Friday, September 30, 2011

Anna Faris - What's Your Number Movie Poster


What's Your Number?

Release: September 30, 2011
Director: Mark Mylod
Writer: Gabrielle Allan, Jennifer Crittenden
Cast: Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Dave Annable, Ari Graynor, Andy Samberg, Zachary Quinto, Joel McHale, Ed Begley Jr, Thomas Lennon
 
Synopsis: Anna Faris is Ally Darling, who after reading a magazine article that leads her to believe she’s going to be forever alone, begins a wild search for the best “ex” of her life.
 
What's Your Number? Trailer

Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia Movie Poster


Melancholia

Release: September 30, 2011
Director: Lars von Trier
Writer: Lars von Trier
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Greynsburg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgard, Stellan Skarsgaard, Udo Kier, Brady Corbet
 
Synopsis: Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Gaby (Charlotte Rampling) are sisters whose lives are drifting apart as the universe spectacularly unravels in what Von Trier describes as a beautiful movie about the end of the world.
 
Melancholia Trailer

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Anna Paquin - Margaret Movie Poster


Margaret

Release: September 30, 2011
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Writer: Kenneth Lonergan
Cast: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, J. Smith-Cameron, Matthew Broderick, Jean Rene
 
Synopsis: Margaret centers on a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.
 
Margaret Trailer

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Dream House Movie Poster


Dream House

Release: September 30, 2011
Director: Jim Sheridan
Writer: David Loucka
Cast: Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Marton Csokas, Elias Koteas, Jane Alexander
 
Synopsis: Some say that all houses have memories. For one man, his home is the place he would kill to forget. Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts star in "Dream House," a suspense thriller about a family that unknowingly moves into a home where several grisly murders were committed...only to find themselves the killer's next target.
Successful publisher Will Atenton (Craig) quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby (Weisz), and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived.
When Will investigates the tragedy, his only lead comes from Ann Paterson (Watts), a neighbor who was close to the family that died. As Will and Ann piece together the disturbing puzzle, they discover that the story of the last man to leave Will's dream house will be just as horrifying to the one who came next
 
Dream House Trailer

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Courageous Movie Poster


Courageous

Release: September 30, 2011
Director: Alex Kendrick
Writer: Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick
Cast: Alex Kendrick, Kevin Downes, Ben Davies, Matt Hardwick, Ken Bevel
 
Synopsis: Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. As law enforcement officers, they face danger every day. Yet when tragedy strikes close to home, these fathers are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, and their faith. From this struggle will come a decision that changes all of their lives. With action, drama, and humor, the fourth film from Sherwood Pictures embraces God's promise to "turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers." Souls will be stirred, and hearts will be challenged to be ... courageous
 
Courageous Trailer

Monday, September 26, 2011

Demi Moore - Bunraku Movie Poster


Bunraku

Release: September 30, 2011
Director: Guy Moshe
Writer: Guy Moshe
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, Gackt, Shun Sugata, Jordi MollĂ , Emily Kaiho
 
Synopsis: Bunraku combines comic-books, spaghetti westerns, samurai films, video-games, and more into a stunning glimpse at an alternate future. In a world without guns, a mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett) walks into a strange town terrorized by the ruthless Nicola (Ron Perlman) and his army of thugs, headed by nine deadly assassins including the vicious Killer #2 (Kevin McKidd). The drifter is forced to trust a young samurai (Japanese superstar Gackt) looking to restore his family's honor, and the local bartender (Woody Harrelson) who has been secretly awaiting a dream team to help overthrow Nicola’s tyrannical regime
 
Bunraku Trailer

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Camilla Belle - Breakaway Movie Poster


Breakaway

Release: September 30, 2011
Director: Robert Lieberman
Writer: Noel Baker, Jeff Schechter, Matt Simmons, Ajay Virmani, Vinay Virmani
Cast: Vinay Virmani, Rob Lowe, Al Mulkadam, Camilla Belle, Anupham Kher, Russel Peters
 
