mquang’s BodyBlog

Today the thought of not being able to achieve my fitness goal arise again, and it was such a mood killer, it instantly killed my motivation to exercise.  But then I realize I have no where to go to, no activities planned, no friends around, at least being a gym allows me to listen to some good music, and have time for myself.  I dragged my lazy butt to the gym.  I did Legs, I went straight into doing Squat, then I did Leg extension and varsities of legs exercises.  I was able to increase a bit more weight on doing legs extension, but not on Squat.  I also work on calves, I got to have those nice calves.  I finished my workout with about 20 minutes of cardio, light pace, because my legs was tired.  I have to give myself a 4 Stars for pushing myself on a Friday’s night.

Today, I thought of how fortunate I am for having a good physical health and a complete body and I’m grateful.

I can feel the change in the weather, it is much cooler during the day then a few weeks ago.  It’s my favorite season of the year, the Fall.  Summer has passed, and yet I haven’t been to the beach at all, but in a way, I was not really looking forward to head out to the beach this Summer.  But I do look forward to head out to the beach by next Summer 09.

At the moment, I have no idea how much I weight nor what is my body fat percentage.  I thought of purchasing a scale, but then I know I would be obsessed all over it, and the last thing I need is to lose my focus.  However, I did noticed I am start seeing more veins on my arms, and a bit of veins on my legs.  I am still able to grab fat roll off my stomach, but I feel my abs is tighter then before.  In term of strength, I was able to Squat much heavier weight, and I am beginning to get use to the form.  I eat more then ever, I consume alot of carb in the morning, I also eat more nuts.  My meal is still the same ingredients, chicken breast+rice+yam+veggie+eggs+oatmeal, lean turkey, 93/7 lean beef, whole grain bread.  Nothing chane in using supplement, multivitamins, flax seed, vitamin C, N.O.  In training, M+T+T+F= weight, W=Cardio, Sat=cardi or weight.  Although because I don’t want my body to get adapt to one machine, I tend to switch up between treadmill, elliptical and now using the rowing machine.  I am looking forward to my next picture to see a great physique.

Tony Robbins is right when he said the body is going to change whether we like it or not.  I just saw a few recent pictures of my friends on their beach trip, and I must said they look much different then before, not fat, but just not as tone, a bit more flabby and a whole lot of guts.  I am not comparing myself with my friends nor judging their bodies, but looking at these pictures of my friends give me an option to choose my path and so far I pick the path I am on right now. 

As much as I love to have a great body in a short amount of time as possible, I think I’m going to have to take time to rest and recover.  I feel as if I’m over train.  I feel extremely exhausted after each workout, and have absolutely no energy to carry on the day.  I was dead tired.  I just want to sleep all the time.  I’ve decided to take a few days off of training to recover; hopefull, these few days will boost my energy level up.

I have to learn that fitness is a long term process, and I just have to be patient with it.  The body needs to recover.  The last think I need is to have someone out of shape and have more energy then me…that would suck…blah!!!

After great consideration, I’ve decided to hangout with a few friends on Friday’s night and on Saturday’s night.  It should be alright, I just have to be a bit conscious on choosing my foods wisely.  At first, I thought of sending an "I’m not going e-mail" like other times, but I feel I need to balance out between my social life and my goal.  I believe that I can still have fun, and still able to achieve my goal.  I hope they’re going to an American Restaurant, I can really eat some good steak or sushi

I’ve decided to switch my training, I found a few new splits workout from M&F magazine, and I’m going to start training on that.  Eating been good this whole week, I’ve been doing yam and chicken breast and rice.  I also eat oatmeal, 1 egg, and 3 white, fruits such as apples and bananas.  I’ve been eating about 7 meals a day, and I do noticed I’ve gain a bit mass, which is cool.   I am also going to start doing cardio following each workout to drop bodyfat