Mortimer's battle logs.

[Mortimer]

Wow that's hardcore =P I didn't know that could happen(though my guess is that it's more from the beta carotine in carrots), though in my case my skin gets peely so I know I screwed up in some way. 

 

Weights:

 

50 lb shoulder press(x5)

 

One legged squats (x5 per leg with pillar for support) 

 

110 lbs deadlift (x3) 

 

11 push ups

 

Jumping up then catching bar and holding for 15 secs before resting for another 10 secs and repeat for 15 secs.  On last 2 sets, my 2nd interval was down to 10 secs =(

 

Might be still tired from yesterday's climb. 

 

Chest press with 60 lb barebell

 

50 lbs clean and press (x4) 

 

Single arm rows with 12 kg dumbell(x12) 

 

1 min plank

 

5 sets total. I think 6 sets should not be considered the norm(time + energy) constraints and I should aim for 5 sets per day unless time and energy permits. 

 

Post workout snack:

6 stuffed tofu puffs 

A small yam cake? (was bought by mistake and I was told to clear it) 

[Mortimer]

Did 1h piloxing, half an hour of body combat.

 

Lunch:

60g of chayote 

60g cumin laced Black beans

1 tomato

200g tau kwa 

200g okra 

 

Finished off the last green tea cake which was expiring today. 

 

Then for work I had to keep my work laptop close to me and stay contactable. Which means I had to skip my evening run. (I'm not going to be very useful if I need to run 3km back to my bags, am I?). And I'm certainly not good enough to keep up with the local run group while carrying a 3 kg laptop (don't even have an ergonomic bag for that kind of shenanigans, besides I hate running while carrying stuff). 

 

Which stressed me out so I ate some of the things that should not be named in the office pantry, aka the sweet snacks. 

 

I usually do keep my food demon in control but when I get stressed that puts that control off =(

 

Ah well, sh*t happens. I should be able to do HIIT workouts since our bags are still close to us, so at most I'll just say excuse me, sorry need to get my bag for work. 

[Mortimer]

Dinner last night:

100g bok choi 

90g pork

100g tau kwa 

120g fish 

3 prawns

 

Breakfast this morning:

Curry pork zucchini boat 

Cocoa cinnamon milk

 

Did 1h les Mills body combat

 

Morning snack:

2 small mandarins 

1 doughnut peach

16 longans

 

Then...magic happened. 

 

The hill route looked like it had heavy cloud cover, so I did a coastal route run (on asphalt) during lunch break. Pretty flat all the way. 

 

Used 'My Oh My' for mental humming song, it's actually pretty good - less likely to give me stitches compared to 'We will rock you' 

 

Avg cadence =169

 

Any stops=due to traffic lights

 

Also this time I was properly equipped with full running gear. And I did bitch before I don't like running on tracks because I feel it's not 'real' enough, right? Running along streets and seeing new sights makes me feel more alive. 

 

I ran 7 min pace with local running group (for 7k) and didn't realize that I was capable of more...though park run timings should have been an indicator. But park run is 5 km only so it's easier to go faster. 

 

For the shape training run I will place myself in the 7 min group as I'm not sure about 10 km? Or should I do 6.30 pace? 

[Mortimer]

Lunch:

60g cumin laced beans

60g chayote

1 tomato

20g sweet red pepper 

150g cauliflower

100g brocoli

250g baked tau kwa with 1 tablespoon of sweet thai chilli sauce

 

Afternoon snack:

A chocolate square

Some potato chips

Pistacho floss

 

Not very healthy, I know, but I wonder if I am allocating enough food for myself that's what caused the snacking. 

 

Dinner part 1:

150g cauliflower

100g brocoli 

Ramen

2 chocolate nuggets that my BF didn't want to take (now why did I even keep them for him in the first place?) 

Tried a mac Donald's bandung soft serve ice cream for science(it was good) 

 

Supper:

Half an orange 

3 lychees

[Mortimer]

Breakfast:

Curry Pork Zucchini boat

375 ml of hazelnut milk with cinnamon. 

1 orange 

11 lychees

 

I think of all nut milks I like hazelnut best, haven't got to get my hands on cashew yet. 

 

Did 1h les Mills body combat. Will do weights, then have lunch later. 

 

Morning snack:

Couple of walnuts

30g of honey butter almonds 

[Mortimer]

With a little help from my little green friend (green tea) :

 

 

Weights:

 

50 lb shoulder press(x5)

 

One legged squats (x5 per leg with pillar for support) - went all the way down. 

 

110 lbs deadlift (x3) 

 

11 push ups

 

Jumping up then catching bar and holding for 15 secs before resting for another 10 secs and repeat for 15 secs. 

 

Chest press with 60 lb barebell

 

50 lbs clean and press (x4) 

 

Single arm rows with 14 kg dumbell(x8) 

 

1 min plank

 

Full 6 sets. 