Synopsis: Rajveer Singh is a 21 year old young man dreaming of a professional hockey career. We open with him dreaming of scoring a game winning goal, followed by a moment of bliss as beautiful girls surround him. Unquestionably, he has the talent to be an accomplished player, but faces many hurdles, the biggest of which is himself.
Raised as a traditional Sikh, Rajveer was forbidden as a boy to cut his hair... and had to wear a turban, this stopped him from playing hockey, the game he loved. In his early teens, forsaking his family’s religious traditions and beliefs, he removed his turban and cut his hair so he’d be more accepted within his country. His goal was to succeed in a traditional white man’s sport, but this conflicted with his father’s wish that he’d devote his life to his religion and the family business.

Unable to find a foothold in the game, Rajveer takes matters into his own hands by creating an all Indian hockey team (The Speedy Singhs), finding a coach and then bringing on his Uncle Sammy’s trucking company as the team sponsor, doing all this behind his father’s back. Along the way to the championship game, he is faced with the questions he had not wanted to address: family, friendship, loyalty and identity. And until he can answer these questions, the podium will always be out to his reach.
Breakway, full of love, color and fun brings to the life the coming of age of a young man and gives further insight into the immigrant family experience. It brings a clash of Bollywood entertainment to Canada’s favorite sport
 
Breakaway Trailer

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Puncture Movie Poster


Puncture

Release: September 23, 2011
Director: Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen
Writer: Chris Lopata
Cast: Chris Evans, Brett Cullen, Mark Kassen, Vinessa Shaw, Jesse L. Martin, Marshall Bell, Michael Biehn
 
Synopsis: In Puncture, tattooed and drug-addicted townie Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) has more than his share of personal demons, but can he straighten up long enough to lead a renegade safety-needle inventor to victory against a monopolizing medical supply corporation? This David-and-Goliath legal drama, based on a true story, exposes the corruption and kickback schemes threatening the lives of millions of health care workers.
 
Puncture Trailer

Friday, September 23, 2011

Brad Pitt - Moneyball Movie Poster


Moneyball

Release: September 23, 2011
Director: Bennett Miller
Writer: Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin, Michael Lewis (Book)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Stephen Bishop, Royce Clayton, Ari Zagaris, Chris Pratt, Robin Wright
 
Synopsis: Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball's conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It's more than baseball, it's a revolution – one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he's tearing out the heart and soul of the game
 
Moneyball Trailer

Thursday, September 22, 2011

The Presence Movie Poster


The Presence

Release: October 4, 2011
Director: Tom Provost
Writer: Tom Provost
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Shane West, Justin Kirk, Tony Curran, Muse Watson, Deobia Oparei
 
Synopsis: Looking to escape the pressures of everyday life, a woman (Sorvino) travels to a secluded cabin in the woods. She’s not alone, though, because an apparition (West) inhabits the cabin and begins to stalk her. But when the woman’s boyfriend (Kirk) arrives, the spirit in the house grows darker and more obsessive. She soon starts to exhibit weird and irrational behavior and her boyfriend fears she’s been possessed by the ghost in love with her.
 
The Presence Trailer

Intruders Movie Poster


Intruders

Release: October 7, 2011
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writer: Jaime Marques, Nicolás Casariego
Cast: Clive Owen, Kerry Fox, Carice van Houten, Daniel BrĂĽhl, Ella Purnell
 
Synopsis: In Madrid, Juan (Izan Corchero) is a ferociously bright 8 year old who loves to tell stories. His mother, Luisa (Pilar Lopez de Ayala) , worries that her sons fertile imagination is fuelling the vivid and increasingly alarming dreams that disrupt his sleep each night. But for Juan, the gruesome faceless creature that enters his bedroom in the dead hours is terrifyingly real.

