No more 6am run anymore!

Crap! I was sweating all the way from home to work this morning, after my 6am HIIT! I feel so uncomfortable in my office attire.

Guess I'll just do it after work, even if it's in the middle of the night.

Improvement?

I think I can call it an improvement. This week is the last week of my 1-hr gym workout program. I can feel that my chest, back, shoulders and arms has more definitions than before. (Nope I won't post photo yet.)

However the abs seems to have no progress at all. I am not surprised because I don't really keep to a very strict low-carb diet, and I don't intend to go into one anytime in the future. What I will do is to improve on my diet to a more stricter balanced diet.

According to many people I have talked to in my gym, it is no use to do 1000 abs crunch on a daily basis. If you have body fat around your waist, you will never see your abs. The most important thing to see your abs is to reduce your bodyfat to around 10% or less. I am currently at 21% bodyfat, so you can imaging I still have a lot of work to do. :(

To achieve this 10% of bodyfat, other than a stricter balanced diet, I intend to wake up at 6am every Tuesday and Thursday to perform a 15-mins HIIT for another 8 weeks, on top on my existing program.

My program will look like this as a result:

Mon: 1 HR resistance training at gym.
Tue: 15 mins HIIT around my neighbourhood.
Wed:1 HR resistance training at gym.
Thu: 15 mins HIIT around my neighbourhood.
Fri:1 HR resistance training at gym.
Sat: Rest day.
Sun: Swimming at gym.

As you can see, the focus is still to keep it short and sweet. Do less for more. :)

More introduction

Finally I have the chance to write a proper introduction for my blog. Firstly I want to say that I am still not sure what I willput up on my blog yet, so I willjust randomly throw my thoughts into it. Here goes...

Just to repeat myself, my goal for setting up this blog is to create a journal of my workout routines and the progress, so that it acts as some sort of encouragement to myself.

Two weeks ago, I have just started a workout program in the gym. This workout program is designed in such a way that it required very little time spent in the gym. On average it takes only 1 hour to finish everything in the gym, including shower, changing etc. I think this is very suitable for people like me who are very busy with works. My last program take like almost two hours, it is very discouraging every time I step into the gym.

In case you might be thinking, "This guy's a newbie. He's gonna quit working out in a few more weeks". I might not be a veteran bodybuilder, but neither am I a newbie. I will not give up so easily. I already have a target in my mind on what I want to achieve. I will not quit before I reach it.

One more thing before I wrap up for this post, if you are interested in my current workout program, you can email me at terence.tkc@gmail.com. I would be glad to share it.

Starting out

I have been thinking for a long while, on whether I should start a blog to keep track of my workout progress. I think it will be some sort of an encouragement to motivate myself to finish my workout program.

For now, just a simple introduction. Next to come are more introduction of myself and my workout goal.