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 Kinsei-Do Fitness Nuggets. Every month, I share an actionable health and performance tip that you can implement to live your healthiest, happiest and highest performing life. If you often find yourself ..read more

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 positively impacted and continues to impact his life ever since. I essentially became a Performance Coach - as opposed to “just” an online trainer - via the certification program from one of the lead ..read more

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 town on a whole host of topics and stories! Sean, who is half Australian, half Indonesian, and an alumnus of the British School Jakarta (where I work), grew up playing tons of different sports, from fo ..read more

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 dancing, which he has been doing competitively for more than a decade. From the incredible physical as well as mental demands that this sport places on its athletes, to the many life lessons dancing has ..read more

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 do so while working a full time desk-bound job, from home. Unlike many of the guests on this show, Naomi is not connected to the health and fitness industry, in that she isn't a coach, doesn't step fo ..read more

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 I rattle off his personal best times, but trust me, I’m not: One mile in 3 min 58 3k in 8:03 5k in 13:58 10k in under 30 min I bet I have your attention now, don’t I? However, in this episode, we do ..read more

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 how they strive to be the best they can be, and live their lives to the fullest every single day. In this episode I had the pleasure of speaking to Coach Demy Barumalang, whose extensive life journey ..read more

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 off the esteemed guest list was Inez' 16 year old daughter, Sophie, who I've had the pleasure of seeing first hand tearing up the competition floor at this year's Magnus Iron Games. With guests of su ..read more

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 year (2022), she came in in the top 100 females in all of Asia, which is one heck of a feat, but what’s even more impressive about Sofia is that she’s not only a superstar in the gym, but in life as w ..read more

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 been a fan of him ever since. We talked about his early days in CrossFit in Indonesia, how he got hooked on it, became a bad ass athlete and most recently, hung up his boots and transitioned full tim ..read more