As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).

After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.

Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Health IS Life... Thursday, November 24

When:
Sunday, December 11th, 2011 will be the official start measurement day.
Sunday, February 12th, 2012 will be the grand crunch day.

Where:
UP Boxing Club, Cheonan

Who:
Anyone and everyone who really wants to shape up, take their health and fitness by the reins and see what they’re made of.

What:
What:This is a 63 day body fat loss challenge.

You're not required to workout at my boxing club but feel free to join one of my many boxercise classes to help pump you up, trim you down, and keep you stoked and motivated. And don't worry, I'll be dropping emails left, right and center throughout the competition, giving you tips on training, eating clean, staying motivated and staying on track.

There’s a 25,000 won entrance fee but with a grand cash prize and fat to lose, even if you don’t drop the most body fat percentage, you still win!... because you’re already fabulous, why not be flab-u-less!!!

... because you’re already fabulous, why not be flab-u-less!!!

Globally, there are more than 1 billion overweight adults, at least 300 million of them clinically obese... now that scares me. That scares me more than being punched in the head in the ring. But what scares me more, well makes me sad actually, is that so many people honestly don't care about their health.

Health IS life.

You can have all the money in the world but you can't buy health. If you don't have health that how can you look after your family, make loved ones happy... live life?!

So many people don't care two cents about their health, that is until it is gone. And most of these people who don't care about their health don't even have good health in the first place and really aren't in a position to not care.

I love running Flipside Fitness. I love doing my boxercise classes and I get a lot of self satisfaction helping people with my one-to-one personal training. For the most part -- like 98% of the time -- I must admit it's a very rewarding job, seeing people really come into themselves but then there are those frustrating bumps in the road. It's frustrating caring about my clients more than some care about themselves. I want to help push them to their potential, help them eat clean, educate them on how to train, and see them take their fitness by the reins but occassionally I come across a client who thinks paying me means I'll do all the work for them.

I can't help anyone who doesn't want to help themself and paying me doesn't mean they actually care.

My words of advice for today: Don't feed the statistic, no pun intended, take control of your health.

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