Freestylin' II

The freestyling went really well the other day. The moves I did worked the upper body, core and lower body really well. And this has piqued my interest to do another freestyle workout for tomorrow. I'm gonna do only these two moves for tomorrow:

• Atomic Pushup (Jackknife and Pushup combo done with the TRX)
• TRX Row (Inverted row using the TRX)

The vid of the moves is shown below. But I'm not gonna do it ala 40/40 challenge. I don't think I'm up to that standard yet. I'll do it as a superset.

Freestylin'

It's a workout night tonight but I'm actually not in the mood to follow my TT plan. For a change, I'm gonna fool around with different combinations of moves and me thinks this is a good time to try out Mike Geary's express workout which consists of two basic moves. See below:

• Dumbbell squat & press
• Pullups

But perhaps instead of doing pullups or chinups, I'll change it to chinups with knee ups to work on my abs a bit more. Next I plan to throw in an arms superset:

• Skullcrushers
• Bicep curls

And if I manage not to collapse after the two supersets, I'll finish up with some jackknives AND some dumbbell swings (it remains to be seen though, whether my masochistic tendencies will prevail). Yeah that's about it. I'm just posting this up so I can look it up if I feel like doing my own thing again in future.

The Body and Clean Eating

There was a quiet lull in the office. The slides are done and all that's left is to wait for the meeting which is tomorrow. Bored (being super efficient can sometimes suck), I suddenly spotted and unopened cup of instant noodles. Nearing the time of the month, that cup of noodles suddenly looked pretty appealing although truth be told, it has been left untouched for many many months.

So I took the cup of noodles, went to the pantry and prepared myself an unhealthy afternoon snack. Strangely though, it seems that my body is rejecting the MSG laden stuff. After only a few sips I start to feel dizzy. And the dizzy spell stopped when I gave up eating the noodles halfway through.

Hmm... I guess it's a good sign.

I Finally Bought It

After much contemplating, asking around to the point of being irritating, and further online research... earlier tonight I finally bought myself my first ever mass gainer. Okay, it's not really my first ever. Two years ago I bought Appeton's weight gain milk but it tasted horrendous and put me off weight gain supplements for a very long time.

But tonight I decided I should give mass gainers another go and chose to try out BSN's True Mass. Hence I brought home this big tub of strawberry powder. It has this sweet smell often associated with baking and I had my doubts whether it'll taste okay.

It tasted fabulous. A far cry from that horrible substance I tasted two years back. Now my post-workout nutrition is pretty much solved. Hmm... I am definitely gonna stock up on True Mass during fasting month. It's gonna make a good sahur meal, I reckon.

Rants about kids

Do you know what I love about the school holidays apart from the blissful morning traffic? It is the sound of children having fun at the playground. It is the sight of happy families splashing around in the swimming pool. There's still hope for yet for the children of today.

It kind of annoys me to see my young cousins sitting on their asses in front of the idiot box either watching cartoon shows or playing the Playstation accumulating masses of fat, increasing their chances of getting diabetes and heart disease.

Yes, I understand their obsession with the television. I was a kid too. But we still played outside. We still went to parks with our parents. We still biked around the house compound. It seems to me that nowadays the only exercise that children get is walking around in a shopping mall.