A New Habit is Born!

It's official! I definitely formed a new habit/ routine already and I'm very excited about it.

What could it be?

Well, I did mention about how I've fallen in love with jumping rope (and a little bit for the Roach). I also told you about how I just get fired up with the medicine ball exercises that I do every night (it started again last Wednesday).

But then I thought, why not combine them? I wasn't afraid of the routine being twice as hard (I've done much more during training at Red Gloves Boxing Gym. So I tried it this morning, and heck, it was really hard and definitely worth the pain.

It was worth all the sweat just so a new routine would be born and a new tool for me to use to attain my 72 kilogram goal.

Routine:

5 minute jump rope

(alternate with knee high, regular jump, one foot at a time with moderate speed)

10 push ups

(If I do more, I won't last 3 round of this routine, I think)

1 set of medicine ball exercises

15 mountain climbers and 15 squat thrusts

5 minute jump rope

(just do regular jumps, one foot at a time with moderate to slower speed)

Be sure to prepare a towel, because after 3 rounds of that, you'll know what I mean.

Btw, I do this every night. I still stick to the basic reps because frankly, I still tire easily.

In all things, persevere,

Anthony Verrick Dones

It doesn't happen OVERNIGHT!

Training today was FUN and extremely painful! I'm happy that I got to get back to working out again. I saw myself in the mirror yesterday and was amazed at how fat I got.

Getting fat does not happen overnight. Take not of that. It's an accumulated effort from your eating habits.

This applies to getting smarter, skilled and knowledgeable, heck, even becoming a superstar!

I'm very happy for them one-time big time hits! I will become of them too, I know it!

But for other things, especially your health, it ain't the same.

You have to work on keeping yourself healthy, mind and body and pocket.

So I've accepted it once again, if I wanted to reach my goal and keep it that way for 2011, I'd have to work on it.

Wait. No.

I'll enjoy the time I'll spend to get to that goal. Hours logged in training. Pain. Making faces. Crying like a baby. It's all worth it, because I'll get what I want. I know I did what had to be done and even more.

And that extra PUSH makes all the difference.

I looked at myself in the mirror and saw something that made me really happy. Sure, if you see me now, you'd be like, Wow! It's your summer vacation already? On this note, I'm not talking about me having the perfect beach body. It's more of being a perfect bum.

But that's not I saw, and mind you, we have different perspectives.

I saw a person who has experienced the pain of training, who knows the consequences of his actions and someone who knows exactly what he must do. But I can't do it without a team, mentors and fans (that's right!).

Getting fat, getting sexy, getting smart, getting to whatever you want or don't want to be.

It's an accumulation of events/choices/situations you can control. So do your part, just like how I do mine (aside from the large serving of spaghetti I had after a 3 hour workout).

What gives right? Well, I cut myself some more slack, and allow for some room for backslides. But more on that on my next post.

Till then, just remember, getting fit and healthy doesn't happen overnight!

In all things, persevere,

Anthony Verrick Dones

Another Year-the SAME GOAL!

While I'm making this post, I can't help but laugh and rejoice but at the same time, feel a bit down. But on a lighter note, it's hilarious! Last year, I achieved my goal but wasn't able to post anything about it, and then, poof! It just passed me, or in more truthful words, I gained the weight back.

But it's 2011! A brand new year! So, yes, the festivities are all done, eating, drinking, more eating has passed. We all go back to our usual diet, unless your diet is similar to the one you adapted during the holidays.

As it is, in my case.

Right now.

Yet again, start the struggles of eating less than my jaw muscles are used to. Minimizing the elastic limit of my stomach being challenged by the amount of food I am able to intake.

But the whole essence of setting goal is carefully providing action steps to achieve it so I will lay down my action steps to attain my goal of 72 kilograms anytime soon. I'll include the time frame too. Venn diagram, anyone?

Goal: 72 Kilograms

(present: 80 Kilograms- yes, just like when I started this blog! haha)

Action Steps:

>Boxing

>Jogging

>Weight Lifting

>Boxer's Diet (50-30-20 ratios)

Action steps include winning the smaller inner battles. The goal is to definitely to lose weight, properly, until the desired weight (and optimal and ideal weight for my height, build and age).

It also includes developing and maintaining the correct habits in order to succeed.

This recipe might not just concern weight control and losing weight but I'll just apply it here also.

So the goal is still reaching 72 kilograms. I'm familiar with this road, I remember the hardships well. I have vivid memories of dinners with fish and veggies, going to sleep after eating only a banana, jogging early in the morning thinking why the heck I was up at that time, punching away at the mitts with every ounce of energy left in me.

I am familiar with this road.

It's not a road laid with flowers and the joyous songs of birds.

It can be bumpy, extremely hot and definitely treacherous.

It's not all hardships because you earn your share of small victories.

It is in these small victories that you ultimately achieve your goal.

So here I am again, at the starting line. And I see myself not wavering again or going around the same route over and over.

I see myself, winning my greatest victory (physically).