In London, Mia (Ella Purnell), an 11 year old girl on the brink of adolescence, discovers the power of story telling as she captivates her classmates with a disturbing tale of a blank faced ghoul called Hollowface who tries to steal the features of children as he craves contact with the human world. Mia, too, becomes convinced that her story has crossed over from the realms of imagination into reality and that she has unwittingly unleashed a malevolent force into the world. At night, she is haunted by horrifically graphic nightmares.
At first, her father John (Clive Owen) believes that Mia is under threat from an all too real intruder who breaks into his daughters bedroom, leaving her speechless with fear. He chases the stalker off and then becomes security obsessed in a bid to protect her, installing cameras and sophisticated surveillance equipment at their home.
During a second break in, John again fights with the vicious intruder intent on snatching a traumatised Mia. But later, when the security footage is checked, theres no sign of a prowler on the tape and a sceptical detective says there's no physical evidence of a break in.
John, and his wife, Sue (Carice Van Houten), reluctantly turn to child psychologist (Kerry Fox) for guidance. The doctor is convinced that both father and daughter are in the grip of a shared psychosomatic trauma and that both need therapy and to be separated from each other. John, however, knows that his daughters fears are real and not imagined. His wife who hasnt seen the intruder   is torn between believing her husband and following the expert medical advice.
In Madrid, an increasingly frantic Luisa seeks help from a young Catholic priest, Father Antonio, who begins to believe that exorcism may be the only, radical option left to save the increasingly troubled little boy as his physical condition rapidly declines and his mother finally accepts that her son too is in real, rather than imagined, danger. With the faceless monster now stalking their every move, she attempts to take flight.
Meanwhile, John, now separated from his family, discovers that a tragic event from the past may be the link to the terrible events happening in the present and races back home to try and save his family. When he arrives, Hollowface is already there.
 
Intruders Trailer

Carmen Electra - Mardi Gras: Spring Break Movie Poster


Mardi Gras: Spring Break

Release: September 23, 2011
Director: Phil Dornfeld
Writer: Josh Heald
Cast: Carmen Electra, Nicholas D'Agosto, Josh Gad, Bret Harrison, Arielle Kebbel, Daneel Harris, Regina Hall, Becky O'Donohue, Jessie O'Donohue
 
Synopsis: For three college guys, it’s senior year and the co-ed experience has left them high and dry. Their solution: A road trip to Mardi Gras, where beautiful babes are happy to lift their shirts and open containers are always welcome. But after dressing in drag, breaking into Carmen Electra’s hotel room, starring in a scandalous sex show and accidentally exploding a feces bomb in a swank hotel lobby, will the Mardi Gras magic kick in and their wildest fantasies come true?
 
Mardi Gras: Spring Break Trailer

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

IRONMAN - Tony Stark Light-Up LED Shirt.

Ever wanted to look like Tony Stark in Ironman?

This Iron Man Arc Reactor Shirt has three components: the t-shirt, a light panel with a long cable, and a battery box. When fresh batteries are in the battery box and the unit is switched on, the Arc Reactor shines brightly. So this particular arc reactor isn't going to keep shrapnel from working its way into your heart or power your repulsor beams.

For some reason, the GIF file didnt turn out ok, but who cares lah... LOL.

Do note one thing though - this 'Arc Reactor'....

Will not prevent shrapnel from reaching your heart LOL!!! Hahahahaha....

McQ by Alexander McQueen Fall Winter Collection 2011.

Enjoy 10% off on all new arrivals - specially for YTL Platinum PLUS Members. =)

Restoran Wong Poh, Bukit Mayang Mas.

When I have my seafood cravings, one of the places that I head out to is Restoran Wong Poh near Aman Suria in PJ. In fact, I am such a fan of this place that I have blogged about it previously, and I just love this place so much!!! =) Since I have blogged about it - lets keep this post simple, but plenty of pictures to make you mouth water and hungry right now ya... hahaha =)

Basically, salted egg goes well with ANYTHING!

