Finally A Workout! ... the 50/10 Kettlebell Workout!

Hey guys! I'm so sorry for not blogging for weeks, i've been really busy with school lately but i'm free now because year end holidays are almost here (excited!!!) 

Oh my, i haven't put up any workouts since i've started this blog.... so today i'm gonna put up my first workout --- the 50/10 Kettlebell Interval Workout! Well ya see, kettlebells are really versatile and easy to handle, plus it's one of my favorite equipment! I've tried this workout yesterday and i can say it really fun & challenging though! (well maybe?) All you need is your body, a kettlebell, an interval timer and maybe a workout mat (i didn't used one though so it's not necessary)

Alright guys, here's the workout: (remember to warm up before starting this workout!!)
                          

Set your timer to 50 seconds work/10 seconds rest and repeat for 18 times, start the timer and work your butt off!

Oh before that, i have another announcement!
I've made another mashup yesterday, it's a mashup of Britney Spears' Work B**ch and Avicii's Levels so watch out Brit Army and Avicii fans! It's gonna be up on Youtube around 3-10th November, i'll put up the link here when it's out! (Artwork to the right! ;))

Fall 2013 Favorites PLAYLIST!

Hey guys! So there's a lot of musics released recently, like example i've got the deluxe edition of Miley Cyrus' "Bangerz" and Selena Gomez' "Stars Dance" and all i could say about these two records is -- THEY ARE AMAZING! And i've also got a few other (good) musics from iTunes too. Since fall is here, i've decided to make this awesome playlist (and it's on repeat all day long!) (PS - It's gonna be a LOOONG list but it's gonna be an awesome one!)

Roar - Alex G (Cover)

Wake Me Up - Avicii

Pompeii - Bastille

Icarus - Bastille

Laura Palmer - Bastille

Flaws (Live Acoustic Version) - Bastille

Magik 2.0 (ft. Austin Mahone) - Becky G

American Girl - Bonnie McKee

BRITNEY SPEARS:

Intimidated, Overprotected (Darkchild Remix), Me Against the Music (ft. Madonna)

Everytime (Ambient Remix), Toxic, My Prerogative, Gimme More, Perfect Lover, Break the Ice

Unusual You, Shattered Glass, Till the World Ends, Scream & Shout (will.i.am & Britney Spears)

Ooh La La, Work Bitch

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Angel With A Shotgun - The Cab

We Remain - Christina Aguilera

Gimme More - Christopher Dallman

Radar - Christopher Dallman

Toxic - Christopher Dallman

Sky Is the Limit (vs. Mad Mark) - DJ Antoine

Hold On We're Going Home - Drake

The A Team - Ed Sheeran

Drunk - Ed Sheeran

UNI - Ed Sheeran

Lego House - Ed Sheeran

You Need Me, I Don't Need You - Ed Sheeran

Burn - Ellie Goulding

Emblem3:

Just For One Day, Speghetti, XO, Chloe (You're the One I Want), Nothing To Lose, I Love LA

Sunset Blvd, 3000 Miles, One Day, Jaiden (Live)

Hoodie Allen:

No Interruption, No Faith In Brooklyn (ft. Jhameel), No Faith In Brooklyn (Acoustic), Two Lips

No Interruption (Acoustic), Cake Boy (Acoustic), High Again (Acoustic), Let Me Be Me

Fame Is For A**holes (ft. Chiddy), Reunion, Cake Boy, Casanova, Heart 2 Heart

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I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

Live It Up (ft. Pitbull) - Jennifer Lopez

I Never Knew - Jessie Andrews

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Justin Bieber:

All Around the World, Take You, Thought Of You, Beauty And A Beat

She Don't Like the Lights, Maria, As Long As You Love Me (Believe Acoustic)

Beauty And A Beat (Believe Acoustic), Take You (Believe Acoustic)

All Around the World (Believe Acoustic), I Would, Heartbreaker

Justin Timberlake

What Goes Around Comes Around, Gimme What I Don't Know (I Want), True Blood, Cabaret

TKO, Take Back the Night, Murder, Amnesia, Electric Lady, Suit & Tie

Strawberry Bubblegum, Tunnel Vision. That Girl, Mirrors, Dress On, Body Count

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Acapella - Karmin

Roar - Katy Perry

Die Young - Ke$ha

C'mon - Ke$ha

Thinking Of You - Ke$ha

Crazy Kids (ft. will.i.am) - Ke$ha

Here's To Us - Kevin Rudolf

Applause - Lady Gaga

Royals - Lorde

Can't Hold Us - Max Schneider (Cover)

