cheerleader or crossfitter?! LOL

LOLOL so funny!! cos when I think about, "Am I a cheerleader or a crossfitter?" I sort of don't know what to say!! obviously atm i'd say i'm both...but if I had to pick one, it depends on context! HAHA When i'm with my cheer friends i FEEL like they think of me as the weird crossfitter! LOL (cos no one else really does it) so when i'm at cheer, i'm a crossfitter! and when I'm at my crossfit gym at home (markham), people know me as the cheerleader! LOL (mainly cos i just wear my free sponsored cheer shirts...even though half the time, i'm working out wihtout a shirt cos its so much easier to breathe that way! HAHA) but yeah!!!! i just thought it was interesting how when i'm at cheer, ppl think i'm the crossfitter, and when i'm at crossfit ppl think i'm the cheerleader! LOL

hmmm but yeah!! lol i have i had to chooose one of them.. i'd say i'm a crossfitter! LOLjust cos i feel like i can see myself doing that 5 years down the road!! lol so its more of a long term thing! i'm PROBABLY NOT going to be a cheerleader 5 years from now LOL sure i'll know how to do stuff, but i'm pretty sure i'm not going to still be one!! my cheerleading stuff will probalby end after I'm done undergrad! LOL (sad, but true)... okay not THAT sad! LOLOL but it is sort of sad! LOL

oh yeah! so yesterday.. i tried leg press for the first time in my life LOLOOL! sooo jokeess!!! my backsquat is around 335lbs i guess ( i can do 315 for 5 reps).. so i was like... hmmm i heard leg press helps ur backsquat so i went to the leg press machine nad i'm like.. okay! LOL i'll start off with 2 plates each side... and i do it and i'm like.. what the! OL i felt nothing! LOLOLOL!! so then i just kept on increasing by increments of 2 plates each side until we got to 10 plates each side! (okay tbh, i didnt feel anything until 8 plates each side LOL) so yeah 900lbs later...i'mlike oohh i see this is harder now! LOL i went for 1000lbs, but honestly, it hurt my back! LOLOL like even though there was a cushion... i could feel my bone pressing against the metal behind it! LOLOL too much weight mannnn! LOL but yeah!! honestly, i sort of think leg press is dumb cos most ppl who do it don't even do full range of motion (i did yesterday) but yeah! i guess there are some good things.. like it will help with strength and stuff but i'm much more into the squats! DO SQUATS!! its so much harder! even though leg press makes u feel strong... well i guess u are strong.. but squats are more beneficial in my opinion LOL

anyways....okay man.. i'm so bored!!! i had to kill an hour and i still have 20 mins left to kill! :(:(ahhhhh!!! oh yeah!! i watched this video a while back and i thought about it again recently!! cos i realized that it's trueeee!! which is why i stopped drinking coffee...and coffee makes my mind go crazy! LOL like i get restless and want to die and feel stressed and stuff! HAHAHA so yeah!! no coffee=happier jireh!!
i actualliy love this song! its so funny!! hahaa

SMILE!!

Jireh!!

MIDNIGHT WOD!

4 Rounds for Time:

Run 400m

10 Burpees

Run 400m

15 DB Thrusters 25lbs per arm

Time was 19:30 ish! LOL i have slow running.......

it is now 12:52am! LOl just finished the WOD! LOL at least now i know all the food i ate today wont be converted to pure fat! LOl

Why i workout (not profound)

LOl so i woke up this mornign and i felt fat! so i felt my belly and i'm like.. dannggg so fat! LOL and i looked at it.. and i noticed it getting bigger! LOOL so i'm like.. okay i neeed to control my diet now.... my "dieting" will be eating clean food! so like.. maybe instant noodles sometimes.. LOL but in general, just like.. fruit, veggies, meat, eggs, bread, pasta and w/e.. but in like good quantities! LOL like.. i should stop eating ALL the time and whatever i please! LOL

Oh wait.. actually i sort of came up with a new plan.. scrap everything i said.. i guess i said all that earlier cos i wanted to tell u what i ate for breakfast LOL and that was the following: 1 tomato, 1 avocado, 1 orange, 1banana and beef LOLOL it was surprisingly filling enough and it tasted good! haah but yeah

Anyways, now i think i need to workout more!!!! WORKOUT MORE TO EAT MORE!!! :D hahaaha but then, at the same time, eat clean! i'm keeping that part!!! LOL when i was writing the first paragraph, i was like.. yeah i wanna eat clean.. then for some reason i wrote "but in like good quantities" and then i'm like... "NOOOOO!!" LOL i dont actually wanna restrict my eating!!! i like eating a lot of food!! and honestly, that's why i sort of started working out in the first place! (or continued to work out) I started cos i wanted to get strong enough for the cheer team believe it or not LOL lame reason but w/e! now i love it and a pretty big motivation right now for me to work out is the fact that i can eat a lot of pretty much w/e and not get too fat! LOL There are some things, that i would just avoid cos my belly doesn't like it... like....2 mama burgers and a large fries LOL had that last week and my stomach felt sooo nasty.... i felt like i ate ball of grease...and it was like.. stuck in my gut! anyways, some junk food just isn't that appealing to me cos of that feeling.. but i'm not going to lie... i do splurge at McDonalds sometimes and get like.. 2 mcdoubles and 2 jr chickens witha large drink and fries LOL it's just tasty but i do regret it afterwards LOLOL

I was driving my mom to work today and realized how fail my life is!  although I'm SUPPOSED to be studying and working hard,  i'm not...and it's bad! past 2 days i've been waking up at like.. 11am LOL soooo late!! starting today i'm going to sleep at 12am and wake up at 7:30am. and do a morning jog!

