The past month or so, I’ve been keeping tab on my health and my fitness regime. It’s a hard thing to keep yourself healthy, workout, eat right and then work during the day (with a job or without a job included). Ever since I started mocap regularly and met my friend Zawen, he’s been feeding my daily dosages of fitness input which I can also discuss and enquire about. So much fun! I’m not being sarcastic. Among them, he’s been pretty much helping me to plan what my workout schedule should be like. As well as giving me the heads up on which fitness “necessity” and ”accessory” to buy.  Currently i’m doing cardio at least 4 times a week now. Ranging from a 20 minute session if i don’t have time to a 50 minute session when I do. Ultimately I would love to be doing my cardio in the morning which is to be very frank the best time cause that is when the body is raring to burn calories for the previous days food storage. To keep the burn continuous throughout best to do the cardio in the morning. But that’s not meant to be for now. As an alternative it’s in the evening, after everything else during the day. Then there is of course the weight session.  I’ve started back on weights again properly. But before that I want to go into introducing my gym companions which are a must haves. They are.. ***drum roll…..kadush***  

Gym Companion #1 – Syntha 6

 

I actually bought Syntha 6 just last year in September as you can read here: My Syntha-6 and Gakic, but I stopped taking it for nearly a year. I’m back on it now and taking it consistently i didn’t think it would finish so fast. I consume the protein shake usually in the morning and then another one after workout. You can say it’s like part of my breakfast. I mix the protein powder which 1/3 along with organic soy milk with a hint of vanilla, water pop in 3 ice cubes… shakey shakey and there ya go. Instant chocolate protein drink. It’s pretty yummy too, after you get used to the whey protein taste. I need my protein to replenish the muscles I’ve torn in the process of either cardio or weights. More so if I did weight resistance for the day. By the way the model with the product is Monica Brant. She is probably one of the best in the fitness industry and is a role model to a number of people internationally. She is one soure of inspiration here    

Gym Companion #2 – Lipo 6

 

Then we come to the thing that is suppose to help with burning the stubborn fat. I was using Hydroxycut before, then I decided to give Lipo 6  a try. I’ve seen it many times in my favourite fit magazine Oxygen Mag and Muscle & Fitness: Hers. I never used them cause well it cost pretty high, however one has to invest in oneself somewhere right? Using Hydroxycut with consistent exercise and watching the diet – I can’t say I’ve seen immediate results but I will say that I can see small differences, especially in the arms and legs while working out. Plus these capsules are suppose to pack more energy which i do feel. I feel like I can cardio / run longer. Appettite seems to wan a bit too after eating it. Lets see what happens.     

Gym Companion #3 – Itouch = IFitness

 

My last gym companion has already been introduced actually here on Itouch’ ed Me. What I want to share is the program I bought from the Itunes store which was very cheap and is now my buddy when I do weight resistance. Why do I love it?  iFitness provides images of people performing over 110 exercises, and categorizes them by the body region that each exercise targets. Simply choose a target, tap on an exercise, and you are presented with a picture of someone performing the exercise.  

  Tap on the pencil icon at the top right and jot down what you did for your workout that day. Create your own workout regimes on a daily or routine basis. Monitor everything with the logs.  

It’s super helpful and if I don’t understand an exercise or I want to know which muscle part the exercise is hitting, just tap on the image of the person performing the exercise and you have a detailed explanation. Pretty handy right Including the music and video playback of course. There you have it. The 3 main companions.