Miley Cyrus

THE ENTIRE "BANGERZ" ALBUM BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME

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Fred Astaire - Mr. Hudson

Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood

Right Place Right Time - Olly Murs

Best Song Ever - One Direction

Counting Stars - One Republic 

What You Wanted - One Republic

Miss Jackson (ft. Lolo) - Panic! At the Disco

This Is Gospel - Panic! At the Disco

Hold On We're Going Home - Rheanna Yeo (Cover)

Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke

Pressure - Robin Thicke

Forever And Ever - Royal Wood

Selena Gomez

THE ENTIRE "STARS DANCE" ALBUM BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME

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C'mon Let Me Ride (ft. Eminem) - Skylar Grey

Everything Has Changed (ft. Ed Sheeran) (Remix) - Taylor Swift

Motel Pool - Travis Garland

Someone - Trevor Moran

Glad You Came - The Wanted

Gold Forever - The Wanted

Rock Your Body - The Wanted

We Own the Night - The Wanted

Follow the Leader (ft. Jennifer Lopez) - Wisin & Yandel

Peanut Butter Yogurt SNACK!

Hey guys, so i'm finally back to blogging! Sorry for not updating because i had a test a week ago so it's all a busy week, but yeah i'm blogging again! Alright, put your hands up if you're a nut lover because this post is all for you!

Alright, this is a REALLY simple and delicious recipe and totally GUILT FREE! It's really easy to make as it'll only take less than 5 minutes of your time so if you're the person who doesn't have much time/rushing to make a snack, this one's for you!

What you're gonna need:

2 teaspoon of peanut butter (or any nut butter of your choice)

6 teaspoons of natural greek yogurt (or natural regular yogurt)

1 - Heat up the peanut butter for 20 seconds on HIGH with a microwave

2 - Mix heated peanut butter with greek yogurt

3 - Sprinkle with cinnamon or top it up with some sliced bananas or fruit of your choice!

Hidden sugars in cereals!

Hey guys, so i went to the grocery store today and got lots of stuffs for my fridge, while i'm at the cereals section, i've noticed there's a lot of "no sugar", "healthy" or "fitness" cereals -- If you're one of the peoples who get cereals like that, you need to STOP! Heres a few pictures of the ingredients list of a few cereals:

First up, we got the "Special K 100cal Dessert Bars" Well, the company says that Special K is specially a "fitness food". Well i don't think so. Let's see how many types of sugar are in this item. There's sugar, barley malt extract (yeah, it's a type of sweetener), then we have sugar again in the "yoghurt compound", then glucose, and then sugar again in "wheat flakes", and fructose, dextrose, glucose solids and sugar again(!) -- DID YOU SEE HOW MANY TIMES "SUGAR" IS MENTIONED? - four times! And they still call this a fitness snack? I DON'T THINK SO!

Second, we have "Special K Original Cereal". They have gluten, malt extract, and 8.3g of sugar per serving!

Next, we have Nestle's "Fitnesse - Clusters: Almond" Yeah, they almonds in it -- and lots of sugar too. They have sugar, glucose syrup, honey, barley malt extract, sugar (again), barley malt extract (again), glucose syrup (again?!)! DO YOU SEE IT? 

Here, we have Dorset's "cranberry, cheer and almond" cereal. The box is kinda fancy though - which tricked customers that it's "healthy". They have barley malt extract (x3), sugar (x2), and sweetened dried cranberries.

Lastly, we have Kellogg's "Smart Start" cereals. It stated "Strong Heart" though -- let's see whether is it true or not. They have sugar, brown sugar syrup, honey, corn syrup, polydextrose, and molasses. And they call that "strong heart"? More like "way to obesity! - which eventually leads to "weak heart"!

Alright guys, the lesson is -- choose your cereals PROPERLY and WISELY! I'd personally recommend regular PLAIN oats though. Remember to avoid foods with "-ose" at the end of any ingredient, because that's sugar! Don't fall for those with "fat free", "sugar free" labels on them, check the ingredients list first! But most importantly, try choose foods with only ONE ingredient.

