This is my story...

Hello friend, my name is Beki Liang.   I am a 30 year old health and fitness freak!  Started off as the biggest tomboy ever.  I dabbed in all sports but never was into the competitive side of things as I was always the happy-go-lucky easy going person you see today. 

 

My older brother was the one I looked up to and spent my days with since playing with dolls with my younger sisters was the only other option I had (which I avoided for as long as I could until my brother thought it wasn’t cool anymore to have his kid sister around).  He opened my eyes to wrestling, the weight room and soon the world of mixed martial arts.  I found my passion kicking, punching and rolling on the mats with the boys and the minute I felt the cold steel of weights in my hands, I was hooked.

 

By my mid teens, I have accepted and embraced my femininity but never let go of the true tomboy in me.  Been an active gym goer for half of my life now, playing around with different fitness class styles, mixed martial arts, yoga, pilates, and dance all throughout. 

 

After working in a gym for years, I decided I wanted to share my love for fitness by getting certified to lead group classes.  The response was so amazing from the participants, I took it to the next level and got certified to be a weight trainer and finally personal trainer.

 

Coming from an asian background, this profession was seen as a ‘fad’ by my parents.  This isn’t something a girl can do for life.  When I moved out and paid my way through school, my parents hoped it was to be an accountant…a lawyer….a doctor maybe?  Even after completing all my certificates, they were still very skeptic.  How does this secure my future?  How does this help me or other people?  I tell them, I am helping people change their lives for the better, inside out-almost like a doctor.  I am guiding them to be healthier, to live longer, to be stronger and more confident.  Something no lawyer or accountant can ever do.  I am still proving myself to them everyday.

 

So, how can you relate to me?

 

Growing up, I never had the typical “asian body”.  I had curves no 12 year old should have and this body of mine wasn’t stopping to wait for me to catch up.  I grew up around food, a lot of it!  I come from a family of chefs and bakers and they’re motto is a way to a person’s heart was through the stomach!  And a well fed belly was a healthy belly. 

 

I had my “baby fat” until my late teens, early 20’s.  Already a keen gym goer by then, I didn’t understand why the stubborn baby fat still hung around.  I gradually changed up my entire workout routine: mixed up with kickboxing, pilates, yoga and any form of resistant training that didn’t include sitting in a confined machine.  I changed my relationship with food-still maintaining eating as much as I liked and the particular foods I enjoyed.  Quite literally, the fat soon just melted off!  I was able to keep and maintain the body I wanted, curvy, womanly and full of muscle tone. 

 

My energy level was through the roof.  I loved life, I loved myself and I loved what I was able to do with my body!

 

Then things changed for the worse…

A few months after starting personal training, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness that would change my life.

I found out I have a chronic liver disease.  My liver has been taking a beating all my life without my knowledge and it finally caught up to me.

I have lived life fully, happily, with no regrets and made sure I was as healthy as I could be…so why me?  I was scared, sad, and extremely angry.  Half my family have the virus but luckily, no one was affected the same way I have been.

 

Slowly my energy diminished.  I was too tired to train.  I was too tired to get up.  I was too tired to do much.  Thinking of my overall health first, I opted not to take invasive drug measures and went with a homeopathic approach for treatments at the end of 2009.  I sincerely think it is because of my positive outlook and amazing level of health and fitness I was able to acquire for the last 15 years that has helped me get through so far.  Some days are so grim, I can barely get up to do laundry but my love and need to feel my body move and work has pushed me up and out to keep going.

 

My fitness level is definitely not close to where it should be, nowhere near where I am used to being, but I will persevere.  I know with my drive I will get it back.  I touch my stomach where my abs used to pop and I remind myself I was once there and I will get it back.  I flex my arms and legs where the muscle tone used to be and am just grateful I still have mobility in my limbs and promise myself I will get it all back.  If you have been there before and lost it, rest assured, you can and will get it back.  If I can do it, anyone can.

 

My days consist of treatments, appointments with my specialist, blood tests, maintaining family and friend relations and of course keeping my training business strong…but with careful planning, I fit in my own personal workouts when my energy levels are up to it because, really, without putting your own health first, all that other stuff doesn’t matter much does it?

 

Take a look at your busy life and work schedule.  Can you really afford to keep putting yourself at the bottom of the priority list?

 

My unique training methods stresses on technique and posture with a holistic approach.  I have gotten so in tune with balance between body and mind, working health from the inside out since going through my own personal health ailments.  I make it a point to have each session not just about working your muscles.  It’s really a teaching lesson, about learning how the body works and why you do what you are doing and how it relates to your lifestyle and goals.  When you understand this, you begin to start training your body not for right now, but for LIFE. 

With knowledge comes power, and with that power, you can do anything you want.  Hone that passion and you will get the life you have always dreamed about.

 

That is what I do for myself.  And that is what I bring to you as my client.

 

Health respect & happiness,

 

Beki Liang

 

President and founder of B.L.Training