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, October 22, 2019

Last Minute Planning... Tuesday, October 22

I walked into Pretty HUGE Obstacles today and was greeted by a coach that apparently knows most of the Lady Volcanoes, very cool.  I had some question to ask her about what I should wear for the race and whatnot.  Now I consider myself super healthy and ultra fit but I'm no fool.  I know there's skills that the Spartan Race demands that I'm not learning at boxing and rugby, like rope climbing.  I used to rope climb in Korea, at my boxing club actually, and I learnt pretty quickly to use your legs as oppose to just your arms to pull you up.  Your legs are stronger than your arms, obviously, but so many people climb with just their upper body.  I know better.  I know better how to climb the rope but I don't really know how to approach any of the other obstacles because I've never been challenged to such obstacles.  It'd be nice to have a kind of glimpse of what to expect this weekend and so tomorrow I'm going to do a kind of crash course in obstacles here, at Pretty HUGE Obstacles.  

The Spartan Race is this week, Sunday, my training starts tomorrow, Wednesday.

Better late than never?!  Oh gosh.  This is ultra late, I know.  

I was reassured by the coach at the gym that I'd do just fine, "just be comfortable doing burpees", she added.  For any obstacle you can't complete or fail, you'll have to do 30 burpees.  There are 30+ obstacles though.  I hate, hate, HATE burpees.  I hate them so much I don't even give them to my fighters actually.

900+ burpees or 30+ obstacles... I'll take the obstacles, thanks.

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