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06-03-2007, 04:59 AM
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ken... I don't know what to tell you... here is what you wrote six days ago... here is what you committed yourself to... Quote:
Do you feel that you are still on purpose... that you are doing what you promised yourself that you would...??? Now, that is your challenge... it's your quest... and it is none of my business... however if I was your Sensei... you and I would be having a talk... I don't mean any disrespect when I say that... and I do want you to come out of this ordeal bigger and stronger, both mentally and physically, so, that's why I butt my big nose where it does not belong... Best of luck to you... and keep posting... .      |
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06-04-2007, 07:18 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 7 I found myself using the computer less and less. Looking back at my original post from day one, I'm seriously lacking. I know, that's okay because I'm gradually working my way up to that standard. A brutal look at my original goal for the 30 days trial, I'm doing like 1/5 of the intensity in terms of work out and meditation. Well well, this is end of week one. Tommorow is week two, I'm going to UP it more! Will report tommorow. Thanks Shamou for the reminder. |
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06-04-2007, 03:49 PM
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06-05-2007, 03:13 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 8 The exercise is so taxing on my body, it's only 8 in the evening and I'm ready to sleep! I kinda cheated last night by meditating 2:30 in the morning until 3:00, before promptly collapsing into the realm of unconsciousness. Almost lifted weight today, mainly doing barbells with bench preses, some dumb bells and cable machines. I can feel my progressive in weight training cause I have better form when doing bar bells. Also ate a lot today, let's see if I bulk up at the end of the month! One thing I noticed last night that is that I start hearing voices in my head when I'm about to go to sleep, I can hear the voices if I try not to tune into it. Sounds kinda weird? I mainly hear voices of men, children, sometimes they speak English, sometimes they speak in a foreign tongue. One time I remember vividly listening to some beautiful classical music , I know I'm not dreaming because if I open my eyes and be alert, the music goes away. When I slowly drift back to sleep I can hear the talking and (rarely) music before I sleep. I'll probably hear the voices again tonight if I'm meditate before sleeping. Anyone else experience this? I'm sure it's a normal occurrence to those who pay attention when they're sleeping. |
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06-06-2007, 03:43 AM
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| PM experiment, day 9 Worked on chest, arms, back and shoulders muscle today, didn't do much cardio because my legs are really sore from Sunday's paintball session. Ate a lot, until I'm bloated. Not sure where all the food goes to. I'm not sure about meditating at 3 in the morning anymore, it seems kinda useless. Meditating just before sleeping or in the morning seems optimum. Didn't learn much Japanese today, it must be one of those lazy days, but I did read "The 4 hours work week", by Timothy Ferriss. Recommend that book to everyone. This experiment is wearing me out, but must push on! Last edited by ken nubo : 06-06-2007 at 03:46 AM. |
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06-07-2007, 04:39 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 10 Laziest day ever! In terms of physical exercise, don't feel motivated to run, especially when it's 7:30 in the morning and I'm just slugging my ass (read: speed walking/jogging) around the tracking track for an hour. Half ass effort, but it's the illusion of exercise! I can feel my body wearing and tearing down, it is like there is no energy left. All the movement is a test of will power (cue dramatic music) But I'm spending more and more time learning Japanese. Learning basic things like direction, verbs, modifying the verbs, sentence structures and the like. A good place to learn basic Japanese is this website. I learn that the best method of learning is listening to the audio for proper pronunciation, watching audio/visual on youtube and remembering the words using romanized Japanese. I'm not bothering to learn how to read Japanese right now, speaking is cool enough  |
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06-07-2007, 03:06 PM