I'm actually so serious about this. even though i know tmr i'll wake up at 7:30 and really not wanna do this!! if ur a friend of mine and u read this post, try to keep me accountable and txt me (only if ur up that early normally) Honestly, it will help a lot.. IF NOT, its okay!! i have SOME motivation in me i think!!
THEN, i'll do like.. Julie Foucher stuff. Come home, shower, eat breakfast, study for 3 hours, eat lunch, study for 3 hours then do whatever for the rest of the day including crossfit at 8pm!!  I think this way, my days will feel more.. full... Recently, they've been feeling pretty empty.... talking about that, maybe I should try starting my mornings with God! I tried it before and failed, but i wanna try it again.. so maybe, i'll wake up... read my daily verse, try memorize it, Run and think about it, come back and read a chapter of whatever book i'm trying to go throough! atm, i'm going through Hebrews.. and i'm not going to lie.. its not as straight forward as i thought it was gonna be! LOL i might redo it after i'm done LOLOL!

Anyways, sorry for the long post, just random thoughts kept flowing so i kept writing! okay bye now!

Smile! :D

So i'm sore

So I woke up today super sore! LOL
Saturday i did that competition thing! and that sort of killed my body to be honest!! cos it was 3-4 workouts in one day.. in a fairly short span of time!.. I feel like MOST ppl would take the next day to recover? or something? lol NOT ME!!!!

Well, i wanted to rest, but yesterday, I had cheer practice! LOL so i woke up in the morning to go.. and boyyyy was my body stifff and just sore everywhere!! I was literally drinking BCAAs all day... and one thing i found out, is that the side effect to drinking too much BCAAs is that you get a lot of gas! LOL i farted a lot i think! LOL
Anyways, this is what my cheer practice consisted of (it was 3 hours btw)
1 hour of stunting (aka throwing a girl into ur hands and push pressing her above ur head and doing that kind of stuff and holding it)
after taht, we did this circle thing where we have to do stunts again and if u miss/drop or w/e, u have to do 5 clapping pushups or 3 back tucks.  I ended up doing 20 clapping pushups i believe
then we did basket tosses for a bit
Standing tumbling.. so all i did was back tucks mayb around 5-10 of them
then we worked on pyramids where i was a base for a 2-1-1 and that sucks LOL and i based other things, but i just didn't liek the 2-1-1 pyramid LOL
We also did corporate standing tucks.. it hink we did 5 together?
and yeah! that was the end of the cheer portion of our practice (3 hours long) and honestly, my muscles were soo burnt out from the day before that it wasn't even funny anymore LOL

Oh yeah!! forgot to say.. there was this one pyramid where i base its called 3-2-1 and there are 2 girls standing on my shoulders.. most ppl hate it cos their feet are like grinding into ur shoulders...which they were doing to me yesterday but i LOVED IT!! my shoulders were sooo sore for the workouts and stunting, that it was like a tough massage and it really helped me feel better!! HAAH my teammates thought i was retarded LOL but yeah HAHA i liked it!

So then, its like.. 31 degrees celsius outside and we gotta do hill runs.. :( yesterday we ended up doing 36 ups... i'll list it for you below
1 forward sprint
2 jumping split lunges SIDEWAYS up the hil
3 small hop, small hop, small hop, BIG hop, squat...etc.. up the hil
4 hops up the hill (2 forward  2 backwards)
5 quick feet things.. (short quick steps and every 3rd step you bring ur knee high)
6 karaokes (like some sideways movemnt where ur feet criss cross and u bring ur knee high when its in front)
7 backward sprints
8 forward sprints (last 3 were randomly extended so it sucked)

and after all that, we had to push our coaches truck up the hill... he put it on neutral and we had to push...it was harder than i thought it was gonna be!

so yeah i thought iw as gonna die cos my body was so screwed! LOL but i'm glad i'm still alive.. today was mostly a rest day for me.. i might go to the gym today and do a few light things.. but def no cardio and no super heavy weights!!!

Smile!!

Crossfit comp!!

So, i really should be sleeping now, but i'm waiting for my dad cos he has to do something for me and yeah! i hav enothing better to do!! so i'll explain what happened todayy!!

Today i did a crossfit comp! i'll do more.. commentary stuff later! but for now.. i'll just tell you what we did and how i did LOL

Basically my goal was just to get into Top 5 for the last event!

