Fitness will change your life!
Not just because you look better…That's just icing on top of all the value fitness can add to your life.
You'll be more confident, disciplined, determined, focused, just to name a few qualities.
You'll look, feel and function better.
Fitness changed my life completely. As a teenager, I got out of shape, I lacked confidence and direction in life. Starting to work out was, is and always will be the best decision of my life!
In this journey, I've had a lot of ups and downs, injuries, self doubt, social pressure and I had to make many tough choices and sacrifices.
But would I go through all of it again?
In a heartbeat!
May 30 2016 - The day is I started working out. This is how I looked before…
From the moment I stepped foot in the gym and started eating healthy, my desire to improve and my dedication to be my best motivated me.
This is how I transformed over the years…
29 March 2017 (Went from 85kg to 68kg)
By this time I was hooked with the results I was seeing, I couldn't believe what I saw in the mirror!
13 Nov 2017 (Went up to 72 kg)
7 Mar 2018 (Bulked up to my biggest at 85kg)
13 Aug 2018 (Lost muscle due to injury - 72 kg)
Lost a total of 6 months due to Injury.
Went from doctor to doctor, clueless as to why I couldn't recover. Physiotherapy didn't work, X-rays didn't show anything. The MRI later showed that I had bulging disc in my L3 region of the spine.
During this time, I realised I had hypothyroidism all these years. That's why I got fat and that's what's slowing down my recovery. This was a hard pill to swallow.
This was the lowest phase of my life.
But this is the time that transformed me the most as a person. It's like they say “ Diamond is made under immense pressure”.
I took this time to expand my knowledge, read books, do onine fitness certifications, rehab.
22 Mar 2019 - The doctor cleared me to start training again.
I put all my knowledge to use and this time around I appreciated the opportunity I had to train again. I was grateful. I was determined more than ever!
Finally I recovered to be better than ever before! Infact, the injury was instrumental in my transformation as I mended my ways, started training better and respecting my body more!
8 July 2019 - Started Athlean AX1 training program
These pics are from 10 Aug 2019
22 Aug 2019 - Don't skip leg day 🦵🏻
22 Nov 2019 - Lost a little bit muscle but my abs are here 😝
16 Apr 2020 - This is me today, 1.5 months into Athlean inferno max shred.
Still a looooong way to go. Many decades of training, a lifetime of fitness, health and happiness 🙌🏻
You don't need to be a fitness freak like me but this goes to show, if you put in the time and effort, you can make wonders happen.
If that fat, naive 16 year old kid could do this, anything is possible!
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