25 Fittest Men for 2009

I just passed by some article, and well, checked out who's the fittest for this year...

Some of it were actors, athletes, hosts and etc.

I was surprised and at least happy that Manny Pacquiao - yeah you read that right. Pacman is one of the 25 MF for the year 2009! Kudos for Manny. He deserves to be featured. Another pride for our country.

Just out of curiosity too.. I''m going to get this issue for myself for new workout tips.

The number 1 is Rafael Nadal! My favorite Tennis Player, maybe because it amuses me that he is a lefty.. idk why, he really gives a powerful swing. If I ever play with him, I'll break my wrist for sure by returning his shots.

some of his interview questionnaires
We read that during Wimbledon you went grocery shopping and actually cooked your own food. How often do you cook at home?
Only those 2 weeks of the year. I have fun doing that, I like to eat that funny pasta we cook in Wimbledon. I really see that as part of my distraction there, especially in the past years with the rain making it a bit long.

What's your specialty in the kitchen?
Pasta with shrimp and mushrooms. I'm also good at making cakes.

How strict is your diet? Do you not eat certain foods?
It depends if I am playing the day after or not. I am not that careful in general but those days I am. I try not to eat meat or heavy things. But I do sometimes eat a lot of chocolate and things like that. Clearly I also burn a lot of calories!

-lolz. same here.. I really love pasta, mushroom will be in my alfredo, or in my pizza.
yeah, i do bake cakes too... lol. but haven't done that in a while. I still need some calories too, I burn a lot or I don't get the right calories for a day so... have to eat at least much more.

links after the jump.

http://www.mensfitness.com/fitness/469
http://www.mensfitness.com/sports_and_recreation/athletes/154

Eat Big, to be Big

The universal truth eh? Being a gym-goer (maybe considering myself a gym rat now), having to workout at least 3~5x/week. Now that I have my license back, prolly be 5x a week now, still depends on my 2jobs schedule though.

I tend to eat Cereals in the morning (Cookie Crisps - like eating cookie/cereals and still having fibers) and Oatmeal when I ran out of Cereals, still good for the heart. Whatever goes if I get hungry for I always wake up late like 12pm (and that's my breakfast time), and between that, before going to work, I, sometimes eat a banana, or some peanut butter sandwich, or at least a handful of almonds (almonds is a must for everyday). Then apple and banana during break time 0r snack time, Salad for my dinner which includes Fish stick/Salmon/Chicken Nuggets for the flavoring/topping. I usually eat dinner after I went to the gym, if I did not go.

Having said my at least basic food intakes, I still don't know much of what I am getting. (Fat, Protein, Calories, Carbohydrates). So in order for me to know how to gain/lose/burn some fat or muscle, I should know the minerals that my body is taking.

I think I'm a health conscious now. I always take a look of the product's Nutrition Facts. To see how many carbs are in there, fat, calories, etc. Trying to take a look if I'm having too much. But now that I weight between 116~123lbs, I don't know exactly if my body is burning or gaining some fat or muscles. As far as I know, I can eat whatever I want if I want to, and as long I can feel soreness after working out. Then I can tell that at least I did something good to make one step to the 'tone' I like.

I haven't read most of the parts yet, but I googled some of 'calories per day needed to gain muscle'. The results are heaps, and still I have to figure out if I am doing good at my food intake. I am looking for a food intake calculator that will help me on how much nutrition I am getting with those food I just said that I am taking.

-------------------------------need to be fix. I don't want this one to be save as a draft so.. I am sharing what I need right now, and my eyes are keep on blinking which is my que to go to sleep. lol.

Playlist....

I'm a bit of music junkie.. I can say, I can sing(well just sings along when the music plays), wherever I am. I always make sure if I'm going out for a long time, my iPod is definitely with me, I will forget my cellphone, but not my iPod. I listen to music everyday, even when I take a shower using my Nokia N70, just for music. (I dance to it rather than sing in the bathroom.. lolx - supposed to be secret but yeah I think it's worth sharing some about me). Before I go to bed, still I listens to one, I just put an alarm that will auto turn off after 15~30mins. I will wake up in the middle of my sleep because my ear hurts because the earphones are still on, and I will just remove it and after 5seconds, I'm back to my sleep.