Event 1

Squat clean and Jerk Ladder
so I did squat clean and jerks up to 225lbs after that, i attempted 235lbs twice..failed and then did an AMRAP of burpees for a min for a tie-breaker! i did 27! :) haah
Rank: 3rd in workout

My squat clean and jerk @225lbs

Event 2A and B

A:
8 min AMRAP
30 Lunges with 45lbs plate overhead (no resting on head)
50 Double unders
20 Kettle bell swings @24kg

I did 2 rounds and 30 lunges and 5 double unders
Rank: 1st in workout (by 1 double under LOLOL)

3 min break

B:
8 min AMRAP
Run 250m
7 handstand pushups

I did 4 rounds + 3/4 of the run
Rank: 3rd in workout

And that put me in 1st place overall!! :D:D haah

Last event was for top 5 only! :D:D and iw as going in first...

Event 3

For time:
3 rounds of:
1 Muscle up
3 cleans @165lbs

2 rounds of:
21 toes to bar
21 wall balls (20lbs)

10 snatches @115lbs

I failed...LOL i did one round of the first thing and couldn't do my second muscle up... so i got 6th place... :(:(

In the end, i finished 3rd overall so i'm happy! :D haah

LOL i probalby should have flexed LOL oh well! HAHA

but yeahh! :D

SMile and be happy! :D

Rest day

Today is my rest day!! i really need to rest, but at the same time i don't want to!!! i want to workout!! haha but, if you constantly workout without rest ever... esp if ur doing like.. crossfit, it's sort of bad i think!! unless ur body is crazy! but at least for me, I need rest or my performance just goes down and I become more prone to injury!!! so i don't want that!! And, i know i have cheer practice tomorrow!! so i need to rest my shoulders so that I may be able lift girls tomorrow!! Even though they feel not to sore today, i know they are, cos i worked them out like.. 3-4 days in a row! AHAH whoops! oh well! and think i did handstand pushups one day, then pushpress and push jerk the next day, then stunted the day after and yesterday i did shoulder press LOLOL so yeah... today i need to rest them so they can get stronger!

Yesterday, I felt superly convicted again to read the Bible EVERYDAY again.  Not just when i think i should or w/e... and not just one verse per day either.  I need to really read the Bible everyday! seriously and let God take over my life again! i was convicted of this about 2-3 weeks ago as well, sort of, but yeah!  or last time, it was more like, i realized that God is just always there for me and He loves me! and stuff and that all i need to do to get close wtih Him again was to just spend time with Him because He's always free to chill with me! Anyways, from now on, i need to make sure I spend time with Him daily!!! haha even if it's a struggle i thiink!!! having intentional faith is very important! and i'm realizing that more and more! like i realized it before and did something about it, but then, my relationship with God became too...emotionally based.. which was good, but bad!  I need to love God with more than just my heart!  I need to love Him with all my mind AND soul as well!!

Anyways, today is such a nice dayyyy! it lookes sooo pretty outside!!! i sort of wish i lived close to a park!!! even thoug my backyard is sort of like a park... cept there's too many mosquitos in my backyard!!! there are less in parks!
I need my girl to like nature! I want to be able to go on a date with my DG one day and JUST sit and look at God's wonder! like.. watching a sunset/sunrise.. and just watching it with me and not get bored! AHAH or just sitting in a park with me and watching little kids play and enjoying that!! haah iunno! okay obviously we can talk cos there may be stuff we'd wanna say to each other, but, mostly just enjoying each other's company and enjoying stuff like that together!! iunno! just being still and relaxing!! haha! i know.. maybe a lil weird, but i like doing that myself! so...i hope my DG will like doing that too!!! :D or something! iunno!!!

So, this is a pic of my and my sis!! this is not an example of what I'd want to do with my dg or anything!! just a nice pic of a sunset at a beach!! and believe it or not, the "cradle" position is not that comfortable if you have to hold it for extended amounts of time! haha But yeah! God's creation is pretty cool eh?!!?

SMILE!

Jireh!

fun tuesday!

wooow today was funn!! and intense workout!!
I essentially worked out all day!! and studied in between!!! okayyyy

10am @ Crossfit Markham
5-5-5 Deadlift @265lbs
Then
21-15-9 of the following:
Deadlift @ 225lbs
Pushups (chest to ground)

Time was 2:39 for that workout!!

ALL THE TIME IN BETWEEN I WAS STUDYING!! and running errands! :) (so i was productive)

5:15pm @ Toronto Chinese Community Church
Work on handstands
Then
15 min AMRAP (as many rounds/reps as possible) of the following (in order):
1 length of gym running (there and back)
15 Taters @ 24kg
30 double unders

Score was 6 rounds + 1 length +15 Taters

8pm @ Pulsars Gymnastics place
So this wasn't really a workout, but it was really fun!! :) this is sort of what i did:
Work on round-offs
15 back tucks
Stunt - toss to hands and then extension several times
Watch ppl do crazy things!! I'll show u the video when i find it!!! but its SICCKKKK!!! there was this one thing they did.. so they like. ran to each other and jumped... then pushed off each other's foot and did a back tuck!!! so cool! and funny cos they also screwed up a lot!!
Then i tried doing lib... which was fail!! because i'm not used to it, but when a spotter put his hands on it... it became like so good! haha anyways, hopefuly i get better!
then we ended off with a circle of tucks!! where everyone is in a circle and its like... a wave!
in the end, EASILY
50+ back tucks!! and my tucks surprisingly got bettter as i got more tired! LOL

OKAY!! i found it!!

anyways, that was an ultimate ab workout!! my abs are so tired now! and i know tmr morning, i'll do a sit up out of bed, and regret it!! HAHA

Fun day!! and i'm pooped! shoot.. i just realized i have to go downtown tmr! :( for MCAT course!! anyways goodnight all and see u later!

