21DFC Day 8 – What is Your Favorite Fitness Activity?

It was Day 8 yesterday. From the blog post, a question was posted to ask what my favourite fitness activities are.

I have a few favourite fitness activities. When I do fitness activity, I always need to consider the weather if it is an outdoor activity, thus I prefer more on indoor activities, especially the activity that can be done at home. So, both home aerobics and run in place at home are my favourite activities. I don’t feel bored when doing these exercises at home as I have something to concentrate on. I usually concentrate on movie, anime or mucic.

For outdoor activities, I like swimming the most. I’m a person that easily get sweat, so I like to stay in water. XD
I like cycling, hiking and jogging too. With all these activities, you will know that I seldom join other people for sports. I love to take my own sweet time to do whatever I like, without bothering who I’m staying with, what time I should end my exercise. =.="

Back to yesterday’s exercise, initially, I planned to go for cycling after I got back home, but I was exhausted when I reached home, so I went for a nap. By the time I woke up, it’s already 6:30pm, time to have dinner. =.="

I finally decided not to go for cycling, and changed my plan to run in place in my room for 45 minutes while enjoying my anime. I watched an anime about playing piano, so there are a lot of time that piano music was played in that movie. Again, I enjoyed the piano music, although I haven’t learned piano before.

Besides, yesterday, I weigh myself, I have lost 1 kg!!! Yeah~~~ I hope that the number will keep on decreasing~!!! XD

What about tomorrow’s plan? Tomorrow is a Saturday… Maybe I can go for a swim if time permits or else I will go for cycling as I missed it today.

P/s: Today, I counted, I have climbed 10 storey of staircase, separately. Haha~~ In the morning, I went up to my office in the 3rd floor, so I climbed 3-storey staircase. Then I get down to the venue of my class in the first floor of another building, I climbed one-storey staircase. After the class, I climbed up the 3-storey staircase back to my office again. After that, I went out to have lunch with my colleague and come back, climbed the third time of 3-storey staircase. In total, I have climbed 10 storey of staircase… >.<"

21DFC Day 7

It’s been one week since I started this 21DFC!! Yesterday was Day 7, I planned earlier that I would go for gym in my college one hour after I took lunch.

I went exactly according to my plan! ^^

My class finished at 1pm, went to have lunch with colleague until 1:30pm, rest for 1 hour+, then bought a ticket to the gymnasium in my college. I started to run on the treadmill at 3pm, and stopped after 30 minutes. I ran for 2.6km, burned 153 calories. ^^

After taking the bathe and came out from the club house, I could see the mountain at the back of the club house, felt the wind, the feeling was really nice and relaxing!!

Again, I hope that I can make it happen for every Thursday of this semester!! ^^

21DFC Day 6

It supposes to be the journal of 2 days ago, 8 February, Day 6. I got back home late. One hour after taking dinner, I ran in place for 30 minutes while watching anime. I usually run in place either by listening to music, or watching anime. To me, I enjoy activities like this to relax myself.

Although it was only half an hour, but at least I moved on with the plan.
And, on that day itself, another colleague said that I look thinner even I was wearing the same shirt like before!! That really motivate me to continue moving!

Day 7, my class will end at 1pm. After the class, I will go to have lunch with colleagues and then plan to go for gym in my college around 2:30pm for only RM1.50 per entry. After the gym, I will take a bathe in college then go to zither class straight away. I hope this plan moves for every Thursday of this semester (7 weeks) ~

21DFC Day 5

Today, Day 5, finally I got the chance to do home aerobics for about 30 minutes. Below is the video clip of the home aerobics that I follow usually.

The actions are not too hard as I have knee problem, yet I start sweating after 5 minutes.

Tomorrow I will have class until 5pm. By the time I reach home, it will be late, so I guess I will only go for running in place as normal. Listening to music / watching anime will running in place is quite enjoyable to me. :P

P/s:
I just got to know that, yesterday I felt dizzy, and that was the vertigo effect. I knew the word in Mandarin, and today my friend just told me the word in English --> Vertigo. It is because of a dysfunction of the vestibular system in the inner ear. As far as I know, there is no medicine for this type of dizziness, usually it is caused by the heat within the body.

I ate too much of biscuits and Mandarin oranges during the CNY... That's probably the cause of the vertigo happening.   :p Luckily, the dizziness has gone now.

21DFC Day 4

Day 4, this morning, I had a sudden dizziness. When I was reading something on the computer, I suddenly felt that I was unable to balance my head. I laid down on my bed, and I felt that the room was spinning!

I fell asleep after all, but the condition remained the same after I woke up. In the evening, I took a bathe then suddenly I heard a sound “wong…”, and the dizziness had gone.

It was weird. However, I managed to do a simple walk for around 15 minutes, cannot make it for home aerobics again as my plans were massed up by the dizziness.

