I'm Such A Loser

Among all the websites out there, many of them tell you they offer free tips, but to truly access their in-depth database of knowledge, you will have to become a member (and thus pay membership fees).

Well, fret no more! I stumbled across this website called Weight Training and Weight Lifting Tips, which is TRULY FREE!

It has 2 sections actually. One for those going for weight loss as a goal, the other for people who aim to pack on the muscles. It even has a section solely on diets and nutrition, and exactly what to eat to achieve which kinds of results.

I have actually gone through their tips, and they are for real. They don't tell you to buy xyz supplement or whatever. The owner of the site truly made the website to help people who need guidance on how to achieve their fitness goals.

The website gives you no-frills, no-bs kind of tips. If you want to achieve this, do this. No long stories nor anecdotes about his younger days. It even has diagrams on how to perform the required exercises so you are doing it with the correct form.

I think the best feature of the site is his list of "top 5 power exercises", meaning if you're hard pressed for time, do the 5 exercises which will effectively work the majority of your muscle groups in your body.

Make this site one of your favourites today, and visit it often! I know I do!

Labels: diet, exercise, gym, weight loss, workout

I apologise for not writing in here for a while.

One of the reasons is - I've taken a break from working out, a couple of weeks actually. I've started to plateau, and it is recommended by many health sites that once you find you start to plateau, you should take a break of a week or two.

Second reason is, I've just finished my contract, and hence, now jobless, and thus can write. In the final weeks leading up to the final day of my employment, there were so many things happening (some which you'd never believe, which can be seen in my main blog here, here, here and finally, here), that I just didn't have much focus on this blog.

As a quick update - 31 March, was my first trip ever, to a gym. Yes, a real gym! Never been to one before in my life. Since I am finally not working, my buddy decided to drag me halfway across Singapore to a gym.

Now, people who read this blog will know I already have Bodylastics, which is touted to be the best replacement for a gym ever. Some people who have used it even canceled their gym memberships after seeing the results they obtained with Bodylastics.

So why am I doing the reverse? Why am I going to the gym now, even though I have Bodylastics at home?

Simple - to see if the people who quit the gym were right.

So what's the verdict? Well the jury's still out on that one. What I can say is that with Bodylastics I couldn't do chest presses. At best only one side at a time. In the gym I could, with the chest-press machine.

The pull-downs I did with the bodylastics had almost the same effect as the machine in the gym tho. Except, in the gym, you could lock your thighs under the "bar" which will stop you from being flung upwards if the weights were too heavy. At home, there's nothing stopping you from being flung off the floor by the elastic bands.

In short, I wouldn't say which is "better" because I'm a rank beginner at this thing. I'll just say the workouts are different, but the areas they target are the same. For me, working on the chest in the gym is easier compared to Bodylastics.

And, Bodylastics wasn't lying about how they replicated almost every exercise available in the gym. The only notable exception so far to me, is the chest-press. In Bodylastics, you do push-ups with the bands behind your back, instead of lying down on a bench and pushing weights up as in a gym.

Labels: gym, workout

Labels: Bullworker, gym, Steel Bow, workout

In first post, I was saying I needed a home solution for workout. To recap - I'm a lazy person. I won't say "Singaporean", because humans are inherently lazy. You can be in any country, and chances are, they'll be as lazy as everyone else...

But, I digress..

Back in 1998, I did mostly cardio... you know, those mindless 30 min running, jumping, Power-Rider-ing stuff, and very little strength/muscle building. This time around I thought I'd really start to put on some muscles for a more "permanent" solution to losing weight and keeping them off. Besides, with a set of muscles I might be motivated to exercise regularly like twice a week to maintain them :)

In any case, I scoured the net for a few home workout solutions, or "home gym" as they like to call it. I then remembered that as a kid, I saw adverts in the newspapers for a "Bullworker" machine. At the time, I wanted to get it but my dad would always refuse, saying they're just "gimmicks".

Well, now I can get one on my own. So I started hunting around Singapore for it. Unfortunately, it seems like no one knows where to get one anymore. I then turned to the Internet, and lo and behold! I found a ton of websites with Bullworker-clones.

I almost bought the BullyXtreme, but the website was too "spammy" and it didn't really give me a good "feeling". Then I stumbled across BowProducts. It was here that I was sold on the Steel Bow (pic below).

Steel Bow

Labels: Bullworker, burn fat, exercise, gym, home gym, lose weight, Steel Bow, weight loss, workout