Smile and be happy!

Jireh!

Friday evening well spent!

WOOW!! so today, after crossfit, my bro and i decide to stay home and lOL NOT got to fellowship!! just cos my sis didn't wanna go and I didn't really wanna drive 20 mins to go jsut for me.. and stuff! lol but yeah!! TIME WAS SPENT WELL!!! LOL! okay so everything below here is a copy and paste from my bro's blog! Everything in RED is an add-in by me
5 p.m. @ CrossFit Markham

Good mornings: 4x45lbs, 4x95lbs, 4x135lbs, 4x165lbs, 3x4x185lbs, 2x4x165lbs

- Then -

12 min AMRAP
10 Strict Pull-ups Even though i used a band, this was definitely my SUPERB WEAKNESS!!! like yeah.. screwed me over! HAHA
20 Side Plyo Jumps This was a joke!
10 KB Swings (eye-level), 72 lbs
Score:

Josh: 5 Rounds + 9 Pull-ups
Jireh: 4 Rounds + 9 Pull-ups So I didn't Rx'd the pullups! LOL I used a purple band because my lats are very bad! HAHA and I need it cos i suck!!!

Something my bro forgot to add in, which was essential to our fitness today:
7:00 p.m. @ Home (inside)

We watched "The Myth"!! a Jackie Chan movie!! :) it was good! I like the song! and I like the korean actress! she's really beautiful! :)

9:15 p.m. @ Home (inside)


Workout of the Week (WOW), for Harvest Bible Chapel's Tough Mudder Team
30 min AMRAP (as many rounds as possible in 30 minutes)
50 squats for those that know i love squats, this was my active rest
40 jumping jacks This was so jokess!! it was my ACTUAL rest!! haah!! but yeah.. i got a blister on my foot cos of this!! :(:( cos i did this workout barefoot!
30 mountain climbers
20 plank push-ups UM.. THIS WAS THE WORST!!! i thought it was a joke at first, but definitely the limiting factor in this workout! and my elbows are like.. messed up from hitting the ground!
10 military push-ups
Score:

Josh: 6 Rounds + 9 Squats
Jireh: 6 Rounds + 43 Squats

10:20 p.m. @ Home (outside)

5 Rounds for Time
10 DB Thrusters (25 lbs dumbbells)
20 KB Swings (55 lbs)
(Jireh and I just did it to complete it, alternating between exercises. The time reflects the slowest person ... which was me of course :P) "me" here refers to my bro ;) hahah jkjk!! i would have been the slowest if i ended on the KB swings, cos they always take longer...cos its 20 reps!

Time: 10:10

All in all, GOOD WORKOUT!! and fun stuff!! :D my goal is to be like Rich Froning.. who does this kinda stuff on a regular basis.. but harder! LOLOL

SMILE and be happy! :)

Jireh!

the more i think about Julie Foucher, the more i realize I want to have her kind of life!! (okay, i don't have to be like a super good crossfitter) but I'd love to coach crossfit, and become a doctor!...like actually! If I could be a crossfit coach/owned an affiliate and was a sports med doctor, it would be my dream!

talking about sports med doctor, lol i need my back to get fixed! i feel like i blogged about this before, but honestly, when lifting weights...FORM IS SO IMPORTANT!!! and knowing what ur limits are is super important too! for snatches/jerks and stuff.. BAIL if you need too!!! don't break ur back trying to get it up or injure urself by dropping it on ur head or something!.. and when deadlifting...DONT ROUND UR BACK!!! (just lower the weight or don't do it!!) stuff I've learned from experience which I wish i didn't have to learn from experience!  Honestly, I used to think my body was indestructable! but yeah....it's not! and when u get a lower back injury, you sort of regret it! you'd think i'd learn to be careful after messing my back up last year from the snatch..but no! still messed it up from doing deadlifts (caring more about RX'ding a workout than safety/form).  Personally, i love crossfit and will probably continue doing it for a long time! but It is so important to listen to the coaches there and make sure ur form is good!  Better to not RX a workout one day than RX it one day and not be able to crossfit again for the rest of ur life!! so yeah!!

