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.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Free Train Apparently Means Extra Train... Friday, July 27

Kicked my OWN butt at training today... woozers.

Fridays are Free Train Days at Hulk's but though it means us two coaches don't technically train anyone doesn't mean I don't train or train WITH members.  Fridays are usually my most intense training days starting with the weight training circuits I do with certain members who have come accustomed to me either training with them or have arranged for extra one-to-one personal training.

New found best body and best workout buddy, definitely the Double D Bulldog. I do a weight training circuit with him about 5 days a week -- every week day -- and for the past couple of days he's been coming to train with me while his usual training buddy is busy with work.  He's a young guy that's about university age, a bit short but nothing short of buff and surprisingly super strong.  He's got a chest you could bounce quarters off of and he is surely no one to back down from a challenge.  Perhaps that's why I favor him so much, him being all about challenging himself that is though ya, the bouncing quarters thing is hilariously cute.  He found out I did the "40's club challenge" in one full set -- 40 pull-ups off the squat bar rack in a series of different numbered sets -- so he insisted I prove it back to max it out. I squeezed out 46 solid pull-ups,... he did 50. 

After that posed challenge, we then did the She-Hulk Hulked Out Abs circuit, the advanced level.  It was 17 minutes of non-stop abs.  Next, it was on to an arm circuit I revised but he wasn't happy with me just curling the ez-bar for the timed circuit so he popped on some barbells on each end. It was only a matter of 30 seconds I had to do eat exercise but the weight was hard for me to even do one clean curl so continuing for half a minute was flat out cruel. 

I've come up with a new 6 round boxing circuit for my Advanced Boxercise gals and tonight I decided to do it myself but add an additional four rounds.  It totalled ten rounds -- 10 rounds of various focused skill rounds ranging from a round focusing solely on hard hits or footwork, slips and fakes, to challenging tasks like boxing south paw. 

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