Crabs... i just love my crabs!!!

I also damn layan fried rice too... and the ones here... damn good.

The mantaos were rather dry though; maybe an off day for the mantao chef?

...and how about more crabs!!! =)

Restaurant Wong Poh
36 & 38 Jln BM 1/2
Bukit Mayang Mas
47301 Petaling Jaya
Tel: 603-7803 3527

Movie Review - Johnny English Reborn.

Watched this on Tuesday night. Awesome movie. =) Prepared to laugh until stomach ache.

Johnny English Reborn - currently already in cinemas, so catch it while it is still there! =P

SO..... you want any spoilers or not?

This is the movie plot - according to Wikipedia. LOL.

English attempts to stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. In the years since MI-7's top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier's life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action. With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect the world.

Basically, go watch it ok. It is damn good. I highly recommend it.

Got nice cars, random storyline and plot, funny characters... and not forgetting...

HOT CHICS too.

As the world falls down

Caught in a trap
I can’t walk out
Because I worry too much, baby


It’s agonising when decisions feel too hard to make. The result is paralysis – you neither move forward nor back. Everything feels so heavy – giant boulders that only I can balance and all my attention is on them so I miss seeing the flowers around the edges. Sometimes I look away and the world sparkles but dem boulders are just so big, they demand dominance.

Depression is an awful thing. The problem is it doesn’t allow for any perspective – thoughts fracture and scurry around in tiny circles. There are no solutions in that darkness; it’s very claustrophobic. There's a feeling of separation from others, like living in a bubble - the partition is there but no one else can see it.

I can only write about it when it’s not with me (although if you are prone to depression it never exactly goes away – it circles your perimeter fence and waits for an unwary sentry). But I still can’t make any decisions – and I really need to, soon, at any rate. I’ve sequestered myself away for too long and need to start living a life again.

I had some time out recently – I had the house to myself and booked time off the day job to enjoy the peace and quiet in the hope that it would be productive. It took a little while to change the swing of my thoughts from day job to writing, but once I was in the zone, so to speak, it was fantastic. I was up at 6am each day and tapping furiously on the keyboard. The rewrite didn’t know what hit it. I forged ahead and fell in love with words again – that magic moment when the writing wheels seem to turn on their own. At the end of each day I looked back and thought gosh! I did that! I wrote that! It was a feeling that had been a long time missing.

I’m back at work now and still have that time-off energy – I can feel it as I make lists of work things to do, hum a tune on the way to the office kitchen, catch up with colleagues. It is prompting me to chip little bits off those boulders, to tackle small decisions that are easier to digest. It calls my attention to everything I love about autumn and tells me that the world is wonderful and good things are ahead for me. Maybe all I needed was a little break, after all.


Image from the film poster for Labyrinth; title also from the film

Belalang Hijau Oxya chinensis Kawin

foto belalang kawin_Oxya chinensis mating

Ini adalah foto-foto belalang hijau Oxya chinensis yang sedang kawin yang aku temui di persawahan di daerah Sawoo, Ponorogo, Jawa Timur, beberapa waktu lalu. Saat itu aku sengaja main ke persawahan untuk melihat-lihat siapa tahu ada sesuatu yang menarik. Disana aku menuju ke sawah milik bude ku yang saat itu sedang ditanami kacang tanah.

Sambil menemani bude yang sedang membersihkan rumput yang tumbuh disekitar tanaman kacang tanahnya, aku memperhatikan belalang-belalang yang berlompatan karena terusik oleh aktifitas bude ku. Dan ternyata diantara belalang-belalang  itu terdapat sepasang belalang hijau Oxya chinensis yang sedang kawin. Nah ini dia yang aku cari-cari nih :-), langsung saja aku menyiapkan kamera hape dan berjalan perlahan mendekat ke arah pasangan belalang yang sedang asik tersebut dan mulai mengambil foto-foto belalang hijau kawin tersebut dengan kamera hapeku.

