Oh Noes! I'm Sick!?!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Well this is just great.
Just when I thought I might be getting back on track, I have to go and fall sick. Damn!
On the bright side, I'm down 1 more kilo, and I'm starting to see some definitions in my arms and chest. THEY FINALLY CAST SHADOWS! Woohoo!!! I missed them!
As I said before, the Steel Bow is a really great and handy workout equipment. While I may not be really doing much cardio due to the crazy hours available to me, I can grab a quick 10 or 20 minute workout while planting my ass at the computer. Yeah it's great, and I can even work the legs and abs too, in this position.
Oh yes, a quick word about abs - it's a total fallacy that you can get rid of the "spare tyre" around your waist by doing sit-ups or crunches. When you get fat, you get fat ALL OVER, not just there. It just so happens that in the male genes, more fats tend to deposit themselves at the waist area.
Imagine if you could do spot-weightloss... you'd look really funny if you have a slim and trim waist, but your arms, face, and everywhere else are still fat.
What your body does when you lose fats is to "take 'em out from the last place they put it in". If you're a geek (or a financially inclined person), you'll know the term LIFO - Last In, First Out. If the last place your body stored the fats are at the waist, it'll come out from that place first. Also remember, your body doesn't always store fat at the same place. It'll distribute fats all over the body for "insulation", because that is what fats are for - to protect against the cold in winter.
In nature, bears hibernate in winter, and that is common knowledge. Before they do, they'll eat alot first, to get fat. When they come out of hibernation, they'd have lose alot of weight due to the cold. The fats get "burned off" when the bear's body notices it's getting cold and the body tries to fire up the furnace to regulate the body temperature. Since the bear is in suspended animation, it's not eating, hence no fuel to burn. So, the body grabs its store of reserve fuel - the fats, and burn 'em as fuel. Yeah, it's the same in all mammals, including us humans.
So, you'll just have to work at the routine, to make the body lose fats. Let it slowly pull 'em out from wherever they got stored. Doing crunches and sit ups are fine, they tone up the abs area, but they do NOT "lose fat" there. You could do 1000 sit ups and the fats that get pulled out might be from your ARMS (if you actually worked hard enough that the body decides to burn fat).
Ok enough rambling - I need to sleep and get well. I hate being sick! It throws me off schedule, and makes me spend money (to see the doc and get medication).
Just when I thought I might be getting back on track, I have to go and fall sick. Damn!
On the bright side, I'm down 1 more kilo, and I'm starting to see some definitions in my arms and chest. THEY FINALLY CAST SHADOWS! Woohoo!!! I missed them!
As I said before, the Steel Bow is a really great and handy workout equipment. While I may not be really doing much cardio due to the crazy hours available to me, I can grab a quick 10 or 20 minute workout while planting my ass at the computer. Yeah it's great, and I can even work the legs and abs too, in this position.
Oh yes, a quick word about abs - it's a total fallacy that you can get rid of the "spare tyre" around your waist by doing sit-ups or crunches. When you get fat, you get fat ALL OVER, not just there. It just so happens that in the male genes, more fats tend to deposit themselves at the waist area.
Imagine if you could do spot-weightloss... you'd look really funny if you have a slim and trim waist, but your arms, face, and everywhere else are still fat.
What your body does when you lose fats is to "take 'em out from the last place they put it in". If you're a geek (or a financially inclined person), you'll know the term LIFO - Last In, First Out. If the last place your body stored the fats are at the waist, it'll come out from that place first. Also remember, your body doesn't always store fat at the same place. It'll distribute fats all over the body for "insulation", because that is what fats are for - to protect against the cold in winter.
In nature, bears hibernate in winter, and that is common knowledge. Before they do, they'll eat alot first, to get fat. When they come out of hibernation, they'd have lose alot of weight due to the cold. The fats get "burned off" when the bear's body notices it's getting cold and the body tries to fire up the furnace to regulate the body temperature. Since the bear is in suspended animation, it's not eating, hence no fuel to burn. So, the body grabs its store of reserve fuel - the fats, and burn 'em as fuel. Yeah, it's the same in all mammals, including us humans.
So, you'll just have to work at the routine, to make the body lose fats. Let it slowly pull 'em out from wherever they got stored. Doing crunches and sit ups are fine, they tone up the abs area, but they do NOT "lose fat" there. You could do 1000 sit ups and the fats that get pulled out might be from your ARMS (if you actually worked hard enough that the body decides to burn fat).
Ok enough rambling - I need to sleep and get well. I hate being sick! It throws me off schedule, and makes me spend money (to see the doc and get medication).
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2 Comments:
uncle fox!! u chao kenG! :P
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xinyun, November 7, 2007 12:39 PM
xinyun, November 7, 2007 12:39 PM
Where got! me reaaaallly sick *cough cough*
