Yes you didn't see the blog post title wrongly - CY has failed the workout challenge. I was on track by completing Day 1 and Day 2 challenge (and felt like dying after that). However, I was intimidated by the 55 minutes full body cardio for Day 3 challenge, and I started looking for excuses to not proceed with Day 3. The fact that I actually GAINED 1kg further demotivated me from taking up the tough challenge - no obvious results seen after pushing myself out of comfort zone. Rationally, I am aware that I am facing weight loss plateau and daily body weight fluctuation could be contributed by numerous factors including diet and sleep (and it's actually just 1KG... Not a tremendous weight gain).
But you know..... Human beings would behave irrationally at times. Weight loss is one of the measurable results for exercising and not achieving that even after adjusting the intensity of workout is discouraging. Being unmotivated, I skipped my exercise routine for 2 consecutive days, convincing myself that I was overwhelmed by work and required more rest time. Interestingly, I felt uneasy for not working out and just wasted my time on phone. It felt so incomplete if I give up half way without attempting the remaining workout challenge. My friend who maintains a workout routine every two days told me this happened because workout has become our habit, which is a positive sign!
After 2 consecutive rest days, I made a comeback and proved that my guess was right - I couldn't complete the Day 3 challenge. I gave it a try but was unable move on with the second cardio video due to low stamina. I admitted that bothered me some time as I was unsure if the workout was too challenging or just me not putting enough effort as per last week. Upon reflection, I recalled my first attempt of the cardio video - my heartbeat rate accelerated insanely, I couldn't finish most of the steps that involve jumping and I had to take few breaks in between. I might be unable to complete the 55 mins cardio workout, but this didn't undermine the fact that my stamina is slowly improving.
With the mixed feeling of me failing to complete the cardio challenge and me actually had achieved a small improvement, I continued trying out the upper body workout challenge, which went pretty well! I decided to try completing the cardio workout at the day I tried out the full body workout challenge, but unsurprisingly failed because I couldn't even survive the 45 minutes full body workout challenge!
Allow me to explain - the Day 6 full body challenge was made up of 2 crazily difficult workouts. The first 30 minutes full body workout was a record of Coffee Lam conducting a live stream workout. Probably excited to have someone to workout along with her, she was being unreasonably excited and accelerated her time counting! (It's actually immensely tough to even follow her normal time counting, so please imagine how deadly we are with her abnormally faster time counting... Girl you need to calm down) The latter 15 minutes full body video workout has an extremely high intensity level as the workout flow is designated to achieve a quick fat burning effect within a short interval, hence needless to say, it's full of jumping aka my nightmare! I vividly remember my first attempt of both videos - being out of breathe after few minutes. Therefore I didn't push myself hard and unexpectedly, I managed to complete the second video!
The above well concluded me struggling with completing the advanced level of Coffee Lam's workout challenge but eventually failed. The experience of failure allowed me to understand my weakness in terms of mindset and physical ability. Being perfectionist, failure used to have traumatic impact on me and had stopped me from stepping out of my comfort zone. As time goes by, I realized failing always happen no matter how hard we attempted to avoid it. We gonna learn (forced) to embrace failure and recover from failure.
Admitting my failure openly in my personal blog (although not known by many people hahaha) is one of my way to accept recover from my failure. The journey of building a healthy lifestyle through exercising is not ended (I haven't achieved body weight loss yet!), and I had customized a Coffee Lam's workout challenge for myself! It involves more cardio and full body workout as I still hope to get shredded. I am also planning to try other YouTubers' workout challenge, considering either Pamela's or Chloe Ting's.
- Wear black when you workout as it's a funeral for your fat -
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