Day 75: poo-ped

15 days to go, 75 down..... Awesome.... It's been another huge week of doing what we do, making it happen and making it count...  and can i just say, ever so quietly, I am poo-ped....

It's ok though, i'm good with it, i've got the weekend to eat, chill, sleep and get some deep rest, and all the while have some cheeky indulgences...  Not sure what yet though, I'd say i'll spread it over the weekend with little things - I figure if i have some ridiculously anti PCP meal then I'm going to feel it, hard ! and it's a certain someones birthday on Monday, so i figure I'll have some birthday cake !

Thankfully it's miserable weather in HK, perfect excuse to not do anything ... Does anyone else need to make excuses for not doing anything ? weird...

Oh, and thank god blogger is back, i felt so incomplete for the last couple of days ...

Have a rock, rock ,rock, rocking weekend ...

Day 73: empowered

Woke @ 5:40 this morning, opened the curtains, and saw this, and I thought, Hell yeah I am !!

Pull Ups are coming along, not as fast or as many as I’d like to, 6 sets usually look like this, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4.5  – and throw in another 4 or so afterwards to keep the back guessing - I’m pretty shattered after that… I like the pro tip for the kung fu’s, twist to the side on each raise, nice and slow… I like doing side, middle, side…  ( i use the word "like" very loosely, it's one of those love/hate relationships )

Oh, ok, here's one, exercising this morning, faithless, god is a DJ, came on, and watching the old ladies do some sort of movement, tai che type exercises - I thought i was watching a trippy music video.... I did stop and stare and enjoy it for a little while - suppose you had to be there ...

I read on someones blog of them doing 100+ on a particular exercise, as it was meant to go to failure. I'd imagine their work outs are taking a little over 60mins !!!

After reading some things on blogs and through a recent experience of mine, the word and feeling of empowerment continued to creep in my mind…. I’m sure this means something to everyone participating in their own PCP, as they have made this choice, they have chosen to empower themselves to make a change, and not a small one either.

Often we make excuses, blame others or things in our life, we disempower ourselves and then we turn into victims, as we are always blaming and waiting for something or someone else to make us happy or to make a change for us….  People can blame their careers, relationships, people, magazines, current affairs for not taking control of themselves – It’s up to you how you want things to be …

The more you empower someone else for you, the more you disempower yourself….

I don’t know about you, but I say Yes! to me… oh, and i also say yes to a 6-pack ! :-)

– 17 days left to take it where you want it to go !!!

Day 72 - Muscle Men....

72 days down, 18 days left, 2 weeks and 6 days..... 3 week ends of PCP to go -

I just noticed, I've not been sick in 72 days, and given the beating I've been giving my body, it has surprisingly bounced back....

Brings me onto another thing I've been thinking or noticing .... how this experience makes you much more aware of your body, coming back to my struggle of moderation and the ever fighting battle of expectations and results - that all of us face...

See, and only in retrospect, I can see that before I started this, it's been an up hill battle all along,(and I'm not saying now doesn't feel like a huge challenge) not very balanced workouts, trying to push big weights and nutrition was fairly average - No wonder the results i wanted never came - and I payed by pushing hard with unrealistic expectations, fighting the wrong battle, i got stuck in a cycle and my body was crying for me to change my ways - I just never got where i wanted to be and i felt out of whack. This is compared now to the consistent, balanced, work outs and fantastic nutrition - Results have come in fast and body feels well balanced.

I think this understanding and awareness can set you up for life and it's a recipe for success...

Interesting chat on email today with Robbie and Patrick, he bought up something interesting about not pushing as much at the gym, i too notice the same thing, but my logic and experience is somewhat different to Robbies. I logic is that just because i can't push the same big weights, this is not to say that i am weaker, In fact, I am stronger. The muscles i have are not only bigger, they look good, consistent, they are balanced, they have more strength, they push for longer and harder, they are efficient -  I can lift and push my own body weight in nearly any direction, and not just for 1 rep ! .... Big weights are unnecessary in life, however endurance, stamina and balance in your body and muscles is necessary for a healthy and long lasting body....

You don't need to push big weights, and i don't plan on going back to it - the results speak for themselves...

