B's life

This week and today
I have had a great Xmas week. I only went to the gym today and did a serious 2 hours total body exercise.
I did 30 minutes of cardio and at least around 45 minutes of resistance and weights. I also tried a new exercise. It’s called Cable squat Row and pull. I tried this one as it works on your whole body; legs, back, torso and arms. I would recommend you try it once if you have a weighted cable.

I also did quite a lot of upper body weight and it felt good. But I didn’t feel the soreness that I normally get after a work out….Well we’ll just see tomorrow morning if my muscle are sore.

Quick note: You should not do any workout if you are in sharp pain, if it is a  muscle pain and anything below the neck it should be OK. But consult a doctor before doing anything.

The weekend
This weekend I am planning to go to the Islington (platinum) fitness first in the morning and then head to my university to revise for the day. I am planning to eat some home made sandwich to bring or I could put some tuna in a container with some green pepper, tomato,  olives and other things that I can find at the store.

Tomorrow I am planning to do some cardio and some little bit of weights. Maybe I would be doing some rowing and running. I might even try for 1 hour straight running! My longest ATM is 40min at around 9km/h or 6mi/h. And that is on around 1-1.5 incline!

I’ll post up on an update soon!!

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I just thought that it would be really good to share some of my links that I visit often which helps me out.

Top 42 Exercise Hacks
This is  a list of things to keep reminding yourself what to do and keep doing. Trust me it will help you a lot once you get started or are planning to start.

Body type workouts 2 – Endomorph: Do this workout if you have a bell-shaped body and a tendency to store fat
This is a really good list of exercises that you can do if you are an endomorph.

About.com: Exercise
If you are totally new to exercise or want to understand how to be successful at your weight loss / exercise, this is a really good portal to visit.

CalorieCount
This one is a daily visit, I regularly go on it to update my profile and and update my daily food meter and burn meter. It has a decent list of foods and exercise. There is also a nifty tool that tells you what food to try to substitute to be healthier.

Well I got a few more but I will post them later on.

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Update

Please check it out

I think I have hit a plateau, for the past 2-3 weeks I have been around the 91-90kg mark.

What causes a plateau?

1. Lowering my calorie intake: by going down on the calorie intake, my body would get into starvation mode, this means that everything I will be eating will be stored up as fat faster. And because my body is an endomorph I am already pron to storing fat.

Solution: Lower the deficit to around 300-500 calories instead of 700-800 calories.

2. Lost of muscle mass:

solution: Include strength training exercises in my workout. More muscle = more calories burnt.

3. Got used to the regular program

Solution:Get a personal trainer and change your routine and add more reps/sets to your work out to burn parts of your body.

My Plan

I will try to change my routine for the following weeks and month. I will only stick to one routine for 2 weeks until I change so that it keeps my body active to the unplanned work. I will try to incorporate  a lot of different exercises and do more reps and eat better.

Below are some screens of the guide I described before in a previous post. Please use it to help you lose weight