okay.. mcat study break is over! need to get back to it! LOL

"Jireh" WOD

I don't know why.. but honestly, getting the fat back that you took like.. a year to burn off is like. super easy for me! LOL i think i just have a super slow metabolism or somethign! LOL but yeah! recently my mom is like.. "JIREH! you're getting fat again!" and i was like "WHAT?! a month ago u said I was fit!" and she was like "I take that back! you're getting fat!!! i can see that belly!" an i'm like.. dannnnggggggg exam period screwed me over! LOL cos i ate the same way I would eat when I worked out 5 times a week and i worked out once every like.. 2 weeks! LOL so yeah and i don't have a naturally high metabolism like most skinny asians! LOL but then my mom was like "I'm not worried though, summer is here, you can do crossfit!" and i'm like YES! haha Crossfit! I did crossfit last week, but i injured myself doing deadlifts.... DON'T EVER ROUND YOUR BACK! its a dumb idea! even if u want a good time....its better do either scale it or go slower than to like...permanently screw over ur back and u won't be able to work out again! luckily, my back problem isn't THAT severe... even though it is pretty bad! anyways, i haven't worked out in a while, so i gave myself like.. a week to recover! but hopefully I can start crossfitting again tmr! and i need to do it like.. 5 times a week again to keep my metabolism up!

BTW! i made a WOD for myself!!! i want it to be called Jireh! LOl but iunno! i'm not a war hero! LOl os yeah! but I hope crossfit markham does it for my b-day or something! If you guys read this (which you probalby won't, my bday is Oct 26! so if ur a crossfitter, try out "Jireh"a t ur local gym!) LOL I think it's pretty legit/hard LOL

anyways, internet, you are my witness! 

"Jireh"

4 rounds for time:

30 burpees

30 ground-to-overhead (aka. snatch or C&J) @135/95lbs

What do you think?! :) haha! I like it! I have yet to try it out! maybe on my bday or something!  I was gonna do the 100 thing with burpees every minute on the minute.. but i'm like.. w/e.. stick to the old fashioned 4 ronds for time! lol

Crossfit again!

I just started doing crossfit again.. and man!!!! lol tiring stuff!! tomorrow i need a rest day! LOL and i barely did stuff! LOL

Did sooo much deadlifts/backsquats in the past few days! LOL my lower back is actually soooo sooorrree!! HAHA i needa go to my dad's clinic and get some electrode stuff! haha soo useful having a father as a physio! ahaha but yeah! it won't be as easily accessed after this summer!  my parents are moving up north to Sudbury!! LOLOL RANDOM EH!? haha oh well!! but i think it'll be a good new chapter of their lives! haha i just won't have the convenience of having a physio clinic i can go to for free 20 mins from my house! LOL

Anyways! new PR for power clean: 230lbs! :D haha i tried snatching 175lbs the other day.. kept on failing though!!!! :(:( snatching has A LOT of technique involved in it.. so i think for now, i'll just lower the weights and work on getting under the bar and stuff and just work on overhead squats so that when i do get the bar over my head, I can stand up! we'll see though!! haha for my cleans, i don't think i really have that good technique either...but i have power, so its okay for now... but i think i need to work on my technique too so i can squat clean...cos i can't really squat clean heavy weights LOL only the lighter ones!

OH and DG! i was thinking of you recently! i hope you like roses! I was reading up on roses! it's so interesting! lol

SMILE and be happy! :D

Jireh!

Thought i was going to flakkkee!!

MAN! i totally thought i was going to flake out on the 14.21km run today! LOL guess not! LOL
today was a good day in terms of exercise!!! did the TABATA! (which was surprisingly super hard!...got a score of 274) and then got to london.. and man. trust.. i was friggin tired! LOL did not want to move! haha
Anyways, my friends convinced me to go so we went.. and trust me when i say this...London is very hilly!! LOL at least from where I live... i've actually now ran in every direction possible.. north, south, east and west! and yeah.....just hills! LOLOL u don't notice these things until you run! haha near the end of the run.. i had to stretch my butt so i lied down on the grass and did a figure 4 thing to stretch it and looked up into the stars...it was actually soooo relaxing! and the cushioning grass felt so good!  then just looking up into the heavens.. thinking about lion king.. thinking about God and His creation... thinking about His awesomeness....
I didn't write anything about Easter/Good Friday on my blog.. but yeah! I'm not really sure what to write about...if you want to know the true meaning of easter/good friday, read any of the gospels!! I read Luke on good friday.. and honestly, it was a really good reminder of what Christ did for me...and I don't usually read luke.. usually, I read Matthew or John! LOL i feel like those are the more typical books that are read!

Oh yeah.. this is a reminder to myself of what I want to blog about sort of... Psalm 22
HOPEFULLY i'll have time to come back to this!
just really tired now and have an early class tomorrow!!

kk
SMILE and be happy!

Jireh!

If I had a billion dollars!

I feel like this is a question people always think of...essentially, "what would you do if someone gave you loads of money?" and I know exactly what I'd do now!
Before, I used want to like.. retire haha, or like. travel the world...or like just do everything I can do with a lot of money!! NOT BAD CHOICES!!! but still, if granted the opportunity, I wouldn't know!