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| I might be spouting stuff you are already doing. I'd suggest that you may want to put as much effort into your nutrition as you do into your workouts and put some thought into recovery also. As a minimum a good vitamin supplement to complement your diet. work out the carb, fat and protein content of each meal and ensure as the day progresses that the carb percentage of meals decreases and the protein content increases. for example breakfast should be a high carb, low GI meal, just before you workout a high carb, high GI snack and a high protein meal after your workout. As far as other supplements go, I use L-Glutamine pre workout as it help sustain the amino acids and hydration of the muscles throughout the workout and helps them recover after the workout. I have a low calorie protein powder in water before bed. if I workout in the morning I'll have this drink after the workout in milk/soy. with the workout, warm up, do the weights, then stretch those muscles after weights not before (But do make sure your are warmed up before the weights), then cardio only after weights, ensure you cool down and stretch after the cardio. Do try to avoid working on the same muscle group two days in a row. Again, sorry if this is stuff you are already doing, just sharing some knowledge. Last edited by silicon toad2000 : 06-07-2007 at 03:08 PM. |
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06-08-2007, 04:17 AM
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Before you embark on a quest like that... at least one month of mental preparation is necessary... first, you have to determine exactly what you are going to do... next, you have to program yourself mentally for the ordeal that you will be going through... and, finally you must crystallize that commitment into every fibers of your being... so that the only possible outcome is the realization of your quest... When you do it that way... the experience marks you for the rest of your life... you see yourself as an iron man that can surmount the very worst of situation... a very good boost for your self-esteem... . |
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06-08-2007, 08:57 PM
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06-09-2007, 01:05 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 12 Picture+076.jpg (image) Picture.jpg (image) (Oh wow! I went from a scrawny chicken to a semi-scrawny chicken in just 11 days) Today worked out great! You know what's strange, I woke up and seem to be very lucid, very aware of my thoughts. It's strange, because I usually wake up zombie like. Perhaps this is the effect of all the accumulative meditation time? Went to the gym at 3 in the afternoon at worked on shoulders and arms with free weights, because I need to build the stabilizer muscles first, instead of doing cable exercise. I surprised myself a bit today because I can bench half my body weight with ease. It wasn't pretty at first because I barely bench 1 / 4 of my body weight! Ate a lot today, usually when I'm bloated. Not good, but ate lots of healthy good, no junk food here! Intense Japanese learning and 1 hour of meditation as usual Last edited by ken nubo : 06-09-2007 at 02:37 AM. |
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06-10-2007, 08:30 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 13 Oh man, it's a Saturday and I still dragged my ass to the gym X( Didn't lift weight much, did more push ups and sit ups, stretches and such. Spent an hour at the gym. Tried running on the thread mill but my knee and ankle hurts. That what happens when you run 8-10k a day 4 times a week without the proper work up. Spent 8 hours straight watching this Japanese drama series about a girl dying from a rare disease that is worst then cancer :O Not the best way to learn a language, but I did picked up some common words, slangs and correct pronunciations .... Not much else, ate a lot of protein today. I had a steak and a ham burger ... at dinner, fruits and veggie and all that good stuff. |
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06-11-2007, 04:39 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 14 Decided to take a little day off from exercising cause it's Sunday ^_& Busy playing poker, but still managed to learn some more Japanese. I just notice that for most things I do in life, I mainly follow my intuition on what to do. That gut feeling is never wrong for the most part. |
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06-12-2007, 01:35 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 15 From the start of the experiment, I have been eating an insane amount of food. This is what I had today: Breakfast: 2 eggs, sausages, a bowl of fruits (grapes, watermelon, apples and pear) , 125 gram of yogurt and a bowl of cereal. Lunch: A plate full of chicken fingers with fried veggie, with a bowl of fruits, and 125 gram of yogurt. Dinner: A plate full of sausages with fried veggie, then another plate full of pasta. A bowl of fruits and 125 gram of yogurt. (That's 375 grams of Yogurt a day ... heh) I don't eat deserts ought. One thing I noticed is that since last year, I probably cut my junk food consumption by 95 percent. Nowadays I'll have a small bag of chips once in a while. . Except on the weekends, when I like my bag of Hickey Sticks (best potatoes chips ever!) I went to the gym and ran on the tread mill, running at 4.5 miles/hr with 14.0 incline setting. That's almost like running vertically. Yeah, it's part of the ninja training. Did it for 15 minutes before collapsing, err, getting off the thread mill, then did some hardcore stretching for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Stretching is my favorite exercise, because I like the feeling of the muscles tearing when I'm exerting just a little over the comfort zone (and no, I never pulled a muscle or injured myself from doing hardcore stretching) Also learned Japanese and stuff, a Japanese girl said my accent is almost flawless  All in all, I'm half way through this experiment! 15 days more to go, I think I shall beat myself the last 7 days and do really really high intensity training. We'll see. |
