Of Cupcakes n Armbars

I have read of people toying around with the idea of a ‘Tofu Cheesecake’ and figured Tofu’s pretty healthy and decided to use that as the base for my ‘semi-healthy’ cheesecake. 

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Awww…get well soon, babe. The mats be missing you :) 

Feel better!

Thanks guys! I’m feeling tons better since I rested for 2 days and have been taking all the Chinese herbal supplements I can get my hands on (Chicken Essence, Benedict Dom, Tong Kwai Soup lol). It’s a bug that’s been going around my office as my co-workers had it last week and were out for a couple of days. I’m gonna tap this sickness and get back to the mats ASAP.

I now have a fever. Great. I didn’t oversleep myself to fatigue, I am sick! Well it makes me feel better that I’m not whining over nothing. Now fever be gone so I can go back to training. >(

“Being thin is no indication of being healthy.” amen.. Where do you train (bjj)?

Amen! I know a couple of girls who are thin but are so unhealthy (high cholesterol levels, high body %, Liver problems,) and a couple of girls who are ‘big’ in size but super healthy. Anyway, I train at Leverage Combat Academy in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The main instructor is Marcos Escobar.

Since we’re on the question of BJJ and training, I’ll put this together with Anon’s question:

How many times do you train a week?

When work isn’t kicking my ass, I train 7X a week. When work’s being tough I train 4-5 times a week. That’s just my BJJ training, I also do a separate workout for Strength and Conditioning. 

I swear to god this is going to be my last birthday post (People must be thinking ‘wtf man, it’s been a month after your birthday and you’re still celebrating?!’ Indeed I am! ^__^). Anyway last weekend, I got some last minute birthday presents:

And my awesome co-workers gave me a pair of running shoes since I ‘lunged’ my old ones to death (no seriously, I tore the sides open doing lunges!). Love the black and the pink. Such a nice combo.

Since it was Thanksgiving last Thursday (and gosh do I miss the US, my time there and the Turkey meals) I’m so thankful for my life at it’s current moment… It’s so full of win I can’t even describe or contain it in one paragraph. :3

It’s weird but the notion or the concept of making ‘online friends’ that later turn to ‘offline’ friends isn’t new to me. I found my bestfriend online (weird thing is that her aunt knows my mum really well so I had actually met her 10 years before I met her online at her aunt’s wedding. I just couldn’t remember since we were 7 at that time.). And a lot of my closest friends were friends that I met through the Anime and Cosplay Forums during my teens. Even though I hardly watch Anime or even cosplay anymore, the friendships I made during that time period is something I cherish to this very day (like Fie for example. I met her thru what is now the defunct Malaysia Cosplay Club. We don’t cosplay anymore but we’re still awesome friends and I was granted the honour of being her bridesmaid during her wedding ^^).

I guess it’s really easy to feel connected with people when they’re into the same passions as you are. You kinda ‘get’ what the other person is talking or thinking about and you know exactly where they’re coming from. So I’m pretty sure I’m gonna eventually meet some of you on my Tumblr community as well *winks*. I have a pretty good feeling about this. :)

Anyway, back to Jiu Jiu…. I’m super excited because she’s going to visit me in Malaysia during Chinese new year and since the city’s in ‘festival’ mode, it’s gonna be an epic visit. I am thinking of all the yummy things I’ll cook and bake for her while she’s here. And since it’s CNY time, I’m gonna be cooking loads of traditional New Year auspicious stuff for her to try. So yay another ‘online’ friend turned ‘offline’. 

CAN”T WAIT FOR YOU TO GET HERE JIU JIU.
:)  

fitbunney:

cupcakearmbar replied to your post: ALLLL! ANSWER ALLL!!!!!!!!!!! Cause you sexy like that.

Flying armbar ftw!!! And yes all that training should not go to waste ;) don’t waste the pretty lol!

TIME FOR YOU TO DO IT NOW! ;D I’d be waiting on your answers. <3

Well because Fitbunney is so awesome. This is for you hun. <3 <3

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Is it just me or does the ask function on Tumblr keep ‘timing out’ or something? It takes me a minimum of like 5-6 clicks before I can send a question/reply thru and honestly it’s pretty darn annoying. >_>

I always seem to get this error:

And I have to go back several times before I can send the answer thru! Any tips on how to get the Ask function to work properly?!

fitbunney:

THE BIGGEST MISTAKE commonly made by ladies is deciding to lose weight FIRST before beginning to weight train.

This thought process is 90% personal theory to avoid “bulking up” and 10% excuses to not step outside a comfort zone. Ask anyone with this mindset enough of the right questions and I guarantee it will boil down to the fear of bulking up or getting too big. I’ll get into some of the 10-percenters, but let’s tackle the majority first.

Many women (and even men these days) feel that shedding weight through cardio and diet before resistance training will lead to a leaner looking body in a faster time. The thought is to lose all the excess pounds on the scale and then “tone up” the leftovers for a sleeker, sexier, firm body.

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Awesome article for those who are looking to tone and lose weight. Lucky for me Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an amazing source of anaerobic cardio and also does provide some strength training benefits in a way. Although I do cross train weights now, initially I was doing only BJJ and still lowered my body fat % significantly. Have you ever tried to wrestle 75 kilo guys going at 3/4 to full power? You tell me if that doesn’t build /some/ strength lol!

PS The only thing I disagree with the article is the Yoga bit. There are many types of Yoga and there are some challenging styles like Ashtanga that will build strength (and kick your butt in the process). It’s been said that if you get through Ashtanga’s Sun Salutations level 2, you have the athletic conditioning and ability of a high level gymnast (according to my Yoga instructor). Don’t discount it till you try it as it will build your strength up like nobody’s business!

Holler back, yo! Correction! There’s only five in KK. But come to think of it, just 13 female grapplers in the whole of Malaysia? We certainly need more girls, man. Seriously. P/s - Monstrinha is a cool name. What’s yours superBJJhero name? :)

Initially my superBJJhero name was Pinky because I like love the colour Pink (my car is pink for crying out loud! LOL) and my coach just loved calling me Pinky. But lately he’s been calling me SuSu (and so does everybody else now!) because that’s the first syllable of my Chinese name and you know that’s hecka weird because it means ‘Milk’ in Malay. Hahahaha maybe one day I’ll get a cool superbJJhero name like Monstrinha, Sakuraba, Thor, John Barber, lollll 

Do you have a superBJJhero name? :)

(also open to all my readers to reply too! I’d like to know what your superBJJhero name is!)

novarenata:

I came across a this picture of the Gracie girls (Kyra, her mom Flavia and half-sister Rayra) on an MMA forum and thought, damn, to be those guys training in their gym…

And I found another picture of Kyra and her mom, Flavia.

Gee whiz, I’d like to look this good when I have a daughter Kyra’s age. Most importantly, I’d like to still be able to train Jiu-Jitsu at that age. So inspiring! And envy-inducing.

Awesome post by my buddy Nova on the Gracie female practioners. The perfect combination of beauty and strength. When I’m a mother I hope to be just as graceful as Flavia Gracie :)

Remember that cute kid from Jerry Maguire? Well he does BJJ too son. He’s currently a ‘blue, almost a purple’. I’ve been stalking his twitter (lol) and he’s very passionate about BJJ and fitness. Seems like training in BJJ was what got him working out and a healthy lifestyle. He likes to compete too. Well we all understand those feelings don’t we ;) 

One of his white belt matches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfD9Xtkgzk

BJJ is truly awesommmeeeeeee!!!! It really does change lives!

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