Dear bloggie,
Having endured some resistance workouts such as full body, 3 days split, 5 day split, upper and lower body split, etc... I come to tis point in my gyming career where I have to make a decision on what kinda body built I want to so I can adjust my workout to match my goals. When I started, I just wanted to pack some muscle to my boney body. Fast forward 3 years, I have gained a good 5kg weight gain and reduced my fat % by around 4%. Tis year, my gain plateau (0 gain) so it lead to me to reevaluate my workout. One factor that lead to my plateau I suspect is my social life "distraction". Other possible factor I can think is my no longer usage of protein powder. I might need to go back on my steroids, but we will see. Another possible cause is my training regime.
Quite recently, I been a fan of full body workout. Means, each session I workout my whole body. I would do my big 3 compounds: bench press, chin up and leg press then compliment it with others exercises. I suspect this full body workout doesn't stimulate my body enuff as compared to a split where I would focus on certain muscle group in a workout instead of the full body. So after some reading and thinking, I decided to come up with my own workout that incorporates my knowledge in resistance training. My ultimate goal is a workout that is "Jack of all trades, but master of none". I want to improve my muscle strength, mass and endurance. Now, training for strength, mass and endurance is slightly different in terms of reps we do each set. For strength 1-6 reps, mass 6+ to 12 and endurance 13+. I also hope to created a good ratio between muscles, meaning the opposing muscle are balanced or don't have a overpowering strength difference (ie: like tricep strength = bicep strength). Cardio is another element I hope to include in my workout.
So many elements, yet the question is how I can combine all this things into a workout? Typically, most people just bulk and cut (1 period gain muscle, another period cut fat) but I reject such approach as I'm not a fan of this approach. So, I decided to spend the next 3 months experimenting with my own designed workout to see if such feat is possible. Can I design a workout that gives me the best of 4 worlds? Heck is such thing even possible?
Dear bloggie,
Another great one from the amazing Glen Hansard...
Awesome song, but the song lyrics abit too uplifting for me... "Strong enuff", "Don't give up", "Just try to understand"...
Anyway side note, today walked into a pilates class where the students were doing the teaching... Actually these students are preparing for their certification exam, hence the instructor gave them a chance to practice for the exam and I ended up as a guinea pig for them. Gives me a great insight of what to expect if I signup for the certification end of this year as well. Quite a eye opening experience since most of the time I'm used to seeing instructors giving cues in consistent, easy to understand and "almost" perfect manner in classes, I take it for granted it's a easy thing to do... Trust me, it ain't. The order of the cues, the on the spot adjustments, how to present it in a easy to understand manner visually & verbally... I already doubt if I can do it... And to think these batch probably have train for almost a year for this exam, sorta make me feel motivated... I mean, that what mastery of a specific skill is about. Slowly but with unwavering desire to improve one's skill. Some say "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result." yet I argue how is one able to aim for the acme of one's skill if one is no willing to immersed one self in such insanity to begin with?
Work meanwhile is getting harder and harder to do. The moment I step foot into the office, the 1st thing in my mind is the 6 o'clock "sau kong" moment of the day. Even with tasks in my hand, I find it more and more difficult to pass time in my office. Dunno how long I can work in this field anymore... I'm ain't really team lead material, my skill ain't really "great" and my working experience already hit 5+ years landmark... Quite hard to land a job with as code monkey anymore.
As for social life, nothing significant happen cause I choose to. A ex work colleague tried to intro someone to me, but I decided to shun it and shove it away in a rather rude manner. My fren say my qualification so char yet so cheng... At reflection level, I realize what I'm doing is similar to how I was treated... Hence I'm conflicted...
My only sanctuary for comfort is the gym. When I burn, tear and break myself physically till all that occupies my mind is the the thought of how many reps I need to do left. Sorta like getting drunk feeling... Push abit too much I fear, as signs of overuse appearing... Wrists, ankles, shoulders feel like they might actually break into 2 pieces. I ponder wat kinda worst state I would be in if even gym is taken away from me one day... :(
Another great one from the amazing Glen Hansard...
Awesome song, but the song lyrics abit too uplifting for me... "Strong enuff", "Don't give up", "Just try to understand"...
