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.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Monday Madness and Sweet Sweat... Monday, May 28


It’s Monday and it’s a holiday, which means I don’t have to work and the boxing club is closed.  Double boo to that. I’m not particularly a fan of holidays here because my life basically centers around the boxing club so it being closed is always greeted with frowns and moans by me.  My coach Junior Mint said it best in a text message response to me.

Me:  Is the boxing club closed today because of the holiday?
Junior Mint: Yes.
Me:  Can I still go in to train?
Junior Mint:  If you don’t go in and train that you aren’t Amy.

So go in and train is exactly what I did.  I ended up hosting a last minute Advanced Boxercise class in which I thought I’d switch things up and really intensify the day’s training.  Instead of doing shadow boxing, we went right into sandbag work.  I followed through with introducing my student to pad work – did round-after-round of that – and then for our weight training component of the whole routine I made my student do the full body body weight circuit that I had posted for the Flipside Fitness Weekly Flab to Fab Challenge.  We did two sets of the circuit and were left seriously dripping wet with sweat.

Nothing quite feels like training hard and knowing you did your body good. And in all honestly, I seriously think that no one, absolutely no one, here in Cheonan could have possibly trained as hard and as intense as we did today.  We were fierce!!!

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