+ Welcome | Weight Training

Never passionate about sports until I had to go for bootcamp after my studies. Friends kept telling that recruits would be "tortured" during training.

Well, there is some truth to that, but the secret is out. It is the physical and mental endurance that all recruits need to have, to go through with little scathe. If you are physically fit, then you will have less "torturous" experience, as you can endure mentally too more than the next person.

I decided to learn to swim, to train with weights and revive my high school sports activity of long distance running, to jogging to have stamina.

All worked out very well for me while I was in the army, fitness wise.

With weight training I as the platoon's best guy with the most pull-ups in one go. I could do forty-five or more in a single go.

With the running and combined with weight training, I came first for SOC or Standard Obstacle Course in my platoon. Could not recall my time taken though.

With swimming, now that was a bit of a problem. A blessing in disguise for me. Did not have enough time to "master" swimming, I was sectioned off as a weak swimmer. What a relieve when I saw numerous times, the guys had to do circuit training and puked while they were at it, week after week. I only had to do the basics and prepare for the test. With some "difficulties" I managed to pass the test.

Now all sports are great for your fitness, but weight training stuck with me and become my passion since and I reckon will be till I am too old to pick up a barbell.

I have always dreamed of competitive bodybuilding, but with my puny frame and genetically thin-boned, I definitely had to pack much more muscle for the whole body, especially my legs.

With my limited knowledge of bodybuilding and strained for time, I nonetheless gained muscle mass but at a very slow pace. Never can become a competitor, but a bodybuilder, I am.

This section of the blog is dedicated to all my fellow bodybuilders whom I admire (with envy) because they either have good genetics to start with, discipline to train and diet well, or even gathered good knowledge in bodybuilding to achieve a dream physique to be proud of.

Here's to all the hard work and sweat at the gym, the pain and continuous achievements you dedicate yourself to, the sport of bodybuilding.