Anyway side note, today walked into a pilates class where the students were doing the teaching... Actually these students are preparing for their certification exam, hence the instructor gave them a chance to practice for the exam and I ended up as a guinea pig for them. Gives me a great insight of what to expect if I signup for the certification end of this year as well. Quite a eye opening experience since most of the time I'm used to seeing instructors giving cues in consistent, easy to understand and "almost" perfect manner in classes, I take it for granted it's a easy thing to do... Trust me, it ain't. The order of the cues, the on the spot adjustments, how to present it in a easy to understand manner visually & verbally... I already doubt if I can do it... And to think these batch probably have train for almost a year for this exam, sorta make me feel motivated... I mean, that what mastery of a specific skill is about. Slowly but with unwavering desire to improve one's skill. Some say "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result." yet I argue how is one able to aim for the acme of one's skill if one is no willing to immersed one self in such insanity to begin with?
Work meanwhile is getting harder and harder to do. The moment I step foot into the office, the 1st thing in my mind is the 6 o'clock "sau kong" moment of the day. Even with tasks in my hand, I find it more and more difficult to pass time in my office. Dunno how long I can work in this field anymore... I'm ain't really team lead material, my skill ain't really "great" and my working experience already hit 5+ years landmark... Quite hard to land a job with as code monkey anymore.
As for social life, nothing significant happen cause I choose to. A ex work colleague tried to intro someone to me, but I decided to shun it and shove it away in a rather rude manner. My fren say my qualification so char yet so cheng... At reflection level, I realize what I'm doing is similar to how I was treated... Hence I'm conflicted...
My only sanctuary for comfort is the gym. When I burn, tear and break myself physically till all that occupies my mind is the the thought of how many reps I need to do left. Sorta like getting drunk feeling... Push abit too much I fear, as signs of overuse appearing... Wrists, ankles, shoulders feel like they might actually break into 2 pieces. I ponder wat kinda worst state I would be in if even gym is taken away from me one day... :(
Dear bloggie,
"What does it mean to be human?"
That's the question that plays around my mind after watching tis ancient 80's movie staring Harrison Ford. Tis movie, is directed by the same dude that directed Alien and Prometheus. For a 80's film, the special effect is nothing short but amazing. While u dun get the same feel as Avatar world, but u definitely is transported into an futuristic urban planet earth. The worlds is vibrant, brought to live not by high tech cutting edge CGI but by amazing lightin, props and whacky costumed backdrop actors.
So what's the movie about? Here's the problem... What happens when we humans created another being that looks like us, thinks like us and can feel like us? How do we differentiate between us and them? Would "humanity" be something exclusive to us then?
Deckard(Harrison Ford) is a retired Blade Runner. A Blade runner is sorta of a special policeman that specializes in tracking and retiring Replicants. Replicants are man made robots that have the face of a human, thinking of human but lack the emotions of a human. Deckard been assigned the task to hunt a group of rogue Replicants. But how can one find these rogues replicants when it's so hard to differentiate between one and a normal human? Further complicating things, Deckard finds himself having affection for a pretty chick Replicant. The setting of the movie is noir style... low lighting and unbalanced composition (according to wiki) sorta like old skool detective storytelling style. One ponders about if humanity is about emotions, then should the Replicants that is potrayed throughout the movie with such strong emotions compared to the emotionally cold Deckard, can they considered as human? It is the climax near the near however that steals the show for me... When a Replicant that have killed so many and is about to Deckard but decides to save Deckards instead, if a being is capable to regret his action and attone for his past sin, is that not "humanity"?
The ending ends with a rather controversial note that fueled debates for decades. Is Deckard the Blade Runner that hunts and retire Replicant, a replicant himself? Amazing stuff really... This movie has actually achieved cult status and I'm not surprise really considering the extraordinary plot, awesome special effects, great cast of actors... Phenomenal...
"What does it mean to be human?"
That's the question that plays around my mind after watching tis ancient 80's movie staring Harrison Ford. Tis movie, is directed by the same dude that directed Alien and Prometheus. For a 80's film, the special effect is nothing short but amazing. While u dun get the same feel as Avatar world, but u definitely is transported into an futuristic urban planet earth. The worlds is vibrant, brought to live not by high tech cutting edge CGI but by amazing lightin, props and whacky costumed backdrop actors.
So what's the movie about? Here's the problem... What happens when we humans created another being that looks like us, thinks like us and can feel like us? How do we differentiate between us and them? Would "humanity" be something exclusive to us then?
