Joe Yeung » Personal http://yeungus.com This is who I am Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:23:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Summer Playlists http://yeungus.com/2009/06/13/summer-playlists/ http://yeungus.com/2009/06/13/summer-playlists/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:34:11 +0000 Joe Yeung http://yeungus.com/?p=166 I’m the kind of person that needs to listen to music in order to study or work or to live better in general.  So I thought it would be a good idea to share my playlists. I love music so there is a little of everything.

Summer School

During this semester (summer 09) I’ve been using this playlist to study and write papers for my financial analysis and marketing research classes.  I like these songs because they are very relaxing and they don’t disturb my studies, with them I actually read for longer periods of time.

Work

Well this playlist for work might seem awkward to some, but these songs give me the feeling, the energy to work.  I must say that a lot of these songs where introduced to me by someone else, I don’t think I would have heard them otherwise.

I’m currently working on a winter playlist so if anyone has a great tune to share let me know, I would like to hear.

]]> http://yeungus.com/2009/06/13/summer-playlists/feed/ 0 P90X: The First 30 Days http://yeungus.com/2009/04/15/p90x-the-first-30-days/ http://yeungus.com/2009/04/15/p90x-the-first-30-days/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:12:00 +0000 Joe Yeung http://yeungus.com/?p=119 One of my goals for this year, has actually been on my to-do list for the last 2 years, is to go back to a weight below 200 lbs. At the start of each new year, since graduating from college, I’ve made it my goal to shred some pounds, I start diets and going to the gym only to find myself at the end of the year in square one: overweight. This year I did start a “diet” which really means that I’m eating healthier and smaller portions, but I didn’t plan any specific exercise routine per se. I did know that I wanted to reach my goal by October, a goal that I share with a co-worker who told me all about his diet and about an exercise program he wanted to try out. The exercise program is called P90X.

I went online to try to get some info on this P90X thing and all I could find was infomercial crap and some youtube videos of people’s transformations using the program. I said to myself “heck, got nothing to lose” and got the P90X Extreme Home Fitness with Tony Horton – DVD set @ Amazon. I have to admit I was very skeptical about the P90X program, but to my surprise it is really intense.

So far I’ve been on the program for 30 days and I feel very good both mentally and physically. My actual weight has not gone down dramatically (~7 lbs) but I attribute this to my decision of not following the program’s dietary strategy. I do know that the diet plan will help me shred more weight that the just the exercise routines, but it is really difficult for me to adhere to the plan. Anyhow I must say that I still have to master all the routines, ab-ripper, plyometrics and core synergistics are IMO a bitch, the rest of the routines I can manage well. From all the routines that come on the DVD set (12 routines in all) my favorite ones are: Kempo-X, Yoga-X and Cardio-X.

I have to say that I’m very happy with the program and there seems to be a lot of community support on the internet. For instance when I started tweeting about my P90X experience, other fellow users replied back offering help and support. I have to say though, some of them where actually “spamming”, but others where real people, interested in only helping. I’ll try to make posts when I reach days 60 and 90 to document my progress. I really want to reach my goal this year, lets see if P90X can help me reach it, as Tony Horton would say bring it! I know I’m up for it.

Some bloggers who document their P90X journey:

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