The Noodle Aunty Says.....
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Ok this week is turning out to be some kind of omen, or sign, to me.
As you may recall, I met a friend I haven't seen in 8 months last week. Then a couple of days ago, I met a friend who hasn't seen me in ONE week. Both said the same, or similar things.
The kicker - this morning, I visited my usual noodle stall for breakfast. Well, "usual" before I started working out. I still do eat at the noodle stall now and then even now, but not as often as before I decided to work out. So anyway, the aunty made the noodles, and then said "Wow you've lost weight! Stressed? You need to eat more!"
Ok so she belongs to the generation that says "if you're fat, you're healthy". The thing is, she HAS seen me walking past her stall all these weeks I'm working out. Week by week my weight has gone down, at the time. Now, the weight hasn't budged from 77kgs in 4 weeks like I have mentioned in earlier posts. It seems so coincidental that I keep getting the same or similar comments only now, and not during all those weeks while I was working out.
Plus, the fact that I have almost virtually stopped "fat burning" workouts lately, and only doing muscle building and toning, make this seem very "omen-ish".
Perhaps the signs are trying to tell me that the traditional "fat burning mindless treadmill" type of workout is actually useless, and that my current type of "muscle building, high reps" type of workout actually works better?
Remember, the friend who hasn't seen me in ONE week saw a difference, and in that ONE week, I only did one "mindless cardio workout" while the remainder of the days in the week I only did muscle building workouts...
Are all the traditional fitness information wrong? Maybe just purely "burning fat" is not really effective for long-term weightloss? Hmmm food for thought....
As you may recall, I met a friend I haven't seen in 8 months last week. Then a couple of days ago, I met a friend who hasn't seen me in ONE week. Both said the same, or similar things.
The kicker - this morning, I visited my usual noodle stall for breakfast. Well, "usual" before I started working out. I still do eat at the noodle stall now and then even now, but not as often as before I decided to work out. So anyway, the aunty made the noodles, and then said "Wow you've lost weight! Stressed? You need to eat more!"
Ok so she belongs to the generation that says "if you're fat, you're healthy". The thing is, she HAS seen me walking past her stall all these weeks I'm working out. Week by week my weight has gone down, at the time. Now, the weight hasn't budged from 77kgs in 4 weeks like I have mentioned in earlier posts. It seems so coincidental that I keep getting the same or similar comments only now, and not during all those weeks while I was working out.
Plus, the fact that I have almost virtually stopped "fat burning" workouts lately, and only doing muscle building and toning, make this seem very "omen-ish".
Perhaps the signs are trying to tell me that the traditional "fat burning mindless treadmill" type of workout is actually useless, and that my current type of "muscle building, high reps" type of workout actually works better?
Remember, the friend who hasn't seen me in ONE week saw a difference, and in that ONE week, I only did one "mindless cardio workout" while the remainder of the days in the week I only did muscle building workouts...
Are all the traditional fitness information wrong? Maybe just purely "burning fat" is not really effective for long-term weightloss? Hmmm food for thought....
Labels: personal, results, weight loss, workout
2 Comments:
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tHemUxIcboX, December 5, 2007 4:55 PM
tHemUxIcboX, December 5, 2007 4:55 PM
Ideal cardio workout time is 40 mins, and dun cross 60 mins. Yes, I read what you said somewhere too. But the thing is, in the past few days alone I suddenly get these kinda comments from pple and I haven't been doing cardio... mostly just muscle building..
I'm here .. I've read somewhere that as u do cardio .. ur body burns unneccessary fats till a certain level. After that you need to do toning and higher level of cardio or change of routine to continue burning.