Bude yang melihat tingkahku menanyakan apa yang sedang aku foto sambil nunging di pinggir sawahnya. Ia tertawa setelah tahu apa yang aku foto. Memangnya di kota tidak ada belalang ya? katanya sambil tertawa. Dan sore itu ketika ia pulang dari sawah, sementara aku sudah pulang terlebih dahulu sebelumnya, ia membawakanku seekor belalang sembah besar untuk aku foto. Makasih bude…sayangnya hari sudah sore jadi akhirnya belalang itu aku lepaskan saja :-)

grasshopper mating_Oxya chinensis

Klasifikasi Ilmiah Belalang Hijau Oxya chinensis
Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 – kerajaan binatang (animals)
Phylum Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 – filum  hewan beruas (arthropods)
Class Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 – kelas serangga (insects)
Order Orthoptera Latreille, 1793 – bangsa belalang dan jangkrik (grasshoppers, crickets, locusts)
Family Acrididae MacLeay, 1821 – keluarga belalang (grasshoppers, locusts)
Genus Oxya Serville, 1831 – marga
Species Oxya chinensis (Thunberg, 1815) – jenis
catatan:
Acrididae adalah keluarga belalang (grasshoppers, locusts) yang mempunyai antena relatif pendek dan tebal (short-horned grasshoppers), beda dengan Tettigoniidae yang merupakan keluarga belalang daun (bush crickets atau katydids) yang mempunyai antena yang relatif panjang yang biasanya melebihi panjang tubuhnya (long-horned grasshoppers).

Locusts adalah sebutan untuk grasshoppers yang mengalami perubahan warna dan prilaku diakibatkan oleh tingginya tingkat populasi yang ada.

Nama yang tertera di belakang nama taksonomi merupakan nama orang yang pertama kali memberi deskripsi atau gambaran mengenai takson tersebut (deskriptor).
Jika suatu spesies digolongkan dalam genus yang berbeda dari yang berlaku sekarang, nama deskriptor ditulis dalam tanda kurung.

referensi:

klasifikasi ilmiah lebih lengkap bisa dilihat di:
Oxya chinensis mating_belalang kawin
Oxya chinensis mating 
grasshopper mating
Oxya chinensis mating_grasshopper mating
Foto-foto belalang hijau Oxya chinensis yang sedang kawin adalah hasil jeprat jepret hape sony ericsson k800i di sawah bude di Grogol, Sawoo, Ponorogo, Jawa Timur.

Machine Gun Preacher Movie Poster


Machine Gun Preacher

Release: September 23, 2011
Director: Marc Forster
Writer: Jason Keller
Cast: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Kathy Baker, Madeline Carroll, Michael Shannon, Souleymane Sy Savane
 
Synopsis: When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers (Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region's vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, Sam breaks ground for an orphanage where it's most needed—in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens.

But for Sam, it is not enough to shelter the LRA's intended victims. Determined to save as many as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives—and eventually his own. The explosive, real-life tale of a man who has rescued over a thousand orphans from starvation, disease and enslavement...
 
Machine Gun Preacher Trailer

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

A Good Malaysian - Starbucks Gardens MidValley. =)

Last night I was with the Devil here - at Starbucks Gardens MidValley.

Yes, this branch. =)

Anyways, this is how the story goes... It was 30 minutes before Johnny English - and we decided to go for coffee at Starbucks. The Devil, ahaha... being a super blur Devil, went to buy latte at the counter, and fair enough, after paying for the drink and so on, this excited but blur devil was layaning her coffee so much... that she left her wallet there.... Of cos, she didnt realized it at all...

