The Return to Routine

It’s been 5 weeks since the kids went back to school and I returned to my old workout routine. Despite my efforts to stay active and work out at home during MCO, CMCO, and RMCO, I felt a significant drop in fitness – especially stamina. I feel like a newbie starting back. Either that or

Journey Cycle – Where the Journey Begins

Journey is a place I’ve been wanting to try ever since I knew of its existence. It is the brainchild of Syed Harris Umar, a former instructor from Fly Project, whose classes I used to attend religiously. They were challenging classes but there was an energy to it that I really looked forward to. Evidently,

Workout Motivation

A few people have asked me how I stay motivated to workout nearly everyday, especially during a time like MCO. To be quite frank, I have trouble with motivation as well. There are days when I don’t feel like working out. I drag my feet, I procrastinate, and I struggle, too. So how do I

The Road to Progress

Since MCO started, I’ve been using Just Dance on the Nintendo Switch as part of my workouts. At first, I did it because it was one of the few things my knee could tolerate after I injured it. Even after my knee got better, I continued with it because it added variety to my workouts.

Working Out During MCO

If you’re wondering what happened to my WODs, I’ve stopped them. Too many of them required movements that keep triggering my left knee problems. I’m either doing something wrong or I have defective knees. I was hopeful for a while that I could get back to it after a break and some rest but I

Home Training with Fitness Achievers

Knee pain for the third day in a row. Nothing is helping. It’s not getting worse but it’s not getting better despite dropping all leg workouts. I was feeling discouraged and frustrated about not being able to work out when my PT from Fitness Achievers sent me this (thank you so much Desmond): The Movements

Workouts from Home

After creating a list of home learning resources for the kids, I figured it was time to create a list of home workouts for me… Home Workout Roundup Spartan Be Unbreakable Darebee – this is a free website that is amazingly comprehensive (if you like it, please support them by making a donation). Holiday Home

The 18 Month Review

If you’re interested to read about my journey, the first two parts are here: My Weight Loss Journey The One Year Review Losing weight was never my intention when I started this fitness journey. When it happened, it was a happy by-the-way. Now that I have lost the weight, I’d like to keep it off.

Climbing, Endurance, Over-Training, and Finding Balance

I started rock climbing again. I thought it would be a more enjoyable way to build up my strength since I really loathe the conventional methods. It will not be quite as specific as regular strength training so I still need to maintain my PT sessions. Well at least it will provide a bit more

Holiday Home Workout

Since I was going Down Under for two weeks and was worried I would lose everything I’ve built up training for the Spartan Beast, I asked my PT for homework. This is what he set me (there were limitations because no access to a gym or weights) – I thought I’d keep it posted here