Sunday, January 21, 2018
20/1
It's been a day with much uncertainty. From a chance of turn out to the exercise session almost getting cancelled, it has been pretty nerve-wrecking.
So last night, my platoon commander whatsapp-ed everyone to check if we're ready in case of a turnout. Of course, we were! But that also meant that there's intel. Unwillingly, i went to ready my stuff and left them in the living room. Morning came, no call. Noon came, no call. 2pm came, no call. WHEW! I'M SAVED! So afternoon/evening exercise session is confirmed.
Until, it started to rain at 3? When we were supposed to meet at 4. Delayed slightly, waited for the rain to stop before the call was made. Ended up being a pretty enjoyable session even though there was SO MUCH RUNNING. Ran around punggol, to the park which really is a pretty place. Did statics at different locations, ran in the rain at some parts of the route, it was a good time for sure.
So i was being asked this question today, 'Why the drastic measure to start living a healthier lifestyle, and it evolving into me being so enthusiastic about exercising?'
I guess it really first started out as an ego thing. Many people whom i were close to, told me that i was getting increasingly fat. It didn't really bother me until my Pastor casually commented that i had lost all my muscle and i'm just fat now. I took it pretty hard because it is that obvious to people. From then, i changed my diet, started making it a point to exercise at least 3 times a week.
It wasn't until i set out to do my first muscle up that made me super motivated to exercise. Slowly, i started to watch more videos about what's good and what's not, learning new exercises which eventually led me to skipping rope. I also chanced upon this youtube series called 10000 hours. It's a series about a basketball coach going across different states in US to train people. He believes in hard work, and so the philosophy of 10000 hours was introduced to me. If you wanna get good at something, you need to put in the hard work, the effort, the time. So that really shaped my mentality towards exercising because it's something i can keep doing no matter what. Right now, i want to push my physical limits and see how far i can go. Yet, I've came to realise today that rest is a super important part of it too. I shouldn't be taking it so extreme. Tomorrow will be a rest day, yet there's a part of me that doesn't want to stop. This might be addiction, an addiction i never thought i'll develop. An addiction to exercising.
So, that's my answer. I might look back on this blog post and think i'm crazy. But right now, exercising is really something i enjoy.
Brian
12:25 AM