Anyways, just now, I was taking a shower and I thought about this question..."If I had a billion dollars, what would I do with it?" and I decided!  Here is what i'd do if i was given the opportunity this year!!!
Find an investment banker or something.. or someone who knows how to make that money grow for the time being and invest it.. put it into stocks and whatnot.. #tylerinfluence LOL but yeah, i don't really know what I'm talking about, but i heard that it's a waste to "save" money when you can invest it...
NEXT, I'd drop out of my current program and switch into Kinesiology (not because it's easier, but because I find it interesting and I'd also get a new start at school since my marks atm are not so good) and i'd probably stay in Western University cos i like it here!
NEXT, I'd study super hard for MCATs this summer and find a summer job/research/anything i can get to get any kind of volunteer/work experience.. then write my MCATs at the end of the summer for experience i guess
NEXT, I'd get a 4.0 GPA in my undergrad cos I'll be working much harder now in life because I have a goal...
NEXT, after 3rd year, I'll get into Mac Medschool (a 3 year program) how? don't know...
NEXT, find my DG
NEXT, graduate from medschool 6 years from now then specialize and become a sports doctor
(btw, I'll be paying for medschool and undergrad with my summer jobs/billion dollars)
NEXT, MARRY my DG! :D:D
NEXT, start a crossfit gym, not that close to other crossfit gyms cos i don't want to compete or anything.. maybe start it off in my garage til i get more people, then expand!
NEXT, Go back to school and learn how to become a chef
NEXT, Expand my crossfit gym and have it in a new plaza area.. along with that, an area for physio and sports medicine (me being the sports doctor and crossfit trainer!) I'd probalby hire physios as well and stuff for the clinic
NEXT, start a gourmet cafe right next to my crossfit gym called "Jireh's" lol
and then.. just be as good as a father and husband as possible...spending as much time as I can with my family!
In the end, I'll have a wonderful family, with a crossfit gym, sports/rehab center/clinic, and a cafe!

So yeah! :) that is what I'd do if I was given a billion dollars today.. or anytime this year! lol

Smile!

Jireh

pushups........

SO, i've stopped the 100pushups/day thing for like.. 6-7 weeks now? and yeah.. oh myyyy!! my pushups really suck now! HAHAHAHA
I did a mini WOD with my bro... 150 pushups for time... it took me 14:10 (around 10.7 pushups/min)....soooo baddd!!! considering a couple months ago i did 551 in 1 hr.... LOL (around 9.2 pushups/min) sooo faiiillllll!! haah oh wells! i need to work on them again! LOL

anyways, tomorrow will be a fun day... i've already planned it out.. LOL

afternoon WOD:
TABATAS (40s on, 20s off instead of 20 on 10 off)
8 rounds of each exercise with 1 min break after each full exercise (so in total, there is only 2 mins of rest excluding the 20s off rest period):
KB swings @55lbs
Dumbell thrusters @25lbs each arm
Burpees!

Then in the evening WOD:
14km jog! lol

SMILE! and be happy!

Jireh!

YES! i'm not fat anymore! :)

So i don't know if you guys remember my "You know when you're FAT when" blog post.. but yeah! read it if u want! essentially, about a year ago, my mom called me fat! LOLOL or chubby . no yeah. it was just plain old fat! and she compared my legs to some statue or something and just laughed at me about how fat i have gotten and stuff!! HAAH

Anyways, more recently, she told me that I look more slim/fit! and i'm like.. uh.. i didn't loose weight, i'm still 200lbs ish. and she's like, "you've gotten muscle"!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!! she replaced the "fat" with "muscle"! AHHA and then I'm like.. you mean i was not fit looking before? and she was like.. no! you looked chubby! AHAH anyways, I'm blessed to have such an honest mother! haah it's nice sometimes to hear criticizing because then I can become better!  If no one criticizes me, how will i know what to fix if something needs fixing?

I wouldn't say I'm ripped or anything, but definitely much fitter and healthier and slimmer than i was a year ago.. LOL thanks to my mother and crossfit to be honest! haha mother made me aware of my fatness and then crossfit helped me loose that and become fitter/stronger!  I am going to continue it again this summer! hopefully, i'll be able to become more strong, but not too much bigger! I just want Rich Froning's frame and i'd be happy! HAHA don't really wanna get any bigger than that!.. what I've learned is that being BIG is not that good.. even if it's muscle! LOL most girls don't find it that attractive... and besides the girl thing, being too big is just bad! like.. you loose mobility, loose agility and all that stuff!  I want to be fit and strong! that is why i crossfit!  I'm not saying that crossfit is the best thing in the world or anything, but it definitely has changed me and it does a good job in terms of keeping someone fit all around.. in terms of cardio, strength, endurance, agility, explosiveness and...yeah.. that kind of stuff! haha
anyways,

SMILE and be happy!

Jireh!

Ice creme!

