I started my first day of workout in California Fitness (CF) on August 1st, 2008, after having left Fitness First (FF) late last year, I’ve been away from the gym for more than half a year and have packed some pounds (in fat, that is) since.
Well the main reason I joined was because my current employer has a very attractive corporate rate deal with them that I benefit on. I basically got the Platinum membership for what I call, a steal! The other reason was because, I just can’t bear to keep up an unhealthy lifestyle, having being active in a gym before. Seriously, it really isn’t fun to look at the mirror day by day to see that you’re not as lean anymore.
I happen to frequent the one in Sunway Pyramid as it’s on the way home from work. After thoroughly checking out the gym on my first day, I was totally wow-ed! I was astonished by the space, the equipment, the layout, the interior design and the facilities of the gym. Starkly better compared to a particular FF branch that I used to frequent. Since we’re on the topic, you can check out Mun’s detailed review on the branch in his blog.
My first week was intense. I formulated a simple workout plan that focuses more on cardio at the moment but at the same time careful to include the necessary weight training exercises. I was then hitting it 4 days straight with one rest day in between. In the aftermath, I had severe DOMS that weekend. So bad to the point that motion of my arms were very restrictive and any attempts to fight it resulted in very dull muscle pain, but in the name of progress, it’s all good!
It’s been over a week since my first day as I write this and I have lost 1lb since! Having slightly bumped the intensity of my workout this week (as I plan to do every week), I would expect slightly better progress in the coming weeks which should sum up to about 4 lbs or roughly 1.8 kilos in a month, which sounds to me like a pretty reasonable milestone. Eventually I’m gonna have to stop relying on the scale but on the mirror instead. As muscles weigh more than fat, it may offset the weight lost through fat-loss.
Of course, diet plays a very important role to, but I guess I will elaborate more on this in a later post. 
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