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Story Sharing:

1. Continue From: https://www.reddit.com/r/sgfitness/comments/1vrf1c7/at_25_bp_160200_never_have_i_thought_health/

2. Continue From: https://www.reddit.com/r/sgfitness/comments/1vrjw47/getting_my_health_back_journey_challenges_faced/

Rejection & Outcasted

Was Outcasted and reject in the diet & lifting community

when i started asking question about certain marker on my health report being above the level, i am often told it fine as the rest of the markers are totally in the best ranges, i read up the article and such as well but still it didn't sit well with me. Weight also Stalled at 120kg range, the diet say we can give ourself cheat meals which i save it for the weekend, they start using this as a reason to say i am giving the diet a bad view with my fail success and so i left the group.

Lifting community wise also did the same because i wanted to do strongman & powerlift ( planned to join event) they pointed out that i am full of rubbish after how i am doing and how i look like.

i still continue on with what i plan to do, researching online, video in youtube, gymbros hearsays, i took everything in and look for what is common between them and created something for myself, with the doctor assisting me for each blood work done, i was able to tweak base on what we discuss on my plans.

i start to home cook my meats and buy veggies dish from the cai png store (Economy rice), just add some seasoning from ntuc or foodie market on my meat and oven it + 3 veggies is the base of all my meals on the weekday, back up will always be western chicken chop change fries to veggie or egg + 1 more chicken chop or grill fish.

Phase 3 - Strongman & Powerlifting Ended

Squat: 220kg
Deadlift: 280kg
Bench: 147.5kg
Weighting at 103kg

Suffer a horrible back pain after the deadlift PR, i also have a build up of injuries as well in this phase of 5 years ( 9yrs+ of lifting ). I made a choice to stop this training and walk toward general health as my main goal of this journey was to get my blood pressure down, i achieve that already so the next goal is to maintain my health, no point i get myself injured.

if i do not need this current build for this class anymore, is time to lose it.

End Phase - The Cut

goal is to get my weight to the 80kg range, i gave myself 1 year to do so, i added cardio into the program, as i am still in my triple digits running is going to be a bad idea for my knees.

Plan Cardio:

1. 1h, max resist, walk at a pace where i can complete

2. 8 set of 5mins - 2.30min jog/run pace + 2.30min walk

i didn't change my diet is still the same but the last 3 month i got stricter with only 1 cheat meal over the weekends.

Weighting day - end of cutting phase

weight in at 80.6kg
Squat: 220kg
Deadlift: 280kg
Bench: 147.5kg
OHP: 110kg
Farmer Walk: 110kg
Tyre Flip: 280kg

I suffer the same back injuries again, so i decided is best never to attempt this again.

Here on out is to maintain my current Health & Fitness.

I made a lot of mistake, fail & fail & fail & fail & fail, with each failure i get mocked and laughed at but i continue on till i am able to craft my own program and plans, failures are lessons needed to improve yourself. Sleep + Diet + Training is what contribute to a good health.

I Wish all Fight on & Keep Moving Forward

Before and after 6 years of gym and eating a lot more food

Edit: my arms look more swell than usual in the after picture as I just finished gym. Usually is slightly smaller

idk how long they’ve been doing this but this is so useful for tracking calories cos I love Chagee, I think more food/drink brands should do this. Big ups to Chagee

Hey everyone, Coach Michael Chavez here — I'm the chairperson of the Calisthenics Association of the Philippines (CAP). Wanted to share a story I've been sitting on for a while, because I think it matters to anyone chasing something that takes longer than expected.

I started CAP back in 2021. At the time I had just retired from competing, and honestly I didn't know if a bodyweight training community would even survive here — no big sponsors, no gym backing, just a small group of us who believed calisthenics deserved a real home in the Philippines.

For the next few years it was a grind. Building a community from nothing means a lot of quiet, unglamorous work showing up to train people, figuring out how to keep athletes motivated when there's no money in it, watching some cities pick up interest and others go quiet. I kept pushing anyway, because retiring from competition never meant retiring from the sport for me.

2026 is the year it finally clicked. We launched our bootcamp in Davao City, and seeing it come together after all these years hit different. No fancy facility just a bar, a group of committed athletes, and the same discipline I've been preaching since day one.

Where we're at now:

🏋️ Recruiting athletes from different cities. We're not just looking for people who are already strong we want people who show up. Some of our best athletes today started from zero reps.

🤝 We run on community support. CAP isn't a business. It's athletes and supporters helping cover each other's expenses transportation for athletes coming from other provinces, basic training needs, whatever it takes to keep someone training instead of dropping out. That's how we've kept this alive since 2021.

📍 The goal now is expansion. Davao is proof of concept. I want training pods in multiple cities, all connected as one community shared programming, inter-city meetups, and eventually real competitions representing Filipino calisthenics.

If you're in the Philippines and you train, or you're curious about starting, or you just want to support grassroots athlete development, I'd genuinely love to hear from you. Ask me anything about the bootcamp, how the community fund works, or how to get your city involved.

FB PAGE : https://www.facebook.com/calisthenicsassociationoftheph