Hello!!  My name is Min-ju and I am the Founder and Co-Owner of Crux Fitness with 3 locations servicing the Greater Vancouver area in Canada, B.C.  

I have spent the past 6 years consistently refining and perfecting my nutrition and training system so that Crux Fitness can deliver amazing results, but also create an environment where everyone can easily stay motivated and maintain the results for life. 

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But what made me decide to choose fitness as my career?

Let me share with you a short story of why I have committed my life to helping people get fit and healthy. I worked as a basic level paramedic for about 2 years back in 2008. One of the requirements of completing my education as a paramedic was to shadow the Emergency Room for a few days. 

I can still remember the weird excitement that I felt on that day. Hours passed by and the ER was just dead (no pun intended). With just about an hour left on my shadowing session, all of a sudden you can feel something is about to happen. The energy in the room changed, and the ER medical staffs have switched into high alert. Sure enough, within 5 minutes, an ambulance came rushing in. 

The paramedics quickly unloaded the patient and wheeled the gurney into the room. The patient was a young lady in her early 20’s, but she looked so tiny that you could easily mistaken her to still be in middle school. A quick rundown of the patient revealed that she had a history of bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder in which the act of self induced puking of the food immediately after eating was practiced. 

She weighed in at just 80 lbs, suffering from a coma due to ketoacidosis - an abnormally high amount of acid build up in the blood stream. Her condition quickly worsened. She can no longer breath on her own due to the constant vomiting that is blocking her airway. The nurses and doctors had to intubate her, shoving a giant piece of metal down her throat to force the trachea open while they insert a plastic tube so that they can get air to her lungs. 

Next thing you know, the patient started convulsing and goes into seizure. Her tiny body twitching violently as if making one last ditch effort clinging on to this world. Then she goes into cardiac arrest. I couldn’t stand the sight and sound anymore while they tried to resuscitate her and left the room. 

At the time, I couldn’t understand how a beautiful girl in the prime of her youthful life would willingly do this to herself. A few years later, after training and helping numerous clients to attain weight loss, fat loss, and health improvement results, I was finally able to understand the psychology behind such behavior. 

I realized that although I am not able to help those who are already suffering from eating disorders since it is more of a psychological issue of body dysmorphia, I am 100% able to help those who are taking their first steps in the journey of weight and fat loss to do it in the right way to avoid such tragedy. 

I am able to help people discover the joy of having boundless energy. The strength and balance to jump into doing most activities on a whim. The liberating realization that they can actually eat well and eat often and still lose weight, lose fat, and lose inches. I am able to help people to identify with how strong, how tough, and how confident they are instead of a number on the scale. 

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<p>So tell me, what are your fitness goals?&nbsp; And why is it so important for you to achieve a better level of fitness and health?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

So tell me, what are your fitness goals?  And why is it so important for you to achieve a better level of fitness and health?  

Looking forward to reading your answers in the comments :)