My guest on the podcast this week is Tricia Yap. Tricia holds qualifications in strength training, CrossFit, nutrition and functional medicine health coaching. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Clinical Nutrition. Tricia is also a corporate health and wellness speaker who regularly conducts seminars and workshops across Hong Kong and China.
She is recognised as one of the most accomplished health and fitness experts in Hong Kong with a long list of achievements including but not exclusively, strength coach for Oleg Vasilvey 6 time BJJ Brown Belt world champion and Viking Wong China’s first BJJ Black Belt. Tricia is a TedX speaker and the recipient of several notable awards.
She uses a multi-faceted holistic approach to get her clients long lasting results that do not focus on fad diets or quick transformations as you will hear in the podcast. Seeing things from her client’s perspective, being curious and putting together programs to assist her clients to achieve their goals. Tricia shares several client stories to illustrate her coaching approach to make change easier and to achieve significant and lasting results.
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3:49 I was born in Malaysia… I grew up in Sydney… I lived between Sydney a little in New York and, a little in Kuala Lumpur… across cultures…
4:10 I graduated with a double degree in science and commerce… that got me into management consulting… and a fitness person by night… In 2011 I went into health and fitness full time…
5:22 I always wanted to be in Health and Fitness… I had a lot of fears… I had an amazing mentor … I was really active in sport…
8:45 The 100 day plan…. on 100 post its…
9:41 [Sport crazy]…. It was a major outlet growing up…
11:01 [Management consulting] You always had to be curious… putting the puzzle together… I have a love of learning and always being curious…
13:52 [Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome(CMT)]… a genetic condition… I see a gap and I need to bridge it…
15:30 [How do you assist clients] I help them achieve their goals…we work on different pillars at different times…
18:19 [Client perspective] … what does the baby see… a mobile…
21:04 I like asking a lot of open ended questions… What is the one thing you absolutely want to change that is easy for you to change…
25:03 [Client story 1] Safety checks …
26:40 [Client story 2] Client with CMT…
34:00[Losing weight story]… Fat loss is a luxury…
39:31 [Over trained and under recovered] … you can only train as hard as you recover…
41:40 We shouldn’t be glorifying a lack of sleep…
42:06 When I hear the word “transformation” it gives me the “heebie jeebies”…
44:50 [My passions]… helping people…person to person interaction… it doesn’t feel like a job…
48:18 [Books] … I read a lot of non fiction… theatre musicals…mostly study based books…
Mini Habits (for weight loss) – Steve Guise
Atomic Habits – James Clear
50:26 [Key Message] …
Contact Tricia:
IG: instagram.com/triciayap/
Limitless www.limitless.hk
FB: facebook.com/bikinifit.trish/
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