Saturday afternoon - To gym or NOT to gym ...

Oops! people must be thinking... My only things can be do in Saturday is to gym. I was slowing down on going to the gym recently. Kind of lazy, not sure why but i think i have to ditch my bad habit of not hitting the gym as often as i did. 

I was proudly telling everyone i'm a gym goer and hitting the gym everyday. But today, I was asking myself "To gym or NOT to gym" 

Guess what? 

One of my friend who is a blogger posted a picture in my FB after i ask this "To gym or NOT to gym"

hehehe... do you find going to gym very hard? I found consistently going to the gym is hard after you kind of slow down. 

Okay~ Time to wrap up and hit the gym eh~

New Fitness First Functional workout Area

After Fitness First 1 Mont Kiara refurbished, they have built a dedicated functional workout area on one corner of the gym.

New Functional Workout Area

The workout area is not very big but it's quite sufficient for members to have a good workout. It equipped with lots of functional workout equipment like Monkey bar... etc.

Everyday @ 6pm, a functional workout session is held here and lots of core gym goer participate with energetic workout body... Each session has one facilitator whom setup a few stations for the participants to rotate to workout. The participant can choose which station to start with... If not mistaken the participant has to workout in the particular station for a minute. When the bell rings, they rotate to another station.

Workout session

Workout session

One day i should sign up and workout together with this team...
Anyone try this before?

CoreBag

Have you hear about CoreBag?

My Personal Trainer (PT) is using this for our training session on Saturday morning

It's not a handbag like Couch, LV etc, not a tote bag, not a plastic bag, not environmental bag that you can handle your grocery. So what is Core Bag?

Are you ready for me to review CoreBag... A new bag in the world that you can build your muscle, lost fat and workout your abs. 6 packs? Hmmm.... you may try ;-)

Which one are you going to choose? 25KG or 33LBS?

Now, let me show you a video on how this works eh~

TZ's Unhealthy period

TZ has skipped gym since last Thursday due to replacement MBA weekdays night class. After work, TZ rushed for 6:30pm class from Wednesday till Friday last week. TZ went to gym after class on Wednesday, there was the last workout TZ has for 45 mins until 11pm.

Saturday and Sunday was away from City of Potholes to Penang... No gym in Penang that can take TZ's membership. Fitness First closed down already.

Monday, Oct 14th 2014 - Attending MBA class again until 10pm. It was too late to go to gym.
In addition, TZ felt hungry after the class and drove over to McD @ Plaza Mont Kiara for a snack...  Errr... not really snack but a quarter pounder set dinner. Oops~

Quarter Pounder set

So, it's really unhealthy eh~

On going to TRX 45 mins Circuit Class by Jacq Ng

I managed to hit the gym at around 5pm yesterday. I straightaway went to see the class schedule for 5ish class... Any class i could attend, wanted to kick start my week with a light workout especially NO GYM for the past 4 days.

5:15pm was the TRX class by Jacq Ng. I quickly changed to my exercise attire, went to the front desk for registration, walked over to the group exercise main studio. Jacq  was there preparing for the class. He actually saw me looking at the board earlier.

He was surprised that i changed so quickly and headed to his class. BTW, i was surprised as he addressed me by my full name. Wow~ how you know my full name? After some thought, i think he knew my full name is because he is the Personal Training Manager in 1MK and i have signed up for so many PT sessions with his team. So, should not have any surprise he knew me by name eh~ :-)

Back to TRX, it was a circuit class and Jacq being a pleasant and encouraging facilitator. He has made the class very enjoyable, 45 mins passed so quickly and we really have a good workout since options were given to us. In additional,  he encouraged us to listen to our own body... Some of the exercise i just have to forgo since i have lost some momentum/stamina without going to gym for 4 days.You must be thinking how could this happen, but for a core gym person like me... it makes a different kub~

For those people who don't know what is TRX and never see TRX,  here is a video clip...

NO GYM DAYs

Sister is in town for a weekend... I was not going to gym since Thursday until today - Sunday.

Thursday - No gym
After work, went to Grapes in Cyberjaya with Colleagues for Happy Hour before heading to airport to pick up my sister and sent her to the hotel. Too late for gym and i didn't not bring my clothing with me.

Friday - No gym
Wanted to hit the gym at 4:30pm but ended up the rain was coming and didn;t want to get wet, so decided to skip gym and went out dinner with my parent and le sister.

