Glad I Decided Went To The Gym

How good I feel after working out. I was faced with two choices in the morning, going to have my nails done or exercise. And I'm soooo...glad with my decision. Started with run on treadmill for 15 minutes then total body weight training, and wrapped up with BODY COMBAT! YAY!

Oh yeah speaking of Body Combat, the regular instructor was substituted with a rookie, still young but he looks okay. So I gave it a go...turned he's pretty good, had good sweat. I think he'd be great instructor someday. He's got the patience, his instructions were clear, he knows how to keep all the members motivated. So good for him.

Next, is my sister. Quite harsh with her today. I'm completely clueless with her. She's very obesed!
For years, I've been telling her to be more active. Even the doctors she met, told her to lose some weight. But she DIDN'T EVEN LISTEN! She finally joined in the same gym with me..but she has thousands of excuses not to exercise and now she discard the membership. Now she come up with new excuse : being pregnant! Hey I've seen lots of people pregnant but still active.

I have no idea what to do with my obesed sister. She's 5 years younger than me, but her body already looks she's been give birth for 10 times.

Is There Anyone Beside Him?

Seems that my world evolve just around him. Try to be out from the "orbit" like going to the gym
( very lazy these days ), occupy myself with friends and family, watching funny movies, eat and so much more...but yet he's still in my mind.

Having crush in the gym didn't help, because I saw him bought a ring in a jewelery shop.

Grrr...I hate this actually.

To My Mum

That's me on her lap

GOD made a wonderful mother,
A mother who never grows old
He made her smile of the sunshine,
And He molded her heart of pure gold
In her eyes He placed bright shining stars,
In her cheeks, fair roses you see
God made a wonderful mother,
And He gave that dear mother to me.

~Pat O'Reilly~

Though you are not here with us, you're still in our heart. Love you always....

Shoulder Exercise : Arnold Press

Spice up your shoulder exercise with arnold press. This is my most favorite shoulder exercise using dumbbells. It gives wide range of motion as you lower the dumbbells well down in front giving that maximum stretch other shoulder exercises lack.

Here's how you do it :

1. Stand up right with dumbbells on each side. Position your dumbbells to your shoulder with palms facing you.


2. Similar to dumbbell press, in this exercise is the dumbbells are twisted so that the palms face forward at the top of the movement.

To finish the step, simply lower your dumbbells like the first position. Enjoy the workout!

Gym Sunday Supreme : Boy I Had A Blast

It's Sunday and it's time to for gym! Today, I'm taking my 6 years old niece with me because every Sunday there's Kids Dance which she can join while I'm doing my Body Combat. Well, not just my niece I'm taking but my sister and my baby nephew Justin ( of course they are not joining any classes, just strolling around the mall while waiting for us).

I had a great time with them. Enjoyed my niece companion, we had a great meal at Burger King ( bad for meeee...!!!! ). Today it's just awesome. So thankful I've got them.

Happy smileys after workout

Before the workout

My Sunday gym stuffs ( pinky..winky )

Out From Plateau : Back In Da Gym..Yayyyy!!!

Yeap..this chick is back in the gym! She found her groove back to hit the gym and do the exercise routine. Well, mostly just do the classes. But that's an improvement compare to previous weeks right? Thanks to the new instructors who just came and thanks to my Latin Salsa guru who's been totally amusing during his classes. And another trigger is I felt my body "so heavy".

This week itself, managed to go to the gym for 3 times. And will be going again for Supreme Sunday Gym ( just my term to get me motivated ).

Here are the things I did to get out from this plateau :

• Download happy songs ( mostly R&B ) to accompany me during weight training
  
• Download new exercises and dance videos from YouTube
• Bring gym bag everyday
• Uploading new motivations within myself.
  

Going Back To The Gym

It's 5.35AM, about to go to work. My pink Nike gym bag already stuffed with all the gym stuffs hopefully after work, I'll be still motivated to go. Exercise planning ? Just total body workout with weight and little bit of cardio.

Hope to out from this plateau soon...

Still Finding Exit Plan From The Plateau

Okay, it's been 3 weeks I'm trying to get out from this plateau and finding motivation to go to the gym. So far I have only managed 2 times a week with low intensity. Often I get sleepy while doing exercises, unless I do latin salsa class.

