Today’s Schedule:
Morning personal training meeting with a client.
Props to one of my personal training clients who has reached her goal of fitting into her “skinny-me-jeans”!!! When I first met her seven months ago she presented to me a pair of jeans that she had labeled her “skinny-me-jeans”, a pair of jeans she used to wear back in her university days. Her university days are now long gone but her “skinny-me-jeans” have remained in her closet, taunting her. She even brought them to Korea. Well they taunt her no more because today she showed up at her personal training meeting sporting them, and let me tell you, I don’t know what I was happier to see, her massive ear-to-ear smile or the amazing curves she’s now kicking! Congrats lady!!!
Afternoon timed run for my half marathon training.
I’ve been averaging 5 minutes per kilometer so I’m aiming to my half marathon definitely under two hours. My first half marathon I did was back in winter, two winters ago, and I certainly wouldn’t do such a run in winter again nor will I ever run the Han River course – totally exposed course with nothing to stop the brutal chilly winter wind!!! I finished that half marathon in two hours and eight minutes which I should have been happy about given the circumstances – the brutal weather and the fact that just a couple of weeks prior to the run I got hit on my scooter by a taxi – but I wasn’t happy. I was hoping to devote more attention to this half marathon but it’s been so hard to and doing so would mean I’d definitely be overtraining. In addition to my own boxing training, I host 5-7 boxercise classes a week, have meetings and training with clients to schedule in, and now I’m helping some of the race participants with their training.
Early evening run with some race participants.
Tonight I met with two ladies who will be running the 10km. I took them out for a 6.5km run, focusing on interval training. It was nice to get out and go running with them because I’m so accustomed to just running alone. In the past I’ve gone running with Snickers but with his long legs and equally long stride, I feel more like a tiny poodle chasing after him, trying to catch up, so it’s not that we’re really running together. It’s more like me chasing him. He’s much better at speed and I’m much better at distance.
Evening boxing.
Trained with Black Skinny tonight. His wife just had a second baby, another boy, so he’s looking more tired than anything. Regardless of him being super tired, Junior Mint drilled him in the ring tonight like a madman. I stood ringside for his last couple of rounds and cheered him on. Then it was my turn and yikes, here I thought Junior Mint would be out of energy… nope!!! That guy is a machine!!!
Late evening weight training.
I was all ready to leave the boxing club when I noticed one of the girls fiddling around with the dumbbells. She clearly didn’t know what she was doing but A for effort, so I decided to help her out. Ended up staying almost an extra hour at the boxing club, teaching her how to weight train and then making up a simple full body routine for her to do.
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.
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