Saturday - No gym
Went for lunch with parents and le sister in Sukiya, planned to hit the gym after dropping them back to my condo. Ended up Dad suggested to head over to VW to have a test drive on Polo and Jetta. So gym didn't happen due to too rush for me as we have planned to have dinner at port klang. Sigh~

Sunday - No gym
Had brunch with my friend came back for holiday from Scotland. Initially, i have planned to hit the gym after the brunch but ended up sitting in Tous Les Jours, Bintang Walk for the whole afternoon until sister called for dinner. Quickly sent my friend back to pick up his car and headed home...

Total 4 days of  NO GYM day... Oops~ am i getting fat?

On swinging like a monkey

Fitness First Avenue K has installed a racks of functional workout... It has becoming quite popular outlet after its make over on reflecting the latest Fitness First Rebranding. They have installed some new tools and workout equipment. One of them is

Functional Workout Rack - Monkey Bar (the Gray rack)

The Monkey Bar rack was for those members whom wanted to workout their arms and abs... this workout rack is a whole body functional workout. Not really fully utilized at this moment as not many people able to swing from one bar to another. 

Back to the Monkey Bar Workout... I was trying to swing myself from one bar to another... the most i can finished was 5 bars which not even 1/3 of the total bars. Anyway, i'm trying to reach as many as i could on my next attempt. One bar at a time~ :p

Anyone has tried this workout?

Are you an AskHole?

500 reps exercise

Friend : Hey TZ, why are you working out so hard? Are you insane?
Me: Nope~ Why you say I insane?
Friend : You do hundreds reps of each exercise... Chin up, Push Up, Dip, Shoulder pull, Bicep curl etc...
Me : Hehehe... that's one of the training my PT ask me to do in order to get nice upper body.
Friend : Oh Really?
Me : Yes~
Friend : I will try...
Me : Don't try... Just do it?

That's was Friend A chatting with me via Phone...

Ex-colleagues: Hey TZ, long time didn;t see you in gym... thought you quit
Me: Hahaha... i quit? *inside me --> You quit also i will not quit; LoL
Ex-colleagues: You work out very hard recently. Your upper body getting nicer.
Me: Thank you. Yup~ I kind of work out hard recently. Workout 500 reps program designed by my PT.
Ex-colleagues: what is 500 reps exercise?
Me: It's you do 100 reps for 5 different exercises within 1~1.5hrs.
Ex-colleagues: Interesting, so what you do?
Me: I do chin up, push up, dip... blah blah blah
Ex-colleagues: Wow~ *Jaws dropped*

This was me bumped into Ex-colleague @ Fitness First - Paradigm Mall

Colleague in US: TZ how many push up can you do in 1 mins?
Me: Maybe 40-50... Not sure cause i didn't really count. What's about?
Colleague in US: I challenged the team over in US to start with how many push up can they do in 1 min. And will track the improvement every month.
Me: Oh~ Sound interesting, Can i join in?
Colleague in US: Certainly you can... 
Me: Will let you know the number eh~.
** Next Day
Colleague in US: TZ, what is your baseline number?
Me: 53.
Colleagues in US: Wow~
Me: Not really a good one.. Can be improved... hehehe...

That's my Colleague in US challenged me on how many push up i could do in ONE MINUTE.  How many you can do?

Me: Hey Dude~ Gym today?
Gym Dude: Nope~ Got stuck in the pile of work @ office. Still having meeting in a short while.
Me: Oh no~ poor you.
Gym Dude: Yup... a bit emo now cause cannot go to gym. Body slowly out of shape jor
Me: You must be kidding. Dude like you with a nice body... out of shape a bit it's okay. 
Gym Dude: You haven't seen me for months. My body has out a shape a bit.
Me: Don't belief... you are so conscious yet you say body out of shape, don't think so... 
Gym Dude: How you know my body still in shape since we haven't met for months
Me: Anyway, dude we will gym together when you are free eh~
Gym Dude: Okay~.

That's my once a while gym buddy via whatsapp... 

Can you reserve a gym locker? @ Fitness First

A: Excuse Me, you are using my locker
B: I thought no one is using this locker
A: Don't you see there is a set of Towel in the locker?
B: You mean the gym towel? I though the other person just forgot to return.
A: It's mine that i left inside... Can you get another locker?
B: *shut the locker door and proceed to the toilet*
A: *shouted @ B* Can you understand what i meant?
B: How could you use the Towel to reserve the locker?
A: Are you going to give it back to me? (B has placed all the stuff and got changed to his gym clothing)

Me: I'm going to leave right now. You may use this locker.
B: Do you mind using that locker instead?
A: Okay~ *unhappy*

I believe A has placed the towel and got out from the locker room to do something... not sure why he don't lock the locker. Maybe the card was not working... 

