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29 June 2009
Tonight is a good night to run
Tonight after the rain, the weather is very cooling, i'm on top form for a run. Since i'm feeling top form, i decided to run HIIT.
3 rounds around my neighborhood market place. What is HIIT? HIIT (High intensity interval training) is a exercise workout that will improve performance in short and intense workout. In this sense, burning more fats and improve running. What i did was, instead of running in normal pace, i did this:
slow run 30secs, sprint 10sec, slow run 30 sec, sprint 10sec. Repeat this cycle for 3 rounds around my neighborhood market place.
I am a newbie so i use 30secs to cool down after my 10sec sprint. But as i train more, i will cut down on my cool down timing, maybe 20secs slow run. Therefore, the lesser the cool down, the faster you run, of cos tougher. Some research says normal running will burn less fats as the body will get used to the normal pace, thus wasting more time inefficiently.
Anyway since i am on top form so just try out lor haha, sometimes run normally sometimes run HITT. Here's what written on wikipedia:
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) or sprint interval training is an exercise strategy that is intended to improve performance with short training sessions. HIIT is a form of cardio which is beneficial to burning fat in a short and intense workout.
A study by Gibala et al.[4] demonstrated 2.5 hours of sprint interval training produced similar biochemical muscle changes to 10.5 hours of endurance training and similar endurance performance benefits. According to a study by King [5] , HIIT increases the resting metabolic rate (RMR) for the following 24 hours due to excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, and may improve maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 max) more effectively than doing only traditional, long aerobic workouts.[6][7][8][9] Long aerobic workouts have been promoted as the best method to reduce fat, as fatty acid utilization usually occurs after at least 30 minutes of training. HIIT is somewhat counterintuitive in this regard, but has nonetheless been shown to burn fat more effectively.
Take a good look at my fat belly, cause pretty soon it is gonna disappear!
This is the now picture, which you can call the "BEFORE" picture. (Please dont ask me why i took at this awkward angle.)
When i am finally a free-man in July, i gonna do a hell lot of training and kiss tummy good bye. I dare to show everyone my thick thick tummy, i got no embarrassment, mark my words: tummy will be gone in 2009! I will show everyone my "AFTER" picture when i did it :)
Do you have a belly too? Its high time to start working on it now! Make yourself looks better, more confident too. Come on!
The first thing to know is: do not over eat. Notice that i said "do not "over eat", and not "anyhow eat". I don't stress "anyhow eat", cause if i do, it means i am going on a strict diet, which i don't think will works for me. This cannot eat, that cannot eat, how to tahan? So i said, do not over eat. What it means is do not over stuff yourself during meal times. Eat just full, not over full. Typical example is starving the whole afternoon and eat like a pig over dinner buffet! That is really a good way to store more fats down the belly. :<
As for more tips, i think i will share when it works for me. If not all these are sheer rubbish. :)
Yesterday watched 我猜我猜我猜猜猜 got one girl going to release her own EP soon. She sing a part of her 自創曲, 自彈, 自唱 song. Very nice lor. Her name is call 思涵, she is under the company of F.I.R.
Currently Shaw theaters now got movie promotion. You can purchase movie tickets at $6 during weekdays using UOB credit/debit cards. Sounds like Cathay theaters? But, there's a catch; Shaw $6 tickets are only available for weekdays movies BEFORE 6pm. Why the stringent? If you want promote UOB $6 then do it generously like Cathay!
Filmgarde theaters movie promotion is not very attractive either. They issue you a movie card whereby you received a stamp for every movie you watch, until 27th Aug 09. If you collected 10 stamps, you are entitled to a free movie! But, there is also a catch! You can only redeem the free movie for movies on Mon to Thurs before 27th Aug 09, not applicable for sneaks preview and eve, public holidays. So many rules, see liao also sianz. If you do some maths, watching 10 movies with 1 extra free movie still cost more than watching 11 movies at Cathay $6.
This week is a very "Xiong" week. My showroom starts to tear down. (Lease contract over, boss giving up on this place.) Dismantle racking, remove and fill back holes on the walls, remove all lighting, basically its history repeats itself on feb 3rd.
Furniture stocks were sent back to boss's house. Even the racking was sent to boss's house and re-assemble over there. Faint! Even though i'm not the one doing the manual work, but watching over the workers is just as tiring.
Up till now i haven't off for this week, anticipating for my long awaited off next week!
Off topic I played with my boss's dog at her house haha. The dog is very friendly, never seen her anyhow bark. She came to me tails wagging and a soft ball in her mouth. Doggy saw me nothing to do so come to disturb. So i gave the dog some "fetch the ball" game :) This is my first time playing with a dog! U lucky dog~ By the way that dog also lick my fingers when i wasn't looking O.O
My friend, John, hitched a new girlfriend recently. But he also broke up with her recently. Simply because of one thing he said to her:
"My mom thinks we are not compatible because our zodiac clashed."
???????!!!!!!!!!................ Haha. When i heard this, i was bemused, and a little bit amused, sorry haha. What the hell, like that also can???
Apparently John told his mom about his new girlfriend, how they got to know each other, all their joy, small squabbling, almost everything. Yea, its good to start introducing your new girlfriend to mommy and daddy, but parents are parents, they tend to show some concern to their little boy's new hitch. But to show disapproval with the reason of zodiac non compatible? Hello which year are we right now? If any girl would reject me with this kind of reason, i would probably think shes insane!
How do you judge a person whom you have never met, only by listening to one side of the stories and calculating with zodiac signs? That's bull! If you are very superstitious chinese believer, maybe you say "date of birth" not compatible, but dude this friend of mine is a christian... Does mom knows your girlfriend better than you? Not to mention that mom never seen her before, yet. So is it fair to break off with her with kind of reasoning? Definitely nope, not for a 30yr old John.
footnote: Don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to insinuate everyone to defy your parents. But please do weigh opinions discreetly. Fortunately for him, his girlfriend cannot bear to leave him and message him just now. Good for him :)