Deckard(Harrison Ford) is a retired Blade Runner. A Blade runner is sorta of a special policeman that specializes in tracking and retiring Replicants. Replicants are man made robots that have the face of a human, thinking of human but lack the emotions of a human. Deckard been assigned the task to hunt a group of rogue Replicants. But how can one find these rogues replicants when it's so hard to differentiate between one and a normal human? Further complicating things, Deckard finds himself having affection for a pretty chick Replicant. The setting of the movie is noir style... low lighting and unbalanced composition (according to wiki) sorta like old skool detective storytelling style. One ponders about if humanity is about emotions, then should the Replicants that is potrayed throughout the movie with such strong emotions compared to the emotionally cold Deckard, can they considered as human? It is the climax near the near however that steals the show for me... When a Replicant that have killed so many and is about to Deckard but decides to save Deckards instead, if a being is capable to regret his action and attone for his past sin, is that not "humanity"?
The ending ends with a rather controversial note that fueled debates for decades. Is Deckard the Blade Runner that hunts and retire Replicant, a replicant himself? Amazing stuff really... This movie has actually achieved cult status and I'm not surprise really considering the extraordinary plot, awesome special effects, great cast of actors... Phenomenal...
Dear bloggie,
Tata the Avengers... Hello to Expendables 2...
Went to watch tis movie with da monks. What I think about it?
Back in the days when movie heroes dun need gamma mutation, iron suit, super soldier serum, toy hammer to k*ck @$$... Heck, these "classics" just need "PLOT HOLE".
Trained soldiers armed with sub machine guns missing their aim, rockets keep hitting a few meters from their mark, evil baddies that prefer to rant their mouth on and on and on rather than killing their foes when it's a clear kill scenario, multiple heat shots... Welcome, ol skool action movies.
Actually, if I went to see this with expectation of today's modern action movie, I would probably use words like "Garbage", "WTF!?", "GODLIKE"... but I went in with the mindset of this movie being a parody to the 80/90's action movies. Hence ridiculously GODLIKE scene that if I would bash turn out quite funny as a parody. I mean take for instance the crazy assault scene, when 5-6 ah pek storm into the enemy base in their jeep. They like got invisible shield, coz so many ppl shooting at them yet no shot hit and all their shot head shots...
A nice mixture of action and humor but do note it's 18SG, ALOT of violent scenes... We practically have the whole gang of ah pek: Stallone, Jason Statham, Lundgren (Dunno who is tis classic), Jet Li, CHUCK NORRIS, Arnold, Bruce Willis... and even Van Damme as the baddie. The action scene are really way way ridiculous, like crash landing an airplane into enemy base, but not a scratch on any of the classics... -_-'
Overall a enjoyable movie if u treat it not a serious action movie but rather a tribute to old skool action movie. I however think even if treated as a serious modern action movie, it's still WAY more enjoyable than "Clash of Titan". A recommended watch.
Tata the Avengers... Hello to Expendables 2...
Went to watch tis movie with da monks. What I think about it?
Back in the days when movie heroes dun need gamma mutation, iron suit, super soldier serum, toy hammer to k*ck @$$... Heck, these "classics" just need "PLOT HOLE".
Trained soldiers armed with sub machine guns missing their aim, rockets keep hitting a few meters from their mark, evil baddies that prefer to rant their mouth on and on and on rather than killing their foes when it's a clear kill scenario, multiple heat shots... Welcome, ol skool action movies.
Actually, if I went to see this with expectation of today's modern action movie, I would probably use words like "Garbage", "WTF!?", "GODLIKE"... but I went in with the mindset of this movie being a parody to the 80/90's action movies. Hence ridiculously GODLIKE scene that if I would bash turn out quite funny as a parody. I mean take for instance the crazy assault scene, when 5-6 ah pek storm into the enemy base in their jeep. They like got invisible shield, coz so many ppl shooting at them yet no shot hit and all their shot head shots...
A nice mixture of action and humor but do note it's 18SG, ALOT of violent scenes... We practically have the whole gang of ah pek: Stallone, Jason Statham, Lundgren (Dunno who is tis classic), Jet Li, CHUCK NORRIS, Arnold, Bruce Willis... and even Van Damme as the baddie. The action scene are really way way ridiculous, like crash landing an airplane into enemy base, but not a scratch on any of the classics... -_-'
Overall a enjoyable movie if u treat it not a serious action movie but rather a tribute to old skool action movie. I however think even if treated as a serious modern action movie, it's still WAY more enjoyable than "Clash of Titan". A recommended watch.
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