So, can you reserve a gym locker using the Gym Towel? Why in the first place B go to take out the gym Towel and get the locker. (there is the only upper deck locker available). Maybe B have not choice to get the one.

Gym membership - What is your goal?

Gym membership seems like a trend in Malaysia and Singapore. Nowadays, almost every young people are talking about gymming... Are you a gym goer yourself?

"Which gym are you going?"
"Fitness First. u?"
"Oh... cool. Mine is Celebrity Fitness"
"I didn't join any chain. Mine is xxx on top of the shop houses"
"Wow~ there is a hardcore gym eh~"
"......."

So, what would you like to achieve when you join the gym?

Different people has different goal to achieve in the gym. Some people engaging the Personal Trainer to strength their stamina and core, work hard and hoping to get the result fast... But some people just go to the gym to enjoy the environment, walking around and chit chat. This bunch are the happy go lucky... Minimum exercise~ ...There are group whom like to stalk people from behind to see what others are working out... These people just spent most of the time walking around the gym,  and they are not serious about working out hard.... Maybe their goal is not workout but stalk out...No point to join the gym eh~

I saw a very humorous way of representing the gym members inside the gym... 

Adapted from FB - Muscle and Brawn

So which one of the above character well represent you as a gym member?
What is your goal when you sign up for the gym?

Missing Rack in locker

Sometime i don't understand why people could afford RM200+ per month gym membership yet steal the clothing rack from the gym locker. Maybe this people like to steal or they have some stealing disease...

Did you see one of the rack is missing?

This is why the Fitness First Platinum club in Malaysia does not offer the gym workout pants and T-shirt, moreover we need to return our towel in the counter in exchange of our membership card. Guess what? Fitness First Platinum club in Singapore offers the workout pants and T-shirt... after the member finished using the attire, they just dropped it in the laundry bin on their way out from the locker room.

There was one time in The Curve, i saw one aunty just holding the small towel and left the gym... hey come on aunty~ you have paid RM200+ for gym membership, don't tell me you could not even afford to purchase a towel from the shop. What a joke eh~

So what do you think?

TZ got stalked

Do you agree Monday is a BLUE day?  For me it was an interesting day for me... I was wearing Blue T-Shirt and Blue Jeans for today attire in the office. (for those who don't know, my office allow me to wear T-shirt and Jeans to office. Yahoo~)

As usual i finished my work at around 4pm and headed to gym for my Personal Training Session. After the PT session, i usually sit on the couch and cool myself down. Of cause started playing with my phone. Answering FB updates. All of the sudden i gotten this picture via Whatsapp...

TZ is playing with his phone

To my surprise, the picture above sent with a couple of messages...
" Don't be a hypocrite ok. You spend lots of time watsap la." 
"I post this to Facebook ok :)"

My reply...
"up to u :)"
"cooling down b4 shower"
";-p"
"not like you"

Everything is POSSIBLE extreme Ride 2013

I received an invitation from Izwan, the RPM instructor to participate on the Everything is Possible Extreme Ride 2013 at Fitness First clubs. All the participants have to finished 24 rides in any RPM classes in order to be qualified for the Finale Ride i.e. 3 hours ride in Fitness First Avenue K. 

I was given the first signature after riding in Izwan RPM class @ Summit Wednesday. I still not sure whether should i continue to participate as i will be losing most of my muscle cause i need to attend 3 classes per week in order to get the qualification. 

The instructor signature

The report card :p

Here you go the step by step explanation. All the participants need to abide to the timeline given and finished the number of RPM classes accordingly to the timeline. Is this tough? I would say not to those RPM advance riders but for those beginner, you may need to put more effort to complete the requirement. 

Anyone interested to participate the Extreme Ride 2013?

Buff, Lean and Flexi

The Personal Trainer (PT) who trained me since March has decided to move on and he has resigned from Fitness First One MK to pursue his new career... Air Steward. 

Anyway, I changed to another PT who has even more years of experience. Last Tuesday was the first session. He was asking me what i would like to achieve. I told him... 

1. Six Packs
2. Strong legs and bigger lower body (someone comment my upper body was too big to match with my lower body. So sad eh~ )
3. Have a nice cut on the arms. Those drooling arm. 

Then my new PT commented ... "Buff, Lean and Flexi"  

He told me he wanna to plan to buff me up a bit by further reducing my current 14% fat... Usually a buff and lean person might not have a good flexibility of his body, so he also plan some exercise to strength my joint and make sure i have flexibility on my body and not walking like a ROBOT.

