Yumm yumm CNY...

This is the picture of the campfire in Sabah during class trips. was kinda hot. heh.

so after toying around with various blogskins and messing it up multiple times, I am back to a custom template. BORING! But at least it works. heh.
Went back to Singapore last week and met up with quite a few friends. that was superb. haha. havent seen them all in AGES. haha.
Now CNY is over, I'm back in China, we are all fed to the brim with goodies, time to get the body workin it off. heheh. My next few posts will be targeted specifically at weight lost. Well, briefly at least...I'll target weight lost via exercise first before talking about weight lost via your diet in future posts (:

So I have introduced one workout, push-ups. And honestly, again I stress, it is an awesome exercise. Works a lot of different muscles, gives you a strength and yet a cardiovascular workout, and easy to do anywhere. But this exercise is more of a toning exercise. Won't burn much fat. Why?
When you do push-ups, its a form of resistance exercise (weights etc). Any resistance exercise would naturally work the heart as must pump more blood to those muscles thus increasing the heart-rate. However the burning of fat requires something more.

First condition: The heart must be working at at least 60% of your Resting Heart Rate. Again as a recap, your RHR is number of beats that your heart is Beating Per Minute immediately once you wake up.
Second condition:Your heart must be working at this 60% for at least 30minutes. Any less than that, you are just sweating and not burning fat.

So unless you do push-ups for 30mins, it isn't going to help you burn much fat. An important exercise? YES! But not going to burn much fat.
So does that mean you have to jog/run for 30min to burn fat? Well, just running for that long can be rather dull maybe. So find something that you like to do! Play soccer, uh Ultimate frisbee! Dodgeball! haha. I love that game. Or just go for a cycle at the park. Find something fun but yet challenging for you.
Now there's some magic involved. You don't have to exercise 30min EVERY SINGLE DAY to burn calories. Say today is Monday and you play badminton for 45 minutes and you burned uh 800 calories during that time. The magic is that for the next 24 hours, you will continue burning another 800 calories! Thus from a 45 minutes workout, you burn 1600 calories in all!
Your effort carries forward. A teeeny bit of science now. When you exercise, your metabolism is sped up. It will continue working at that increased rate for the next 24hrs and thus you continue to burn calories. If you continue working out every alternate day, your metabolism would work consistently at that higher rate. If you don't however, your metabolism slows down and you will need to re-crank it up again. It is harder to re-crank it up than to maintain. Therefore, consistency is the best! So find that activity that you wanna do (:

Makes sense? If no, leave a tag or comment and I will get to it.
Don't lie to yourself. haha. laugh