Working on my fitness
It feels incredibly stereotypical that January is when I keep myself working on physical fitness. Yes, like everyone else. But I think why I’m documenting this is because my life has so dramatically changed with my new work schedule, that the working out has kind of helped set some structure around it.
Given I work some evenings late into the night, working out after work doesn’t make sense. And now that I can work from anywhere (no office officially, though I do show up to a co-working space to see Paul, our CEO/co-founder, the only other employee based out of Singapore, face-to-face), there is some flexibility in how I do this.
But I’m miss structure and all so I’m trying to find things that I can do consistently. I have customer calls that are pretty scheduled but could also move depending on their availability so mornings are now my best bet for getting any exercise done, and we all know I’m not a morning person, so here’s trying. So I’m trying to find things that I can realistically do.
Swimming has been something I’ve done on and off and it’s funny now that I don’t live in a condo (aka I don’t have a swimming pool), I’m finding myself looking for public pools to do this in. Luckily I live some bus stops away from the Sengkang pool and a walk a way from Taylor’s is the Katong pool. And so on Mondays after work and before I meet Taylor for dinner, I’m trying to swim for 20 to 30 minutes which is essentially 500m for me. I hope I can get faster (aka more laps for less time) but let’s see.
Because I go to Joo Chiat on Tuesdays, I found the same Pilates class in Tanglin at a 9:00am schedule. Lucky me. This is the one introduced by Jade and I’ve bought 1/4 of her package and she’s my accountabiility friend so this one, I really. hope to do. What I love about reformer pilates is it’s so goddamn hard. I am struggling through this but I’m not sweating like crazy or have my heartrate going up to Zone 5 that I want to continue it.
I meet one of my customers in Suntec on Wednsdays and the gym I signed up for is in Stadium which is like 2 stops away and so Wednesday is strength day. I’ve grown to enjoy my arms, abs and booty routine that I’m now trying to up my weight and the goal is to one day bench press my weight but I’m so far from that. I wish I had energy to go to the gym more than once a week but let’s see where this all goes. Start small.
On Thursdays, I told myself I would run, but so far, I’ve only done this once. This is bad because there is a part of me that wants to run a full marathon 42.2KM by the time I hit 42 years old (and that’s 5 years from now, HOLY SHIT) and so I know I need some basic upkeep of this. This is where one of my customers comes in. They’re a running app and I meet them on Thursdays and I don’t want to embarass myself by not running so this is what it’s come to.
I still love yoga but know that just going to yin yoga isn’t going to do me much good so I’ve tried branching out to slow flow which is like a slow vinyasa and honestly I’m loving it. I’m still challenged but I also get to do the stretches that I do love so much. Plus it’s a bus stops away from my house and so before work on Friday, I get to do this and so far, I am loving it. One day, my warrior 3 will be steady and i will get to do a half moon pose without wobbling.
The weekends should be pretty chill. Sometimes I hike with friends, sometimes I swim again. Sometimes, I get to lift again. But I don’t want to pressure myself on weekends and so I’m really liking how I get 3 days done with the start of the week cause I know if I put running at the start, I won’t get anything done. I hope I get to maintain this so I’m putting it i here for posterity and accountability and hope for the best.