Here's a list of different names of hidden sugar:

1. Agave nectarfatchance
2. Barbados sugar
3. Barley malt
4. Beet sugar
5. Blackstrap molasses
6. Brown sugar
7. Buttered syrup
8. Cane juice crystals
9. Cane sugar
10. Caramel
11. Carob syrup
12. Castor sugar
13. Confectioner’s sugar
14. Corn syrup
15. Corn syrup solids
16. Crystalline fructose
17. Date sugar
18. Demerara sugar
19. Dextran
20. Dextrose
21. Diastatic malt
22. Diatase
23. Ethyl maltol
24. Evaporated cane juice
25. Florida crystals
26. Fructose
27. Fruit juice
28. Fruit juice concentrate
29. Galactose
30. Glucose
31. Glucose solids
32. Golden sugar
33. Golden syrup
34. Grape sugar
35. High fructose corn syrup
36. Honey
37. Icing sugar
38. Invert sugar
39. Lactose
40. Malt syrup
41. Maltodextrin
42. Maltose
43. Maple syrup
44. Molasses
45. Muscovado sugar
46. Organic raw sugar
47. Panocha
48. Raw sugar
49. Refiner’s syrup
50. Rice syrup
51. Sorghum syrup
52. Sucrose
53. Sugar
54. Treacle
55. Turbinado sugar
56. Yellow sugar

Here are another list of 257 different names for sugar! : 

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/821596-257-names-for-hidden-sugar

Grocery List #02

Hey guys! Went to the grocery store to stock up my fridge! Here's a list of the things i got from the store! :)

1. Nuts - Cashews, Almonds & Pistachios (My first time getting this much of nuts!)

2. LOTS OF GREENS! (Couldn't list it out bc theres too many hahaha)

3. Some lemons, eggplant, mushrooms, garlic and onions

4. Sardines

5. Greek Yogurt

6. Tofus

7. Chicken

8. Beef

Alright, that's it for the week -- hope you guys got your grocery ideas for this week.

Log #01 - Good month ahead!

Hey guys, how are y'all doin'? Alright, i'll be starting a new segment where i'll do (daily) logs (something like a diary, yknow?). Alright, as the title of this post suggest -- "Good month ahead!" - i was tryna say that there'll be LOTS and LOTS of good stuffs happening this month!

First up, this is (probably) one of the most important thing in my life -- I'VE COMPLETED MY VERY FIRST INTERVAL SPRINTS ((20sec out/15sec low) x 10) IT WAS SUPERB! But, took me a while to start thanks to my (failed) pre workout meal - contained too much of proteins hahaha - which cause me to wait for like an hour at the park - started with a warm up (dynamic), then i just go all out! When i was sprinting, there's quite a lot of people who puts their eye on me - some even gave me some support, which REALLY motivates me! Well, in the end of the workout -- like what people usually feel after an intense sprinting workout - i felt REALLY REALLY exhausted, tired and stuffs. But it was worth the hard work, it eventually made me feel better (like ALOT BETTER hahaha) I'm gonna start doing HIIT sprints from now on -- well, it's gonna be a good workout!

Alright guys, i gotta go now (it's almost 10.30 and i really need some sleep!) Goodnight fitfam!

         

The Other Side

Hey guys, it's Friday! (Holla weekends and bye exams!) So, as the title of this post suggest -- i'll be talking about "the other side" of me. Now look, i may be into fitness, dancing, singing and eating (hahaha) -- but, i'm also into.. filming and film making - surprising (or weird), i know.

I don't know when exactly i became so into this, i think it started when i was around 10, when i got so into movies, the effects, the sound effects and all. I'd always go to the "special features" section of a DVD, then to the "making of" part -- and even the making of music videos though.  

I'm currently studying 3D effects, CGI and all -- looking forward to film a (at least) short film in the near future. And yeah, film making works well for the future too if music and fitness din't work out (haha i'm just joking -- or am i? ;)

It's really surprising where movies like Titanic -- are filmed in a pool (well for some scenes), Avatar, Real Steel, Resident Evil (my all time favorite zombie movie!), and Life of Pi -- they all used heavy visual effects, mocaps (motion captures) and CGIs -- the results are pretty amazing!

< face tracking on Avatar

I adore A LOT of movie makers, editors, directors and producer such as Steven Spielberg,

Shawn Levy, Paul WS Anderson, Oren Peli (hola to Paranormal Activity!), Niven Howie, Takashi Shimizu (the Grudge franchise was one of my favorite horror movies though!) Dean Zimmerman and the list just goes on and on and it'll never end!

Green screen tech on Resident Evil Afterlife >

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