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.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Missing Some Fitspiration... Tuesday, September 11

Am itching to get back to boxing.  This weight training just isn't cutting it for me.  I miss walking home and feeling absolutely exhausted and soaked to the bone from sweating it out.  I miss the coaches and my fellow boxers too -- the social side of training.  I weight train at Anytime Fitness here in BGC where only three of the trainers occasionally acknowledge me, people ticked me off with their total lack of gym etiquette, and I feel like such an outsider because I continually feel like a visitor.  

I miss System Fitness every single time I go to Anytime to train.

I can't stand big name franchises either so the fact I'm training at a franchised gym annoys me.

I prefer to train there only when Skittles trains.  When we walk in I feel like we're the badasses of the gym, there to show them what it means to really train.  Of course there are people there that do train hard but I feel like there's a lot of distracted people training half assedly.  

["Half assedly".... not a real term in the English dictionary but I'm going to use it here.]

I miss training at System Fitness because I miss the inspiration and fitspiration that came with training amongst bodybuilders, some of which were females I had become friends with and even trained.  I miss having that "goal-body-girl" there to inspire me -- that girl that had the ideal body I was training for.  Honestly, no one here, no girl that is, has the body I want.

What is my goal body?  Thicker legs, a more solid and defined core, and a perkier butt.

My goal body isn't to be skinny.  My goal body is to be scary.  

Yes, I said scary. 

I want people to look at me and know without a doubt that I workout like a beast.  That's not to say that I want to look like I have zero percent body fat or being jacked to the max, but I want to look like I could seriously kick some major butt.

"I want redefine 'beauty' for women and I want your boyfriend to be scared of me", I told my client.  

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

DO you actually know what the word "vegan" means? It's not a synonym for fasting ... good grief

Tom said...

Actually, do YOU know what the word "vegan" means, Anonymous? It means to refrain from eating animal products... good grief is right.