Slouching Resolutions

Quite a lot of people have been coming up with their new year’s resolution lately, but I seemed to have started this year off with not many resolutions in my head. The most obvious resolution would be for me to find a job, as life is not very fulfilling when you are jobless and always having to watch your spending… so I went in search for my 2011 resolution, something easy but not too easy…


Now that the Christmas and new year period has mostly blown over, almost everything in the city is back to normal, most of the shops are back open, including the gym. For those of you that don’t know, Christmas and new year here is a lil bit like Chinese new year and Hari Raya back home, EVERYTHING closes.


So I’ve started to get back into my gym schedule and doing extra cardio to burn of all that extra weight gained over the holidays. At the gym, someone commented about me having bad posture while lifting, and also bad posture while just standing around. And it was at that moment that I realised I’ve found my resolution.




I’m resolved this year to correct my posture problem! Its not an impossible task, as I’m sooo over setting impossible resolutions, stuff such as: buying a house, getting a hot boyfriend, becoming king of the world! LoL, it makes no sense when you make resolutions you can’t fulfil.


Anyway, my main resolution related to health this year is not to lose more weight or to get that six pack, I just don’t have the six pack genes okay, what I want to do is to correct my hunching posture.



Thought not many of you know me, I do hunch and slouch quite a bit, and that is bad, as I may very well end up looking like Quasimodo from the hunch back of Notredome, and though he may be kind hearted… his looks are kinda a scare.



So resolution this year!!!


Bye bye slouching!
Bye bye hunching!
And Hullo good posture!

Signing out.

Losing The Wrong Stuff

Being back for a while now, the one comment I constantly get from people meeting me is how I’ve lost ‘soo’ much weight. Erm, at first I was rather happy with that comment and took it as a compliment, but recently the types of comment I get sounds more like an offence than a compliment. And that kinda scares me.

One of my friends even asked if I had some form of major sickness or something, though I’m pretty sure he meant it as more of a joke, it still stung a little.

I think I’ve been attracting negative comments because the weight and mass that I have lost with all my workouts seems to be on all the wrong places. I seem to have smaller arms, neck and legs, but still the same old love-handle filled gut.

Seriously having been religiously going to the gym for more than a year now, yet I'm still no where near a six-pack, I’m starting to think I may just not have the six-pack genes… Its not that I must have a six-pack… but err, I guess it would be cool to have one :) I mean if I cant have a boyfriend like Taylor, the least I can do is have a body like his right?



Haha, yea that looks great, but maybe a little to ambitious :p Gonna review my workout to maybe try and lose and gain mass in the right places! How I wish there was an easier way.

Signing out.

Ready For Combat

Previously I wrote posts on me joining LesMills' group fitness classes... and today I joined another new class for the very first time! If you recall from my post on BodyStep... I had a very bad experience due to the 'not-so-good' instructor. Not one to give up (or rather not wanting to admit that I'm bad at choreographed exercise) I decided to try another highly choreographed group fitness... and that's BodyCombat.

BodyCombat! "AIYA!!!!" <--- kicking sound effect

Woohoo! The instructor this time was great, he actually showed the important moves quite well before the moves had to be executed, so I caught on pretty well. And I'm real pleased with myself for completing the class without looking like a complete idiot, unlike BodyStep, in which I looked like a lost goat.

This dude here is gonna be me soon... I hope... maybe...

I give a thumbs up to the instructor that did the class (insert thumbs up photo), and wish that the world would have more instructors like him so that the world would be a better place! Oh, and despite it being a combat and "supposedly brutal" group fitness session, there were way more gals than guys in the class... I was one of the only three guys in the whole class... and one of the other two was the instructor. Lol. And whoa... trust me, you don't wanna mess with some of the gals there... they can really pack a punch.

Signing out.

Step Up Step Down

Today I went for my very first BodyStep class, another one of the group fitness sessions by LesMills… and boy was I bad at it. It all started with me arriving early at the gym, and since the BodyStep class was about to begin, I thought to myself why not try it out. So I entered the exercise studio about 5 minutes before the class began. The group instructor was actually chatting to some of the other participants in the class before the class began, and right away I could tell that he was most probably gay, and quite open about it. (for his tone and body actions)

You see, he was gossiping with the other participants about some other women, in which he thinks she went for lipo suction… whereas the participants thought that she got her six pack from all the group fitness classes. My first impression was that he as an instructor shouldn’t be gossiping about others and speculating whether or not they went for lipo suction, because to me it doesn’t seem ethical for a fitness instructor to make that sort of comment.

After he finished his gossiping the Step class started, and the exercise class was basically a choreographed class that involves stepping up and down a piece of plastic exercise step. Well personally I felt he was a terrible instructor, because knowing that me and another girl was new to the class, he went straight into the choreographed dance steps without giving us any idea of what the moves should be like before the music started.