I like ice creme! it's sort of a new thing that I like!  Don't have that same addiction to it as i did with granola barres, but recently, I've started to like ice creme quite a bit! it's one of those things that just tastes good all the time!...and you sort of can't ever really have too much of it!.. like.. granola barres, after a while, your jaw gets tired of the continuous chewing and stuff and most granola barres are either chewy or crunchy! LOL but ice creme!..mmmm...haha good stuff that lasts longer and doesn't cause pain.. i guess if you rush into it too fast and eat a huge mouthful ice creme it sort of FREEZES your mouth! haha and it hurts...but thats why you savour ice creme! it's weird though.. never had cravings for it before.. but then, recently, I started realizing how good it was!.. like i knew it was always good, but then.. now, i see! haha you know what i mean? lol iunno... haha!

anyways, today i went for a 12.5km run with my gourmet friend today and it was fun! we went into this pretty sketchy area that was hilly.. but at one point, we were at the top of a hill and we could look down on london! and it actually looked really pretty!!! sunset on one side of the street wiht a random barn... lol, and a view of london on the other side of the street.. with the lights on and stuff so it looked nice! at that moment, all i really wanted to do was stop, sit and relax with a nice ice creme! *sigh* but we kept running! AHAH and then we passed a coldstone creamery!!! LOL wooowww honestly wish we brought money with us cos having some coldstone would have been pretty good at that moment!! LOl for those that don't know what coldstone is.. its like marble slab.. for those who don't know what that is.. just google it! haha

anyways, all in all, today was pretty good! relaxing and nice i guess! sometimes i get distracted though! lol but yeah i need to do work tonight... just realized exams are in less than 2 weeks from now!!!

Smile and be happy!

Jireh

6km today!

SO i ran 6km today! oh mannnnnn!! it was probalby the worst 6km i've ever done LOLOL even though there was downhill at the very end, it started off  uphill.. it was like.. gradual uphill and then.. steep uphill.... LOLOLOL so like after the 1st km, i was tired.. like actually lol and then the going down hill at the end caused more impact on my joints and shins so that didn't help my developing shin splints LOL either way, i need to get physio this weekend! AHAH luckily my dad is a physio! ahah sometimes i sort of take that for granted! LOL i just realized how much money I'd spend on physio if my dad actually charged me each time! HAHA i go so often cos its free and stuff! lol

another random thing i noticed... "safe and sound" by taylor swift wasn't in the Hunger Games movie!!!! or... at least i didn't hear it!!!! :(:(:( when I was waiting for the movie.. after reading the book .. i listened to it a lot! LOL and i would imagine Katniss in the the games...tied to a tree and trying to fall asleep at night or something! haha but yeah! AHAH iunno! oh well! movie was still good though!  Back to the song! I don't know why, but it's so nice.. like.. it's not a lullaby.. its like.... comforting, but with tension.... or something! it's weird.. and it is nice.. i'm bad at analyzing music! LOL that's why i'm in science.

okay.. time to get a haircut LOL my housemates tell me to get a haircut like David Beckham or like.... a faux-hawk LOL and i'm like.. uh no LOL for now, i don't care that much about my hair.. LOL just need it to be shorter and look clean and neat! AHAH that's all that matter to me for now! and if i get a gf one day, since she'll have a better sense of style than me, i'll trust her if she'd want to change my hair lol

anyways,
SMILE and be happy! :)

Jireh!

a lot of random stuff!

So, I really should be studying right now ... not blogging! lol and I don't even have thoughts at the moment so this blog will probably be really random! lol

First of all, i just wanted to say that God answers prayers if you ask earnestly! lol! I'll tell you why later... maybe when some part of my character has solidified more! but yeah!

Another thing, I wish i could understand how girls think.. but then i guess all men would sort of like to know! HAHA honestly, I think it'd be very useful, then I'd understand why they do things and it would make more sense to me... cos sometimes, girls do things and I don't understand why.. it sort of seems illogical sometimes.. but it makes sense to them for some reason! haha whatever!  I thought i used to understand them.. cos way back when, my closest friend was a girl!... this was back in gr 8-10ish? yeah! haha w/e!

Anyways, something i read today! from utmost! really stuck out to me!

But salvation is so much more! It means that the Spirit of God has brought me into intimate contact with the true Person of God Himself. And as I am caught up into total surrender to God, I become thrilled with something infinitely greater than myself.

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In our surrender, we must give ourselves to God in the same way He gave Himself for us— totally, unconditionally, and without reservation. The consequences and circumstances resulting from our surrender will never even enter our mind, because our life will be totally consumed with Him.

Oswald Chambers

I jsut realized how true it is!! *sigh* yeah iunno it just really stuck out to me

OH YEAH! i wanted to talk about Rich Froning Jr.!! he's like my new hero!  He came first in the Crossfit games last year and is in 1st place atm in the Open!  but the thing is.. He's a Christian!  yeah yeah! there's Jeremy Lin who's also a Christian! and yeah he's cool! but yeah i don't do basketball! LOL but i do crossfit! and Froning is so cool! and i have a lot of respect for him! *sigh* even though he doesn't have a profession that an asian parent would approve of, i think to be in his position atm, it'd be pretty awesome! well. obviously i guess.. cos he's the best in the world at his sport! LOLOL but yeah! besides that! working as a fitness trainer... doing crossfit as a living and doign firefighting as well...iunno it just seems pretty awesome!!  And then also, I look at Julie Foucher! another crossfitter!  She's like in the top atm and guess what? She's in med school! haah friggg! honestly don't know how she does it! but I'm impressed! like really impressed! cos its hard to do taht! lol But yeah, if u don't know these people, you should google them! or soemthing! i dont think theres a wiki on them, but yeah! they are crossfitters i look up to!

