Fitness is for Everyone
Fitness is not just something you do to look more attractive, or to stay in good health. Fitness is a vital component of anyone's success story, if not the starting line of everything. Fitness teaches you discipline, mental resilience, delayed gratitude, more, and earns you a respected status within your society, whether you are a man or a woman.
Fitness is not a luxury
Everyone Needs Fitness
Be strong for your family
Help those in need
Cut down doctor visits
Face life with an athletic mindset
Become attractive and charismatic
Become more energetic
A seasoned semi-Professional
My Fitness Journey
The first time I ever attended a gym was when I was a 14-year old teenager. I come from a humble background and a humble family, but I was blessed with an older borther who was my first coach back then. Back in our days, we didn't go to the gym to brag about it on social media, as there was no viable internet back then in the first place. Furthermore, where I come from, most gyms were gender-seperated, so we didn't go there to socialize or date either: it was all about muscles, hardwork, and getting in shape. It was all about getting jacked, brother spotting another. I remember I was the youngest person in our humble, small gym, and that my numbers were impressive for my age.
Thanks to fitness not being as popular as it is today, and the internet still not easily accessible for people, it was difficult to tell what was right or wrong to do, especially in terms of understanding nutrition. Being a high school student, an A student, I kept the gym as a part-time hobby for myself, mostly unsupported from family or friends, therefore not making any extraordinary achievements beyond being a strong teenager. I evenutally quit the gym to focus on my bachelor's in engineering, and side hustles for years to follow. However, that era was useful to teach me the most primitive techniques of the old school bodybuilders, and build a solid muscle memory to be used later. I was also a semi-professional swimmer at my high school.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle was achievable during my college days, in early twenties, even without attending a gym. The combination of my active daily style, the mostly absence of comfortable means of life, and the hard hand labor required by one of my businesses, Monarch Musical, was enough to keep me in fair shape for the most part, not in terms of looking fit, as much as being functionally strong. I used to carry out tough phyiscal jobs easily, while my peers used to complain about how exhausted they are.
It was only after I graduated and found my way to the unhealthy life of full-time office jobs when I realized that I need to go back to regular fitness. It was only when I got a very comforable office job, that made me reach the edges of obesity in a matter of a month of sitting behind a desk. One day, I found out that I couldn't catch a breath after bending down to tie my shoelaces, and it was shocking for me. I weighed myself and the number was shocking: 119 kgs!
"Enough is enough!", this is what I told myself that moment, and I decided to end this once and for all, today before tomorrow. Being still in the job, the same month, I started working out vigorously at home everyday, and going on a very strict low-carb diet, cooking my healthy meals at 4 AM before going to my office. This just coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the home lockdowns. I counted my calories, one by one, logging everything every single day, not missing a single day, relentless, and going against all temptations from friends and family to break the will. I was mainly doing HIIT excercies at home (High Intensity Interval Training, or Tabata excercises), before buying a pair of dumbbels to add some resistance. My doctor sister thought I would be at the hazard of having an angina, considering my weight and the intensity of my workouts, but I simply did not listen: I would have rather died than stayed in that shape, in that obseity zone.
The lockdown started with my weight being 115 kgs. Losing weight at a rate of 4 kgs per month on average, my colleagues did not recognize me when I came back to office, neither did my distant family members: I am now 92 kgs and dropping! This continued months later on until I hit my lowest weight of 87 kgs, 17% bodyfat at peak. I found my way to a sustainable healthy lifestyle, just via home workouts and knowing what to eat. This is the point where I became a nutrition expert giving advice to others in need.
Moving abroad, still having to wear masks back then, my fitness lifestyle got disrupted temporarily while still adjusting to the food and location changes, combined with the remaining COVID-19 regulations. Eventually, all COVID-19 were lifted, and I was blessed to have a free gym where I am finishing my graduate studies, which urged me to resumed my fitness journey, gradually moving towards to the semi-professional or professional tier, subject to observer.
It didn't matter if I had work, exams, a good day, a bad day, a hot day, or a rainy day: since January 2022, I will always go to the gym when I should, regardless. Despite the stressful nature of my office job, thanks to God first, then my extensive nutrition background, my muscle memory, and my serious workout discipline, I've been making a steady and fairly quick, natural progress since then, starting at 90 kgs bodyweight and reaching 100+ so far: leaner, more defined, more performative, and at least doubling all of my PRs since I started, all the way to at least the above-average tier. I currently bench more than my bodyweight and progressing forward, for example.
During this progress, I have been helping some of my friends, family, and even strangers to get started, or adjust their process to achieve their exact goals in them most optimal ways. Being experienced in both losing weight and gaining it, I can give advice in both directions, especially if you don't want / can't afford to go to a gym, and you prefer a home routine. I adopt both phrases: "work hard" and "work smart", and I am continuosuly educating myself on fitness from both old school and modern school resources. Three words are my deepest secrets: nutrition, discipline, and sustainability.
Personally, I am currently focused on performance and clean bulking. To me, performance and strength are more important than looking big, or asthtetic. I train mainly for functionality and discipline, though the looks are a nice byproduct. I follow a hybrid routine of training that includes swimming, HIIT, and light calesthenics and I advocate for fitness not only in terms of a physical, body status, but also an ideology and a mental way of strengthening your mind and soul to deal with so many uncertainities and challneges in life.
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Tips for everyone to know
Fitness 101
"Determine your goals before going into fitness"
As Arnold says: "You have to focus on the muscle-mind connection ..", before going to the gym or starting workout, you have to determine exactly what you want to do: build muscle? Lose fat? Run several miles? Determine your goal and be open with your coach about it.
"70% of the work happens outside the gym"
Perhaps you heard this before from most professionals all the time, notably Mike Mentzer: it's all about your nutrition and rest outside workout time. If you are not seeing any progress, look for reasons outside the gym.
"I cannot afford a gym membership / gear"
Who told you you can't get started at home? Most top-notch calesthenics athlete workout at home or streets. I started my professional fitness journey during the pandemic, at home, and it was the most focused and successful period of my fitness. You can become a professional at home with the minimal set of equipment.
HOW I CAN HELP YOU
Fitness for Everyone
Getting You Started
Whether you want to sign up for a gym membership or not, I can get you started in your fitness journey with a personalized plan to your specific needs
Supervising Your Process
Your win is my win as your coach: I will supervise your nutrition and workouts, give you dynamic tips, and ensure you are progressing towards your goals
Growing Together
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