Even at work that my coworker are/were amused that I happen to know alMOST of the lyrics that has been playing while we are working. "Okay, I swear, everytime you go here (cash register) and some music plays, you happen to know all the song (well, just most of the lyrics)" They (Tara and Patricia), has been listening then eh? I just don't tell em that most of it are in my iPod that is why. I don't have a radio so I do check some of the stations here, or while going to and from the gym travel time, most of the new songs I heard are from those stations, 94.1, 93.1, 102.7, 107.5..

I got hooked up listening to music when I was in highschool. Only and still, errr almost all of them are english, so I barely listens to Tagalog ones, yeah but idk about most of tagalog, I only know Parokya ni Edgar, Eraserheads, Rivermaya, Bamboo and that's it (I forgot some) but those are the only ones that has good type of music in Tagalog, Urbandub is one but all of their songs are still in english so....

I always makes some playlist on my iPod Classic. It depends on my mood on which one to listen to, what genres, beat, new/old... So browsing on my Music, most of them are downloaded by album so I don't really know some of the songs. If I am on the mood, I will put 'em on a new playlist.

I listen to most of genre's, from country to rock, reggae to pop, to christian or rnb's. As long as it gives good beat (I used to like low bass then) that has good bass if you put the volume on more loud mode. Beat, meaning, easy to catch up, or remember, and the Artist is well-known.

I have been putting up some music here on my blog page, and would like to track on which I had post. This one's for this blog only, I might share some of mine in my iPod but that's too many songs, most of the time I play is just the "Lift" playlist which has 62 songs in it, I can only listen to half of it when I'm in the gym (12-15songs/hr) and the other songs are just getting skipped.
I play upbeat of course most of the time, just to boost my pumping, running and getting back to mood. I play rock when I'm in the wet sauna, idk why, but it's fun playing rock when you are really sweating. They even ask me what am I listening to and some suggested to listen to this band.


I will still update this everytime I put a new one...

You can comment here if you think there's a good one!
So I can listen to it also. =)


Current Song: Don't Trust Me - 3oh13

Next on my list:
~ Birthday Sex - Jerimih
~ Boom Boom Pow - BEP

Previous ones:
~ My Love by The Dream ft/ Mariah Carey
~ Day 'N Nite by Kid Cudi
~ Ashes by Pepper
~ Give it up by Pepper
~ Gotta be somebody by Nickelback

The Chosen One.

I Hit the gym last night. I always ran into this white guy (a breakdancer) in the abs section every Sunday 9pm. Always. We've only had a few small talks but he always handle the conversation. I just agreed all the time. I just got his name yesterday. Even though we have small talks like 4 times in every Sunday we had. He practices bboy.. I always do abs for like 20mins/4sets of different kinds of workout.

After that I hit the weights. He's upstairs, I'm on the down part.

He's in the jacuzzi/spa, I'm in the wet sauna.

I went to the pool. He went too. There's a division for slow and fast swimmers, and for walking. It's past 11:20pm and we are in the walking section part of the pool. There's another guy in the pool. He's always diving though it was not allowed to. We had our chat.

Choi: Shit! Look at that shit.

Breakdancer: Fucking shit.

C: Holy. Shit.

B: Holy. Shit.

C: (downs sandwich) That's our guy levitating.

B: Upside-fuckin-down, man. He’s levitating upside-fuckin’-down.

C: Like he’s Neo, dude. Fuckin’ A.

B: He’s the chosen one. He can read the Matrix. Fuck.

C: He just fucking walked right off the board and–BOOM!–he’s just fucking floating there.

B: Holy smoking donkey dick, he’s still up there.

C: Just fucking sitting there. Wherever I go, it’s like his eyes are followin’ me.

B: He’s gonna do that ’till I stop dropping balls, right?

