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🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | My name is Kevin Don, and I couldn't be more excited to be the new host of Get Fit Guy. |
0:10.0 | I'd love to take this opportunity to introduce myself and to define what being fit means |
0:15.4 | so that we can all look forward to what to expect from my time sharing fitness tips with you. |
0:21.5 | As you can probably hear from my accent, I am indeed from Scotland. |
0:25.9 | Although I went to elementary and middle school in Kenya and spent most of my adult life in |
0:30.8 | Hong Kong, with some stays in Abu Dhabi, Arizona, Iceland and Oman. |
0:36.9 | My own training background was firstly in the martial arts, |
0:41.4 | started with wrestling when I was five years old, and moved to karate at age 12. I trained and |
0:47.6 | competed in a very hard style of karate, called Kyokushinkai, which is full contact, and I was the Hong Kong full contact |
0:56.1 | karate champion in 2012 and represented Hong Kong internationally at the Asian Championships. |
1:03.6 | Because this style of karate has no weight divisions, it was an advantage to me to be as strong |
1:09.0 | as possible, so I was heavily involved in strength, |
1:13.0 | speed and power development. |
1:15.0 | To this end, I ran the strength and conditioning facilities in a world-class mixed martial |
1:20.1 | arts gym, with many world champions in Brazilian judicious, judo, and Muay, as well as some current and past movie stars, Olympians, |
1:31.9 | and USC fighters training there. In late 2012, I began to leave Hong Kong for three months at a time |
1:38.3 | for training camps in America, where I learned from and trained alongside the greatest |
1:42.7 | coaches and athletes in the world. |
1:45.0 | From these champions, I learned a lot about training. |
1:48.4 | But they also helped me to formulate my own ideas about fitness for what we call the |
1:52.7 | general population versus fitness for athletes. |
1:55.9 | From 2014 to 2020, I traveled to 18 countries and 16 U.S. States delivering seminars on strength |
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