Kinsei-Do Corner - the Functional Fitness podcast with Coach Jo

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Kinsei-Do Corner health and fitness podcast. I’m your host, Jo, and on this show I sit down with athletes, coaches and fitness enthusiasts from Jakarta and beyond, and we talk about all things health and fitness. On today’s episode, for the second time already this year, I venture into the Indonesian film industry and speak with the highly versatile and prol...

Hi, welcome to Kinsei-Do Corner! I'm your host, Jo, and on this show, I normally sit down with athletes, coaches and fitness enthusiasts from Jakarta and beyond, and we talk about all things health and fitness. But today’s episode is a little different. In this mini-episode, I am reading out a health and performance tip that I first shared in the inaugural edition of my email newsletter, the K...

Welcome to Kinsei-Do Corner. I’m your host, Jo, and on this show I sit down with athletes, coaches and fitness enthusiasts from Jakarta and beyond, and we talk about all things health and fitness. On today’s episode I had the pleasure of catching up with my old friend, former room mate and client, Gio, to talk about the Performance Coaching journey we took together in early 2022, and how this has...

Welcome to Kinsei-Do Corner. I’m your host, Jo, and on this show I sit down with athletes, coaches and fitness enthusiasts from Jakarta and beyond, and we talk about all things health and fitness. On this episode I sat down with film director and content producer Sean Monteiro, who is not just a master of his craft, but also an incredibly wise, funny and all around awesome dude, and we went to tow...

Welcome to Kinsei-Do Corner. I’m your host, Jo, and On this show I sit down with athletes, coaches and fitness enthusiasts from Jakarta and beyond, and we talk about all things health and fitness. In this episode I had my old high school friend and fellow mixed Chinese Malaysian / German, Mark D, on the show, and we took a fascinating and utterly intriguing deep dive into the sport of ballroom dan...

Welcome to Kinsei-Do Corner. On this show I sit down with athletes, coaches and fitness enthusiasts from Jakarta and beyond, and we talk about all things health and fitness. In today’s episode I have the immense joy of chatting to Naomi, an old friend from my high school days - back in the last millennium! - about how she has managed to keep healthy and fit in the last 20+ years, and continues to...

Welcome to Kinsei-Do Corner. On this show I sit down with athletes, coaches and fitness enthusiasts from Jakarta and beyond, and we talk about all things health and fitness. In today’s episode I have the great honour and pleasure of speaking to Dr Eoin Everard, who is an expert in physiotherapy and pilates, but on top of that, he’s truly a world class runner. You’ll probably think I’m joking when...

Hello hello, friends of fitness and the Kinsei-Do Corner, and welcome to 2023! My name is Johannes, and I’m your host on this show where I sit down with coaches, athletes, fitness enthusiasts and regular Janes and Joes, to talk about health, fitness, happiness and high performance in the context of their lives. My goal is uncover their habits, routines, lifestyle choices, attitude and mindset, and...

In this final episode of 2022, I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with perhaps the Fittest Family in Indonesia, Ryan, Inez and Sophie, from Malang.  Ryan, who's been on the show a number of times already, is the co-owner of VPT Strength Club together with his wife, Inez, who is a highly accomplished powerlifting, bodybuilding and CrossFit competitor (yes, all three!) herself. Rounding...

Welcome back to Kinsei-Do Corner! In this episode, which - hard to believe - is already the 40th episode of the podcast, I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with one of Indonesia’s fittest women, Sofia Haghia. Sofia used to be a professional climber before becoming a fitness trainer and finding CrossFit in 2018, and she’s never looked back since her first workout. In the CrossFit Open this...

In today's episode of the Corner, I sat down with the first person from the local functional fitness that I met after coming to Indonesia seven years ago, Coach Oka T. It was the early days of Kinsei-Do's fitness bootcamp back at the Breeze in BSD, and at maybe the 3rd or 4th session, Oka showed up, supported the bootcamp and provided a fantastic role model for all the other participants, and I've...

This episode is a little different from the usual episodes, and it comes hot off the press following the Magnus Iron Games, which took place on 29th Oct 2022 at the British School Jakarta. In this episode, I sit down with Kafka from the GymfitnessIndo / Magnus team, and we discuss our impressions, high points and favorite memories from the event. If you were at the Games, as an athlete, a fan or a...

