i finally did a fitness assessment with a trainer at pure, which translates into a lot of wasted time and a couple of cool facts about myself. and by cool, i mean cruel. according to their nifty machine, i'm only supposed to eat 1400 calories a day! how the heck does anyone survive on that?!

i weigh 63.5kg, am 166 cm tall (OVER 4'5 thanks very much, so all those times i was put on the short line? mistakes), bp of 110-70, resting HR of 70. now comes the really interesting stuff (ha!).

my left arm is significantly stronger than my right arm (something like 4 cm larger in circumference). except that i'm right handed, and i'm almost positive that my left arm is the first to fail if i benchpress, etc. could rowing on the left of the dragonboat made that big of a difference? it's mostly core strength anyways...but when the trainer made me do assisted chinups, i could definitely feel it more in my right arm...not sure if that's b/c i use my right arm more, or if it's b/c it's actually weaker.

he also said my upper body is stronger than my lower body. THAT, i don't believe.

i'm below average on body fat, above average for muscle, most of my fat tends to sit around my waist (according to the hip-waist ratio)--he thinks it's b/c i don't do enough core work, i think it's because i'm shaped like a boy (so i have no waist to speak of...or maybe i have no waist to speak of b/c of my hip-waist ratio. chicken, meet egg, meet chicken).

the guy hinted a lot about me running more so that i could lose some fat and some muscle. i think he wants me more feminine. i could care less. 1400 calories my ass.