Today’s conversation is with Kay Kay Keung.

Kay Kay is a director for the Hong Kong Powerlifting Federation (HKPF).  This Lululemon Hong Kong ambassador coaches powerlifting and weightlifting, as well as competes in the two sports.  As a competitive athlete who swims, runs and plays lacrosse, Kay Kay emphasizes the strength to size ratio as the quality of body performance in relation to physical size.  A mission she has been successfully carrying out through her endeavors such as co-founding Trybe in Hong Kong.

In an interview with South China Morning Post, Kay Kay said “Before it was hard for me to convince women it’s possible to work towards a pull-up [an exercise in which you hold onto a bar above your head and pull your body up until your chin is above the bar]. Now I’m teaching women to do a muscle-up [an exercise to strengthen the arms and upper body, lifting one’s own weight while hanging from a bar to a position above the bar]. I am seeing more goals like that, rather than just wanting to lose weight. That’s a change I really enjoy seeing,” 

In this episode, Kay Kay shares how she manages rotating between coaching her competitive athletes and competing herself, managing different physical skills all at the same time, organized and competed at the hardest event in her competing experience, women in weightlifting and powerlifting, and the interesting dynamic between her and her fiancé (now husband) where she’s his coach.

Kay Kay's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strengthtosize/

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