Now, back to my life....I feel so blessed! honestly! God blessed me with a mind that is functional, and smart! Like I know i'm not a genius, but my mind def has the ability to do A LOT of things if i but my mind to it and actually work.  He has also blessed me with a fully functional body! and i'm grateful!  I can do crossfit, i can run half-marathons (sort of) and yeah...but then.. sometimes.. I feel liek when there are sooo many doors open in ur life, it's hard to choose which one to go through.. and ur sort of just stuck in the limbo because you don't know wher eyou want to go ... u just can't decide what to do with ur life! lol like.. do i really wanna be a doctor? should i be a dentist? physio? police officer? fireman? part of the army? personal trainer? crossfitter? musician?  I just feel like i could do so many things and I just don't have a huge passion of any of it yet!!  All I know is that I cannot go into law, business or teaching! cos i'm terrible at them! HAHA.. teachign might be possible, but yeah! iunno! so many things ... I need a passion though! I want a desire for something!  I sort of have a desire to get into med school now though.. but it's not a really good reason! LOL i was thinking back to a convo i had with my crush back when I liked her... and i told her how i wanted to get into med school and my best friend would get into law school and we'd go to the same school cos most unis that have a med school have a law school! haah and then her response was "if you can do it" LOL or something like it! like doubt! haha and even though i'm over her now, i still wanna prove to myself that I can do it! so for now.. that is my reason for a desire for med school!.. i know! it's bad! obviously i wanna help ppl and stuff! and all that standard stuff.. i'm just talking about stuff taht would be special to me.. not something everyone can say! haha!  I guess i do have a passion for crossfit, but it's not something i wanna just do for a living! this asianness is sort of engrained into me.. and i want a professional job first before i do crossfit or soemthing.. like open an affiliate or something! but thats like wayyyy down the road from now so yeah! no need to worry about that for now i guess!!

DANNG this was LONG! but also really random! i had al ot of random ideas in here! LOL

SMile and be happy!

Jireh!

Weird!

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED! for the first 2 paragraphs!

Man...not today.. but a couple days ago.. i saw some older dude in the gym doing clean and presses.. but the weird thing was.. that.... LOL he had a boner or something! LOL

Okay.. so i was just chilling ... doing some shoulders at the gym when some old dude just comes up in front of me.. and i'm like.. wow! he looks intense!!! LOl doing some clean and presses with dumbells!! and he was sweating and stuff then.. all of the sudden.. i see a weird.. thing protruding out of his pants at his groin level.. and i'm like.. okay. .theres no way he has a boner. .maybe its just his shorts are on weird.. but NO! he adjusts his shorts and low and behold.... some.. THING sticking out! and i'm like.. how is taht even possible/ LOL like.. when i'm going alll out and intense.. the last place my blood wants to be is .. u know where! LOLOL so weird! but maybe he just has a lot of blood to go around! LOL meh! haha

oh wells! fun stuff!

Oh yeah! i haven't been blogging much recently but yeah!!! last week i did the snatches workout and got 60 reps in! which is actually not that bad.. even though i could have done more.... LOL! oh well!!

This 12.3 WOD is gonna be bad though! LOL 15 box jumps @24inches, 12 pushpress @115lbs and 9 TTB... AMRAP of 18 mins.. so thats pretty hard! LOL i think i'm gonna die after like.. 3 mins of this stuff! LOl oh wells!

Smile and be happy!

Being "cross"fit!

I really love crossfit! lol the "sport of fitness"! haah I recently started doing it in june/july of last year and i honestly feel a lot fitter and stronger! so, i think it's effective!  Recently, i've read my bro's article on living a cross-centred life.. and what it means and i just thought about this idea...of being "cross"fit!  Are you strong enough to carry the cross? What does it mean to be fit enough to carry the cross?  If you want to read somethign that makes sense, click my bro's article.. LOL if you wanna read my summary of it, keep reading! HAHA

Essentially, as Christians, we want to live with Christ being the centre of our lives. Philippians 1:21..."For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain"  He should be put first...above all things.  If you look at what Christ did for us, it's actually pretty crazy...from what I think, God imputed Christ's righteousness on us and our sin on Christ.. and if you think about it.. it's amazing.. just thinking about God's grace, mercy, love and justice! if you wanna read more about this imputing thing, read another one of my bro's articles  on mercy and justice... pretty interesting! But honestly, if you really understand what Christ did for you, it's amazing and I don't know how you wouldn't want to rejoice all day and live your life around Him!

Now going back to this.. are you strong enough to carry the cross and what makes you fit enough to? (obviously i'm not talking about physical strength) You have to surrender yourself! Luke 9:23 "Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." so yeah! i guess that's all you have to do! LOL to be "cross"fit, you have to be living a Christ-centred life which includes desiring God and surrendering to Him by being obedient to His will! But then you ask, why would I want to surrender and obey Him? and it's because you love Him and desire Him. John 14:15 "If you love me, keep my commands"!


I know this blog post was pretty poorly written, but i hope you guys get the point.. if not.. just read the 2 articles in the post.. it will probably clear things up... maybe!


SMILE and be happy! :)