I really hope that I can make it for home aerobics tomorrow…

21DFC Day 3

Day 3, or I should say, 5-Feb, I ran in place for 20 minutes. Due to short of time, I didn’t do home aerobics and the video clips I have for home aerobics are more than 30 minutes usually.

After all, I went out for a gathering with friends again until now, I just got back home after 12am. Because of the Thaipusam festival in Malaysia, it was all traffic jam everywhere. So I had to park my car far far away from the shopping center, which I needed to walk for around 15 minutes to reach the shopping center. It was a long way along the seaside, but I felt good breathing in the air from the seaside.

Tomorrow, I will do my home aerobics which I planned to do today earlier.

21DFC Day 2

I have missed out the posts for 21DFC Day 2 and Day 3, and today’s post Day 4.

Today, it was out of my plan. I went out for whole day, from morning to night. However, I still managed to work out the body stretching for about 15 minutes. It is just some sort of body warming up activities.

Tomorrow, I will have another gathering with friends. If we go for photo shooting, then I will be walking a lot. If we didn’t go for photo shooting, then I will come back home for a home aerobics session.

21DHL–Day 21: Review & Your Best Health Ahead

Now, come to today, the last day of 21DHL!! Hah! The time really flies, I have done the 21 days of healthy living challenge!!

However, I failed this challenge. No one failed me, but I failed myself because I didn’t get to reduce 3 kg according to my objective. I cannot get my reward from this challenge…

But, I would say that, I have done my best to keep myself following the challenge everyday. I learned a lot from this challenge! I learn to read the nutrition labels on the food packages, I learned to calculate the calories, and I got a lot of information from the internet about calculating the daily workout, etc.

I ate more vegetables within these 21 days, and I will continue with this habits. I did more exercise within these 21 days, although I didn't do more than 30 minutes everyday, at least I did some exercise.

I want to keep going on with the healthy life!

Now, I’m following the 21DFC –> 21 Daily Fitness Challenge! ^^

21DHL–Day 20: Start Your Healthy Living Guidebook

Yesterday was Day 20 of 21DHL: Start my healthy living guidebook.

Yesterday, I went out for the whole day to have gathering with a group of old schoolmates. It's been more than 10 years that I haven't met up with some of them! The feeling was nice!

Now, back to the yesterday's task, Day 20's task, create a healthy living plan. I just uploaded the my healthy living plan --> 21DHL_HealthyLivingPlan

I have the plan to put them into a special note book to track my daily plan, if possible. :) I have bought a few small note books for my daily plan records.

21DHL–Day 19: Hug Yourself

Now it is almost to the end of the 21DHL. Supposingly, the day before yesterday was Day 19. Due to short of time, I didn’t update about the task: hug myself. From what I understand about hugging myself, it is to show the love, care and appreciation towards myself.

I love myself, so I always do my best to make myself happy all the time. Whenever I feel sad or disappointed, I review what has gone wrong, and look forward for the next level.

I care of myself, so I have to start with a healthy life truly from heart. I will do exercise and eat more vegetables to keep myself healthy. Right now, I'm working on 21DEC. If I can go through these 21 days of exercising challenge without fail, there is no reason for me not to exercise more than 3 times a week!

I appreciate myself, appreciate my capabilities, my talents, all about myself. So, I plan to at least draw a picture every month, to show my life in that month, to express my feelings. I also plan to read at least 3 books (Not novel, not comics) in this year (I hope that I can read even more).

I also appreciate my family, my friends. This morning, I went for breakfast with family. It is a normal routine, but I appreciate that I still have the chance to hang out with family again. Later, I will join my friends for lunch. It's been quite a long time that I didn't hang out with friends.

21DFC Day 1 – It All Begins!

For this 21DFC, there is no task given like 21DHL, but only have the progress thread of Celes coming up. Since 21DHL, I joined their runs officially, so the same for this 21DFC.

In today, Day 1’s post, Celes suggested a great website, Walk Jog Run. This website has a google map, where you can create a route from the map, and the website will help you to calculate what is the length of the route. It is used to calculate the distance of our exercising route, together with the speed and how much calories burned.

Today, as I mentioned in the post of Day 17 of 21DHL, I walked to the shop nearby my house to buy floss as the start of this 21DFC. It took me around 10 minutes to walk to the shop. From there, I walked again from shop to shop for window shopping. By using the Walk Jog Run website, I calculated it as 0.44 miles with speed of 1.6 mph, it burned 31.6 calories.

Over here, I used miles as the unit as I’m lazy to convert it to kilometers (km) again. For those who are interested to know how many km, here is the formula of conversion:

km = mile x 1.609344

In the afternoon, I went for cycling around the playground nearby my house. The distance of one surrounding area of the playground is 0.21 miles. I cycled with speed of 5 mph for 18 rounds, which is total of 3.78 miles and burned 543.6 calories. I’m not persistent to the calories burned for every activities, but since the website provides that information, I just recorded it down.