This morning, the Devil got a call from the bank telling her that she lost her wallet - to which, she confidently replied "WHERE GOT?" haha... anyways, all are well sorted now, and its all good - all thanks to one very nice Mr Frankie of the Starbucks Gardens MidValley branch. =) This Mr Nice Frankie was the one who called up the bank, and then kept the wallet in the branch safe - whereby the Devil then called him up, and picked up her wallet this morning.

So - on behalf of the Devil, this post is to thank Mr Frankie (sorry dunno your full name) for being honest and helpful, and for calling up and basically taking good care of the Devil's belongings.

Someone help me post up this blogpost to customer@starbucks.com.my pls LOL. =)


See... who said that there were no more good Malaysians?

Latihan di Rumah untuk Mengencangkan dan Membentuk Paha & Bokong

5148 Paha dan bokong yang terbentuk dengan baik merupakan daya tarik tersendiri bagi wanita. Banyak yang berusaha untuk mendapatkannya dengan melakukan berbagai macam latihan seperti aerobik atau ikut berlatih beban di fitnes.

Namun banyak juga wanita yang karena berbagai macam kendala tidak dapat melakukan latihan di tempat-tempat kebugaran. Oleh karena itu, beberapa contoh gerakan latihan untuk mengencangkan dan membentuk paha dan bokong berikut ini dapat menjadi salah satu alternatif latihan karena dapat dilakukan sendiri di rumah.

Squat
Untuk mengencangkan dan membentuk paha dan bokong, latihan terbaik yang bisa dilakukan adalah melakukan latihan squat. Squat merupakan latihan beban yang terberat dibandingkan dengan latihan lainnya hingga disebut sebagai "King of Exercises". Gerakan latihan Squat melibatkan paling banyak otot (tidak hanya otot kaki saja yang terlibat tetapi otot lain pun ikut serta seperti otot punggung, bahu, dada dll) dan merangsang pengeluaran Hormon Pertumbuhan (Growth Hormone/GH) terbanyak dibanding latihan beban lainnya sehingga sangat baik untuk membantu pembentukan otot dan kekuatan secara menyeluruh.

BB Full Squat
Gerakan latihan Full Squat

Untuk wanita yang ingin mengencangkan dan membentuk paha dan bokongnya, melakukan latihan squat ini dengan beban mungkin merupakan hal yang sangat berat. Untuk itu ada beberapa contoh gerakan squat yang dapat dilakukan tanpa menggunakan beban tambahan (hanya dengan beban badan sendiri) sehingga latihan ini dapat dilakukan di rumah.

Single Leg Squat Leg Back
Single Leg Squat leg back

Single Leg Squat Pistol 
Single Leg Squat Pistol

Single Leg Split Squat
Single leg Split Squat

Jika mempunyai sepasang dumbell, bisa juga menggunakan dumbell yang digenggam di kedua tangan untuk menambah beban.

DB Squat
Dumbbell Squat

Tips gerakan: Ketika mulai bergerak turun ke bawah, bayangkanlah seolah kita akan duduk sehingga lutut tidak akan bergerak melebihi ujung jari kaki. Jaga agar lutut tidak bergerak melebihi ujung kaki agar tekanan beban tetap pada paha dan bukan pada lutut. Pandanglah ke depan atau ke atas untuk menjaga posisi pungung agar tetap lurus. Turunkan badan sampai paha sejajar dengan lantai dan kembali ke posisi semula sambil membuang nafas.

Catatan: Untuk lebih memberi tekanan pada otot pantat, turunlah sampai paha berada sedikit dibawah posisi sejajar paha dengan lantai.

*****

Step Up
Gerakan Step up menyerupai gerakan pada saat kita melangkah menaiki tangga, sehingga memerlukan alat bantu berupa bangku atau lainnya.

Step Up 
Step up

Step Down 
Lateral Step up

Lateral Step Up 
Lateral Step up 2

Untuk menambah beban, bisa menggunakan sepasang dumbel yang digenggan di kedua tangan.

