An Insurrecto's Best Body. Women's Health Philippines 2012
I'm in the pages of Women's Health Philippines' September 2012 issue as a representative of the BEST CrossFit Box in the Philippines, CrossFit Insurrecto! (Click on the pink link to visit the Insurrecto website!)
Grab yourself a copy so you can start working on YOUR best body too! Please let me take the opportunity to say that this isn't my best body yet! However, with the constant guidance of my coaches and motivation from friends from Insurrecto, I'm proud to say I'm definitely on my way there. :D
I was quite surprised when I saw that my photo was on the table of contents page! Didn't expect this at all.
In this issue, I demonstrate some of our most basic exercises in CrossFit. We use these movements in our WODs (Workout of the Days) usually with as much reps as we can and with very high intensity.
This way, we're able to milk the most out of our exercises.
If you're a newbie to the fitness world but have found a deep desire to change your lifestyle and actually try CrossFit, you can begin with these! Try them at home and practice if it'll make you more confident when you attend CF Insurrecto's FREE TRIALS on weekends!
I just have to say I'm super proud of this tuck jump. Haha! A couple of months ago I would dread it when Coach RJ would make WODs with tuck jumps (I always assume he made them when there are lots jumps!) because I just couldn't do them! Now I can totally do it without breaking a sweat and...WHILE SMILING! THAT was a major challenge.
I really couldn't have achieved all this without my CrossFit Insurrecto coaches and my Insurrecto family (yes, the people who I actually met there) who continue to be my source of inspiration and motivation. I also can't help but be thankful that I have a mom who's constantly active and supportive of my fitness goals -- the only person I know I could have inherited my love for exercise from.
Most especially, I owe it all to my Coach Aaron (I'll just go ahead and claim that he's mine. haha!) who literally pulls me off my butt...so I can firm them up through squats and deadlifts, who tells me what I should and shouldn't eat (and sometimes slips me a donut under the table as a prize after a grueling workout), and who is super duper strict with me so that I learn to be disciplined and tough even under fire.
I used to be called lampa (weak) as a child and I think some people think I still am up to now. I wanted to change that so I trained my ass off.
I hope I've become an inspiration to others as well the way my coaches and Insurrecto family have been to me. Don't let anyone, specially yourself, tell you you can't change and that you can't literally, physically, transform yourself into the best shape of your life.
If you've decided you want the same change I did, join us at CrossFit Insurrecto. Our 8-session Foundations Class for September starts on the 5th! You have THREE DAYS left to sign up!
Photographs (of me) taken by Karen Kho