 

Lunch:

60g cumin laced beans, now with a teaspoon of fenugreek seeds. 

1 tomato

20g red pepper

60g chayote

90g sesame chicken with dried chilli 

150g cauliflower 

100g brocoli 

[aramis]

Just looking at your workouts makes me sweat. You're crushing it!

[Mortimer]

Thanks! I'm doing in circuit form(since I'm not all that much into muscle gains) , so it's not that bad. Doing continuously I think would kill me too =P

 

Besides the resting between sets..lets just say I am a tad hyperactive so.. Uh. I don't do the rest thing well. 

[Mortimer]

Afternoon snack:

A dark chocolate square

 

Dinner:

150g cauliflower

100g brocoli

6 stuffed tofu puffs

160g chickpeas 

200g durian. 

 

This week's badminton was cancelled due to poor attendance and I went for an hour of boot camp instead. 

[Mortimer]

 

Breakfast:

Curry Pork Zucchini boat

Cinnamon cocoa milk

 

Morning snack:

Cumin tea 

20 cherries

1 fragrant pear 

 

Did 1h zumba, half an hour of les Mills body combat. 

 

Lunch:

60g black beans, now with a teaspoon of fenugreek seeds. 

1 tomato

20g red pepper

60g chayote

200g tau kwa with a tablespoon of Thai chilli sauce 

150g cauliflower 

100g brocoli 

 

 

[Mortimer]

An hour of HIITs. 

 

Dinner:

200g of bok choi

60g of carrot

A cup of straw mushrooms 

70g chicken

30g squid

90g pork

1 cup of yam

 

Now I was pleasantly surprised to find all that add up to only about 1600+ calories. I was too busy to think about snacking yesterday. 

 

And I'm sitting here feeling dry skin and peely from a vitamin A overdose. 

 

Breakfast:

Curry pork zucchini boat

Cocoa cinnamon milk

[Mortimer]

Works been kicking my arse and I'm a little pushed for time. 

 

Weights:

 

50 lb shoulder press(x5)

 

One legged squats (x5 per leg with pillar for support) - went all the way down., 2 sets,  17.5 kg on bar on each side for squats (x5) for 2 sets

 

110 lbs deadlift (x3) 

 

11 push ups

 

3 chin ups for 2 sets, 2 chin ups for the other 2 sets

 

Chest press with bar +2.5 kg on each sude

 

50 lbs clean and press (x4) 

 

Single arm rows with 14 kg dumbell(x8) 

 

1 min plank

 

4 sets total. 

 

Went for 1h les Mills body combat. 

 

Lunch:

 

150g cauliflower 

100g brocoli 

200g tau kwa with 1 tablespoon sweet thai chili sauce 

160g chickpeas

 

Afternoon snack:

20 cherries 

An apple

[Mortimer]

Did 1h session of hiits. 

 

Dinner:

6 stuffed tofu puffs

Half a mango

Half an orange 

10 lychees

Quarter an Asian pear. 

[Mortimer]

Breakfast:

3 eggs and 26g of spinach with a tablespoon of cumin 

Usual fennel seeds and carom deconcoction

12 longans

 

I am going for a physical fitness assessment later, of 9 stations and a 2.4 km run, so I decided to skip the 5k park run today. Technically I should be able to do both - since I'm aiming to do a 10k in August. But I'm vain enough that I want to do the 2.4 km run at a decent timing and I know running a 5k before will slow me down. 

 

So I went for yoga in the morning (figuring that since flexibility is my weakness - a little morning stretching might help). Apparently I signed up for the hard core class with the yoga instructor very fond of chaturanga. Good thing Push-ups are part of my weight training routine, but any push ups later for the fitness test are probably going to be ><

[Mortimer]

The physical fitness assessment wasn't the full thing and there was no running today. 

 

Did 59 knee wide armed push ups (didn't care to push things doing on toes ) in 1 min, 37 sir ups in 1 min and 53 air squats in a min (I ever got free train trip by doing 20 squats in under 40 secs =P). 

 

Found myself at a fitness festival so I decided to go entertain myself with the game stations, getting myself a bright luminous lime green tank top =) 

 

Deadlifted 32.5 kg like 31 times (ooww my butt), did 17 body weight rows at near ground level (Aramis, where are you for this kind of thing =P), 26 step ups a 20 inch box (there was an option to jump up but I passed on it when I didn't find it very controlled for me) and rowed 220m. Geez. 

 

Ran 6 km in the afternoon. 

 

Breakfast:

3 eggs with 26 g of spinach and 1 tablespoon cumin

Fennel and carom tea

250 ml rice milk with cinnamon. Mmmmph rice milk is delicious! Can't decide if I prefer it to hazelnut milk for drinking, but definitely works better for baking. 