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06-12-2007, 12:34 PM
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| I'm gonna pick on your nutrition again Ken. I'm surprised all your energy isnt taken up by digesting all that. try something like this Breakfast: a bowl of fruits (grapes, watermelon, apples and pear) , 125 gram of yogurt and a bowl of cereal. Brunch: 2 eggs, sausages, plate full of pasta Lunch: with a bowl of fruits, and 125 gram of yogurt. afternoon meal: A plate full of chicken breasts with streamed veggie, Dinner: A plate full of sausages with steamed veggie, . A bowl of fruits and 125 gram of yogurt. i just cut and pasted what you had with very little change. if you do this you should find you have more energy throughout the day and might even find learning a little easier. |
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06-13-2007, 04:17 AM
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| Pm experiment, Day 16 Rolled out of bed at 7:30 AM after 6 hours of sleep and head straight to the gym. Switched up the exercise today, instead of weight lifting I put on weighted gloves and punch the punching bag then I practice round house kicks and karate chops So it was a good warm up exercise for some push ups! Did 5 sets of push ups, with 25 reps. Did 5 sets of sit ups, with 25 reps. Did 2 sets of squats, with 50 reps Did 1 set of 10 burpees before collapsing to the ground (burpees is a killer exercise, recommend it to all!) I kept it high intensity with few breaks in between sets, by the time I did the burpees my head was throbbing and I was feeling nauseated. I'm feeling low on energy. Is it because the body is using all the energy to digest the food? Could be, so I'm switching up my food intake. Japanese learning progress okay. The sentence structure is a bit weird, it's Subject – Object – Verb instead o the English Subject Verb Object, plus there is these things called particles, which has no real English equivalent. I actually find Japanese to be easier, since there is only present and past tense. Eh, what else ... yeah reading Japanese looks complicated, but I'll get it patted down once I understand how to fluency speak Japanese. And meditating makes me hyper-aggressive, I don't know why :\ |
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06-14-2007, 03:52 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 17 I think I'm feeling addicted to the feeling of being buff, that's why I keep on doing upper body exercise. Did weight lifting with bar bells and dumb bells, tried to stay away from the cable machines in order to build up the stabilizer muscles. Mostly did 4 sets of the exercise, with 4-6 reps to hypertrophy the muscles. Rwar, I'm going to be the hulk now! Today I started learning Hiragana, so at least I can learn how to write in Japanese. There is over 30 some Hiragana symbols, which is like the Japanese alphabet. It's hard for me to remember it all, I'm using this learning method where you associate the word and the symbol with an image in real life. For example, the Hiragana i looks like “ ', so I associate the symbols with the mental picture of eyes and try to remember that it's, uh, the Hiragana i. I'm not sure about meditate anymore, I usually work on the computer around midnight until I pass out. But! I'll still give it a go and meditate before bed time. And for the past two weeks, I have forgone waking up 3 in the morning to meditate, it's too hardcore for me  |
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06-14-2007, 04:14 AM
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06-15-2007, 02:13 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 18 You know those days when you can’t think properly, where everything seems to be a haze? That’s what I hate about being sleep deprived. Woke up with 5 hours of sleep, got dressed and went to the gym. It was a test of will power really, because my body is really sore from working out the last 18 days with a couple of day break in between. I flop around in the mat and squirm around for the illusion of exercise. Actually, I worked on my flexibility, stretching and stretching because it feels good. I’m actually contemplating about going to the gym again, but I’ll save my energy for tomorrow’s 8-10 km run. Learned some more Japanese, concentrating on the Hiragana symbols, need to remember it to type in Kanji. |
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06-16-2007, 03:12 AM
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| PM experiment, Day 19 I originally started doing the 30 days trial of hardcore exercise and learning Japanese was to rise the complacency level. Complacency is a major killer, almost literally sometimes when it comes to overweight folks. Complacency is what keeps you at that boring job, year after year because of job security or a me |