C: I need a beer. Like, right damn now.

B: He heard that. He knew you were gonna say that before you even said it.

C: Holy shit, he did, didn’t he? Holy fucking shit.

B: How long’s he gonna be up there?

C: ‘Til we get an offensive line, he says.

B: He's gonna be up there for a while, then, motherfucker.

C: Fuckin’ A, man.

B: (shakes head) Fuckin’ A.

C: I'm going to hit the showers now.

B: What was your name was again?

C: Choi. C-H-O-I

B: *looks up in the ceiling, pointing while trying to spell" How'd you spell it again?

C: And yours?

B: Reese.

C: Like the chocolate?

R: Yeah. I'll try to remember yours.

C: Alright later. *looks up at neo and nod-ed*

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Funny times.

Goal!

Just tracking.... full of BS... Goal? Hmm... at least belly's gone, or more (6 packs?) haha.. and toned... will try for 6weeks... Food? still same, cereals, salad, ham sandwiches, fruit juices (no soda), dark chocolate esp. snickers and rewards ~> (pizza, ice creams and chizbergers ofc).

Day 1 (Feb 28)~ 122.2lbs, 10~15lb weights, 2.58 miles Upper W'O


Day 6 (March 5)~ 121.9lbs, 15~25lb wt, 1.86 elips, Upper W'O


Day 53 (April 22)~ 119.3lbs, 17.5~65lbs of weights, 15min run (8 laps/2miles) only gets to burn around 150calories, but needed for cardio.


Current Diet as of April 22-
Almonds for snack (handful or 24pcs) the raw/roast ones
Cereals/Oatmeal still for breakfast
No soda still for 7months now.
1 day no chocolate/energy bar - woot!
Green Salad for Dinner with side of Protein Shake
Need carbs before/after work out.
~still a pizza whore. but that was last easter.

Back on Track

Definitely back on track. I just enrolled to Las Vegas Athletic Club as a member. I tried to look a fitness center near at my place but could not find any. Every time I passed by to the highway of 95, I always see LVAC. I knew that I will end up going to that gym. I saw their enrollment fee for only $5! Hellz Yeah! Only five bucks, I bought my sister to enroll me to that gym though 13~15mins drive from my place.

I just started my workout today, at 11:00pm I think. $5 for enrollment fee, and $22/month, and it will depend on what your program or package they are offering, I signed up for the basic one, which is all by yourself workout, and I even got a two 1week free guest pass. I even got my LVAC card right away (just like a licence driver). Right after that, I started my workout. Did ran 2miles, Abs, dumbbell flyes, shoulders, pull ups, etc. for 2½ hours I believed.

I was kind of disappointed for only using the 10~30lbs range of weights, and as well for my low stamina at the moment. Hoping I can get back my lost strength and gain more as time goes by.
It was quite a difference having to go to the gym, and having to use Bowflex at our place.

LVAC has a lot to offer. They have these free trainings like KickBoxing, Pilates, Body Pump, Aquatic Aerobics (I wonder what that thing does) and a lot more (not aware at the moment and to lazy to put all) They have an oval/running track which you can run of course, but indoor at second floor. I haven't notice any equipments that I am looking for, I only used dumbbells for bench press replacement.

There's also a dry and wet sauna, I haven't gone there yet too. I'll definitely going there when I go back. I did my work out and head to the locker room, I need to buy a lock, iPod Classic armband at least, and need to find my gloves. After that, I went to take a shower, they only have like 8 stalls and no curtains, you'll be facing the other cubicle naked hah. Really nice having a warm shower after that workout. I need to upgrade my membership for 2 more dollars. It includes towel usage for the whole month. sweet.

I checked my weight, woot! 121.8lbs, on the manual weighing scale like the ones in the hospitals.

Your Current Weight: 121 lbs
Current BMI: 19.53
Ideal BMI Range: 18.5~25.9

almost underweight, yeah and I noticed at the full body mirror that my body doesn't look that bad. better then the ones in the gym. heh.

Now need to track my workout program.