{"id":12716,"date":"2016-05-15T00:07:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=9879"},"modified":"2016-05-15T00:07:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T16:07:54","slug":"fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2016\/05\/15\/fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve developed an idea in my mind about how to use my blog moving forward. I want it to be an extension of my mind, that I can use as a thinking tool, to keep track of my thoughts, plans, goals, ideas, experiences, learnings and so on.<\/p>\n<p>This page is to be the central location where I think about my fitness. I guess I&#8217;d have to talk about my backstory and my goals.<\/p>\n<h3>Goals:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to run 2.4km in under 10 minutes.\u00a0I&#8217;m currently doing it in about 15 minutes. So sub-goals include getting under 14m, 12m, 11m.<\/li>\n<li>I want to squat 100kg. A previous goal was to squat my bodyweight\u2013 and I&#8217;ve already done that. I weigh 85kg and have squatted 90kg sometime early in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>I want to bench my bodyweight. Currently am at around 60-70kg.<\/li>\n<li>I want to do 50 pushups. Subgoals\u2013 30, 40.<\/li>\n<li>Get Gold for IPPT in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Backstory<\/h3>\n<p>Grew up really tall and skinny \u2013 typically the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tall\/comments\/30cx2x\/25_years_of_being_the_tallest_person_around\/\">tallest guy around<\/a>, and was underweight for most of it. Had bad eating habits. Only ate fish and eggs until I was maybe 13 or 14 before I started eating chicken, and a while later before I started eating pork, lamb, etc. Never really ate breakfast. Ate way too much sugar (candy, sugary drinks), and would typically eat carb-heavy meals (fishball noodles, char kway teow, prata, etc). Smoked cigarettes, and I think the habit stuck because it helped me regulate my blood sugar levels (which must&#8217;ve been spiking and crashing horribly \u2013 I used to be terribly lethargic all the time, sleep deprived, palpitations, all of that.)<\/p>\n<p>I used to occasionally hit the gym but the only decent thing I&#8217;d do was bench press \u2013 I had skinny, weak legs. I used to overstride when running and nobody ever\u00a0pointed that out to me. I was shy to squat in the gym, because I was so tall that I would have to experiment with the height of the rack, and I was afraid of asking someone else if I could work in sets with them when I didn&#8217;t know what I was doing + would have to fiddle with the rack.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2015 I bought an actual power rack for my home, and used it to get over my discomfort and anxiety with squats. In Q3 2016 I bought a Fitbit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to go to my next reservist and be one of the fittest men there. I reject the assumption that middle-aged men have to be flabby. I want to be a really fit old man.&#8221; \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/0581-july-2016\/\">0581\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve developed an idea in my mind about how to use my blog moving forward. I want it to be an extension of my mind, that I can use as a thinking tool, to keep track of my thoughts, plans, goals, ideas, experiences, learnings and so on. 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