To me that made him a terrible instructor, you see in my other classes… especially BodyPump, the instructor usually showed the important movements in the song track that will be played before hand, this is so that the class can at least get the gist of the required actions and movement to make during the song track. This guy… he didn’t care… knowing that there are two beginners in the class, he still went on with the class as usual without any extra explanation. He could very well have given me a quick simple basic idea before the class started instead of gossiping… but no… he much rather chat with his ‘regular’ participants on whether or not someone got her six pack through lipo suction.

So basically I’m ranting coz I made a fool out of myself in Step class. I couldn’t even add in the hand movements as I was mostly busy looking at everyone’s feet trying to understand what the next set of choreographed movements would be… I was a total newbie in Step and I wasn’t given the help I needed. He didn’t even come up to me after class and ask how was my first Step class… so to me, he didn’t fully fulfil his role as a fitness instructor. Immediately after class, he went back to chit chatting with his 3 ‘regular’ Step class participants (they seem to know each other very well).

Kid: "I HATE STEP!!!"

I could practically read what was on his mind, I bet he is thinking that I wouldn’t turn up for Step class next week anyway… so that’s why he didn’t wanna waste his time going through and teaching me the moves. Well, probably the only reason I wouldn’t go back to Step class is because I got such a bad impression of the first session. It’s a bit like having a bad math teacher in primary school… because of one bad teacher, the student may very well hate maths for the rest of his or her life… and the same can be said with me and my Step class.

Signing out.

Group Session

As mentioned before I've joined a gym when I came back to Malaysia for my summer holidays. So since the group fitness sessions are free and already part of the gym membership, I thought to myself... 'what the hell, I should try out some of these classes.' After all I wouldn't pass off a chance to try something free. So off I went to my first group fitness class called RPM. I should give you a bit of background knowledge on these group fitness classes, firstly they are called Les Mills classes... Les Mills is the brand name of the company that developed all these group fitness sessions, and obviously its named after a dude named Les Mills. Les if I'm not mistaken is some medal winning athlete from New Zealand, and these sessions were produced by him.

Anyway, there are a few types of classes, and to my knowledge... They are bodypump, bodyjam, bodyattack, bodybalance, bodystep, bodycombat and RPM. The classes are structured according to loud music beating in the backgroud, so the music coupled with the instructor shouting his or her lungs out is supposed to be motivational to its participants. So as I was saying, the first of the fitness class I attended was RPM, and that’s a group cycling class. I'm not entirely sure why its called RPM, but I’m guessing it stands for rounds/revs per minute, which is a bike riding measurement of how fast you're cycling. Well anyway, the class was pretty good and the instructor was a lady... so I guess there wasn’t much eye candy for me.



But whoa, the work out was very intense... In a mere 50 minute cycling workout, I must have sweated at least a small glass full of sweat. At the end of the session I was absolutely drenched in sweat and very tired. But none the less, I felt it was a really good workout. Since that first RPM class, I've been to a few more... And they really did give me a great workout. On a side note, the other few RPM classes I attended were with guy instructors, in tight lycra bike outfits :]

The next group fitness class I tried out was bodypump... And just the other day was my first class... Most of my muscles are still aching from that classes, I reckon they are taking so long to recover because they aren't muscle groups that I usually train, and the class really left me with real sore muscles. Anyway, pump is a class whereby you exercise to the music with a weighted bar. The difficulty isn't in the weight, but more of the high reps that is involved in pump. The same action is repeated over and over again at different speed according to the beat of the music, and if my fitness knowledge doesn't fail me, high repetition exercise is great for muscle toning, where as heavy weight low reps are good for building bulk. Since toning is my main fitness goal (It isn't like I don't already have enough bulk) I felt that pump is something I'm very likely to do again.




Anyway, the class was a bit embarrassing for me, because some of the girls there were carrying much more weight than me. I started the warm up with three and a half kilos each side... and then moved up to five kilos each side for two song tracks. Then embarrassingly I had to move my weights back down to three and a half kilos for the remaining of the session... I felt kinda sissy, cause there was this girl that remained with five kilos throughout the session.

So that’s my group fitness experience so far, I have yet to try the other classes and not sure if I'll try them... Since the time slots are quite odd and don’t fit into my schedule... But I'll definitely continue to attend pump and RPM classes. Okay...

Time to come clean I guess, another reason i attend these classes is because I know a lot of my gay friends, both here in Malaysia and in Melbourne love to attend these classes. And I must say that after attending them for myself, my gaydar was tingling like mad, and I think its safe to say that most guys attending these fitness classes are gay. I'm not saying all are gay, just most :] some of my gay friends are a real sucker for these classes, and I even know a few that attend several a day. But I’m wondering if they are actually doing the classes right? Coz maybe they aren’t using enough weight or putting enough resistance when they are on the bike??? Cheers

Signing out.