Bodybuilding is not just about muscles

There are many values to be learn from bodybuilding.. It's not just about muscles, 6 packs, men in tight underwear on stage outdoing each other.... It's not even about how heavy you bench. If this is your opinion on bodybuilding then you have yet stepped into the world of pumping iron.

You see, bodybuilding is more than just working out in the gym or to some in the big field or track field. Being one mean we have to constantly watch our diet, manage our time and dedicate ourselves to a routine and stick to all those mention above. If you have tried dieting then you would know what I mean pure dedication to what you have set out to achieve. It's not impossible. Nothing is ever impossible. And I've used myself as an example. I've been maintaining my diet since 2008. Since the day I made up my mind to make a change. Initially it was hard, trust me, I've to drag myself out of the chocolate aisle in a supermarket and ppl around thinks im nuts.. muahaha.... bt then.. whenever my subconscious tell me that it's ok, there's always another day to start .. I put a stop to it and tell myself, "NO!" if i don start today, i'll never begin. From here, we learn determination, discipline, determination and never to give up or give in easily.

I know its hard to keep up with family, friends, work and exercise. but try this, my previous job requires me to be on call anytime cause too many last minute jobs and most of the time iv to work 16 hrs a day. I make sure I wake up 5am everyday to get my cardio in and make breakfast, snacks and lunch before I head out to work. It's not an easy task either. I've to pull myself out of the bed, walk to the washroom with my eyes close and boil water too in that state. lol. then whenever i've no last minute work, i'll hit gym. sometimes, the call time is around 7pm. Il take my dinner and rush to the gym and finish off by 6:30pm.. you see, if you set your priority right, it's almost impossible not to get everything in.. I know a lot of ppl who kept on telling me that they wanna slim down and workout bt every time they have free up time, they will be loitering around shopping complex, clubbing, drinking in a pub, sitting around the coffee shop... etc... even if its only 30 mins a day, its already sufficient enough to burn fats and build muscle.. it's all bout learning to set your priority right and manage your time properly.

so don't just go to the gym to workout or build muscle.. but learn bout human value as well..

Trip Down Brunei...... GYM TIME!!!

hahaha... i din manage to capture any video this round cause my HTC Mini is still in the workshop.. and I was in a rush so I din wanna waste time fiddling with my handycam as I wanna finish off my whole body workout before 12 noon...

I woke up 0430hr on a sunday and took my 3 breakfast with 700 crunch to start the dawn.. hahaha... i managed to boil water, and put out my laundry to dry before I started my journey at 0550hr. Took me 1 1/2 hr to reach bandar seri bergawan. 1st thing I did was hit the gym. I went to Tru Fitness which was located at telanai just behind the Volkswagen showroom.

Paid my B$5 per entry fees and without any hesitation, I took my caffeine dose and started off with moderate alternate dumbbell curl supersets with Heavy E-Z bar curl followed by Rope Hammer cable Curl and ended it with High Pulley cable concentrated curl.

Jumping to my triceps without pause, I starting with the Cable Rope pulldown supersets with triceps press down. I moved on to Isolated kickbacks supersets with Isolated Triceps extension supersets with cable crossover extensions. I finish off with a heavy behind the back dip.

Dash across the room, I picked up 2 sets of dumbbell to throw in the side lateral raise dropsets, followed by front lateral raise dropsets. not to forget the rear, I did my bent over side lateral raise dropsets and shrugs. Not getting the kick out of it, I moved to the next column and torture my side and front delts with cable side and front lateral raise.

not giving myself time to rest so I can skip my cardio, started the pounding on my pecs with cable cross fly and low pulley fly. I grabbed an incline bench quickly and did my crazy pecs sets but this time, I took advantage of the cable machines and did it all in flies motion. I checked the time and knew that i have little time left for my last 3 body parts so I figure I need to work a non-stop workout. so I supersets all my chest workout with heavy squats and leg presses.

I moved on quickly to the work my back. So I started my routine with a Lat pulldown supersets with leg extensions. follows by a variations of sitting rows supersets style. before I finish off with heavy calf raise.

I end the days workout with 1300 machine crunch.....

what a great sunday ... but im aching all over today.... so today's an off day... :P don't try this at home... im crazy.. and ur not ... hahahaha

My Craftmanship - Ming Lung

But of course it take effort and determinations from my clients themselves in order to see the results. Well, I don't have his pictures before he started.. he only let me take a pic of him after he has some muscles after 2 weeks. lol... anyways.. pictures tell a thousand words.

Ming started following my training while I was training some1 else. I was torturing him a little.. in a fun way but all the exercise only lasted 1/2 hr and another 1/2 cardio. He wanted 6 packs, I get him his 6 packs :)

Real Life : Real Results

A day at X-trim fitness Center

Well, been a while since I last visited any gym.... 1 mth to be exact and I figure I would wanna pump it all and get a sauna all together.. was hoping for a steam bath .. but i don't think any of the gyms here provide... any how... I made some calls and got some price.. man, for the quality : price, I conclude it's over rated and OVER CHARGED... lol. But I figure, since it's the hotel's gym, the management would wanna prioritize their house guest over local bodybuilders... you know how some huge fella seems to intimidate most... hahaha....

anyways, 1st stop was Grand Palace Hotel fitness center. Didn't call cause I did the last time and the membership fees are killing... but what would a day pass cause... so I parked.. *advantages - free parking* went up and ............................. is all i can say. 1 look and that's all. there are some cardio machines lying around. couple of free weights and well, 1 multi-machine and the air-conditioning weren't even on o at least to the minimum. anyways, so I figure, there is a sauna. I asked for the price and *WHOA* (make that double) RM40 per entry. ....... ... ..........

Next stop I went to the Imperial Mall. Underground parking so not too bad. So I went up to the hotel 5th floor. Didn't like the design cause the entrance to the gym hallway was a semi-hidden opening to the right which is clearly (hidden from the normal sight) anyways, found my way there and paid RM30. Pricey I may add.

Ain't nothing much either but according to the trainers there, the new gym at the Pelita Commercial Center's Hotel's gonna have a cablecross and leg press machine. But there is a wide selection of cardio machine here compared to the RM40 Grand Palace Hotel Gym. I only head for the stationary bike so the rest don't matter at all but as usual, there is the treadmill, a step machine, 4 bikes, and 1 air walker. Mostly machine here with Leg extension, leg curl, vertical chest press, Lat pulldown machine, shoulder press.. but most of all, they have the preacher stand and smith machine... lots of bench :P

As you can see, I did a lot of supersets since time is of essence and I had to work on my biceps, Triceps, Chest, Shoulders and even my legs. I have a minimum 4 exercise per body part with abs routine intervals to save time and relax my muscles (yes, i know im gonna hurt like hell in 3 days time but anyways, i just wanna torture myself) And working out here, you get to meet Mr. Miri Saiful who is also a trainer there.

Anyways, what can I day do... but I just love the painful feeling now.. hahaha... the sauna experience was good.