Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Boot camp, anyone??

Ever since I changed to working part time, I had gained back some of my previous lost weight…sigh. Must be the intake of all the sumptuous lunches with Anthea..hee.

And in this coming December I will be attending Adrian’s course graduation ceremony. I had finally bought my Gown and I must really lose some weight to look better in the gown.

Adrian had started his gym routine since his return from the last oversea trip. As the gym membership fees is too expensive for me to maintain. I decided to do my usual jogging routine at the track / park nearby. Well, so far I don’t really seem to be losing what I hope to lose…so I started looking around for some solutions.

Slimming Centers? Nope, this will be my last resort because it will surely cost a bomb for any treatments.

So I start looking around for some affordable gym or workout session. Finally I found this – Fitness Boot camp SG. I read through the website information and found that they had a training session at Bishan on every Sunday. So I wasted no time and registered myself for the trial lesson.

Coincidentally, this is also the same group of people that conducted the Boot Camp session for the Health Promotion Board program – HPB's Lose to Win Challenge. It is telecast on Channel 5 on every Wednesday.

Last Sunday was my 1st time to the session and I had a fun-tastic time. The trainer name was Matt and he was really easy going and fun too. There were another 2 ladies with me at the same session. One of them was also a 1st timer and the other one was a regular. What surprised me most was – both of the ladies were slim & fit and they are doing the Standard Chartered 10KM run on this coming Sunday. This leave me to wonder why do they need to attend the boot camp since they are already so fit…hee.

But after the session, I realized something important – it was the motivational push. When I exercised alone, I felt restless and just do my routine. But when I am doing group exercises, I felt more energetic and also with a personal trainer pushing you along the way, the effect was just amazing. After the 1 hour’s workout, I went home, feeling totally refreshed and my physical felt the fulfillment.

A day and 2 after the session, my whole body was aching but I told Adrian “痛到很爽!!”嘻嘻。

This Sunday I will be going for my 2nd session and hopefully by the end of the whole sessions, I hope I can hit my personal target – losing weight!!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Personal Trainer & Munchy Donut

Lately, my lower back has been aching and i feel a strain whenever i sit for long in the same position. I went to consult my 姨丈, he is a TCM Chinese Physician. I told him about my problem and he managed to give me a very good back massage (推拿) and "push" my back to the correct position. He said it could be due to my sitting posture.

Then i asked him about weight management and i told him that i go to the gym 3x a week. He asked me : "有人教你吗?". I told him : "No, 我自己做我的 routine."

He said : "很危险!!". I sensed his tone was serious and he explained that i could be using the wrong weights or doing wrong exercises. After hearing his explanation, i did some careful consideration and made up my mind - signed up for a Personal Trainer at the gym.

Today is my 1st session with my Personal Trainer - Mavis. She went through with me the routine of measuring height,weight, fats analysis and posture analysis. It was very useful and from here i learnt about my own body and also she will know which area i should work on to improve my back strenght. Hopefully with her guidance, i will be able to manage my backache and weight management.

Today after the training session, i went by to Munchy Donuts to buy home 1/2 dozen of yummy donuts. This is the 1st time we are trying Munchy, think it will be as delicious as donut factory since they look as good..hehe.