Oh, i went to the cinemas the other night, checked out Thor... One word, Ridiculous !

Week 10 Pic

66kgs

Day 71: Saturation....

Now we all have those things that we love to hate, those things that we dread, we think about, we don't wanna think about, we think about and we build up the awful nature of what it actually is, a hindrance to our overall calm state of mind... I think you all know what I'm talking about.. Legs and Shoulder sessions !!!

Damn..there ain't too many times i drop to the ground and wince in pain, but every leg and shoulder session, you'll find me on the turf in the middle of the park squirming around.... and you'd be thinking "What the?"

Found my mind drifting from time to time during the session, i really had to bring it back to what i was doing.. See it's brutally hot at the moment, air is thick and the sun is coarse. The body really takes a beating, as does the mind.... - Funnily enough, Patrick mentions about how the body sweats to cool the brain, oh man, if that's the case, I have one hot brain ! seriously, it must be big, or just gets over heated easily - 'Saturation' would be an understatement !

I made a decision the other day, i decided that after this monumental programme that I figure one needs a reward, so i booked 5 nights in Phuket for some hard earned rest and peace... Meditation, Yoga and of course Mai Tai's.....

But before this, 19 days of PCP action - oh, just on PCP, if PCP was a person, I'd use him or her as my sweat band ! ... I'm off to the beach.

Day 67 - Can you drive ...

I'm feeling the heat, well, that's just what the body is producing right now, heat - If i was a chick and over the age of 55, I'd be thinking I was hitting menopause - but thankfully I'm not a chick and I'm not over the age of 55.... but back to the other heat I'm talking about - Do you feel it ? it's counting upwards, and each day it's gets closer to the pinnacle, Day 90... It's when the little blue bar hits our little blue inspiration man on the main page, it's when we get lablled and tagged as completed and get shafted off the main page to "Completed" page.

Some sort of poetic justice...

Just on that, this week has been a bit of a fizz and mostly due to personal factors, no valley syndrome or anything like that, been working out, but I don't feel mentally committed, eating, but just not enough or good enough, but everyday I'd been building it up, the guilt, the pressure, to the point where i just wanna explode with determination and turn it around - as I can't go on like this, why sit in the back seat, when you can be driving in the front - I woke today at 5:45 and decided that now was the time, did todays exercises at 6 and then did it again at lunch in the gym, well, different exercises, and i plan on playing "i wanna be your friend for 8mins, Man" tonight ...

Now my view of what is slacking may be completely different to yours, but i suppose, it all comes back to you being honest with yourself - I like to be tough, so then it doesn't allow me to slack too much... - but in saying that, when i do slack, i slack hard, cause i know i don't really slack too much...  It's crazy how you play these games with your mind... or is it just me! - it's like those people that say, i'm a truly lazy person, so they do everything to the best they can, learn it, get stronger, see, then when they do it again, it becomes easier and hence, you can go into it lazy and not have to try so hard - Some sort of backwards logic !

Ok that's enough.

Day 65: Life Changes....

Wow, I'm not sure about you guys, but i found Patricks email this morning pretty funny "takin your last set of the exercises to failure. The sheet may say 12-15 reps, but on your last set, keep going to muscle failure"

ok, so how many of you can actually do all 6 sets of 10 push ups, keeping to the 20sec rule between sets and then keep going on the last ! Perhaps it's just my weak a$$, but i'm just trying to get all the maximum required numbers out with good form...  - Suppose it comes back to mind over matter, do 2 more, then do another 2 !!!!

Life Changes, like most folks, you get times where you are extremely busy personally or have life jumping around and you're left wondering, what happened ??? This has been me in the last couple of weeks ! now, don't get too worried, exercises are definitely being done and eating is on track, but just as critical and not just for me, but for the team is the blogging.... I find you start to feel slightly removed from it all, which is what you don't want - I'm not one for excuses, so i'll leave it at that and get my butt into action...

On the exercises, I really like these big numbered super sets we have now, the muscle feels stronger and more consistent, especially when compared to the old school gym work outs where you get a huge pump at the end and then the muscles soon deflate....

Alright revellers.... let's rock it