Of Getting Fit and Bouncing Back

My stamina sucks. I mean it. I just had a morning jog and I was like, exasperating even before I completed the first round of the field. Heck, there was in fact this one Mat Salleh lass running faster than me. Well, probably the IPod she was listening to was the reason, that with music, she somehow forgot that she was running. Oh look, I cannot stop from giving reasons here.

In another case, I also had a 20-minute basketball game last Thursday, which was like my first competitive game in one year. Enough said, I ran out of gas and could not run entering the second half of the game. How bad is that?

I remember that the last proper workout I had was way back to more than two years back when I was still a basketball player at MCKK. Back then, it was not really hard to be a bit pushy to myself when it came to stamina building. After all, I was the captain of the team- if I was not the one to be pushy who else would, as simple as that- while another reason is Mr. Liew was always there keeping an eye on us. These days, I always find hopping back to bed after Subuh as more tempting than anything else, particularly going for a couple of rounds of the field jogging. Meanwhile on the basketball court, my priority has always been playing; stamina building has never been on the list. Of course most of the time I only played half-court which is relatively easy and does not really demand superb fitness level from anyone who is playing.

I have been thinking hard on enrolling myself for gym, but could not find the way to do so at the moment. My financial status is obviously one of the major reasons, where a single month of gym membership would cost me like a huge proportion of my monthly allowance. I made a promise to myself after the winter break that I would enroll if I could find a casual job thus pocketing some extra money, but then again the sight of job was nowhere to be seen after dozens of work applications and three weeks of job hunting.

Another alternative is working out on my own sans gym equipment, which I believe everyone can do. I have been searching on Google on stuffs related to this matter particularly from Men’s Health Magazine website, and apparently there is a bundle of information on this sort of fitness training available on the net and it is just left to me whether to follow them or not. I know I am being so frantic by doing all these, but the thing is I so want to rebuild my weary muscle and reclaim the stamina which I once had during my prime time more than two years back. Speaking of prime time, I used to be a believer of the idea that my time has already passed, that there is no way to come back and be in excellent physical shape I once had. But then again, I am only 19, and there are plenty of athletes in the entire world whose sporting careers are just about to start at such age. Of course I do not put my sight on being on par with those people; the thing is I have every reason to believe that I can always get my old self back provided that I work hard.