DB Step Up
Dumbbell Step Up

*****

Lunges
Lunge merupakan latihan kaki yang melibatkan otot paha depan, paha belakang, pantat dan betis.

latihan kaki
Barbell Lunge

latihan kaki
Dumbbell Lunge

latihan kaki
Walking Lunge

Tips gerakan: Peganglah dumbbell pada kedua tangan dan berdirilah dengan kedua kaki sejajar. Busungkan dada dan mulailah melangkah dengan langkah panjang ke depan dengan menekuk kedua lutut sambil tetap memegang kedua dumbbell disisi badan. Pada kaki depan, jagalah agar lutut tegak lurus dengan lantai. Sementara lutut kaki belakang diturunkan sampai hampir menyentuh lantai. Berdirilah kembali seperti pada posisi awal dan mulailah dengan kaki yang lainnya.

*****

Stift Leg Deadlift
Deadlift merupakan latihan yang baik untuk paha belakang, pantat dan punggung bawah.

weight training
Barbell Stift Leg Deadlift

latihan paha
Dumbbell Stift Leg Deadlift

Single Leg StiffLeg Deadlift
Single leg Stift Leg Deadlift

DB Single Leg StiffLeg Deadlift
Dumbbell Single leg Stift Leg Deadlift

Tips gerakan: Peganglah barbell atau dumbbell didepan paha dan berdirilah dengan kaki selebar bahu. Busungkan dada dan kuncilah pinggang. Mulailah turunkan beban ke bawah sejauhnya sambil tetap menjaga kaki dan punggung tetap lurus. Selama gerakan pandanglah ke depan untuk membantu menjaga punggung agar tetap lurus. Dari posisi bawah kembalilah ke posisi semula dengan menggunakan otot paha belakang.

Catatan: Dekatkan beban ke kaki untuk menjaga stabilitas.

*****

Hip Extension
Hip extension merupakan gerakan yang baik untuk memaksimalkan pembentukan bokong.

latihan kaki
Cable Standing Hip Extension

Supine Single Leg Hip Extension
Lying Hip Extension

Catatan: Untuk gerakan dengan kabel, kabel dapat diganti dengan beban yang diikatkan pada pergelangan kaki, dan gerakan dilakukan sambil telungkup..

hipextension Weighted Hip Lying Extension

*****

Hip Abduction
Hip abduction merupakan gerakan untuk pembentukan bagian pinggul (pangkal paha)

latihan kaki
Cable Hip Abduction

DB Lying Hip Abduction
Dumbbell Lying Hip Abduction

*****

Contoh Program Latihan untuk Mengencangkan dan Membentuk Paha dan Bokong

# 1
Squat - 4 set
Lunges - 3 set
Hip Extension - 3 set

# 2
Squat - 4 set
Step Up - 3 set
Hip Extension - 3 set

# 3
Squat - 4 set
Lunges - 3 set
Stiff Leg Deadlift - 3 set

Catatan:

Lakukan latihan untuk paha dan bokong ini cukup seminggu sekali, karena paha dan bokong merupakan otot yang besar dan memerlukan waktu pemulihan yang cukup panjang.

Pilih salah satu dari gerakan Squat, dan tambahkan 2 jenis latihan lainnya selain Squat dan lakukan latihan selama 2 minggu sebelum merubah jenis latihan untuk 2 minggu berikutnya.

Lakukan pemanasan dan stretching sebelum melakukan latihan.

Lakukan setiap gerakan 3-4 set dengan 12-15 repetisi

Setelah kondisi fisik dan stamina bertambah kuat, set pada setiap gerakan dapat ditambah menjadi 4-5 set, atau pada setiap program latihan dapat ditambahkan lagi gerakan latihan yang dilakukan menjadi 4 macam gerakan.

Untuk meningkatkan intensitas latihan, istirahat antara set dan antara jenis latihan jangan lebih dari 2 menit, jika memungkinkan istirahat hanya 1 menit saja.

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