest, I'm not so sure myself. I'm considering taking another break from power lifting and venturing into a more all rounded workout. A little bit of strength, flexibility, balance, aerobics and core. While most people say the danger of training for everything is you might end up gaining nothing. But I think "gain" is depends on one's goal.
While I feel stronger especially after lifting weights, I do feel my body is heavier. My new fitness goal is to obtain a body that feels light. To feel light, one body must be strong and weight must be light. Hence a proper bodyweight-strength ratio is required. Also to feel light, proper movement patterns should be practised. I will be focusing more on bodyweight exercises to obtain the bodyweight-strength ratio as bodyweight exercises are a great indicator of how fit you are (Too fat or lack strength = little reps). Also I want to refocus more on Pilates to obtain at least the "Breathing", "Spine Elongation" and "Spine Articulation" aspect down. Also look to fix some muscle imbalance I develop in my body, mainly anterior and rear deltoids issue. Looking forward to this new journey....
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