My friends say that I have to change the routine because I've been in the gym for years and years. Perhaps they are right.

But ummm...I walk almost everyday for 10 minutes..does it count? And not to forget I do house chores too. Then again..my diet seems very disorganized these days. I hope next week is better.

Getting Out From Plateau Part 2

With extra dose of fat burner, finally managed to do 1 hour weight training and 2 classes ( Hip Hop and Body Combat ). My abs still looks flabby.

At home,I had another exercise : house chores!!!!!!!

I'm so dead tired, still heaps of laundry to be ironed..but oh what the heck...I'm going to bed.

Next schedule to hit the gym is on Wednesday..gosh I hope I still have the energy left.

Getting Out From Plateau : Fighting Over My Laziness

I'm trying to go back to the gym again. Last Wednesday, I forced myself to go to Celebrity Fitness FX. Still lazy to do weight training, so I only joined Latin Salsa class. On Friday, no matter how lazy I was, dragging myself to go the same place. That time it was better, at least I did 1 hour weight training and followed by spinning class.

Now this Sunday ( which is tomorrow ), I have prepared everything for 2 classes: Dancing Queen and Body Combat. Before will do weight training. Let's see if I can do it.

I'm Hitting Plateau!!!!!!!

This is bad...really bad..I'm hitting a plateau. My motivation to go to gym just evaporated,vanished in thin air. Gym seems not a best place for me now. I want to complain..I'm bored with exercise. I need something different. One whole week without gym still didn't make me miss the gym.

I do try to look whats the problem though and what I figured out are work; I get up at 4.30AM to avoid traffic, spend too much time on the road. Takes about 1hour 45 minutes from home to work. I have no maid, I lack of sleep, dancing classes have been reduced and no cute guys in the gym *sob*...last time I had a crush in the gym few days later I saw him bought a ring..noooo....*another sob*

Please help me recover from hitting this plateau!

Back To Work

Everything must has end, so does my holiday. I had fun during the holiday..just it is too short ! ^_^
So tomorrow is back to routine chasing this green and white mini bus, full with people. The great thing about this bus is because it travels fast and the ride is breathtaking.
If you see the bus on the right...that's my bus.

And tomorrow is back to my students, lots of things to do : portfolio, report cards, school production and sport days.

So take a deep breath and get ready for work.....

Body Combat @ Home

With average ( or perhaps rather below) IT expertise, I managed to upload some tracks of Body Combat. In the end, I spent the rest one hour doing full Body Combat of different releases from YouTube. And oh boy it was fun! The first time I did Body Combat at home. Wasn't so bad after all, as matter of fact I'm over excited now heheehheeh....

Cupcakes : Not Good As It Looks

Cupcakes are everywhere these days. From birthdays to just a thank you symbol. I got some cupcakes as christmas gifts, my students gave away cupcakes as goodie bag.

Cupcakes come in different decorations, relatively inexpensive and many of them are so pretty and cute that it is a shame if you eat it. Here, I found some facts which might stop you to eat them :

1. A cupcake is equivalent to 3 slices of pizza ( ouch )
2. In general, one cupcake consists of 25o calories

3. A cupcake is high in sugar and high in carbs ( do you know what it means right ?)

4. Since a cupcake is high in sugar, so I can assume that a cupcake is nothing but an empty calorie.

Well,I hope the 4 facts above might give a second or third though to consume them. If you fancy to have cupcake/s,it would be wise to exercise in the next day ^-^

The Greatest Wealth

How do you measure your wealth? By diamonds and gold ? Money in the bank? Some people call happiness is the wealth.

For me health is my wealth. You might want to argue with being happy. This is my argument; can you find happiness if you are not healthy? Think a lot of things you can do when you are healthy and think again if you got cancer, what can you do? Mind cancer, how about just cold?

Can you enjoy your life? Can you feel the sun? Can you reach your goals?

If you are healthy, means you are happy. Why? In order to achieve healthy life are exercise, balanced diet and enough rest. When you exercise your body produces endorphine, a natural morphine. Eating the right food, you are putting natural vitamins, natural immune system and detoxicating your body. When you get enough rest, you feel relaxed and recharged.

If you are healthy, you will be able to attain your dreams, you will be able to pass all the troubles in life means you will be happy.

