About High Intensity Workout...

Friends often asked and wondered, why I always had muscle-injuries after I done some workout at Novotel. Am I trying to reduce weight? Am I trying to shape-up?

Sports has been part of my lifestyle since junior high school. I even studied one book title "Sports Medicine" intensively. It was a great book, but I cannot find it anywhere now.

anyway, back to topic. How we do workout would depends on the goal. Goal setting in sports can be achieving one of the following: 1). Power, 2). Endurance, 3). Vitality (kebugaran). Goal for Power; means increasing muscle strength, enabling the body to lift heavier load. Goal for Endurance; means increasing the cardiovascular (kemampuan pompa jantung, efisiensi paru-paru dan peredaran darah) capacity and capability, enabling the body to withstand activities in the long run. While the goal for Vitality simply maintains current health and cardiovascular conditions, preventing from degradation as result of the aging process.

Of course, every goal has its own workout programme. Focus on Power, the workout programme would maintain less repetition (as the weight load increase) and less frequency. Focus on Endurance would maintain light weight load, but higher frequency and repetition. One important thing, you will gain Power or Endurance only if you increase the intensity on every workout. If you don't then you would simply maintain optimum Vitality.

Between workout sessions, it is quite normal if your body experience muscle-injuries. High intensity workout would "torn" some of the muscles, especially on the muscle's surface. It is normal, because our body has been given capability of adaptation. Torn muscles will heal, and the body will create stronger muscle-cells afterwards in order to prevent muscle-injuries, also compensating higher weight load for future workout. We should be thankful to God, for this wonderful gift. It is amazing how God created our body. Subhanallah...

How our physical body change, is just a side-effect of workout. It is up to us what we want to do with our body. Either shaping-up or reduce-weight, it's your call. In average, body impacts would be seen after 8 weeks of workout.

Personally, I always strive to reach beyond my limit. It felt great knowing you can surpass yourself, becoming stronger than before. It was inspired from the Dragon Ball legends... :D

Power Overwhelming!