Yesterday, I went to Popular bookstore and bought a book that teaches us how to do body stretching. Just now, I did some simple stretching for 10 minutes. Before doing the stretching, I did a test stated in the book, and I was shocked that my body age is already 60 years old!! >.< I should start doing more stretching and exercise to prevent my body from getting older and older!!

So, do it now!!

I created a template to record my daily exercise activities through out these 21 days.
Here is the google doc for my daily exercise activities –> 21DFC_DailyExercisie

I hope that I can continue exercising without fail in these 21 days!!

21DHL–Day 18: Breathe

This is today’s task: Breathe.

Everyone does know how to breath, of course. But do you know that breathing in a correct way is very important too? What is the correct breathing?

When you breath, supposingly the your chest, shoulders and stomach remain relatively still as air flow in deeply to the pit of your stomach. It should not be your shoulders rise and your stomach gets sucked in.

So, do try to practice this type of breathing if possible. According to researches, this type of breathing will help in thinking of innovation and help in memory.

I did practice this since I was young, but only when I was doing meditation. Probably, I should keep on reminding myself to practice more.

21DHL–Day 17: Floss Your Teeth

The Personal Excellence website was down yesterday, thus, I just managed to read through the Day 17’s task this morning. The task was to floss my teeth.

Honestly, since I was born, I have never floss my teeth before, so I don’t even have a floss. Today, it is a starting of 21DEC, Day 1, so I decided to walk to the nearby shop to buy the floss for this task.

It took me around 8 ~ 10 minutes to reach to the shop. After I have bought the floss, I walked from shop to shop again, just like window shopping. Then I walked back home again (I will talk a little bit more details when I write about the update of 21DEC).

This was the first time I flossed my teeth. I felt fresh after flossing my teeth~! I hope that I have the patience to do it daily. It really takes time for me to complete flossing all teeth…

By the way, I will do my best in practicing to brush my teeth twice a day. One time in the morning and one time before go to bed. I hope that I will continue with this practice. (It seems that a lot of habits that I should go for…)

21DFC Day 0: Pre-Work: Create Your 21-Day Exercising Plan!

While I’m still running my 21DHL, here I have another challenge coming in from Personal Excellence!! The challenge that's gonna start tomorrow will be 21DFC (21 Day Exercising Challenge), which is to exercise for 21 days without fail.

You do not need to exercise very hard everyday. It can be 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or even more. As long as there is a physical exercise, it counts. And daily, post a comment in the blog post to share what kind of exercise have been done, how long and what’s the feeling towards the exercises. It’s simple~!

If you are interested, you are encouraged to join! It is a self-committed program, no one is gonna judge us, and we are the one to judge ourselves.

Here are my details regarding 21DFC.

>> My Key Objectives for 21DFC (3 Feb – 23 Feb)
1. To exercise for at least 10 minutes without fail for the next 21 days.
2. To reduce my weight for at least 3kg.
3. To increase my stamina to run

>> My Game Plan for 21DFC
- Do stretching or self massage for at least 5 minutes every day.
- Cycling for at least twice a week.
- Swimming for at least once within these 21 days.
- Go hiking with friends / family at least twice within these 21 days.

>> My Biggest Obstacles
1. Laziness
2. Rain when I plan to go for outdoor exercises
3. Lack of time to exercise after working hours
4. Too tired to exercise

>> My Strategy To Tackle the Obstacles
1. Keep reminding myself to exercise, even for only 5 minutes
2. Do home aerobics / jump ropes / run at place as a replacement of the outdoor exercises
3. Wake up earlier to do 10 ~ 20 minutes of exercise before go to work
4. Walk for 5 ~ 10 minutes at home

Here is my google doc   --> 21DFC_Plan

21DHL–Day 16: Improve Your Posture

Today, Day 16 is to maintain good postures.

A doctor examined my spine last year, and he told me that my spine is slightly out of the correct shape. Although it is not so serious, it is very hard to straighten it back to the correct shape, unless I go for operation.

I didn't go for operation. I practice meditation. I heard a from a few people who meditate, their spine recovers to the shape after meditation. I keep hope on meditation. At the same time, I always remind myself to keep good postures, especially an IT person like me who always sit in front of computer to do my work. I write blogs, edit pictures, draw cartoons, watch anime / movies, do my daily plan, sometimes read novels from computer too.

One thing, besides maintaining good posture while sitting in front of computer, I get up or relax my eyes for 1 ~ 2 minutes after a period of time, say 1 ~ 1.5 hours. So I put a few of my artwork on the wall in front of my computer. Whenever I heads up from looking at my computer, I look at those work and I feel the satisfactory.

Another way to keep myself getting up from the chair is to drink a lot of water. I read an article before, we have to drink a lot of water when we face to computer for long period of time because of the radiation. To me, I drink a lot of water, so that I always feel to go wash room. Yeah, then I get up from the chair and do some simple actions to relax my body.

That's all for tonight. I'm out of time to sleep again tonight...