In this episode of the show I had the pleasure of speaking to Coach Jenni Schierman (@jenni.schierman on IG), a mental performance coach from America, who has been working with athletes and support teams in the field of motor sports for over a decade. So...what is mental performance, you might ask, and what does a mental performance coach do? We cover all of that and more in this short but insight...

In this long overdue return of Kinsei-Do Corner, I sat down for another round with Coach Anthony Sutono (@anthonysutono) and we dove deep into the origins of the Habit App project, which he and his team have been working on for a good three years already - yes, that's how long it can take to build something amazing from the ground up! We speak about how the idea for the project came together, and...

In this episode I sat down with returning guest Jemima of @jemsrockbox to talk about her most recent foray into the World of Fitness Racing. Jem, an accomplished runner and Indonesian CrossFit athlete, tells us her story about how she came across this new sporting event called Hyrox - aka the World Series of Fitness Racing - how she prepared for this grueling one hour plus contest of physical and...

In this episode I sat down with an old friend of mine, Stephan, and we caught up about healthy habits and routines that have allowed him to stay in incredible shape for over 15 years of working in the highly stressful and demanding consulting industry. Unlike all of the previous guests on this show, Stephan has no direct links to the health and functional fitness industry - he doesn't even have a...

In this episode of Kinsei-Do Corner, I had the pleasure of sitting down and catching up with Jasmin Toegel, a fellow German and fellow @hintsaperformance coach (in training), and we talked about her 15 year journey as a fitness trainer and how her approach to working with clients has evolved over those years. From her early days as a "normal" personal trainer who simply prescribes exercises to bec...

In this episode of Kinsei-Do Corner, I sat down with fellow Hintsa Certified Performance Coach (in training), @semeijwoudt, and we talked about the endlessly fascinating world of youth coaching. Sem's a physical education teacher and lecturer at Fontys Sports College in the Netherlands, and also works with age group football players at Dutch first division club Willem II, as well as with up a...

In this episode of Kinsei-Do Corner, I sat down with Coach and Founder of Primal Mobility (@primal.mobility), Matt P (@matthew.j.phili), for an extremely interesting and wide ranging conversation about coaching, business, personal growth and, of course, mobility. Matt's journey from online coach struggling to pay the bills to heading a mobility training company of 7 coaches and 200 clients, includ...

In this episode of Kinsei-Do Corner, I sat down with Coach and Co-owner of VPT Strength Club (in Malang, Indonesia), Ryan Townson (@ryanjoshycf), to dive deep into his most recent CrossFit Games quarterfinals journey. Ryan, in only his second ever season as a competitive CrossFit athlete, absolutely crushed the three Open workouts earlier this year and easily punched his ticket to the Quarterfinal...

In this episode of Kinsei-Do Corner, I sat down with Head Coach and Co-owner of CrossFit Garuda (Indonesia), Anthony Sutono (@anthonysutono), and we talked about his incredible background story - Ant's been around the Indonesian CrossFit scene since practically day 1 - and the early days of CrossFit Garuda. Crushing it at work, in the gym and in life in his late 20's, Ant shared the story of how e...

Welcome back to Kinsei-Do Corner! It's the final week of the annual festival of fitness (and usually, pain) that is the CrossFit Open! In this third and last episode is of a three part special where I, Coach Jo (@coachjchun), sit down with expert coaches and badass athletes from the local CrossFit scene and dissect the freshly announced workout - in this case 22.3 - I have the distinct pleasure of...

Welcome back to Kinsei-Do Corner! It's week 2 of the annual festival of fitness (and usually, pain) that is the CrossFit Open! In this second episode is of a three part special where I, Coach Jo (@coachjchun), sit down with expert coaches and badass athletes from the local CrossFit scene and dissect the freshly announced workout - in this case 22.2 - I have the distinct pleasure of welcoming back...

Welcome back to Kinsei-Do Corner! It's that time of the year again, the special time for many functional fitness enthusiasts around the world: the time of the CrossFit Open! This episode is the first of a three part special where I, Coach Jo (@coachjchun), sit down with expert coaches and badass athletes from the local CrossFit scene and dissect the freshly announced workout - in this case 22.1 -...

Hello, friends of fitness, and welcome back to another episode of Kinsei-Do Corner!  On this episode I spoke to returning guest, Dansen, the highly experienced master trainer, and we dove into a question that has been debated within the world of sport and fitness for thousands of years, if not even longer: Which sport produces the fittest athletes in the world? It is highly likely that whatev...