Even we have all the money in the world, but if we just able to lie down in bed with nothing to do. Will you be able to enjoy your wealth? Take vacation, eat fancy food or just shopping ? If you are sick, don't you think your money just goes to the doctor, hospital fee, medicines etc?

We often forget to value health as our investment to live our life. Instead we often torturing our body with toxic. Remember sickness comes because our own fault, we invite the virus or the bacteria to ourselves instead building a fort for our body.

It's never wrong to enjoy life while you are young, but it is always right to enjoy your life in healthy way.

So be healthy and be wealthy..

A New Blog Is Born

Yes, now I have two blogs. This new blog is my manifestation of my thoughts and words which just been wandering in my mind, which is irrelevant if I put it in this blog. It is my diary in reaching peace of mind, a journey of letting go and everything about it.

This blog can be found at http://journeyoflettinggo.blogspot.com

Piggin' Out

Typical Indonesian Food Scene (for me this is really good scene!*smile*)

Oh my God, I turn to food for comfort! Hopefully this is just part of PMS. For whole day, nothing I did beside pigging out. By the time I woke up...bread with honey, just 30 minutes later banana chips. Finished with banana chips, had this sticky rice and risoles ( traditional indonesian food ). For lunch KFC's famous fried chicken! And dessert chocolate sundae.

Not to forget last night, I had beef satay ( very delicious ) with the sticky rice. On the way home from gym I couldn't resist the temptation of Coldstone ice cream.

As redemption, I did house chores...I hope it's enough to burn the calories. And I hope to get iPod chromatic soooonnnn.....

*Must go to the gym tomorrow.....must go to the gym....don't be lazy* contemplating myself over and over...

Peace At Last....

This post is more about my lesson of letting go someone. Someone whom at first, had filled my heart with new hopes after a storm. It was painful, I was suffocated with hatred. I even planned a revenge, a very nasty one. Thought about him as my punching bag.

None of them helped to go through letting go phase. As matter of fact, I only nurtured hate and became the person I didn't want to be. Until last week, nothing I felt beside deep hurt and hate. Was good thing I didn't really use him as punching bag.

Anyway, got into my senses that I just had to bend on my knee and pray to God,"Please help me to accept this, please don't let the anger and hate overwhelm me".

All the hate and anger replaced with peace and comfort. I'm accepting what had had happened, accepting somethings just can't go my way, accepting he doesn't love me the way like I do, accepting everything.....the funny thing is I don't think of his face anymore as the punchbag.

Now, no matter how he had hurted me..I still want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to learn how to let go....

And peace at last............................

Don't Take My iPOd!!!

Hiks...hiks...sob..sob...my iPod is just "dead". It was my fault, I forgot to take it out from my gym bag when I wanted to wash my gym bag and my iPod just soaked with water.
Ohhh....noooo....how could this happen??How can I be so reckless????
Anything but my iPod! My ex could leave me, my credit card can go... but not my iPod.
It's like my heartbeat when exercising, running on the treadmill, when the traffic is bad, when I need hip hop to dance with and when everything is blue. It's been my everything for nearly 3 years.

Now, it's dead..can't be fixed..*hiks* Please not my iPod... now must wait for 2 paydays to buy the new one....hiks...hiks...

Becoming Alia Balboa : Done Chasing Pavements

Today, I actually had the great ever opportunity to practice my kickboxing lesson with the actual person. The person whom his face that I had always thought as my punchbag. Why I didn't do it?First thing was just be calm and second thought... I could get arrested for attacking someone and that's not good.

Well anyway, I'm glad I didn't. There will be more kickboxing lessons coming, have more energy to let out all the anger, sadness and hatred. However, as much I wanted to think about his face while doing the punching and kicking. Somehow it didnt come out. I have accepted the pain and let go the hate. No matter it hurts and no matter how my heart is boiling with anger, I hope to be forgiving.

For the ladies out there : the best revenge when somebody hurt you is just go to the gym, get yourself healthy and stay in shape. That's I'm doing even there's still feeling for him, missing him etc just hit the gym!
Beside it's more fun being healthy and in shape bitch than one angry bitch with a vengeance.

Oh yeah...one more : as much I want to buy more and more Nike outfits and go shopping as justification to cheer myself..I decided to cut my credit card off. That's another THE HARDEST THING TO DO! Way hardest than let go my ex.