I can’t believe this is happening to me. Something must’ve happened. It might happen to you sometime. For me, I am trying to remember this part of my life by jotting it down as much as my memory serves me.

I’m exhausted but for a very good reason. I have been working hard. To be fair, it only began yesterday. To be true, I wouldn’t have done it if it wasn’t because of others. So thank you.

I am choosing to listen.

To people (especially those around me), to my body (I am very sore at the moment) and to myself.

After my recent trip to Penang, remembering my last dinner meal there, I felt somewhat ashamed and liberated at the same time for the amount of food I had consumed. When I got back to KL, I told myself, I need to get back into the grind. No matter how hard this is going to be, no matter how long it’s going to take me.

I have lost and gain. Lost the good stuff, gain some new stuff at the round areas. Nonetheless, it’s still a shape. Well, I’m going to make an attempt to change all that now.

So, I chose to listen.

I don’t know what got over me yesterday but I went to Pushmore in the morning and the workout menu for the day was:

Three rounds for time of:

21 Sumo Deadlift Highpull @ 24kg/16kg
21 Ring Dips
Maximize intensity on this workout. Go hard and fast!
Time: 5:53

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So, I was done with a quick workout, but because of the intensity of going hard and fast, by the time I finished, it felt like a general 20 minute workout for me. The intensity was key, hence my recovery rate was at test again. Oh yes, this is Pushmore. I guessed what triggered the morning workout was after having a quick catch up session with @edmtan on fitness – diet, rest and workouts. I failed to remember for myself these key essentials in training, what it meant to have good rest, good diet and train well for the overall wellbeing of being fit. So, I chose to listen and I took mental notes which will be regurgitated on this entry itself.
  • Training in the morning
  • Protein after workouts
  • Rest – sleeping before 12 and getting a solid of 8 hours
  • And  yes, reducing my alcohol & food intake footprint. bah :p

Later throughout the day, while being on twitter, I saw a whole bunch of tweets (@edmtan , @karellh, @annarina, @JWCFT ) going on about doing a second workout for the day because it was a pretty short workout in the morning. By then, I was already hours on the computer, researching, writing and making some decent progress with work. The body was feeling a tad bit lethargic and I jumped on the bandwagon after Anna suggested we go in  for the kill. Oh yeah, we did, but I ended up killing myself actually.

We ended up doing “Dirty Thirty”

30 Box Jumps
30 L-Pull Ups
30 K.B. Swings @16kgs
30 Walking Lunges
30 Knee to Elbow
30 Push Press @45lbs
30 m sprints
30 Burpees
30 Deadlifts @95lbs
30 Double Unders
Time: 39:56

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Box Jumping with Anna, Jules & Jason

I’m glad I did it though, because it was a clear sign that I was pushing myself. Most thankful for the support as well, checking on form, encouragment for pushing through and just coming alongside while going through that insane workout. I was practically seeing stars after that! Thanks, John-Son and Hans!

I woke up feeling as if a truck had knocked me over countless times, and I was thinking hard on whether I should have gone to Pushmore today. Like, amazingly hard! My body kept saying, it’s okay dude, you kinda winged it last night, float through the day.

I checked what was on the workout menu for the day:

In 20 minutes, do as many rounds as possible of:
5 Knees to Elbows
10 Kettlebell Swings @ 24kg(M)/16kg(W)
15 Double Unders

Time: Completed 7 rounds.

It was monumental! Because:

  • I made it to the gym
  • I did the workout
  • And, I was on the floor after that :)

I went into a state of oblivion and in that half trance mode, I was telling myself, “this is where dreams, and passion meet, this is where all things you wanted to do in your life, everything is achievable. This is telling yourself you can do it and let’s start fresh again tomorrow”

And, my mental notes for the day:

  • The challenge is not whether  you can do multiple workouts, is whether you can come tomorrow.
  • The easiest workout is yesterday
  • And the hardest workout are the ones you choose to start giving up on

If I was ever to start a crossfit blog to track on my fitness progress, I would probably call it – collectingknucklefist.com. Why? That’s what you get after finishing a workout. People coming up to you giving you a knock on  your knuckles as a sign of well done, good job.

I got three as of yesterday. Four, I just gave myself one!

 

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