Ladies, lets kick ass!

Hello maaa readers,

What is the hardest part of losing weight and getting fit? CONSISTENCY.

Trust me, I know.

The solution is to find ONE perfect exercise that suits your interest, goal, body and energy level.

Can you guess mine? Kickboxing lah, ape lagi der.

There are times I don't feel like training with my PT. Rasa malas nak lift weights or do circuit training. But when it comes to kickboxing terus rasa ada je energy. I started getting to know kickboxing about 3 years ago when I joined Fitness First. I can barely keep up during my first body combat class. My movement was all over the place. I didn't get the instructor’s left and right, my joints were so tired from all the jumping and kicking but it was all in good fun.

Taking it to the next level, I hired a PT to help me train. My priority is to learn the proper techniques for kicking and punching. And also the fighting stands (which is important if you want to keep up. Salah stand, salah left and right will make it harder for you to follow the flow. And yea you will look ugly doing it. )

In general, I burn 500-800 calories per hour/hour and a half depending on intensity. Kickboxing gives you an all-over workout, moving and toning everything from your thighs, shoulders, arms, glutes and abs. The fast paced punching and kicking work well to help release stress and frustration.

It is fast, fun and helps you build muscles and burn fat at the same time.

Try lah. ;)

Oh for next year, to motivate me to train harder I bought this shirt that cost me RM35 and a pair of everlast 14oz pink fighting gloves RM130. (Sebab gloves kat gym busuk ok!)

Siapa kata kickboxing tak cute? Haa. 

 XOXO,

Aisha

Gym Culture: Playing By Different Rules.

I knew trouble was on the horizon the moment a friend of mine told me probably about half of the guys at my gym is taking steroids and supplements like fat burners are like their Vitamin C.

When I started going to gym regularly 3 years ago, I’m actually glad somebody told me not to take supplement or fat burner too early on, when you can still lose weight the natural way. But after a while, you do reach a point of your natural limit, and you need to make a decision. Do you want to take it further? I believe that’s an individual choice. My basic science understanding regarding fat burner is, taking fat burners can prevent our ability to burn fat the natural way. Meaning that you’ll eventually become dependent on what you take and that it will lose some of it effectiveness. Our body will quickly become aware of the extra chemicals and so believes it does not need to burn as many itself. Or maybe the product increases our basal metabolic rate but may eventually disrupt our natural thyroid production. Same goes with hormones. Do you rather have extra of the fake testosterone rather than real one? IS IT WORTH IT? You choose.

I bet in any gym there are few ‘awesome’ looking people who stand out instantly among a sea of people with average looking bodies at best.  And that sea of average looking bodies at best people will think, “I need to find out what he/she doing so I can start doing it too and look awesome as he/she does”. Same goes when we look at fitness models, bodybuilders and A-list celebrities. We look at them, see the results they’ve gotten, and our first instinct is to replicate whatever it is they are doing.

Now here comes the part that separates average people with principled people.

It seems like a great idea and we’ve all probably been there before. But in reality, most of this hormones/stimulants/chemicals have different side effects in different people. I mean, its biology! Who can tell what works fine for them will work with our body just as good without the side effects?

What I learned is that, the next time some big guy (or big girl) comes over to give you training advice that is not inline with what you read and teach yourself, be careful. Chances are they are using whatever god knows drugs and chemicals. And if he does, whatever worked for him won’t work for you because you’re playing by very different rules.

And btw, I cannot wait to start training with my pink gloves. hehe. Tetiba kan kuar tajuk? takde kena mengena pun. Sukati i lah. Lol 

 XOXO,

Aisha :)