12 longans

 

Lunch:

60g whole wheat pasta 

70g fish 

50g squid

120g bok choi 

 

Dinner:

Chinese yam soup with jujube and 90g of pork rib

200g steamed fish

200g bok choi fried with dried scallops 

6 cherries

[Mortimer]

Breakfast:

 

Curry Pork Zucchini boat 

Cinnamon cocoa milk

Usual cuppa of fennel, cumin and carom

 

No rock climbing as I didn't manage to book any class. 

 

Lunch:

15g whole wheat pasta 

45g pasta

70g fish

50g prawn 

2 tomatoes 

1 green pepper 

 

Desert: 200g grapes

 

Afternoon snack:

Green bean waterchestnut desert, some questionable bread I baked (was supposed to be a baguette but I added too much yeast). Doesn't have the shape of one. 

 

Did starwars workout:

 

Skywalker handstands: Padawan level planks it is. 3 breaks taken total. 

 

Jedi high jumps:

 

Did 2 sets, took a break, then finished off. 

 

Jabba the hutt chokes:

 

3x10 body weight rows

 

Chewbacca carries - 5 kg toolbox, I tried for the 11 kg one but couldn't balance it properly. 

 

Han Solo shuttle runs:

 

Just ran the whole 6x20 secs thing. Fitbit provided the 20sec count and 10 secs intervals.

 

Force push ups:

 

4 sets of 8 Knee Plyometric Push-ups - had to rest in between

 

Jedi force choke holds:

 

Full 60 seconds, surprisingly easier but I was using the clothes rack... Maybe its bigger grip. 

 

Dinner:

 

200g pea shoots with black fungus and 70g pork

4 stuffed tofu puffs

One quarter stuffed tau kwa

1 herbal chicken thigh

[Mortimer]

Last night's supper update:

 

And of course, just to prove I am human, my aunt told me to help finish a pandan chiffon cake in her fridge - I ate a quarter of it >< I'm pretty good with food right till someone says stuff is going to be thrown away unless it's eaten. 

 

Had about 17 longans, half an orange and 2 lychees. 

 

This morning:

 

Breakfast:

3 eggs with 26g spinach

250 ml rice milk with cinnamon

Usual decoction(Witcher style=P) of 1 tablespoon cumin, fennel and a teaspoon of carom seeds. 

18 longans

Half an apple

 

Morning yoga - 1h

 

[aramis]

8 hours ago, Mortimer said:

stuff is going to be thrown away unless it's eaten

He he he... it's also mine weak spot. I HATE wasting food. Even if it's unhealthy, highly processed junk food - it's still food. And cakes are in no means "junk".

[Mortimer]

Morning snack:

4 chocolate truffles (cleaning out fridge again...) 

 

Did 1h of piloxing. 

 

Lunch:

60g black beans

60g chayote 

1 tomato 

24g carrot

6 stuffed tofu puffs (finally ran the calculations on them, each one is about 56 cals with 4g protein--which isn't too bad really. Except they're probably stuffed with too much carrot for my own good) 

 

Pics below on stuffed tofu puffs-yep they come in deep-fried but I stuff them with fish paste, pork, carrot, mushroom, parsley and bake them. 

 

200g okra with kecap manis and salt

 

Went for my evening run with the local run group. 

 

Dinner:

200g of bok choi

60g of pork from minced meat, pig tail(soup) 

50g prawn

Corn and carrot and pork rib +pig tail soup with cuttlefish. 

 

 

 

[Mortimer]

Breakfast:

Cashew nut chicken zucchini boat 

1 cup Cocoa cinnamon milk

 

Morning snack:

Usual decoction(Witcher style=P) of 1 tablespoon cumin, fennel and a teaspoon of carom seeds. 

2 small mandarins

1 kiwi 

 

Afternoon weights(switched stuff up)- traditional way, non circuit:

 

Squats

8 x Just the bar

8 x bar + 10 kg on each side

8x bar + 15 kg on each side

6x bar + 20 kg on each side

 

Pull ups (or attempts to):

6 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

Followed by:

Chin up(or attempts to):

6 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Pull ups (or attempts to):

4 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

Followed by:

Chin up(or attempts to):

4x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Pull ups (or attempts to):

2 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

Followed by:

Chin up(or attempts to):

2 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Leg raises over the foam roller while on stability balance stand:

10 x (took 4 breaks in between)

Bicep curls (4 kg per arm) x 15

3 sets total

 

Deadlift:

8x bar + 10 kg on each side

8x bar + 15 kg on each side

8x bar + 17.5 kg on each side (required wrist straps)

8x bar + 17.5 kg on each side (required wrist straps)

 

30 secs with ropes

10 knee widearmed push ups,

2 sets

 

Then:

60 secs with ropes

10 knee wide armed push ups.

