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, April 06, 2017

Gym Feet. To the Extreme... Thursday, April 6

Showing up for sparring without my boxing boots wasn't the best moves yet on my part but the sparring had to go on.  I had made my way to Elorde, Coach Arman was warming up for the session, and that's when I had made the discovery.  My boots were back at the condo, drying off.  Safe place for them but not where they should have been.  They should have been in my bag.  Regardless, sparring did go on without them. 

Six rounds of sparring with Coach Arman, barefoot.  A slight round twist in my ankle in the second round caused a bit of concern and I stepped back to shake it off but it seemed to be not an issue.  In the fifth round I took an accidental shoulder to my head and then rammed into Coach Arman head first -- his head crashing into mine -- and that felt "great".  My head took a beating in that particular round.  

After sparring I did a few rounds on the speed bag and then continued training via hitting the heavy bag for four rounds.  Bag work was then followed with ab work.  

I hit the gym later on in the evening, for weight training, legs.

I figured it out, 1500 calories.  That's the grand total of how many calories a day my body is burning training here in the Philippines.  Yikes.  

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