6 days

MA Paper today was aight in a way. It's do-able, not very difficult but required a certain amount of thinking and calculating (it's accounting duh). I think it's one of the most exhausting papers I did cause I was so tired throughout the paper I had to stop for 30sec-1min rests in between questions. Didn't really finish with alot of time left, approximately 10-15mins and that was only enough for 1 thorough check. But I still think it's aight, I sure hope it's aight.

Regarding my so-called 'fitness tips' yesterday, I forgot to include 3 more points which I think may be useful for all of us. So, here goes:

7. Spot Reduction (esp. for those abs!)

We've heard all about it and we're probably guilty of doing it, but is it of any use? Although I heard recently that this may not be a myth afterall, it probably still won't work on most of us. YOU CANNOT CHOOSE A BODY PART SPECIFICALLY TO LOSE FATS. What does this mean? You can do 10000000000 crunches and situps and you'll never see your washboard abs. It's covered by your layer of fat and only by burning away those fats will you be able to get your 6-pack. Cardio would be the easiest way out and I'll talk more about this on the next point. Sure, crunches etc. exercises do train your abs but unless your body fat is at a low 9-10%, you won't see any effect on that so skip it. Another saying is that abs are made in the kitchen not the gym, so you better watch what you eat. This is easier said then done and believe me I know this. I'm eating chinese economic mixed rice almost everyday for dinner. That's why I won't ever see my abs, and if you're eating like me chances are you won't also.

8. Cardio

There're many types of cardio for you to choose from, but I would recommend the personally tried-and-tested HIIT. There're also lots of HIIT you can do but the most common would be to sprint 100m jog 100m and repeat until you die. Ok, maybe you can try 10 times for your first try. Make sure you sprint the hardest and rest 1min before sprinting again. I guarantee you this will only take 10-20mins and is much better than steady-state cardio like jogging until the end of time. There's alot of science involved on how this is better so I won't go to that, but if you're gonna train of course you wanna train hard. High intensity over moderate intensity all day all night.

9. High rep vs low rep

It's time to bust the myth, lifting lightweights at high reps (i.e. 20-50 or 9999) will not give you more muscle definition. Your muscle will look more defined if the layer of fat covering them is lesser, much like point 7. There is almost no concrete association between lifting light and getting more cutting on your arm. I mean, the most you can say is that light lifting would be some sort of aerobic activity that burns calories so you'll burn fat, but you're much better off doing HIIT for that. There's also this fast twitch muscle think David told me about, but I don't really know much about that except that it still points to the negatives of high reps. If you're lifting, always lift heavy unless you're rehabilitating some injury or you're doing drop sets or something. It goes like this, lift heavy, heavier, heaviest. Never light. Of course how heavy is dependent on your own strength and fitness level. As long as you think it's heavy, it's good enough. There's no point in cheating yourself, leave the ego at the door please.

You can check my older posts for the previous things I wrote. As usual, if you think I'm writing bull, leave hate comments below. This goes out to my homies again.

On a different note, this question kept popping in my head yesterday.

"How did we come to this?"

We as in myself and some of the people around me. I would like to call them 'friends', but the other side of me is resentful towards accepting them. I probably shared lotsa good times with these people and had fun together, showed L.C.C. aka love care and concern to each other before. Why is it that it just feels so different and impossible now? What did they do? What did I do? How did we come to this? Why are people always letting me down?

Because my expectations are too high that's why.