 

All lifts were done with weight belt. 

 

Interesting. Always suspected I could have deadlifted the guys weights(42.5 kg) on the game stations on Saturday. Now I know that one is true. 

 

Lunch:

 

200g tau kwa with a tablespoon of Thai chilli sauce 

60g black beans

60g chayote 

1 tomato 

24g carrot

150g brocolli 

100g cauliflower

 

Will go running, followed by hiits and running back again later. 

 

 

 

[Mortimer]

Ran 3.1km there and 3.1 km back with doing hiits in between. I'm still trying to gauge the timing/km for my 10k run. I think I will try for a 6 min 30 sec/km pace. 

 

Dinner last night:

120g chickpeas

90g sesame chicken 

150g cauliflower 

100g brocoli

 

I think I didn't quite eat enough or something (despite hitting the nutritional requirements - but possibly not calorie) because I polished off a pack of pretzels. 

 

Supper:

1 glass of milk

Half an orange

3 almonds

3 apricots 

 

Also stayed up late and played too much hearthstone because I was trying to finish the Blackrock crash brawl before it ended. Elder togglewag and the duplicate card did the trick, but do NOT duplicate before you hit the rock guy or all those rocksworn will kill you. 

 

As a result of sleeping late, I woke up later and decided not to go for morning gym class. They're doing bring sally up, bring sally down push up version. I get only to the end of the 2nd iteration before I need to drop to knee push ups =(

 

Anyway my shoulders, waist and thighs ache from yesterday's workout change. 

 

Breakfast:

4 eggs with 26g spinach

1 orange

375 ml of rice milk with cinnamon 

10 longans 

[Mortimer]

Morning snack:

Usual decoction of 1 tablespoon fennel, 1 tablespoon cumin and 1 tea spoon carom tea 

1 mango

 

Then I did this thing:

 

Sure, I am running at noon which is suboptimal conditions, but timings like these make me wonder if I'll be able to do 6'30 on race day =(

 

Admittedly if I am alone I don't usually push myself very hard, and even more so when I am running an unfamiliar route in case I run out of steam to complete it. I suppose I could have tried to run back but decided against it due to time constrains. 

 

Lunch:

Ack, I left my beans at home! I'm on short rations! 

150g cauliflower

100g brocoli

200g tau kwa with 1 tablespoon chilli sauce 

 

[Mortimer]

Dinner:

 

Ramen

 

Grilled pork 

 

And 2.5 pieces of chocolate cake (belated bdae celebration) 

 

Yup, I like hazelnut chocolate cakes. All cakes are better with nuts =) 

 

 

[Mortimer]

Afternoon weights(switched stuff up)- traditional way, non circuit:

 

Squats

 

8 x Just the bar

 

8 x bar + 10 kg on each side

 

8x bar + 15 kg on each side

 

6x bar + 20 kg on each side(the effort made me do a nasty wolverine snarl with clenched teeth on last few reps =P) 

 

Pull ups (or attempts to):

 

6 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Followed by:

 

Chin up(or attempts to):

 

6 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Pull ups (or attempts to):

 

4 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Followed by:

 

Chin up(or attempts to):

 

4x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Pull ups (or attempts to):

 

2 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Followed by:

 

Chin up(or attempts to):

 

2 x jump grab bar pull and lower self down

 

Leg raises over the foam roller while on stability balance stand:

 

10 x (took 3! breaks in between)

 

Bicep curls (4 kg per arm) x 15

 

3 sets total

 

 

 

Deadlift:

 

8x bar + 10 kg on each side

 

8x bar + 15 kg on each side

 

8x bar + 17.5 kg on each side (required wrist straps)

 

8x bar + 17.5 kg on each side (required wrist straps)

 

30 secs with ropes

 

10 knee widearmed push ups,

 

2 sets

 

 

 

Then:

 

60 secs with ropes

 

10 knee wide armed push ups.

 

 

 

No belt, last set of deadlifts I did 4, had to take a break due to finger grip, then finished off. My torso and shoulders were aching when I was doing half an hour of body combat. Finished the 2nd iteration of bring sally up bring sally down push ups before having to drop to knees. 

 

Lunch:

 

200g tau kwa with a tablespoon of Thai chilli sauce 

 

60g black beans

 

60g chayote 

 

1 tomato 

 

24g carrot

 

150g brocolli 

 

100g cauliflower

 

Afternoon tea:

A dragonfruit

 

Did an hour Hiits, and drank a bottle of gatorade(blue). 

 

[Mortimer]

Dinner:

Potato + pork rib soup 

Bok choi with minced pork and prawn (50g)

200g fish

 

I think from eating all those pork ribs, I so bust my calorie budget >< I'm eyeballing around 150 g of pork and pork isn't exactly a lean meat...