Before our new training chapter begins, he did two assessments on me... 

• Weight me with the electronic weighing machine that shown the % of fat etc.
• Planned exercises with total body workout to be the benchmark of the first day.

So, i finished the all the exercises within an hour... And we marked down all the reps vs time. Like total push up within 30 sec. etc. Guess how many push up i did for 30sec? Interesting eh~

Anyway, for the whole day today i was dreaming to have RAIN's body :p

Can i achieve?

RPM with Izwan

My PT has restricted me to have only one cardio exercise per week. So i choose my RPM on every Thursday. Today, my ex-colleagues cemek has decided to join me on RPM.

Izwan was our instructor for RPM @ Fitness First Manulife. I registered for his class when the RPM registration just opened. Therefore, i gotten my regular bicycle which is facing Izwan. In short, he could see me and i could see him clearly especially adjusting the resistant.

Class started around 7:05pm... he announced that this was the last week to play the new release i.e. RPM 55. I wasn't sure others RPMer whether they have fed up with the track... But for me this is new as i was not able to attend any RPM class last week. 

Among the track... my favorite is track 2 with this song

I became center of attention as today i cycled energetic and fast... So, Izwan kept challenging me to put on more load aka increase the resistance... now i feel the soreness on my leg. 

But anyhow, it's a nice class with the humorous instructor.

bubble butt

There was one night as i was whatapps-ing with one of my lady friend. We were discussing on gym thingy. She has signed up 50 sessions with one of the PT in her gym. At that time, i was just planning to sign up my first 30 sessions. I was asking her opinion which part should i plan to improve with my  PT the moment i signed up the sessions. So, i told her my improvement plan

1. Get rid of the fat surrounding the waist
2. Tone up the whole body
3. Get a six packs abs
4. Get a nice cut arms
5. Get a firm and bubble butt

Guess what? my friend told me i don't need to work on item #5... she said my butt is nice already... luckily it's not a face to face conversation, otherwise i will definitely *blush blush* 

Anyway, i didn't know my butt attracts attention too... 

30 PT Session completed

Yesterday marked the completion of my 30 Personal Training (PT) session. Do i got the body as what i wanted? 

Picture adapted from http://www.dramainkorea.com

Unfortunately i still don't have the body like RAIN, the korean celebrity... whom almost everyone admire his nice and defined body... imagine TZ has this body... wow~ *Slap slap TZ*

I'm asking myself on how long more should i have to go on diet, extensive exercise with PT... In the first place, can i get there or not?... 

One of my friend teased me that i will NOT be able to get this body. He asked me to forget on working hard to achieve it... why? According to him, due to my age, it's not easy or impossible to get what RAIN has... Sad right?  

Anyway, i wanted to proof my friend wrong and started to work hard to reach my goal i.e. gain 6 pack @ the abs. I have renew another 30 PT session until end of this year. 

Do you think i could do it?

300 vs 500 calories

My PT said ...
"If no training, you have to burn at least 500 calories Cardio... "
"If training, we need to burn 300 calories on Cardio... "

So what cardio exercises that i could do during non - training day. I'm fond of RPM, Easy Steps... Definitely not a fan of Body Combat as i felt more like dancing that beating.

Okay, now i started to track on my calories burn per exercise, so i could get rid of those stubborn fat and be like the Korean famous weather representative guy... RAIN...

Hmmm... Can i achieve this?

Can i be 25 years old again?

Let's continue with my previous post... I'm targeting to be 25 years old again... and my friend commented "Dream On"... of cause I'm not able to get 25 years old again on my chronological age... but i still able to get 25 again on my Metabolic age.

Have you heard about metabolic age? let's Wiki to find out. 

Last Friday, my PT gave me a weighing session before my warm up. I was shocked with my weights and felt sad with my Metabolic age. The report shown my Metabolic age is 33, which is no longer 25 as four years back. Anyway, I should be happy as my Metabolic age is still lower than my Chronological age. 

I told my PT that i wanna to be 25 years old again... My PT said that's NOT impossible. But... 

Okie, I will commit to do more cardio to boost up my burning rate a.k.a Metabolism rate. I can do it and i will be there in one month.

Yesterday, when i was browsing FB status and i came across a report / status update from one of my gym friend. His report is so nice ... Guess what? His Metabolic age is 18. Amazingly good eh~

So what is your metabolic age and Chronological age?