13-09-2015

So, here we are. Our very first outdoor activity for this season. I am very excited to be honest. It’s been a very long time since I’ve join such outdoor activity. Okay, where do I start?

We gathered together at Bombay Spice at Batu Kawa (since the location is easy for people to find) while waiting for friends from Team Serian and Team Samarahan to come. We departed to Sumiran Eco Camp roughly at 9am. The place actually is not too far from Bombay Spice, but since it is located deep in the village, so you’ll need someone to show you the path to the camp (especially for first comer). Well, just having us together makes me feel happy. You know, that feeling when you are together with your friends to do some activity.

The team leaders then briefed us a little bit about our activity. There are two main activities for today; jungle tracking (compulsory) and flying fox (optional).

And of course I have to try both! I’ve been dreaming for so long to have a chance to try flying fox. Okay, will continue on flying fox later.

Our first activity: Jungle tracking (bonus: obstacles) (RM10/person)

There are like 10 or more obstacles along the jungle tracking. Our stamina and teamwork are two important elements to complete this. Stamina; because it’s an uphill and downhill challenges. Teamwork; because some of the obstacles really need your full concentration and help from your teammates. You cannot do it yourself for some obstacles. You’ll need to work as a team to complete it. Oh before I forgot, we have 7 people in a group, where each group will have one or two men and the rest will be women. My group consist of 6 women and 1 man. This activity went for more than one hour.

Second activity: Flying fox (RM10/person for once)

This is an optional activity. But I’ll never miss this opportunity. And, flying fox at Sumiran Eco Camp is one of the longest flying fox in Borneo. So, I definitely have to try this!

Since my group finished the first activity early (second group to complete all the obstacles), so we can go for the flying fox first. I have an acrophobia, so I expect myself to scream all the way from the beginning until the end. But. But. But. I did not scream, nor did I close my eyes. My eyes were wide opened looking for the amazing, beautiful, and stunning view in front of my eyes. Subhanallah. It is really beautiful. The view of the place itself is beautiful. But the view from above is much more beautiful. I would really recommend people to go try flying fox and look for this amazing view yourself. You will never regret it.

After completed both activities and changes the dirty cloth into a clean one, it’s finally time to bid farewell to the beautiful nature at Sumiran Eco Camp. I’ll come again one fine day. In sha Allah.

So, that’s wrap for today’s activities. I am fully satisfied with our first outdoor activity. It’s such a great experience for me.

I am super excited for next week. What kind of adventure would we go through for next week activity? Hmmmm.

12-09-2015

Okay today is the first day of second week. To be honest, I feel guilty for the past whole week. Why I said so? Because even though I take care of my diet and controlled my food intake, but I have not work out. Not even once. Okay never mind. The past is in the past. Let it go, let it go.

So today, I came early at Level Up Fitness (LUF), a gym where we do our weekly activities. Since the activity started at 2pm, so I basically have one hour to play some equipment’s at LUF. I decided to play bicycle (sorry I don’t know the exact name of this equipment). I worked out for roughly half an hour, and then I stopped as my leg has loss all its energy to turn the pedal. Such a low stamina I have.

Its 2pm, and we started our activities with some exercises. Squats (a must do workout) and jumping high knee, and oh yes, sprinting at one place. 3 simple exercise, but managed to make us all sweaty. And that’s only the beginning.

Today’s main activities is about strength and cardio. We have been divided into two groups, one will do strength activity and the other group will start with cardio activity. It’s a 30, 10 work up. 30 seconds workout, 10 seconds rest. Trust me, 30 seconds workout during that time is like 30 minutes and 10 seconds finished in a blink of eyes. Each group then divided into 5 small group with 5 different strength/cardio activity. And, each activity has four session, 4 sets of 30, 10. We take turns to do all the strength and cardio activities.

Strength activities:

Most of the activities are about weightlifting and squats.

Cardio activities:

First: Squats (while you climbed on a bench and goes down – repeat for 30 sec)

Second: Jumping jack

Third: Almost the same as squats (but for this one, one of your leg will be on the bench, and another on the floor. Repeat for both leg)

Fourth: Jumping high knee

Fifth: Plank

The workout is for one hour non-stop, and most of us feels like dying. *crying*

But the best part is, this time it did not cause much pain compared to last week. Last week, I take 3 whole days to fully recover from the muscle pain.

Okay guys, tomorrow we’ll have our first outdoor activity. We’ll go to Sumiran Eco Park for our next challenge. I am super excited because I finally get to try flying fox tomorrow yay!

Will update on our outdoor activity soon. Till then.

05-09-2015

Today is the first day of the program. Nervous, takut, gembira, tak sabar, bersemangat semua bercampur baur. Serius cakap. Well, the first session is kick-off event, so semestinya ambil berat permulaan dahulu. My initial weigh-in is 74.4 kg. Yes, untuk saya yang tak berapa nak tinggi ni, itu memang suatu angka yang menggerunkan. Cukup menggambarkan keadaan fizikal saya yang emmmm tau-tau lah macam mana.

Hari ini bermula dengan sesi berkenalan dengan team leader (TL) ataupun kitorang panggil coach dan semua ahli kumpulan. Sesi yang santai dan relaks. Then, here we come dengan exercise yang kekononnya untuk warm up. We do the squats, push up, jumping jack, and few other workout yang yes, supposedly easy to do, but yet it is really a difficult one for me. Saya almost pitam in the middle of the session until saya terpaksa duduk tepi for about 10-15 minutes. Bila lama dah tak buat strict workout memang inilah hasilnya. Selama ni buat exercise ala-ala manja. Bila rasa penat sikit, dah berehat, dah berhenti. So, bila kali ni coach push us to our maximum limit, memang collapse la rasanya. Semput.

Tapi definitely worth the try. Kalau tak, sampai bila nak start workout dengan betul kan. And today jugak before end of the session, coach ajar how to calculate the calories intake per day, how much calories should each person consume (every person need different number of calories intake per day, and also depending on our activity level on that day) and other things related to diet.

Weight loss = 70% diet + 30% workout;

So, you have to control both your diet and workout.

I really can’t wait for our next session. As what our coach said, this week aktiviti kita hanya pada hari Sabtu and semua wajib turun hari Sabtu. Ahad is optional, but I definitely won’t miss the opportunity untuk workout ramai-ramai. Tapi aktiviti hari Ahad hanya akan bermula pada minggu depan. Btw, coach gtau nak bagi homework nanti. Kitorang semua pun tengah tunggu homework apa yang coach akan bagi. *dugeun dugeun*

Saya akan update aktiviti kitorang next week.